Paul Grand is an investor and the founder and CEO of MedTech Innovator, the largest accelerator of medical technology in the world. The global nonprofit seeks to improve human health by accelerating the growth of startups and scaleups poised to transform healthcare. Prior to MedTech Innovator, Paul was a serial entrepreneur starting companies in the biopharma, medtech, and tech industries. He became a venture capitalist in 2005, when he joined RCT Ventures, an early-stage life science investor where he served as Managing Director. At RCT, Paul focused on medtech investments and sourcing innovation. He founded MedTech Innovator as a program within RCT Ventures in 2013 and left to run MedTech Innovator as a stand-alone company with RCT’s support in 2016. Paul has interacted with thousands of medical technology startups as part of MedTech Innovator’s rigorous review process to identify the most promising early-stage companies in the world. 421 companies are now in MedTech Innovator’s portfolio, collectively bringing 90 products to market with a combined total of over $4B in follow-on funding.