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Partner with Acorn to get more healthtech innovators to market.

Whether you back, build, or accelerate healthtech innovators, compliance is the hurdle that stands between their solutions and the patients they're built for. By partnering with acorn you can help them clear it, so more innovations make it to market.

Healthtech Partners:
Brendan Sherry
Advisor

After a career of 35 years in Global Technology including 10 years as a Senior Director with Apple, Brendan is now passionate about mentoring and investing in technology startups. 

Ahmed Soliman
Business Development

A seasoned digital and growth leader with experience in managing technology, innovation,  business transformation engagements, and new business acquisitions.

Innovators succeed when they reach the market.
Compliance is where most of them stall.

Almost every healthtech innovator has to meet frameworks such as DTAC, DCB 0129, DSPT, and ISO 27001 before they can pilot or sell. The requirements are complex, consultancies are expensive, and founders rarely have the in-house expertise to handle the. The result is that good products sit stuck behind paperwork instead of reaching patients.

We help Health Innovation Networks, Accelerators, VCs and professional services firms  provide compliance support to the healthtech innovators they work with, so more of them reach the patients and clinicians who need them.

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WHY PARTNER WITH ACORN?

Plenty of platforms can generate compliance evidence. We're the only ones to assure it.

Four things no other compliance platform delivers.

01
AI-powered platform
Squirrel™ builds your innovators' compliance evidence and keeps it current as their products evolve, across DTAC, DCB 0129, DSPT, ISO 27001 and beyond.
02
Compliance experts
Specialists across clinical safety, AI governance, cyber security and MDR, so your innovators always have real experts behind the platform.
03
Regulatory assurance
Every piece of evidence is reviewed and assured by our expert team, protecting your innovators' credibility and yours.
04
Compliance Warranty
The industry's only Compliance Warranty, so innovators are never left to carry the risk alone.

HOW IT WORKS

Becoming a partner is simple.

1
Book a discovery call
Tell us about your programme, portfolio or network.
2
We design your package
Support shaped around your innovators and the frameworks they need to meet.
3
Launch workshops
Compliance masterclasses and founder support get every team moving.
4
Squirrel™ Support
The platform builds their evidence 10x faster.
5
Ongoing support
Compliance experts stay on hand as products evolve.

Compliance support built around the innovators you work with.

Help more innovators succeed

Masterclasses and office hours break compliance into clear, manageable steps, so teams that hit a wall get moving again.

Masterclasses
Office hours
1:1 expert support

Reduce compliance costs

AI-powered compliance that reduces the workload for your innovators. Squirrel™ builds their evidence and keeps it current as their products evolve.

Partner pricing
AI automation
Evidence that stays current

Protect your reputation

Every piece of evidence is assured by our experts and backed by the industry's only Compliance Warranty.

Expert assurance
Compliance Warranty
Independent review

A partnership that works for
everyone who supports healthtech.

A partnership that works for everyone who supports healthtech.

Accelerators & Incubators

You're judged on how many of your innovators go on to succeed. Built-in compliance support means fewer drop-offs from regulatory friction and more teams reaching the end with their evidence already in place and market-ready.

Health Innovation Networks

We help your companies clear the exact assurance frameworks that NHS adoption depends on, so more of your pipeline reaches procurement instead of stalling due to regulatory complexities.

VCs, Funders & Investors

Compliance delays push back revenue and burn runway. Giving your portfolio expert-backed compliance support removes one of the most predictable barriers to a healthtech company's growth, at home and internationally.

Professional services firms

If you advise healthtech as a law firm, accountant, or consultancy, compliance is often the piece you can't cover yourself. We fill that gap, so you can offer clients a complete path to market, with a referral incentive when you bring them to us.

Communities and ecosystem partners

If you support healthtech founders, you'll know compliance is one of the trickiest questions they face. We run workshops for your community, so your members get practical compliance support as a benefit of belonging to your network.

Trusted by organisations backing UK healthtech.

"Acorn Compliance has provided invaluable expertise and a high-quality compliance solution that has significantly supported more than 30 of our innovators in fulfilling their compliance requirements."

Tim East, Accelerators & International Lead
Propel@YH, HIN Yorkshire & Humber.

"Acorn Compliance were fantastic collaborators. They provided our cohort with one-to-one support, which every single member found incredibly valuable. I would definitely like to work with Acorn again"

Dr. Rumbi Mutenga, CEO Glacie Health & Glacie Healthtech Accelerator Founder.

The right plan for every stage of your compliance journey.

