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 hig...
Sep 22, 2020•35 min
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 Start...
Sep 15, 2020•27 min
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 com...
Sep 08, 2020•32 min
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 ...
Aug 25, 2020•24 min
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 Plast...
Aug 18, 2020•35 min
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 h...
Aug 11, 2020•27 min
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 service...
Aug 04, 2020•21 min
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 pande...
Jul 28, 2020•46 min
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 underst...
Jul 21, 2020•56 min
StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes and editor in chief Logan Plaster talk health innovation funding trends with HIMSS Media editor-in-chief Jonah Comstock, a health tech journalist who has been covering the health innovation funding landscape for more than a decade. StartUp Health released its quarterly Insights report on July 1, 2020. The report confirmed that health innovation funding has remained on a strong upward trajectory despite of the market uncertainties created by the COVID-19 pa...
Jul 14, 2020•36 min
According to the Arthritis Foundation, one in four Americans will develop hip or knee osteoarthritis in their lifetime. Experts suggest we have yet to reach a maximum fixed lifespan, creating an overwhelming demand for accessing treatment options that address joint pain and immobility. One of StartUp Health's rising stars. Jakob Dahlberg, Co-founder and CEO of the Swedish based telemedicine company Joint Academy, has created an interactive digital treatment program for arthritis. In this episode...
Jul 07, 2020•11 min
To improve health, not just healthcare, we have to do the hard work of building a healthier world. And that, says Sandro Galea, MD, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, starts with investing in preventative care infrastructures, not just in treatments. In this episode of StartUp Health NOW, Galea shares the inspiration for his book Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health and urges us to think more deeply about the interconnected forces around us—from money an...
Jun 30, 2020•32 min
At MedHaul, CEO & founder Erica Plybeah and Director of Quality and Community Engagement Nathalie Occean are solving one of the oldest challenges in health: transportation. Each year, nearly four million adults and children with chronic conditions miss or delay medical appointments because they don’t have a ride. At MedHaul, the Memphis-based entrepreneurs have developed an Uber-like platform that books non-emergency transportation for people with special needs in low-income communities acro...
Jun 19, 2020•38 min
When the pandemic first hit, Toyin Ajayi, MD, Chief Health Officer & Co-founder of Cityblock, says her team knew, instinctively, that the patients Cityblock serves would be some of the hardest hit. Their patients are people without a financial or social safety net who live in communities where, because of poverty and racial health inequities, they experience poorer outcomes from the virus. “We want people to know that it is both possible and necessary that we serve these populations and that...
Jun 02, 2020•29 min
Executive search firm Aequitas Partners has been building teams for high growth health innovation companies since 2014. Now, with their Health Talent Exchange they're helping top candidates and companies accelerate the hiring process during COVID-19. Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/ Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots http://www.healthmoonshots.com Want more content like this? You can subscribe to the podcast as well as othe...
May 15, 2020•37 min
One day after the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, Beyond Lucid Technologies announced that it would be appending its EMS health information exchange platform, adding the ability to receive and sort fire and EMS encounters involving patients suspected of suffering from, or being exposed to, the deadly coronavirus. In this fireside chat with the company’s CEO & Co-founder Jonathon Feit, he shares how his platform is transforming EMS in over half of the United States. Entrepreneurs: How to ge...
May 14, 2020•18 min
Kevin Dedner launched Hurdle (fka Henry Health) in 2018 to address the mental health care gap for black men. Now, he’s expanding his vision for a culturally-competent mental health system with plans to offer Hurdle's behavioral health services to other disenfranchised communities. In this episode of the StartUp Health NOW podcast, Dedner shares his vision for Hurdle's next chapter and offers insights into the pandemic’s racial disparities. Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health...
May 08, 2020•28 min
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and this year it coincides with one of the most challenging periods in the world’s recent history — the coronavirus pandemic. We’re taking a beat to talk about mental wellness in a COVID world, starting with this episode of the StartUp Health NOW podcast featuring Co-founder & CEO of Calm, the leading app for meditation and sleep. Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/ Investors: How to invest in StartUp He...
May 05, 2020•27 min
In the last two months, the adoption of telemedicine has escalated as remote clinical services become a critical part of a pandemic response. In this episode of the StartUp Health NOW podcast, three of telemedicine’s pioneers from the Cleveland Clinic, Amwell and RxRevu share the impetus for their work to build a future where world class healthcare can be accessed beyond brick n’ mortar health facilities, and what the next decade holds for telemedicine adoption. Entrepreneurs: How to get investm...
