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StartUp Health NOW Podcast
StartUp Health NOW celebrates the innovators, industry leaders, and entrepreneurs who are reimagining health and wellness.
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Qura’s Tiny Implantables Could Revolutionize How We Treat Hypertension
When it comes to health technology, often the next big thing is really, really small. Our guest on the show this week, Dr. Will Hendren, has seen personally…
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Collaborative Innovation Within Health Systems: Wisdom From an EVP & Chief Digital Officer
At StartUp Health, we get the pleasure of talking with many, many founders of healthcare startups. It’s a perk of the job, because each founder, each new idea…
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Phyllis Ferrell Named Chief Impact Officer for StartUp Health’s Alzheimer’s Moonshot
In January, StartUp Health launched the Alzheimer’s Moonshot with support from the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) and Gates Ventures. The…
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Mission Aligned: Helmsley Charitable Trust and StartUp Health on T1D Moonshot
Welcome back to StartUp Health NOW, the podcast where we hear directly from the entrepreneurs and innovators who are transforming health. Typically on this…
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Gamification in Healthcare: How Two Founders Are Using Games to Heal
This week, we’re talking about gamification in healthcare. Gamification has been a popular buzzword in tech and in health, but it just means using elements we…
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Why the CEO of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Joined StartUp Health’s Health Moonshot Impact Board
Since 2020, Charles “Chuck” Henderson has led the American Diabetes Association (ADA) as CEO. In 2023, he joined StartUp Health’s Health Moonshot Impact Board…
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No More Suffering in Silence: Meet Two Founders Tackling Gut Health
On this week’s StartUp Health NOW episode, we’re talking about the future of gut health with Jeff Glueck, CEO & Co-founder of Salvo Health, and Swathi…
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10 Years Later: A Health Tech Investor Reflects on Her Early Days at StartUp Health
Ten years ago, Irem Rami became one of the first Fellows to join StartUp Health. In her role she helped vet the very first companies to join our community…
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How Two Founders Are Using AI to Tackle Wasteful Healthcare Spending
On this StartUp Health NOW episode, we’re talking about wasteful spending in healthcare. This is one of those topics that’s hard to put in perspective. The…
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Thriving Seniors: How These Founders Are Upgrading Senior Care from Early Disease Detection to Care Coordination
Alzheimer’s is a terrible disease. It’s the most common cause of dementia, impacting around 55 million people globally. It’s a leading of death for the…
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Food as Medicine: The Next Wave of Tech-Enabled Nutrition
At StartUp Health we’re all about what’s new and what’s next in health, and that often means talking about cutting-edge technology. But sometimes the most…
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Neolth Teams Up with NBA Star Kenny Thomas to Bring Mental Health Tools to Kids
According to some estimates, out of the HHS, nearly 50% of kids have experienced some kind of mental health challenge. And not just anxiety about an upcoming…
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These Founders Are Pairing AI + SDoH to Re-humanize Healthcare
Our episode this week was recorded during our StartUp Health Studio interviews at the recent HLTH conference in Las Vegas. At the event, a hot topic was how…
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A Deep Dive with Jetsweat Founders: Bridging the Gap from Physical to Emotional Fitness
This week’s StartUp Health NOW podcast episode is a conversation with Health Transformers Alexandra Dantzig and Erin Frankel, the co-founders of Jetsweat. As…
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Quantifying Mental Health: How Mobio Interactive Is Unleashing Precision Psychiatry at Scale
There’s a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in business: “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” It’s a quote attributed to Peter Drucker, the famed…
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Virtual Reality for Brain Health: Virtuleap’s New Platform Uses VR to Detect Cognitive Decline Early
Our StartUp Health NOW guest this week is Amir Bozorgzadeh, CEO & Co-founder of Virtuleap, a brain health company that joined StartUp Health in 2019…
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How GO-Pen’s “Insulin Pen for All” Is Making High-Quality T1D Care Globally Accessible
Our StartUp Health NOW guest this week is Ole Kjerkegaard Nielsen, PhD, CEO & Co-founder of GO-Pen, a company in our Type 1 Diabetes Moonshot community. As…
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10-Year Overnight Success: UnaliWear Tops Wirecutter List of Medical Alert Systems
We’re back with a new season of the StartUp Health NOW podcast! This week we’re chatting with Richard Hirsch from UnaliWear. UnaliWear, under the guidance of…
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From the Archives: Naheed Kurji of Recursion Takes a Deep Dive into Artificial Intelligence for Drug Discovery
For this StartUp Health NOW episode, we dive back into an interview we did with a long-time Health Transformer, Naheed Kurji. At the time of the interview…
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From the Archives: Why Media Giant Jon Miller, Former CEO at AOL and IAC, Joined StartUp Health’s Board of Directors
