In this episode, I sat down with Anne-Maree Cantwell , Venture Partner at Empactful Capital . Founded in 2016 by veteran healthcare operators and investors, Empactful Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that deploys targeted funds to invest in digital health companies that operate in the value-based care and behavioral-mental health verticals. Empactful brings its healthcare industry operating expertise and relationship leverage to help its portfolio companies scale. In this episode, ...
Feb 06, 2023•35 min
Our guest on this episode is Dr. Farzad Mostashari . Farzad is the co-founder and CEO of Aledade, a primary care enablement company that partners with independent PCPs to transition to value-based care and, as a result, maintain their independence. Founded in 2014, Aledade works with 11,000 physicians across 40 states and DC, accounting for 1.7M patients under management in Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Commercial and Medicaid contracts. Farzad previously served as the National Coordinator for H...
Jan 09, 2023•37 min
In this episode, I sat down with Iman Abuzeid , MD, CEO and Co-Founder of Incredible Health . Founded in 2017, Incredible Health, the highest valued tech-enabled career marketplace in healthcare, transforms the hiring process for both nurses and health systems. In August 2022, Incredible Health raised an $80M Series B round led by Base10 Partners. The company partners with over 600 top health systems across the country, has over 10,000 nurses joining its platform every single week, and has reduc...
Dec 12, 2022•45 min
In this episode, I sat down with Vijay Kedar , CEO and Co-Founder, of Tomorrow Health . Founded in 2017, Tomorrow Health builds technology to improve the way home-based care is ordered, delivered, and paid for. In August 2022, Tomorrow Health raised a $60M Series B round led by Bond. The company partners with over 100 health plans across the country, experienced a 317% increase in ARR year over year between 2021 and 2022, and has grown to 100+ employees. Vijay and I discuss: His early career as ...
Nov 28, 2022•38 min
In this episode, Zaid Malhees sits down with Nick Desai , CEO and Founder of Renee . Founded in 2021, Renee is the developer of patient-centric software designed to improve healthcare services for elderly and underserved patients. The company's application helps schedule appointments, request in-home services, fulfill medication prescriptions, and share vital signs remotely. Renee recently raised $4.4 million in a second seed round led by Quiet Capital. Other investors include Mucker Capital, Fi...
Nov 21, 2022•33 min
Our guest on this episode is Sean Duffy . Sean is the co-founder and CEO of Omada Health , a virtual integrated care solution that helps people manage a range of conditions, including pre-diabetes, diabetes, hypertension, and musculoskeletal conditions. Founded in 2011, Omada works with over 1500 employers, health plans and benefit consultants to deliver integrated care pathways for over half a million members. Earlier this year Omada raised a $192M Series E round of funding led by Fidelity. In ...
Nov 07, 2022•42 min
In this episode (and Jing’s last for The Pulse!) we are excited to feature Erica Jain , the Co-Founder & CEO of Healthie . At Healthie, Erica empowers health and wellness organizations to launch & scale their businesses and build long-term relationships with their clients to deliver personalized, preventative care. Healthie is an API-forward platform that allows companies to build the back-office infrastructure systems necessary to support patient-centric operations. Healthie uniquely en...
Sep 19, 2022•41 min
In this episode, we sat down with Cindy Adam , Co-Founder & CEO of Choix and a nurse practitioner. Choix is a telehealth clinic offering abortion care and sexual and reproductive health care to patients in their homes. Choix recently raised $1M in seed funding in a round led by Elevate Capital . We discussed: The recent history of abortion care in the U.S. and the legal implications of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision eliminating the federal constitutional right to abortion. The clinical backgr...
Sep 12, 2022•46 min
In this episode, I sat down with Colin Quinn , President of Included Health Communities & Co-Founder of Included Health. Colin started Included Health in 2019 to improve care equity for underserved populations, starting with LGBTQ+ individuals. In May 2021, the recently merged Grand Rounds, a care navigation company, and Doctor On Demand, a virtual care company, acquired Included Health. In October 2021, the new entity rebranded as Included Health , which provides integrated navigation and v...
Aug 22, 2022•42 min
In this episode, we sat down with Kevin Dedner , Founder & CEO of Hurdle Health . Based in Washington D.C, Hurdle Health provides culturally intentional teletherapy to eliminate barriers that make it harder for people of color to get mental healthcare. Hurdle Health raised $5M in seed funding , led by Point 406 Ventures and Seae Ventures . F-Prime also participated in the round. We discussed: Kevin’s personal struggles with finding culturally responsive mental healthcare as the motivation fo...
