Phillip Alvelda is a scientist, an engineer, a serial entrepreneur, and an educator. Previously at DARPA, the central research and development organization for the U.S. Department of Defense that maintains the technological superiority of the U.S. military and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he developed sensors that have flown throughout the solar system. Phillip has founded new infrastructure, telecommunications, and media companies, including the DARPA-funded MicroDisplay; MobiTV; TaD...
Jun 04, 2020•48 min
This week, James is joined by Dr Alex Young - founder of Virti and cofounder of HS. James and Alex look back at episode 1 and reflect on how they met, their journey cofounding HS., bootstrapping an accelerator, what they learned and what they're doing now. It features many tips for entrepreneurs on topics like starting a business, starting a podcast, finding a cofounder, focus, difficult decisions... and so much more. Get in touch www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk...
May 31, 2020•38 min
This week, James is joined by Lloyd Price: Tech Entrepreneur, Corporate Executive and Board Advisor with 20+ years experience building Digital Businesses in 6 industries - Healthcare, Retail, Travel, Finance, Advertising and Dating. He's performed Senior Management, C-Level & Co-Founder roles @ Zesty, Badoo, Kelkoo, Yahoo! UK and Yahoo! Europe. Lloyd co-founded Zesty from an idea in July 2012 into an award winning UK Digital Health company backed by a group of international VC funds includin...
May 28, 2020•1 hr 17 min
This week's Sunday session is a look into what James is building at somX. If you want to join the early access list, head over to www.somx.co.uk and be the first to hear the updates. Also mentioned this week - The London Business School Healthtech Challenge, a pitching competition with a £10,000 prize, which James is judging on Tuesday. Head to https://www.londonhealthtechchallenge.org/ to learn more and sign up to watch 👍🏼 Get in touch: www.somx.co.uk | www.jamessomauroo.com | [email protected]...
May 24, 2020•8 min
James' guest this week is Dr. Ashish Patel, Principal at Optum Ventures, who, on their website describe him as the physician, technologist & financier triple threat! Ash is serious about revolutionizing health care, and has a wealth of experience building, commercializing and financing disruptive health care technology companies. Before Optum Ventures, Ash served as a lead life sciences investor and head of research for Mercia Technologies, one of the most active investors in the UK. He led ...
May 21, 2020•49 min
This week's Sunday session is on the latest grants, accelerators and programmes to get funding! Mentioned this week: DigitalHealth.London Accelerator: https://digitalhealth.london/accelerator/apply/ NHSx Remote Monitoring call: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/33d1e59d-83d9-4e86-b243-a9cb0baef548 UKRI Healthy Ageing: https://www.ukri.org/innovation/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund/healthy-ageing/ EUREKA Healthy Ageing call: https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/c...
May 18, 2020•8 min
This week James is joined by Paul Tunnah, founder of pharmaphorum, which combines industry leading publications with a specialist strategy and creative consultancy. Paul is an experienced pharmaceutical industry thought leader and adviser, with a specialist focus on cross-stakeholder communication, digital / social media engagement and collaborative innovation. James and Paul cover all things healthcare and communication and there's a lot of lessons for entrepreneurs looking to communicate what ...
May 14, 2020•44 min
For this week's session, I'm giving you my take on the brand new AI checklist which has been issued here in the UK for health and care organisations by NHSx. It's an incredibly succinct document outlining a bunch of simple questions for organisations to ask AI companies if they want to procure them. Loads to learn for startups, investors and healthcare organisations both in the UK and abroad. There's also some info on somX... www.somx.co.uk Grab the AI guidance here: https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/medi...
May 11, 2020•19 min
Can you actually be a doctor and run successful, scaling medical device startup at the same time? This week I'm joined by Krishan Ramdoo, founder and CEO of TympaHealth Technologies - a team of doctors and technology experts united by a vision of helping the world to hear. They've built 'the world’s first all-in-one hearing health assessment system' and they're doing incredible partnerships all over the healthtech space. www.tympahealth.com | www.linkedin.com/in/krishan-ramdoo-10086979 | krishan...
May 07, 2020•57 min
Hit this amazing milestone this week! Thanks to everyone that listens around the world 🌍🎙🙏🏼 Special thanks to those of you that have been in touch - love hearing from you if you're finding it valuable - especially with the tough things going on around COVID-19. Do you want to be on the show? If you've got a good story to tell and you want to inspire people, make sure you email or DM me. Founders are ideal, no matter what stage you're at 👍🏼 Also mentioned this week - Sleepio and Daylight ar...