Start with what you need today and scale to what tomorrow demands.
Join hundreds of digital health innovators simplifying compliance with Squirrel™ 2.0

Starter Plan

From

£249

+ VAT
per month
Get Starter
Qualifying criteria:
Up to 3 employees
No funding received (Except accelerator funding)
Pre-revenue
Agree to act as a case study
Full access to our automated compliance platform to get you DTAC compliant 10x faster
Coverage across the entire NHS DTAC framework including Cyber Essentials and DSPT
AI coach with regulatory intelligence to guide your compliance journey
Live chat support on any DTAC question
Real-time compliance notifications and alerts to help you stay compliant
Seamless sharing of your DTAC evidence with the NHS
Minimum 12 month subscription

Standard Plan

From

£370

+ VAT
per month
Get Standard
Full access to our automated compliance platform to get you DTAC compliant 10x faster
Coverage across the entire NHS DTAC framework including Cyber Essentials and DSPT
Cyber Essentials external assessment fee included
Simplified DCB 0129 clinical safety hazard log generation
AI coach with regulatory intelligence to guide your compliance journey
Live chat support on any DTAC question
Real-time compliance notifications and alerts to help you stay compliant
Validation of your DTAC evidence by our expert team
Expert-guided support to introduce a culture of compliance into your organisation
The industry’s only DTAC warranty with our recognised seal of compliance
Seamless sharing of your DTAC evidence with the NHS
Minimum 12 month subscription
Recommended

Pro Plan

From

£970

+ VAT
per month
Get Pro
Everything in Squirrel™ Standard, plus:
A named Clinical Safety Officer will be assigned to you for the duration of your 
Squirrel™ contract
Your CSO will deliver a full hazard assessment workshop, risk score all identified hazards in line with the DCB 0129 standard and deliver all required artefacts to satisfy the clinical safety element of DTAC
An assessment and output report on the medical device status of your innovation
The CSO will be available for a set time per month to assist with revisions to your Clinical Safety documentation as your product evolves
Minimum 12 month subscription
Add – ons
Penetration testing
Accessibility audit
Medical Device Regulations
ISO 27001
Bespoke regulatory advice
Most Popular

Starter Plan

From

£2,499

+ VAT
/pcm*
+ VAT
Get Starter
Qualifying criteria:
Up to 3 employees
No funding received (Except accelerator funding)
Pre-revenue
Will provide honest feedback on our product and act as a reference client (Agree to act as a case study)
Full access to our automated compliance platform to get you DTAC compliant 10x faster
Coverage across the entire NHS DTAC framework including Cyber Essentials and DSPT
AI DTAC coach to guide your DTAC journey
Live chat support on any DTAC question
Real-time compliance notifications and alerts to help you stay compliant
Seamless sharing of your DTAC evidence with the NHS
Minimum 12 month subscription
Save 10% WHEN PAID ANNUALLY

Standard Plan

From

£3,996

+ VAT
/pcm*
Get Standard
Full access to our automated compliance platform to get you DTAC compliant 10x faster
Coverage across the entire NHS DTAC framework including Cyber Essentials and DSPT
Cyber Essentials external assessment fee included
Simplified DCB 0129 clinical safety hazard log generation
AI DTAC coach to guide your DTAC journey
Live chat support on any DTAC question
Real-time compliance notifications and alerts to help you stay compliant
Validation of your DTAC evidence by our expert team
Expert-guided support to introduce a culture of compliance into your organisation
The industry’s only DTAC warranty with our recognised seal of compliance
Seamless sharing of your DTAC evidence with the NHS
Minimum 12 month subscription
Save 10% WHEN PAID ANNUALLY

Pro Plan

From

£10,476

+ VAT
/pcm*
Get Pro
Everything in Squirrel™ Standard, plus:
A named Clinical Safety Officer will be assigned to you for the duration of your 
Squirrel™ contract
Your CSO will deliver a full hazard assessment workshop, risk score all identified hazards in line with the DCB 0129 standard and deliver all required artefacts to satisfy the clinical safety element of DTAC
An assessment and output report on the medical device status of your innovation
The CSO will be available for a set time per month to assist with revisions to your Clinical Safety documentation as your product evolves
Minimum 12 month subscription
Save 10% WHEN PAID ANNUALLY

*pcm = Per Calendar Month

With every package you have the option to purchase add on services as needed:

Penetration testing
Accessibility audit
Medical Device Regulations
ISO 27001
Consultancy done differently
1-to-1 Strategy Session
Fractional CCO
AI Compliance