What: Natural Cycles is the developer of the only digital method of birth control cleared by regulators both in the US and in Europe, based in Stockholm. The company's application uses its own algorithm to predict and detect women's ovulation, allowing them to prevent or plan pregnancies in a non-invasive, hormone and side-effect-free way. Who: Eli…

What: BioStem is a leading regenerative medicine company focused on the development, manufacture, and commercialization of placental derived biologics for advanced wound care. Their main offering is placental-derived tissue allografts for wound healing applications, based on their proprietary Local Microenvironment Activation® platform and BioRetai…

What: Ratio is an early clinical-phase pharmaceutical company whose mission is to accelerate the development of best-in-class radiopharmaceuticals for cancer patients. The company has raised over USD $40 million to date in funding and developed two novel proprietary platforms: Trillium™ and Macropa™. Who: Jack is CEO of Ratio and a mathematician by…

What: This episode is a a follow-on conversation from the Founders Keepers episode with Vlado Bosanac of Advanced Human Imaging, which has since undergone a merger with Wellteq and appointed new Director and CEO, Scott Montgomery. The company has rebranded as ⁠Advanced Health Intelligence⁠ (AHI); a B2B digital health company that offers biometric-e…

What: Codagenix is a clinical-stage biotechnology company that has raised over $25 million USD in funding to develop vaccine products against influenza, the respiratory syncytial virus, dengue virus and many others. Codagenix uses a computer-based algorithm called SAVE (Synthetic Attenuated Virus Engineering) that designs viral genomes identical to…

What: Fountain Life is a provider of healthcare services for predictive, preventative, personalised, and data-driven healthcare. The company's platform leverages science and technologies globally in order to provide effective and affordable treatments to enhance the health span, performance, and vitality of individuals, enabling patients to get acc…

What: e7 Health is a preventative health and wellness company supervised by Board Certified Doctors located in Las Vegas, US, and specializing in a range of services from travel medicine through to employee health, drug testing, immigration exams and laboratory services.Who: Jonathan is a triple board-certified physician with specialties in interna…

What: Vively is a software-as-a-service platform supporting people with lifestyle-related diseases: From providing real-time feedback to consumers on diet, exercise, sleep and stress to integrating continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) and wearables for real-time data analytics about how users’ lifestyle impacts their health. The organisation collabor…

What: Lazarus 3D is a seed-stage US-based organisation that produces 3-dimensional printed synthetic human tissue models for surgical training. They are proprietors of world's first FDA cleared technology that allows physicians to rehearse their case on a personalised copy of the patient before the “real” operation, claiming to improve surgical con…

Wasted* is a Burlington-Vermont based start-up building the circular sanitation economy and transforming human waste into effective, safe, and sustainable fertilizers. The company was founded in 2020 and recently raised USD 7.5 million in seed funding from investors including the Collaborative Fund, Divergent Capital, Day One Ventures, Third Sphere…

AmyriAD is an LA-based clinical-stage biotech company working to advance effective therapies for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease, bringing together decades of experience with the singular goal of easing the devastation it causes. The Company's lead drug candidate, AD101, is a small molecule under development for the treatment of Alzheimer's Di…

Founded in 2016, South Rampart Pharma is a clinical-stage life science company dedicated to advancing the safe treatment of pain by developing new non-opioid small molecule solutions that lack the liver and kidney toxicity present in current pain medicines. The company's lead program, SRP-001, is currently in a Phase 1 study evaluating the safety, …

This is a special segment podcast episode with a focus on questions around conferences, given that it’s currently conference season for bio, med and health tech organisations in the US. Blue Water Vaccines showcased at JPM Healthcare in January and is an early-stage biotech company focused on manufacturing a universal influenza vaccine in partnersh…

Tonix Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company based in New Jersey focused on repurposing drugs for neurological conditions and developing vaccines for COVID-19, smallpox and other biodefense projects. More recently, the FDA awarded one of its drug candidates, TNX -102 SL, with breakthrough therapy designation for the treatment of post-traumatic…

Convergent Therapeutics is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing next generation radiopharmaceutical therapies for prostate and other cancers. The company's proprietary technology involves dual-targeted radionuclide therapy that has been licensed to Convergent by Cornell University (USA). If FDA-approved, its flagship therap…