May 03, 2020•6 min
This week, James is Joined by Alex Menys, CEO and founder of Motilent. Motilent’s mission is to change the way we see the gut. We have spent the last 5 years developing new imaging technology that is helping researchers and clinicians understand how the digestive tract works. Our key clinical focus area is Crohn’s Disease, a debilitating inflammatory condition affecting people of all ages and our first product GIQuant aims to help clinicians to identify earlier when patients stop responding to i...
Apr 30, 2020•53 min
This week's Sunday Session is all about AI in radiology and the announcement that Qure.ai , a healthtech company specialising in artificial intelligence (AI) has deployed its COVID-19 progression monitoring software in a UK hospital. This is a big moment for AI in radiology in the UK and could be a pivotal moment for the adoption of AI in healthcare. Read the article in Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamessomauroo/2020/04/27/qureai-deploys-ai-radiology-software-in-the-fight-against-covid-1...
Apr 27, 2020•10 min
This week, James is joined by Dr. Harpreet Sood, an NHS GP with a lot of special interests! Harpreet has collaborated with organisations on healthcare projects internationally - in the US, France, Israel and Asia. Early in his career he has also founded two healthcare startups. Harpreet is currently a practicing primary care doctor in London at University College Hospital. He is also Co-Founder and strategic advisor to the NHS Digital Academy, a £6m programme to develop a cadre of digital leader...
Apr 23, 2020•1 hr 2 min
This week, I heard that a previous colleague tragically lost his life to COVID-19. I saw all the tributes to him on social media and hope that his family and friends are doing as best they can. Beyond the statistics are real people with families who are having their lives turned upside down by this and frontline NHS workers are literally giving their lives to serve the public. Please stay at home and stop the spread 🙏🏼💙 NHSx have released extremely helpful guidance for healthtech companies, t...
Apr 19, 2020•9 min
This week, James is joined by Tobias Alpsten, an international health tech executive and entrepreneur focusing on transforming patient care globally. He founded iPLATO in 2000 and is now the company’s Chief Executive. As iPLATO’s CEO, Tobias is responsible for setting overall strategy and for leading marketing, support, product management and engineering. Committed to evidence based interventions in healthcare, Tobias works with leading institutions including UCL, Imperial College, the Departmen...
Apr 16, 2020•53 min
Hiring is hard. In healthtech it's even harder. But right now, it's needed more than ever with so many people out of work. The expertise is pretty niche, it's tough finding people that 'get it' in healthtech with public/private sector and clinical/managerial/business nuances, there's specific sales and marketing knowledge, there's no one place to go to find jobs/hires and recruiters still face the same issues. At HS., we've already solved the problem more times than we can count through the podc...
Apr 12, 2020•10 min
We're obviously still in the midst of COVID-19 and if you're anything like us at HS., you'll be locked away, thinking, strategising, and coming up with new ideas, new innovations, even new businesses... When we all emerge, you may well be looking for investment and so this episode is a conversation I had a few weeks back with Chris Smith, Managing Partner at Playfair Capital. Chris focuses his investing activities on seed (and pre-seed) deals in the UK and Israel and has a particular interest in...
Apr 09, 2020•44 min
This week's Sunday Session is about ideas, innovation and optimism in the face of lockdown and social distancing. Mentioned this week: If you want to join the HS. Office Hours with Ananda Ventures on Wednesday, apply here ASAP. Late applications will be taken forwards to the next office hours, so whenever you're listening, you can apply here: https://hs18.typeform.com/to/fDudbo For a free healthtech design workshop, contact [email protected] | www.styliff.com Contact James for feedback o...
Apr 05, 2020•10 min
This week, James is joined by Jana Dowling, founder and CEO of the preventative mental health-tech company, Arkeo. Previously a standup comic, Jana Downling found her way to entrepreneurship via a severe depressive episode. In her recovery, Jana started tracking her mental health and based on the data she was collecting on herself, she was back into work within 6 weeks. She then started social enterprise hiring and training other sufferers of mental health issues and eventually wanted to build a...
Apr 02, 2020•54 min
This week's Sunday Session is another update on the healthtech response to COVID-19. This week we heard from NHSX and how they're partnering with big technology companies on a centralised data store to provide decision makers with real-time dashboards of how the virus is spreading and what resources are available in healthcare to deal with it. Also featured this week: Tracking apps/websites - https://covid.joinzoe.com/ (UK), www.tracktogether.co.uk (UK), www.covidnearyou.org (USA) NHSX is callin...