Jul 26, 2022•50 min
In this episode, we connected with Josh Hix , Co-Founder and CEO of Season Health . Season Health is a platform that connects members with healthy meal ideas and grocery options to help members and providers manage chronic conditions. Prior to starting Season Health, Josh co-founded the meal prep delivery service Plated , which led to an appearance on SharkTank . Season Health recently raised $34M in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz . LRV Ventures , Company Ventures , Cityblock CEO To...
Jul 11, 2022•43 min
In this episode, I sat down with Chris Altchek, CEO and Founder of Cadence. Founded in 2019, Cadence is a health tech platform that combines personalized clinical care with a breakthrough technology platform. With this Cadence offers consistent care for people managing chronic conditions, such as congestive heart failure, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and COPD, from the comfort of their home. Cadence recently raised a $100M Series B round, putting its latest valuation at $1 billion. During our c...
Jul 07, 2022•35 min
Our guest on this episode is Dr. Jerrica Kirkley , co-founder & Chief Medical Officer of Plume . Plume delivers gender-affirming care via telehealth for trans and non-binary individuals , currently operating in 41 states. Plume provides hormone-replacement therapy, such as estrogen and testosterone, as well as letters of support for gender-affirming surgery or changing name or gender markers for its patients. Jerrica and her cofounder, Plume CEO Dr. Matthew Wetschler , raised a $14M series A...
Jun 27, 2022•43 min
Our guest on this episode is Kelsey Mellard , founder & CEO of Sitka , a virtual specialty consultation company facilitating primary care and specialty communication via video consults, also known as eConsults or “curbside consults”. Sitka and their virtual specialty provider network, Sitka Medical Associates, work with payers, provider groups and accountable care organizations to improve access to specialty care while avoiding unnecessary specialist costs. Last year, Sitka raised a $14M ser...
May 26, 2022•50 min
In this episode, we chatted with Dr. Somi Javaid , Founder & Chief Medical Officer of HerMD . Dr. Somi Javaid is a board-certified OBGYN and pioneer in the women’s sexual healthcare space. She founded HerMD, a female-forward, insurance-based women’s healthcare center to help educate, advocate for, and empower women to take control of their health care. Recently, HerMD raised $10 Million in their Series A fundraise to bring their unique healthcare model to women across the US. JAZZ Ventures l...
May 17, 2022•52 min
In this episode, I sat down with Isabelle Kenyon , CEO and Founder of Calibrate . Founded in 2020, Calibrate is a metabolic health company on a mission to change the way the world treats weight. In August of 2021, Calibrate raised a $100M Series B round led by Founders Fund and Tiger Global. Since then, the company has hired hundreds of new employees and onboarded thousands of new patients, released its first Results Report , and geared up to launch its first enterprise clients. Isabelle and I d...
May 09, 2022•43 min
In this episode, I sat down with the co-founders of Equip , Kristina Saffran and Erin Parks, PhD . Equip provides virtual, evidence-based eating disorder treatment, and the company has expanded rapidly over the last few years. In February 2022, it raised a $58 million Series B funding round from The Chernin Group, Tiger Capital, General Catalyst, and other existing investors. Erin, Kristina, and I discuss: 1) how they met and why starting a company together was the right move, 2) what’s happenin...
Apr 11, 2022•46 min
In this episode, we sat down with Virgílio “V” Bento , Founder & CEO of SWORD Health . SWORD Health aims to bring world-class musculoskeletal (MSK) care to patients around the world by connecting members with physical therapists and digital therapists through a member app that combines sensor technology with telemedicine to prevent, relieve, and accelerate the healing of acute conditions, chronic pain, and post-surgical recovery. SWORD Health raised $163M in their latest Series D round led b...
Apr 05, 2022•51 min
This episode’s guest is Frank Cheung , CEO and Co-Founder of Cerebrae , a startup that aims to accelerate the adoption of value-based care by helping providers and payers measure, forecast, and validate the financial ROI of emerging approaches to patient care. Through this work, they aim to radically simplify the process of commercializing value-based care delivery. They are backed by several investors, including StepStone, Fika, Susa, TenOneTen, AME Cloud Ventures, Knollwood, Route 66, and SaaS...
Mar 17, 2022•44 min
Our guest on this episode is Stephen Smith , CEO of NOCD , a digital health company delivering high-quality virtual care for patients with obsessive compulsive disorder , or OCD . NOCD performs over 140,000 virtual therapy sessions annually, and has established a community-driven model that connects patients around the world to peers and licensed therapists. Last year, NOCD raised a $33 million Series B round of funding led by F-Prime Capital and received their initial backing from 7wireVentures...
