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StartUp Health NOW Podcast
StartUp Health NOW celebrates the innovators, industry leaders, and entrepreneurs who are reimagining health and wellness.
Episodes
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Safi Bahcall on Achieving Health ‘Loonshots’
Bestselling author Safi Bahcall, a physicist by training and the former CEO of Synta Pharmaceuticals, believes that a key to achieving transformative…
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Linking Clinical & Technical Worlds With Yauheni Solad, MD
In this podcast episode, we dialed up Dr. Yauheni Solad, Medical Director of Digital Health at Yale New Haven Health, who shared his practical wisdom about…
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Transforming Women’s Health With Dorothee Goldman and Missy Lavender
At StartUp Health, we strongly believe that being a woman shouldn’t be a health risk factor. That’s why we’ve devoted an entire health moonshot to improving…
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Introducing the Smartphone Epinephrine Injector, by Detroit-Based Startup Alerje
For some people, allergies are an inconvenience. But for millions of people around the world – particularly children – severe allergies are a major health…
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For Margaret Laws, Innovation Springs From Co-Creation
Longtime friend of StartUp Health Margaret Laws has built a career on cross-sector, interdisciplinary partnerships. For 17 years, she served as the Director of…
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Michelle Snyder Brings a Creative Spirit to Marketing and Investing
Michelle Snyder has done a bit of everything. Now a partner at McKesson Ventures (she joined the healthcare-oriented venture group in late 2020), the digital…
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Medical Billing Startup Inbox Health Bags $15M to ‘Fix the Pipes in Healthcare’
Blake Walker, CEO and Co-founder of Inbox Health, which joined StartUp Health in 2014, is helping to upgrade medical billing by delivering a personalized…
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With $8.5B Raised Globally in Q1 of 2021, Health Innovation Funding Hits New Milestone
What began as a rapid reaction to COVID-19 has become an enduring wave of interest, adoption, and investment in health innovation companies. According to this…
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Former Livongo President Dr. Jennifer Schneider Talks Moonshots, the Teladoc Merger, and How to Be a Transformative Leader
In this candid conversation with Unity Stoakes, President and Co-founder of StartUp Health, Dr. Schneider shares her hard-won wisdom and pulls back the curtain…
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Aidar Health Scores FDA Clearance for New Breath-Based “Tricorder” Health Monitoring Device
In this episode, we talk with Sathya Elumalai, CEO & Co-founder of Aidar Health, a StartUp Health company since 2016. Sathya and his team in Baltimore have…
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GE Healthcare’s Karley Yoder Builds Bridges With AI
Karley Yoder made a name for herself in the digital health world at Doctor on Demand and Apple before launching a career at GE Healthcare, where she now serves…
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Cloudbreak’s Jamey Edwards Breaks Down the UpHealth Mega Deal and Why SPACs Work
Jamey Edwards, the CEO and Co-founder of Cloudbreak Health, has been in telemedicine for years, but his health moonshot impact is about to get a lot bigger…
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Cleveland Clinic’s Dr. Toby Cosgrove Sees Moonshot Potential in an After-COVID World
While this may be the first global pandemic Toby Cosgrove, MD, has experienced, he’s seen a lot in his nearly 50-year career. The Executive Advisor and former…
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A Moonshot Vision for Healthcare Virtual Reality With Dr. Brennan Spiegel
Dispense with everything you know about virtual reality. So says Dr. Brennan Spiegel at the opening of his new book, VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics will…
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The Surprising Secret to Doctor.com’s Success
Andrei Zimiles and Reed Mollins, founders of Doctor.com, are longtime friends and longtime friends of StartUp Health. The two met as pre-teens at summer camp…
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Walmart Could Magnify Americans’ Access to Healthcare — With the Help of Key Startups
In the era of social distancing, a doctor’s appointment looks a little different than it did a year ago. But Evan Schnur, Director of Healthcare Information…
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Exit Strategies: M&A Wisdom From Entrepreneur-Investors Samer Hamadeh and James Marciano
In this episode of StartUp Health NOW, StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes dials up Samer Hamadeh, CEO and founder of Zeel, and James Marciano, founder of…
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With Finess, Privy CEO Evi Heilbrunn Is Breaking Down Stigmas in the Women’s Health Aisle
Because she’s tackling a stigmatized area of women’s health, one that’s been swept to the side for a long time, Privy CEO Evi Heilbrunn has had to do her…
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Vinod Khosla: Investing in the Future of Healthcare & Moonshot Thinking
The global pandemic ushered in a new era of health innovation. StartUp Health founders Steven Krein and Unity Stoakes sat down for an interactive Fireside Chat…
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StartUp Health Fireside Chat: Dr. Andrey Ostrovsky, Health Innovation Investor
In a recent Fireside Chat with a few dozen founders from the StartUp Health portfolio, we were joined by Andrey Ostrovsky, MD, former Chief Medical Officer at…
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StartUp Health Fireside Chat: Dr. Ashwini Zenooz, GM and Chief Medical Officer at Salesforce
In this episode, StartUp Health’s Editor-in-Chief, Logan Plaster, talks (virtually) with Dr. Ashwini Zenooz, GM and Chief Medical Officer at Salesforce. Before…
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Particle Health’s “Quark” Sandbox Gives Healthcare Companies Secure Access to Their Medical Data
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…
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UCSF’s Dr. Michael Blum Talks How COVID-19 Changed Expectations Around Virtual Care at the Highest Institutional Levels
As a cardiologist and the Chief Digital Transformation Officer at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Michael Blum assesses and deploys digital…
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Conversa Health Built on Its Virtual Care Platform to Quickly Launch COVID-19 Screening Tools for Frontline Workers
Today’s episode is a conversation with Murray Brozinsky, CEO of Conversa Health. Before COVID-19 struck, Conversa was working with big health systems…
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Former NFL Wide Receiver Torrey Smith Partners With Rose Health to Promote Mental Health Resilience
This week, two-time Super Bowl Champion and former Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith announced that he was joining mental health startup Rose Health as an…
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Brand Newland Is Fighting Opioid Overprescribing by Improving and Standardizing the Surgery Experience
Established with the goal of improving recovery time and bettering outcomes for patients undergoing surgical procedures, the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery…