As we gear up for the launch of the next season of this podcast, which will drop after Labor Day, we’re bringing you replays of favorite episodes from the…
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From the Archives: Dr. Robert Wilson on How Partnering with PreventScripts Enhanced His Medical Practice
Typically on this show we talk to the health tech founders – who we call Health Transformers – that are creating the tools and platforms that will modernize…
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From the Archives: Aaron Kowalski, PhD, CEO of JDRF, Brings His Professional & Personal Experience to StartUp Health’s T1D Moonshot Impact Board
For this StartUp Health NOW episode, we are taking a look back at a great episode featuring Aaron Kowalski, PhD, the CEO of JDRF International. Anyone orbiting…
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From the Archives: A Look at How Andreessen Horowitz Invests in the Future of Health
On this week’s StartUp Health NOW, we look back at one of our most-popular podcast episodes: a chat with Julie Yoo, a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz –…
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Scaling Your Health Tech Business to $100 Million, Featuring Sofia Guerra of Bessemer Venture Partners
On our episode today we are getting down into the details, deep the weeds, in order to understand what it takes to scale a healthcare business to $100M. For…
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How Avanlee Care Is Teaming Up with Retailers to Address the Caregiver Crisis
Our podcast guest this week is Avanlee Christine, CEO and Co-founder of Avanlee Care, a company that joined StartUp Health in 2022. A few years ago Avanlee…
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Two Top Health Investors Share Their 2023 Tips for Founders
Whether they like it or not – and they probably don’t – every health tech founder needs to think about money. How much they need, and how to get it. For many…
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Maximizing Your Impact: Building and Leading a Strategic Board
Our guest this week is Matt Blumberg, CEO and Co-founder at Bolster. He’s the author of the books “Startup CEO,” “Startup CXO,” and most recently “Startup…
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(Re)Meet Pelago: Well-Funded Quit Genius Rebrands to Make Addiction Treatment More Accessible
When we first met today’s StartUp Heatlh NOW podcast guest, he was a newly-minted doctorpreneur. After finishing med school Yusuf Sherwani, MD, teamed up with…
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How Health Tech Startups Can Launch with Government Contracts
So you’re healthcare founder who has designed and built, by the sweat of your brow, a new platform or product that can help people live longer, healthier…
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How These FemTech Founders Are Upgrading Below-the-Belt Health
For years we’ve tracked investment trends at StartUp Health and talked quarter after quarter about how women’s health has been underfunded. Finally, that is…
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How These Entrepreneurs Are Empowering Community-Based Healthcare
Some startups provide tools directly consumers and patients while others tackle issues in the hospital, at the other end of the care journey. Our two guests…
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Safer, Faster, Smarter: How Entrepreneurs Are Upgrading Hospital Tech
Welcome to StartUp Health NOW, the podcast where we celebrate the entrepreneurs and innovators who are transforming health. So when you go to the hospital for…
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Creative Collaborations: Bringing Next-Gen Alzheimer’s Tech to West Africa
One of the words that gets thrown around so much at StartUp Health that you might get tired of hearing it is ‘collaboration.’ We say it a lot. However, you’ll…
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Unpluq Helps People Get Off Their Screens and Back into Life
Our StartUp Health NOW guest this week is Caroline Cadwell, the CEO and Co-founder of Unpluq – a Dutch company that joined StartUp Health in 2021. Unpluq is on…
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How These Two Founders Are Upgrading Maternal Health Through Cultural Competence and Remote Monitoring
Today in the United States, we do an entirely poor job of taking care of our pregnant mothers. If you look at statistics like maternal morbidity and mortality…
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How Lifestores Is Using Their $3M Raise to Upgrade Drug Procurement in West Africa
Our guest this week is Andrew Garza, co-founder of Lifestores Healthcare, a company that joined StartUp Health in 2019. When Andrew and his co-founder Bryan…
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Welcome to the Genomic Medicine Revolution
On this episode of StartUp Health NOW, we’re talking with Jo Bhakdi, CEO & Founder of Quantgene, a company that joined StartUp Health in 2019. Bhakdi and his…
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ChatGPT Was Just the Beginning: Victor Wang on the Future of AI in Healthcare
Victor Wang, CEO & Founder of StartUp Health company care.coach, is at the tip of the spear of the AI-in-health revolution. He’s got an insider’s understanding…
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How Scan.com Is Using Their Recent Series A Funding to Break into the US Market
On this week’s StartUp Health NOW podcast episode, we sat down with Charlie Bullock, the CEO and Co-founder of Scan.com, which is, to oversimplify, an online…
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Cybersecurity: How Startups Can Stay Secure as Healthcare Ransomware Attacks Skyrocket
According to multiple news sources, cyber attacks surged in 2022. That doesn’t necessarily surprise anyone, but what may be a surprise is learning that…
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Expanding Globally: How This African Startup Is Building a Roadmap for the US Market