CONNECT Care is a UK-based startup that uses tech to track prescriptions for elderly patients and their carers. Supported by Innovate UK, their founding team brings together a combined 20 years of deep industry expertise at the intersection of digital health, pharmacy, and the oft-neglected social care. Through working with NHS partners across the …

Kicking off the first episode of Founders Keepers of 2023 is Pete O’Heeron - the Founder and CEO of FibroBiologics.FibroBiologics is a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company based in Houston, Texas, developing a pipeline of treatments for chronic diseases using fibroblast cells. They hold over 150 US and international issued patents and paten…

Luna is a platform for teenager health and wellbeing. Their app recently launched in the UK on Apple and Google Play stores following a $600,000 pre-seed investment from Octopus Ventures and Syndicate Room, and the app is freely available to teens, but also their parents, guardians, and teachers to holistically support young people during their for…

UK-based Credentially’s AI platform aims to revolutionise the staff onboarding and verification process in the healthcare sector, making it faster, cheaper and easier for doctors and nurses to book onto work shifts, and was a key player in the NHS Covid Clinical Assessment Service facilitating the efficient sign-up and verification of thousands of …

Launched in 2017, Mojo is an AI-powered fertility care platform that helps people to understand, test, and improve their fertility in preparation for starting a family. Having raised a total of US$5.5 million over 2 funding rounds, Mojo's main offering is an at-home fertility testing kit that provides detailed results to users within 48h of samplin…

Motics is an app platform geared towards helping patients with physiotherapy needs. Through a series of wearable sensors and a gamified approach, Motics’ users receive actionable insights into their muscle function while electrical signals help them understand which muscles to use during rehabilitation and exercise.Harvinder holds degrees in both m…

Apryl is one of the top fertility benefits providers in the UK and Europe, which operates an SaaS model that helps employers to attract & retain talent while tackling diversity & inclusion in family planning. Apryl’s easy-to-use platform enables companies to support employees on their path to parenthood by offering access to a range of reproductive…

Advanced Human Imaging (AHI) uses smartphone-based scanning technology that combines proprietary deep learning models and state of the art processing techniques that return body circumference, body composition, health risks, and risk indicators from photo images taken on your phone. Comprising Body, Face and Dermatological scans, with a diverse ran…

OpenRegulatory claim to be "three dudes and one dudess passionate about helping healthcare startups enter the market". They provide free regulatory information and templates for healthcare organisations for the purpose of increasing transparency and maintaining safety in healthcare operations. OpenRegulatory also operate a consulting service for bu…

Naytal is the UK’s first fully online ante- and neonatal clinic that provides instant, affordable access to leading maternal health experts that support women with their reproductive health. Their current service offerings range from virtual one-on-one consultations with a highly curated selection of midwives, psychologists, baby sleep experts and …

Dr Nayan Kalnad is a medical doctor by training who conceived the idea for Avegen whilst working with digital products in cardiovascular medicine, and saw first-hand how those digital products positively impacted patient outcomes. He co-founded Avegen in 2015, and the company began working with NHS hospitals in 2016 to support digital tool deployme…

Sahha is an early-stage VC-backed digital health organisation with a platform that uses behavioural data from wearables and smartphones to deliver mental health care insights. Sahha collects digital phenotypes from mobile devices, such as a person's physical activity and sleep quality, and analyses that data through proprietary models to predict me…

Midnight Health is a digital healthcare platform based in Australia that has built a customer base of more than 30,000 people since its launch in early 2021. Offering a range of healthcare services from video consultations to home delivery of prescription medicines, its mission is to enhance patient outcomes through technology by consolidating the …

Founded in 2018, Clearhead is New Zealand’s first AI driven diagnostic and triage platform for mental health and wellbeing. Clearhead aims to improve mental health access by providing choice, convenience and control directly to the user, and is also used by numerous organisations to build happier, healthier teams through a data driven approach that…

Founded in 2020, Béa Fertility is a London-based startup that provides at-home fertility treatment and ovulation tracking services for UK residents. Its aim is to increase access to effective and affordable fertility treatments by offering an alternative to high-cost fertility clinics, and the company has raised nearly £1m in funding for its non-in…

Oto is a UK-based startup helping people with tinnitus manage their symptoms and improve their quality of life by way of a mobile app.Oto’s most recent investment round saw them raise $3.3 million dollars in seed financing, and is the first reimbursed digital tinnitus app marketed in the US and Germany. Their tools are built in collaboration with E…