Feb 28, 2022•34 min
In this episode, we sat down with Jia Jia Ye , CEO & Co-Founder of Springtide Child Development , a company that provides integrative, evidence-based, and family-centered care for children with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD. With four clinics open across Massachusetts and Connecticut, and a fifth coming soon, Springtide’s rapid growth is enabling families to better plan for the future, providers to focus on patient care in a coordinated environment, and payors to see what value-based beha...
Feb 21, 2022•45 min•Season 4Ep. 8
In this episode, we sat down with Andrew Hines , Founder & CEO of Canvas Medical . Andrew and his team at Canvas Medical build software and APIs to power collaboration between caregivers and developers. Canvas Medical raised $17M in Series A funding in April, 2021. We discussed: Canvas Medical’s vision of building a software platform that connects electronic medical records (EMR) with clinician input that allows software developers to collaborate closely with practitioners and adapt workflow...
Feb 14, 2022•46 min•Season 4Ep. 7
In the latest episode of The Pulse Podcast by Wharton Digital Health , we interview veteran entrepreneur, Allon Bloch. His latest venture is K Health , a company that is seeking to democratize access to medical information. They do this by allowing users to interact with an AI chatbot that gives them access to data on how millions of people with similar symptoms were diagnosed and treated. On top of providing this information free of charge, they offer telehealth consultations at an industry lea...
Feb 07, 2022•40 min
In this episode, we connected with Yury Yakubchyk , the founder and CEO of Elemy . Elemy is an industry leading tech enabled provider of high quality pediatric behavioral care. Inspired by his own personal journey in overcoming childhood ADHD, Yury co-founded Elemy to repair the flawed model of care for childhood behavioral conditions such as autism. Under Yury's leadership, Elemy has grown from 109 employees at the time of the company's seed round to more than 1,000 employees at present. Elemy ...
Jan 10, 2022•42 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Our guest on this episode is Holly Maloney , a Managing Director at the venture capital firm General Catalyst, where she has a focus on healthcare specifically. She has invested across the digital health space, with companies including Cityblock , Olive , SonderMind , Transcarent , and, most recently, Ribbon Health ....
Dec 20, 2021•41 min
Our guest on this episode is Dr. Ashwini Zenooz (“Ash”), CEO of Commure , a platform that enables health systems, digital health companies, and 3rd party developers to more quickly build interoperable data-driven products for healthcare. Their goal is to facilitate new clinical and operational workflows that leverage a health system’s data infrastructure to improve the patient experience, perform better in value-based arrangements, and expand access to care. Commure recently closed a $500 millio...
Nov 22, 2021•42 min
In this episode, we sat down with April Koh , the CEO and founder of Spring Health , a comprehensive mental health benefit for employers. April is currently the youngest female to run a unicorn company. We discussed: Spring Health’s focus on providing precision mental healthcare through its proprietary predictive algorithms and science-backed methodology of collecting patient self-reported data The critical role data plays in improving the accuracy of Spring Health’s predictive algorithms, conti...
Nov 15, 2021•46 min•Season 4Ep. 5
In this episode, we interview Chris Severn , the Co-Founder and CEO of Turquoise Health , a company working to bring real price transparency to healthcare. With recent and upcoming waves in pricing legislation, combined with its fundraise led by a16z earlier this year, Turquoise is tackling the transparency problem from several angles by creating new tools for patients, payers, and providers....
Nov 08, 2021•44 min
In this episode, we sat down with Karan Singh , Co-Founder & COO of Ginger , now Headspace Health , through a merger with Headspace that was announced in August, 2021. Headspace Health is the world’s leading provider of mental health and wellbeing solutions. We discussed: Ginger’s mission to address mental healthcare gaps by creating a comprehensive digital on-demand solution offering full stack mental health services at an affordable rate Potential reforms to make mental healthcare more acc...
Oct 26, 2021•45 min•Season 4Ep. 3
In this episode, we interview Fay Rotenberg, CEO of Firefly Health . We chat about her experience joining Firefly Health in 2017, discussing how what started as a virtual-first primary care offering has developed into a solution that will help consumers get, find, and pay for care. Firefly Health is trying to deliver concierge medicine at scale. They began with a virtual-first primary care offering that used an innovative leveraged care team approach to care for and build trust with their patien...
Oct 11, 2021•34 min•Season 4Ep. 2
