Category Archives: Innovation

Mindset Matters Most: Steven Krein on the Mindset of Transformative Entrepreneurs

October 6, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsEntrepreneur, Fund raise, health transformation, investor, Logan Plaster, mindset, moonshot, StartUp Health, Steven KreinStartUp Health NOW

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Steve Krein. CEO, co-founder & managing partner of StartUp Health, discusses the importance of having the right entrepreneurial mindset. Thoughtfully organizing the struggles you are still facing today through a DOS (Dangers, Opportunities, Strengths) exercise helps your audience better understand your top priorities, your biggest challenges, while being able to discuss the opportunities you’re excited about.

Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/
Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots http://www.healthmoonshots.com

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Raising Capital During a Pandemic

September 29, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsCovid 19, Curatio, entrepreneurs, Fund raise, Health Startup, investing, investor, Logan Plaster, Lynda Brown-Ganzert, pitch, pivot, Richard Hanbury, Sana Health, StartUp HealthStartUp Health NOW

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An investor calls and holds off on wiring funds. A VC halts new investments. An angel decides to significantly cut back. These are anecdotes we’ve heard from entrepreneurs since the Covid pandemic hit six month ago, yet many continue to raise and close rounds of funding. How’d they do it? StartUp Health Health Transformers, Lynda Brown-Ganzert of Curatio who closed a Series A round in June, and Richard Hanbury of Sana Health who raised ~$6M in August, share how they successfully navigated the fundraise process before and during COVID. Key takeaways will include: finding your funding route, pivoting your pitch to be relevant in an After-Covid world, and best practices for telling your story and connecting with investors virtually.

Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/
Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots http://www.healthmoonshots.com

Kavi Misri on Rose’s High Tech Approach to Predicting Depression and Expanding Access to Mental Health Services

September 22, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, Startups#mentalhealthawarenessmonth, anxiety, depression, Health Startup, kavi misri, Logan Plaster, mental health, mental wellness, mood, mood disorder, Rose, Rose Smarter Health, StartUp Health, StartUp Health NowStartUp Health NOW

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Working 80 to 100 hours a week for 7 years in healthcare investment banking finally caught up to Kavi Misri, founder and CEO of Rose. Like many, he found himself burned out, depressed and in need of help. Looking for answers, Kavi was struck by how difficult it was for him to get basic mental health care. Knowing there had to be a better way, he founded Rose. Using natural language processing and deep learning to predict depression and mood disorder symptoms, Kavi and his team have created a high tech approach to assessing and predicting a patient’s mental health faster.

Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/
Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots http://www.healthmoonshots.com

Our Powers Combined

September 15, 2020Business, Innovation, StartupsAccess to care, Cost to Zero, Cure Disease, Logan Plaster, SageSurfer, Sen Jam, SenJam, StartUp Health, StartUp Health NowStartUp Health NOW

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After a meeting at a StartUp Health event years ago and recognizing a kindred mindset in the other, two CEOs from our portfolio, Jim Iversen of Sen-Jam Pharmaceutical and Anupam Khandelwal of Sagesurfer, decided to join forces and develop a digital therapeutics app, which just hit the app store, to help patients track their MS-related symptoms for personal awareness purposes.

Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/
Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots http://www.healthmoonshots.com

Anish Sebastian and Babyscripts Are Showing the World That a Connected Pregnancy Is a Healthier Pregnancy

September 8, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsAnish Sebastian, baby care, babyscripts, childbirth, Digital Health, Juan Pablo Segura, Logan Plaster, postpartum care, pregnancy, pregnancy care, prenatal care, StartUp Health, womens healthStartUp Health NOW

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On this episode we talk to Anish Sebastian, CEO and co-founder of Babyscripts. Founded by Sebastian and his business partner Juan Pablo Segura in 2014, Babyscripts uses connected health devices – like a bluetooth-enabled blood pressure monitor – and an app to help women have better pregnancies. OBGYNs, who prescribe the app to their patients, get a steady stream of data, helping them intervene early in cases of high blood pressure or other complications. And moms-to-be are given the tools to communicate with their doctor throughout their pregnancy. Babyscripts has been involved in more than 200,000 pregnancies and with every new provider partnership they sign, they open up access to high quality pre and post natal care. StartUP Health’s Logan Plaster caught up with Anish to get the latest.

Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/
Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots http://www.healthmoonshots.com

The Transformation of Digital Health in COVID Times

August 25, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsCovid 19, COVID19, Digital Health, Health Moonshot, Logan Plaster, moonshot, StartUp Health, Unity StoakesStartUp Health NOW

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It’s late August, approximately six months since the coronavirus pandemic sent us indoors, stunted the economy and sparked a rapid global transformation in healthcare. To get a high-level retrospective on those six months and what this period in history means for health innovation going forward, we dialed up Unity Stoakes, Co-founder and President of StartUp Health.

Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/
Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots http://www.healthmoonshots.com

One Health Transformer’s Decades-Long Journey to Cure Chronic Pain

August 18, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsAddiction, chronic pain, Cure Disease, Logan Plaster, mental health, neuromodulation, Richard Hanbury, Sana Health, Startup, StartUp Health, wearablesStartUp Health NOW

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23 years ago a car accident left Richard Hanbury with debilitating nerve pain that was so bad he was given just five years to live. While in recovery, he realized that a film was doing something to his brain that was providing greater pain relief than the morphine he was prescribed. It was this accidental discovery that inspired Hanbury to learn how he could use external neuromodulation to hack his own brain and cure his chronic pain. In this episode, StartUp Health’s Editor-in-Chief Logan Plaster sits down with Hanbury, CEO & Founder of Sana Health, to discuss his wearable device that reproduces that same neuromodulation in an effort to end all chronic pain.

Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/
Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots http://www.healthmoonshots.com

Livongo/Teladoc Merger Creates $37B Remote Health Company and Sets a New Standard for Digital Health Valuations.

August 11, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, Startups2020 StartUp Health Festival, Jennifer Schneider, Livongo, Livongo / Teladoc Health merger, Logan Plaster, merger, StartUp Health, StartUp Health Festival, Teledoc HealthStartUp Health NOW

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A few months before Livongo and Teladoc Health inked a deal that valued Livongo at $18.5B, Jennifer Schneider, MD, MS, President of Livongo, took the stage at the StartUp Health Festival. Her telling of the company’s mission – to empower people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives – provides important context for the historic merger.

Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/
Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots http://www.healthmoonshots.com

Pregnancy in the Time of COVID, With ROBYN Founder Alli Kasirer

August 4, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsAccess to care, Alli Kasirer, coronavirus, Covid 19, COVID19, Health Moonshot, Logan Plaster, moonshot, Pandemic Response, ROBYN, StartUp Health, womens healthStartUp Health NOW

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Today’s podcast is a throwback to one of our favorite interviews from 2020 thus far. Back in early May, we linked up with Alli Kasirer, CEO of a company called Robyn, for an interview on StartUp Health TV. Robyn – online at we are robyn.co – is a digital health company that acts as a 21st century guide for aspiring, expecting and new parents. They cover everything from fertility coaching to infant sleep training, with a modern, tech-forward sensibility. When COVID hit, demand for virtual services for expectant and new parents skyrocketed, and Kasirer and her team stepped up to the challenge. If you want to watch the full conversation, you’ll find it on the Startup Health YouTube channel, at youtube.com/startuphealth.

Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/
Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots http://www.healthmoonshots.com

Surviving the Pivot: How Two Founders Re-Shaped Their Business to Thrive in a Post-COVID World

July 28, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedAccess to care, jennifer meller, kavita mangal, Logan Plaster, NavimizeStartUp Health NOW

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When the pandemic first hit, Dr. Jennifer Meller, CEO & Founder of Navimize, and CTO Kavita Mangal knew they were going to have to work fast. How could the duo utilize their existing platform, but adapt to the new conditions brought forth by COVID-19? To do this, says Meller, the team had to shift focus and channel their platform solely around the needs of their customers. In this StartUp Health NOW episode, Dr. Meller and Mangal share what held the company together at the start of the pandemic, and how they’ve repurposed their technology for the “new normal.”

Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/
Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots http://www.healthmoonshots.com