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Achieving Health Moonshots w/ Vinod Khosla

July 12, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Insights, Startups, Uncategorizedcoronavirus, Digital Health, Entrepreneur, health innovation, Health Moonshot, investing, Khosla Ventures, Unity Stoakes, Vinod KhoslaStartUp Health NOW

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Last month, Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, came back for part II of his Fireside Chat where he joined our co-founder, Unity Stoakes, to talk about achieving Health Moonshots, how COVID opened more doors to innovation and experimentation, finding societal impact without expertise, and identifying your long-term and basecamp vision. Listen to part I here.

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Four StartUp Health Entrepreneurs Tackling Cognitive Health Concerns

June 29, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsAmir Bozorgzadeh, Brain health, Digital Health, Health Moonshot Series, India Edwards, Kate Rosenbluth, Logan Plaster, Maor Cohen, Mark CavicchiaStartUp Health NOW

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This episode is part of our monthly Health Moonshot series. Last month it was all about women’s health, today, we’re talking about founders and companies rethinking brain health. Kate Rosenbluth, PhD, Chief Science Officer & Founder at Cala Health, is transforming the standard of care for patients living with chronic diseases using non-invasive wearable neuromodulation therapies. The team has developed Cala Trio™, the first non-invasive targeted therapy that reduces hand tremor for people living with essential tremor (ET). Maor Cohen, CEO & Co-founder of n*gram health, is improving the quality of life for older adults with cognitive impairment using immersive digital experiences. RC21X co-founder Mark Cavicchia has developed two brain performance assessment tools, Roberto and RC21X, that create brain performance trend data for organizations through repeated use and produce session results in real-time, which bring about measurable improvements in work performance, productivity, and safety. Lastly, Amir Bozorgzadeh, CEO & Co-founder of Virtuleap, has created a virtual reality-based brain training platform. In this episode, the four entrepreneurs break down their innovative solutions and how they’re unlocking the mysteries of the brain.

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Linking Clinical & Technical Worlds With Yauheni Solad, MD

May 25, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedDigital Health, Global Health, Logan Plaster, Yale New Haven Health, Yauheni SoladStartUp Health NOW

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In this podcast episode, we dialed up Dr. Yauheni Solad, Medical Director of Digital Health at Yale New Haven Health, who shared his practical wisdom about what it really takes to have a successful partnership between a startup and a large health system.

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Michelle Snyder Brings a Creative Spirit to Marketing and Investing

April 27, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Insights, Startups, UncategorizedDigital Health, investing, Logan Plaster, McKesson Ventures, Michelle Snyder, startupsStartUp Health NOW

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Michelle Snyder has done a bit of everything. Now a partner at McKesson Ventures (she joined the healthcare-oriented venture group in late 2020), the digital health veteran has seen innovation from every angle: driving the marketing behind startups like Epocrates and Welltok, mentoring early-stage entrepreneurs in accelerator and incubator programs, and making strategic investments at Welltok and now McKesson. But it’s her willingness to roll up her sleeves and develop creative solutions to challenges that makes Snyder an exceptional Jill-of-all-trades. Snyder took a look back on her career to date in a recent StartUp Health Fireside Chat that was as fun and freewheeling as it is chock-full of good advice.

Exit Strategies: M&A Wisdom From Entrepreneur-Investors Samer Hamadeh and James Marciano

February 2, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsDigital Health, Samer Hamadeh, StartUp Health, StartUp Health Now, Tuck Advisors, Unity Stoakes, ZeelStartUp Health NOW

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In this episode of StartUp Health NOW, StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes dials up Samer Hamadeh, CEO and founder of Zeel, and James Marciano, founder of Tuck advisors, for a candid discussion on mergers and acquisition. According to both Hamadeh and Marciano – who have spent time on both sides of the M&A table – it’s important for founders to build their startups as though they’re going to sell one day, even if they don’t. That means building the systems for clean accounting and transparent business operations from day one. They also discuss the elusive UFO (unsolicited flying offer) and how to know when an offer is worth pursuing. This straight talk on M&A is hard-earned wisdom that will benefit most people in the startup ecosystem.

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With Finess, Privy CEO Evi Heilbrunn Is Breaking Down Stigmas in the Women’s Health Aisle

January 26, 2021Business, Health, InnovationDigital Health, Evi Heilbrunn, Logan Plaster, moonshot, Privy, StartUp Health, womens healthStartUp Health NOW

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Because she’s tackling a stigmatized area of women’s health, one that’s been swept to the side for a long time, Privy CEO Evi Heilbrunn has had to do her research and educate the market. By doing so, she’s showing retailers like Target – where Finess is now on the shelf – that women’s health products were in need of an upgrade, and that we’re on the cusp of a whole new way of thinking about the whole women’s health aisle.

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StartUp Health Fireside Chat: Dr. Andrey Ostrovsky, Health Innovation Investor

January 12, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Startupscommunity, Digital Health, Dr. Andrey Ostrovsky, enterpreneur, Fee for service, Health Moonshot, Healthcare, Logan Plaster, Medicaid, patient, patient value, StartUp HealthStartUp Health NOW

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In a recent Fireside Chat with a few dozen founders from the StartUp Health portfolio, we were joined by Andrey Ostrovsky, MD, former Chief Medical Officer at Medicaid. Dr. Ostrovsky is a practicing doctor and an entrepreneur – in fact, he founded and sold a company that was a part of StartUp Health years ago. In 2016, Andrey took on the role of Chief Medical Officer of Medicaid. Then he rolled all that experience up and became a health innovation investor. Andrey’s done it all and is generous with that experience.

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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.

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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.

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Despite COVID-Constrained World, Digital Health Investor Predicts Promising Future in Telemedicine

July 21, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, Startups7Wire Ventures, Alyssa Jaffee, Bari Krein, Covid 19, COVID19, Digital Health, health innovation, investing, StartUp HealthStartUp Health NOW

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Much has been said and written — here at StartUp Health and elsewhere — about how in healthcare there’s pre-COVID and there’s post-COVID. Regulations, reimbursements, consumer attitudes, and just basic human norms have shifted dramatically. Mass adoption of telemedicine has made headlines, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In today’s podcast, we turned to Alyssa Jaffee, industry pro and VP at 7Wire Ventures, an early-stage venture fund headquartered in Chicago, to delve deeper into understanding those shifts and opportunities in digital health from an investor’s lens. The conversation you’ll hear is between Jaffe and Bari Krein, StartUp Health’s Chief Strategy Officer. It took place during a recent Expert Office Hour session that we hosted for the Health Transformers in the StartUp Health community, but Jaffe’s advice was so spot on and honest that we couldn’t help sharing it with a wider audience on the podcast.

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