Tag Archives: Health Startup

Particle Health’s “Quark” Sandbox Gives Healthcare Companies Secure Access to Their Medical Data

December 22, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsAccess to care, Cost to Zero, Health Startup, Logan Plaster, particle health, quark, troy bannisterStartUp Health NOW

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In this podcast episode, CEO and Co-founder Troy Bannister reveals what his Brooklyn-based startup has been working on for the last 2+ years. And now, with Quark, their new HIPAA-compliant platform that converts EMR data into an easily digestible format, health tech app developers can play around with Particle’s API that makes patient data instantly and securely available. Bannister also explains why, because of shifting patient data regulations, the time is now to innovate and destroy the fax machine for good.

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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.

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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.

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