From napkin to frontline
For healthcare professionals with a good idea and a day job. A shared home to build under, patent know-how, a supplier network and investor introductions, so you can build on the side without starting from zero.
A launchpad for healthcare professionals
The Fresh Air Collective is a dedicated launchpad for full-time healthcare professionals who hold transformative ideas but lack the infrastructure and commercial runway to build them. By putting clinical impact ahead of speculative venture returns, we provide the protection, resources and market access creators need to bring essential technologies from the napkin to the frontline.
The problem
Healthcare workers see the gaps first. But turning an idea into a product means legal setup, patents, buyers and money, and most ideas stop there.
What we offer
The scaffolding: a home to build under, patent experience, tools and AI education, and warm relationships with suppliers and investors.
Who it's for
Clinicians, sterile processing, facilities, quality and operations professionals who know exactly what's broken and want to fix it without leaving the job they love.
Two tracks
Open to anyone in healthcare with an idea. Start in one track and move to the other if your product outgrows it.
License it to suppliers
You build the product. We help place it with suppliers who already sell to hospitals, and you share in the royalty while keeping your day job.
- You are
- The inventor
- Best for
- Training tools, add-ons and products that fit an existing catalog
Spin out a company
If your idea is big enough to be its own business, we help you form it, get ready to pitch, and meet the right investor groups.
- You are
- Founder and CEO
- Best for
- Products big enough to be a company
Membership
A home to build under
Start without forming and paying for your own company on day one.
Patent know-how
Guidance from people who have done it: prior-art searching, provisional filings, and knowing when to bring in a patent attorney.
Network
Healthcare professionals for honest feedback and pilots, plus relationships with the suppliers who sell into hospitals.
Investor introductions
For Track 2 members: introductions to the right investor groups and help getting ready to meet them.
AI education
Practical, hands-on sessions on using AI to research, prototype and write, at every stage of building.
A room you can think out loud in
A group of experts you can safely bounce ideas off, with confidentiality built into membership.
Speaker program
The right stage puts your work in front of the suppliers, health system leaders and investors you want to meet, long before a pitch.
Our speakers lead with what they learned, disclose their interests, and leave the pitch for later. It's why organizers keep asking for more.
Bring us the napkin
We're opening to a small first group. Tell us a little about yourself and we'll be in touch about what comes next.
- Keep your day job. This is built to fit around it.
- Fair terms that favor the inventor.
- Real people who have taken ideas through patents and into products.