Apr 28, 2020•34 min
A tricorder, a centrifuge that fits in the palm of your hand, stick-on thermo patches that can detect early stage breast cancer… What used to be considered sci-fi are now existing technologies that are helping medical professionals meet patients where they’re at – in their home. Tune into this episode of the StartUp Health NOW podcast to learn how the founders of Welwaze, Sandstone Diagnostics, and Aidar Health are using these devices to bridge the access to care gap and why tech like theirs is ...
Apr 21, 2020•27 min
StartUp Health’s senior writer Nicole Clark talks with Dr. Marcelo Venegas about how he’s expanding his telemedicine platform, KnowNOW, to screen and treat COVID-19 patients. As a doctor at urgent care facilities in Queens, Venegas offers candid insights into what’s working and what’s not at the epicenter of the US’ pandemic response. Learn more about KnowNOW's COVID-19 platform at knownowhealth.com. Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/ Investor...
Apr 17, 2020•27 min
At Journey Meditation, Stephen Sokoler is rooting the practice of meditation back in its origins – community. In this episode, StartUp Health's ventures team member Maxim Owen talks with Sokoler, Journey's founder & CEO, to learn about the startup's app, Journey LIVE. The app connects users with meditation instructors who lead group meditation classes that teach users how to become familiar with their thoughts and themselves, leading to greater calm, clarity, and peace of mind. And because p...
Apr 08, 2020•26 min
At a time when telehealth startups find themselves uniquely positioned to alleviate the demand on health systems caused by the coronavirus, Rejuvenan has set itself apart through the platform’s preventative care model. In this episode of the StartUp Health NOW podcast, a Rejuvenan user shares how the app helped her get quick medical relief during a COVID-19 shelter-in-place order, and CEO Rishi Madhok goes under the hood to explain how Rejuvenan’s blockchain tech is driving care costs to zero. O...
Apr 04, 2020•24 min
In this new Pandemic Response series, StartUp Health's senior writer, Nicole Clark talks with Italy-based Andrea Riposati, CEO of Dante Labs, about how his DNA tests are being used to sequence the whole genome of patients with COVID-19. His aim? To understand what genes play a role in our reaction to the deadly disease. Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/ Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots http://www.healthmoonshots.com Want m...
Mar 27, 2020•25 min
Marty Makary, MD, MPH, New York Times bestselling author, 'The Price We Pay', Johns Hopkins surgeon and professor of public health, and Editor-in-Chief of MedPage Today, talks with ZDogg Industries Founder & Creator, Zubin Damania, MD, at the StartUp Health Festival in San Francisco. January 13, 2020. Host: Zubin Damania, MD, Founder & Creator, ZDogg Industries Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/ Investors: How to invest in StartUp Heal...
Mar 24, 2020•22 min
We catch up with StartUp Heath's Co-founder and President, Unity Stoakes, for a candid chat about Covid-19 and how health innovators in the StartUp Health community are responding. Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/ Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots http://www.healthmoonshots.com Want more content like this? You can subscribe to the podcast as well as other health innovation updates at startuphealth.com/content. Sign up for ...
Mar 19, 2020•26 min
Logan Plaster, Editor of StartUp Health Magazine, welcomes Dr. Howard Krein, Chief Medical Officer of StartUp Health, to the podcast for a candid conversation about how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting health innovation at the macro level, as well as changes to daily medical practice. In addition to serving as CMO, Dr. Krein is a practicing head and neck surgeon at Jefferson University Physicians in Philadelphia. Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphe...
Mar 19, 2020•24 min
Kristi Henderson, DNP and Clinical Operations Leader of Amazon, Molly McCarthy, RN and Chief Nursing Officer and National Director of US Health, Microsoft, and Lynda Moyer, Technology Strategist, chat with SEE YOU NOW Host, Shawna Butler, on the main stage of the StartUp Health Festival in San Francisco. January 13, 2020. Moderated by: Shawna Butler, RN and Host of the SEE YOU NOW Podcast Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/ Investors: How to in...
Mar 17, 2020•26 min
Esther Dyson, Executive Founder of Wellville, and Jane Metcalfe, creator and original publisher of WIRED magazine, offer their take on the big ideas shaping the future of health (and humanity) at the 2020 StartUp Health Festival. Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/ Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots http://www.healthmoonshots.com Want more content like this? You can subscribe to the podcast as well as other health innovation u...
Mar 11, 2020•23 min
Jill Angelo, CEO & Founder of Gennev, and Lisa Kaselak, Filmmaker, Hellopause, talk with StartUp Health, Advisor, Polina Hanin, at the StartUp Health Festival in San Francisco. January 13, 2020. Host, Polina Hanin, Advisor, 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 Want more content like this? You can subscribe to the podcast as well as other health...
Mar 03, 2020•15 min
