Oracle Health takes the presenting title on Nashville's healthcare accelerator and becomes EC's AI Growth Partner across every program. In return: first access to every AI-native founder in EC's pipeline, a sourcing engine that turns Oracle Health's stated problems into founder-built pilots, a named home at the EC, and a talent channel into Nashville's founder economy.
A 501(c)(3) founded in 2010. Alumni figures self-reported. EC's cohorts already walk into Lifepoint Health, Ascension Saint Thomas, Ardent Health, HealthStream, and Amsurg. A HealthStream-named sub-cohort runs inside Project Healthcare in Spring 2027.
Oracle Health's name on the program, the tier, the room, and the two nights a year the whole city shows up.
On the program title, the application page on ec.co, every cohort announcement, founder story, and the private pitch at cohort end. The HealthStream sub-cohort runs underneath it.
Across TakeOff, InFlight, and Project Healthcare — the same tier EC uses for its legal and financial growth partners. No other AI or cloud company holds it while Oracle Health does.
The EC's premier meeting room, renamed. Office hours, AI meetups, Reverse Pitch breakouts, and cohort programming happen here — the room 556 founders a year use.
Recognition and a presenting position at both: October at the Schermerhorn, December at GEODIS Park. Every founder, funder, and health system leader in the city, in one room.
First look at every founder building with AI in EC's pipeline — and the engineering time that makes founders remember who helped.
EC flags every AI-native company entering any program. Oracle Health picks who to meet; EC schedules it.
Any EC session, series, or piece of content about AI is offered to Oracle Health first — to present, co-brand, or pass.
Four founders, 25 minutes each, back to back. They bring a real architecture problem; an Oracle cloud solution architect says what to build and what to skip.
For Project Healthcare and AI-native founders. EC deploys it against a rubric Oracle Health approves and reports on it quarterly.
A process, not a day. Oracle Health names its problems, EC recruits founders against them, and a defined pathway turns matches into working pilots. Twice a year.
The venture-client model — BMW Startup Garage, Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate, Optum Startup Studio — applied to Oracle Health's priorities and Nashville's founder base.
Oracle Health names 3–5 problems, each framed around a business unit, a measurable KPI, and a defined outcome. EC runs a working session to make each one buildable.
EC recruits founders against the challenges through Project Healthcare's national pipeline, HLTH, and its 244-company alumni base. Oracle Health refers companies it knows. Shortlist, not inbox.
Oracle Health leaders present each challenge. Founders self-select into breakouts with the Oracle Health team. Structured rotations put every founder in front of the person who owns their problem.
A stated pathway: who evaluates, on what basis, on what timeline, with streamlined procurement. Clear IP terms, defined data-sharing, no lock-in. At 90 days, a private readout to Oracle Health leadership.
Oracle's Nashville build is an engineering build. Recruiting to a new city is easier when the people you're recruiting can see a founder economy they could join, mentor, or hire from. Six plays, each with a number.
Matched to one company per cohort, about an hour a month. A roster, not a sentiment.
Half a day, quarterly. The founder economy, the health systems, the people who built the city's innovation base. The city becomes a reason to stay.
Founders who exit, wind down, or want an operating role are the most experienced hires in the market. EC knows where they are across 244 alumni companies.
Oracle Health engineers and EC founders build on Oracle Health data and APIs for a weekend, outside Oracle's building. EC runs it; Oracle supplies the problem and the people.
Oracle employees with an idea go through TakeOff alongside founders. The employee tests the idea without leaving; Oracle keeps the person either way.
An Oracle engineer reviews a founder's architecture and delivers a written readout. About 4 hours each. Founders get expertise they can't buy; engineers see how startups build.
One partnership, two doors. This is the Oracle Health half; the community and OCI work already underway continues alongside it, with one point of contact at EC.
The board is chaired by Saurabh Sinha of emids and includes leaders from Nashville's health systems, platforms, and financial institutions. Offered because of the depth of the partnership, not as a term of it.
EC is already working with Oracle's community and OCI team on engineer-hosted meetups, founder office hours, and a Q2 2027 immersion visit. That continues. This proposal adds the program, the title, the sourcing engine, and the health-specific talent plays.
Project Healthcare is non-dilutive: EC takes no equity and does not invest. Any pilot, investment, or commercial relationship between Oracle Health and a founder is negotiated directly, separate from the program, with no IP assignment or exclusivity.
Fall 2026 — follow-up call, three questions answered, terms confirmed.
Winter — announcement, the Oracle Room named, first office hours.
Spring 2027 — Project Healthcare presented by Oracle Health; first Reverse Pitch cycle.
Summer onward — pilot readout, buildathon, second cycle, quarterly reporting.
A call with Seema Verma, Saurabh Sinha, and Sam Davidson to work through the three questions. EC drafts contract terms within two business days of that conversation.