Mar 29, 2020•17 min
This week, we're still getting our heads around coronavirus. We’re newly locked down in the UK, we're all getting used to remote working and as we heard on the last episode with Dr Aman Gupta, the front line is preparing in almost military style for what is going to be a war on coronavirus and a huge influx of patients. To talk more about the clinical and technology implications, I have Dr Lydia Yarlott with me. Lydia is a community paediatrician and founder of the communication app Pando - a co...
Mar 26, 2020•49 min
For this special episode, James is joined by Dr Aman Gupta: long time friend and fellow digital health guy, frontline anaesthetics and intensive care doctor and has worked at accelerators like DH.L and the NHS Innovation Accelerator, so he speaks our language on this podcast. In this 30 min chat, Aman talks about the coalface of healthcare during this crisis we’re in and for our listeners that might not have ever had that view, it’s important to see and hear why we do what we do in healthtech, w...
Mar 24, 2020•33 min
It goes without saying that this week's Sunday Session is an update on the healthtech response to COVID-19. Featured this week: The Coronavirus Tech Handbook (an open source google doc) - https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/ OxVent has built a prototype for a rapid and mass manufactured ventilator for Covid-19 patients, for use when conventional ventilator capacity is exhausted - https://oxvent.org | [email protected] Birdie are providing their platform for free to care providers - http...
Mar 22, 2020•16 min
We're living through a significant moment in history and healthtech companies are looking at ways they can help with the COVID-19 outbreak. They are sharing learning, partnering and working around the clock to find solutions to the ever-growing list of problems on healthcare's front-line. Two companies that have come together are Q doctor and eConsult who are experts in telemedicine and triage respectively Both companies have been on the podcast previously (you can hear them on episodes 7 and 21...
Mar 19, 2020•41 min
This week's Sunday Session is a somber nod to those healthtech companies working around the clock to help with the COVID-19 pandemic. One such company is Feebris, whose machine learning platform helps triage, diagnose and remotely monitor pneumonia patients in the community. Mentioned this week: WHO's advice for the public: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public WHO Director General's COVID -19, March 11 speech in full: https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/d...
Mar 15, 2020•9 min
How do you go from arctic warfare in the military to becoming a healthtech entrepreneur? Should you bunk in the same office with your investors? How do you go from being a first to second-time founder? Can you close a healthtech investment after a guy selling inflatable hammocks? This week, James is joined by Matt Wilson, founder and CEO of uMed, which enables healthcare providers to efficiently deliver cutting edge research to their patients, whilst radically reducing the barriers for scientist...
Mar 12, 2020•1 hr 5 min
This week's Sunday Session has some bonus content from Jacob Haddad, cofounder of AccuRx who appeared in Episode 52. Jacob gives his tips on how healthtech startups can get things right from day one by building for the end user, having your own office to build the best culture, get the unsexy basics right and optimising for adoption. Mentioned this week: Episode 52: The Story of AccuRx and Clinician-Patient Communication 📲 : https://apple.co/2vIGaDo Send James an email for podcast advice: js@so...
Mar 08, 2020•9 min
This week, James is joined by Peter Birch, host of the Talking Healthtech podcast based out of Australia. Peter has worked in management roles in healthcare organisations for over 15 years; big ones and small ones, innovative start ups and slow moving beasts, he’s seen all different kinds. Pete has experienced first hand the exciting developments and the frustrating stagnation's of all the ups and downs in health, as well as the impact to businesses, investors, doctors, and patients. Peter and J...
Mar 05, 2020•1 hr 1 min
This week's Sunday Session is about communicating your messages as a healthtech startup. As a contributor for Forbes, James gives his tips on how to sell in a press release as a founder without a PR agency and offers advice to anyone thinking about levelling up their content in 2020. Agnieszka, CEO of Renovos: [email protected] Send James an email for comms, messaging and media advice: [email protected] HS. Health-Tech Talks, March 2020 : https://bit.ly/2PiNMDc Episode 11: The Story o...
Mar 01, 2020•11 min
This week, James is joined by Ross Harper, founder and CEO of Limbic, on a mission to model human psychology. In doing so, they're solving the biggest problems in psychological therapy today. Combining artificial intelligence with beautiful digital product design, they're making it easier than ever for patients to provide their clinicians with high quality data. Ross is a computational neuroscientist that uses probabilistic models to understand the brain. He describes himself as an experimentali...
Feb 27, 2020•48 min