Welcome to StartUp Health NOW, the podcast where we celebrate the entrepreneurs and innovators who are transforming health. One of our favorite things about…
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Prioritizing Health Equity Through Sustained Action and Equitable Innovation
Last year StartUp Health launched a Health Equity Moonshot with the goal of creating a guiding equity framework for how we support health startups. That work…
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How One Founder Raised $5M to Help Women Detect Breast Cancer Earlier
On this StartUp Health NOW episode, we go to Portland, Oregon, to meet a Health Transformer helping women assess their risk for breast cancer. We chat with…
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New Hubs for Health Innovation: Why These Health Transformers Are Building Their Startups in Columbus, Pittsburgh & Baltimore
Every quarter we publish a little thing called the StartUp Health Insights report. It’s all about health innovation funding, and one of the data points we…
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Inside Healthcare Sales: Building a Revenue Strategy for Your Health Moonshot
Welcome to StartUp Health NOW, the podcast where we celebrate the entrepreneurs and innovators who are transforming health. As we’ve reported recently, the…
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Raising My First Million: The Health Moonshot Mindsets & Tactics That Helped Perceiv AI Close $1.5M During a Down Market
Welcome to StartUp Health NOW, the podcast where we celebrate the entrepreneurs and innovators who are transforming health. It’s no secret that 2022 was a down…
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Facing the Music: Critical Lessons in Healthcare Leadership
Welcome to StartUp Health NOW, the podcast where we celebrate the entrepreneurs and innovators who are transforming health. What can music teach us about the…
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Is Value-Based Care Finally at a Tipping Point? Cityblock and Enlace Health Share Thoughts from StartUp Health @ HLTH
Welcome to StartUp Health NOW, the podcast where we celebrate the entrepreneurs and innovators transforming the future of health. Value-based care has the…
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Why Any Digital Health Startup Needs an Interoperability Strategy w/ Troy Bannister, Particle Health
Troy Bannister is the CEO & Founder of Particle Health, a StartUp Health portfolio company that is shaping the new standard of healthcare data exchange with a…
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Sue Siegel, Former CEO of GE Ventures and Chief Innovation Officer at GE, Joins StartUp Health’s Impact Board to Advance Health Moonshots
In this week’s StartUp Health NOW episode, we continue a series we’ve been running where we sit down with members of StartUp Health’s Impact Board to learn a…
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Aaron Kowalski, PhD, CEO of JDRF, Brings His Professional & Personal Experience to StartUp Health’s T1D Moonshot Impact Board
For this StartUp Health NOW episode, we are joined by Aaron Kowalski, PhD, the CEO of JDRF International. Anyone orbiting in the universe of Type 1 diabetes…
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AI-Powered Health: Naheed Kurji of Cyclica Takes a Deep Dive into Artificial Intelligence for the Healthcare Industry
Our guest this week is Naheed Kurji, the CEO and Co-founder of Cyclica, which joined StartUp Health way back in 2014. He’s going to get us up to speed on the…
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How to Partner with Investors to Grow & Scale Your Company w/ Cheryl Cheng, CEO & Founder of Vive Collective
This week we welcome Cheryl Cheng to the interview chair. Cheryl is the CEO & Founder of Vive Collective. Previously Cheryl was a Partner at BlueRun Ventures…
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How Brian Neman Has Cultivated an Award-Winning Workplace at Sanguine Biosciences
This week, our guest is Brian Neman, the CEO and Founder of Sanguine Biosciences, a company that joined the StartUp Health portfolio in 2018. Brian and his…
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Health Innovation Implementation: Dr. Robert Wilson on How Partnering with PreventScripts Enhanced His Medical Practice
Typically on this show we talk to the health tech founders – who we call Health Transformers – that are creating the tools and platforms that will modernize…
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KP Yelpaala Shares the Mission & Vision Behind StartUp Health’s Health Equity Moonshot
As our listeners will know, StartUp Health invests in what we call health moonshots. These are big, audacious health goals that guide us as we push innovative…
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The Future of Virtual Health, with Amwell’s Dr. Roy Schoenberg & Murray Brozinsky
We’ve talked extensively on this podcast about how COVID ushered in a period of rapid adoption of telemedicine. According to McKinsey, we went from around 11%…
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Why Jon Miller, Former CEO at AOL and IAC, Joined StartUp Health’s Board of Directors
Jon Miller is best known for being a former CEO of AOL, Head of Digital Media at News Corp, and Chief Executive of the media powerhouse IAC. With all of that…
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Affectifi’s ThinkHuman Platform Uses Streaming TV to Make Emotional Regulation Easy, Fun, and Accessible
Emotional regulation. It’s a fancy term for something very simple, and something we often take for granted. Emotional regulation is a person’s ability to…
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At Trusty.care, Joseph Schneier Is Building a Better Infrastructure for Medicaid and Medicare Benefits
This week on StartUp Health NOW we’re talking to Joseph Schneier, the CEO and Co-founder of Trusty.care, a company that joined StartUp Health in 2018. Joseph…