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Business Insider’s Megan Hernbroth on Pitching Your Health Startup’s Story
On this episode of the podcast we dive under the hood to talk about practical strategies for getting a startup’s story out into the world. We turned to Megan…
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How LifeBio Is Using the Power of Storytelling to Improve Mental Health for Seniors
In 2020, the coronavirus caused a societal lock-down like this generation has never seen before. Many who were already isolated and lonely — like seniors –…
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New VC Funds Put Women’s Health Moonshot Front and Center
In today’s venture capital world, the vast majority of decisions are made by male investors – by one recent estimate, 87% of partners at digital health venture…
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Venus Williams Gets Candid About Entrepreneurship, Wellness and Bouncing Back From COVID-19
Tennis icon and Olympian Venus Williams has built on her success on the court to become a savvy and successful investor, advisor and entrepreneur. Now she’s…
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inHealth CEO Harry Kim on Why Lifestyle Therapeutics Are the Next Frontier in Health
Our lifestyle choices play a big role in affecting our overall health and, in today’s society, are largely unaddressed. Health coaching, or “Lifestyle…
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RxRevu Is Bringing Drug Price Transparency to Doctors at the Bedside
With the recent IPO of GoodRx, drug price transparency – at least on the consumer side – is having a moment. But what about at the patient’s bedside? In this…
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Mindset Matters Most: Steven Krein on the Mindset of Transformative Entrepreneurs
Steve Krein. CEO, co-founder & managing partner of StartUp Health, discusses the importance of having the right entrepreneurial mindset. Thoughtfully…
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Raising Capital During a Pandemic
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…
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Kavi Misri on Rose’s High Tech Approach to Predicting Depression and Expanding Access to Mental Health Services
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…
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Our Powers Combined
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…
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Anish Sebastian and Babyscripts Are Showing the World That a Connected Pregnancy Is a Healthier Pregnancy
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…
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The Transformation of Digital Health in COVID Times
It’s late August, approximately six months since the coronavirus pandemic sent us indoors, stunted the economy and sparked a rapid global transformation in…
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One Health Transformer’s Decades-Long Journey to Cure Chronic Pain
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…
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Livongo/Teladoc Merger Creates $37B Remote Health Company and Sets a New Standard for Digital Health Valuations.
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…
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Pregnancy in the Time of COVID, With ROBYN Founder Alli Kasirer
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…
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Surviving the Pivot: How Two Founders Re-Shaped Their Business to Thrive in a Post-COVID World
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…
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Despite COVID-Constrained World, Digital Health Investor Predicts Promising Future in Telemedicine
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…
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StartUp Health’s 2020 Midyear Insights Report: A Conversation With Jonah Comstock
StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes and editor in chief Logan Plaster talk health innovation funding trends with HIMSS Media editor-in-chief Jonah…
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How Joint Academy CEO Jakob Dahlberg Is Transforming Osteoarthritis Care
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…
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Dr. Sandro Galea: Changing the Conversation Around Health
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…
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MedHaul’s Leaders Break Down What’s Needed to Create Racial Equity in Silicon Valley and Beyond
At MedHaul, CEO & founder Erica Plybeah and Director of Quality and Community Engagement Nathalie Occean are solving one of the oldest challenges in health…
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Cityblock Scales Up to Meet the Needs of NYC’s Hardest Hit During COVID-19
When the pandemic first hit, Toyin Ajayi, MD, Chief Health Officer & Co-founder of Cityblock, says her team knew, instinctively, that the patients Cityblock…
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Hiring in Health: Aequitas Partners Launch the Health Talent Exchange
Executive search firm Aequitas Partners has been building teams for high growth health innovation companies since 2014. Now, with their Health Talent Exchange…
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The Health Transformer Making EMS COVID-Ready
One day after the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, Beyond Lucid Technologies announced that it would be appending its EMS health information exchange…
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Meet the Health Transformer Addressing Racial Disparities in COVID-19
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…
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Mental Health in a COVID World
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…
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Three of Telemedicine’s Original Visionaries Weigh in on Its Future
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…
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Health Transformers Bringing Diagnostics Into the Home
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…
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Dispatch From the Frontlines of a U.S. Pandemic Response With KnowNOW’s Dr. Marcelo Venegas
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…
StartUp Health NOW PodcastMeditation Together, Virtually: the App Helping Meditation Beginners During COVID-19
At Journey Meditation, Stephen Sokoler is rooting the practice of meditation back in its origins – community. In this episode, StartUp Health’s ventures team…
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The Telehealth App Bridging Care Gaps During COVID-19
At a time when telehealth startups find themselves uniquely positioned to alleviate the demand on health systems caused by the coronavirus, Rejuvenan has set…
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The Italian Innovator Using Whole Genomic Sequencing to Combat COVID-19
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…
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StartUp Health Festival: Fireside Chat, Dr. Marty Makary, MedPage Today
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…
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COVID-19 Update With Unity Stoakes, Co-founder and President of StartUp Health
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…