Jasmine Eskenzi is the co-founder of the Health Tech Hive and The Zensory.The Health Tech Hive is growing online network and event series designed to connect, educate and inspire individuals to build technology solutions to some of the world’s biggest current and future health challenges. The Zensory’s main offering in turn is an app that combines …

Fresh off the back of their recent successful £20 million Series B fundraising round, Patchwork Health helps hospitals reduce reliance on agencies for locum staff, and to improve flexible working options for clinicians. Launched in 2017, their services have since been adopted by 70 health organisations across 250 sites in the NHS alone.Anas has had…

Designed in conjunction with practising physicians, Cinapsis SmartReferrals reduces emergency department attendances in the UK by 83% through providing advice & supportive guidance. Family practitioners, nurses, paramedics and pharmacists can contact specialists directly through the platform for clinical advice on a patient case both quickly and se…

Dr Maxine Mackintosh is, amongst many other things, the co-founder of One HealthTech: An international, grassroots, federated community of health technologists which exists to support individuals from under-represented groups to be future leaders in health innovation.Maxine also works as a Research Associate and Fellow working between The Alan Turi…

Dr Matthew Fenech is the Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of Una Health: A pre-seed stage startup based in Berlin, Germany. Una Health claim that they are on a mission to reverse metabolic dysfunction through precision nutrition and lifestyle management, combining mobile technology, AI, biosensors and behavioural science to create an effective …

Dr Emilia Molimpakis is a neuroscientist-turned-co-founder of the healthtech platform Thymia: A diagnostics platform that can be used by clinicians and patients to accurately assess and monitor depression. Inspired by video games, it uses neuropsychology and linguistics to pick up on subtle markers of depression that might otherwise be missed. The …

Recently awarded UK Asian Tech Pioneer of 2022, Dr Avi Mehra is a medical doctor by training and was the National Medical Director's Clinical Fellow at Bupa from 2014-15. He was later appointed as an Associate Partner at IBM, and is currently responsible for helping expand IBM’s healthcare and life sciences consulting practice. Along with a group o…

Jessica Smith is the co-founder and CXO of the privately-held innovation and communications agency, SomX, and whose expertise is specifically targeted at healthtech companies. SomX have provided personalised strategy, content and PR for more than 30 healthtech companies to date, including startups at seed stage, Series A and Series B, as well as co…

Dr Matthew Beatty is the CEO and co-founder of Sapien Health: A digital clinic that provides virtual support before and after a patient’s surgery in order to improve health outcomes. Endorsed by the NHS in the UK, and the recent recipient of an SBRI Healthcare grant, Sapien’s main offering is a mobile app-based solution, combining expert health coa…

Both Elena Rueda and Dr Paulina Cecula are guests on today's episode and are the co-founders of Dama Health: An early-stage startup in London that empowers women and clinicians to make equitable, safe, personalised and person-centered decisions regarding contraception, based on genetic testing and an AI-led matching system for various contraceptive…

Dr Abdullah Albeyatti is a serial entrepreneur as well as a practising physician: The co-founder and CEO of two companies (Medicalchain and MyClinic), he runs both businesses alongside his regular surgeries as a general practitioner. Established in 2017, Medicalchain leverages blockchain technology to digitize and securely store and share electroni…

Appropriately for Diabetes Week, the guest on this episode of Founders Keepers is Ashley Hanger: The founder of the diabetes drug and device subscription service, Stripped Supply (tagline: “Diabetes is a prick”). A journalism and public relations graduate by background, Ashley embarked on her journey with Stripped Supply in early 2020 to address an…

Barry Smith is a former military nurse-turned-farmer, and the “accidental” founder of Symprove: A water-based liquid probiotic formula marketed as a food supplement, containing four strains of live and active bacteria designed to be delivered directly to the gut. Initially developed as a cattle feed under the name Multigerm, but underpinned by the …

At just 24 years old, Livia Ng has built an active community of biotechnology companies focused on providing opportunities for business leaders. A neuroscientist by training, she is the founder and CEO of Neucruit: A seed-stage organisation that connects patients and researchers through data and seeks to optimise clinical trial management.Neucruit’…

Nicole Cacal is the Founder and CEO of Forbes Ignite; an independent social enterprise and license partner of Forbes Media. Forbes Ignite broadly functions as a consultancy advising leading companies on sustainable transformation, underpinned by a leadership network that unites global changemakers at the centre of technology, sustainability and soc…