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The Healthtech VC, hosted by Dr Fiona Pathiraja, features conversations with ambitious startups, outstanding investors and visionary leaders in the healthtech space. Fiona is Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, a pan-European, healthtech-specific VC fund investing in early stage companies building the future of healthcare. www.cristagalli.com
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S2 012: Rachael Grimaldi. Bringing healthcare communication into the 21st Century. π₯π£π©πΌββοΈ
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Dr Rachael Grimaldi is an anaesthetist in the NHS who founded Card Medic at the beginning of the pandemic. Rachael noticed that the PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) used to shield all health workers during covid brought massive communication barriers with it. With doctors and nurses gowned-up, masked and covered head to toe, patients struggled tβ¦
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S2 011: Matthew Beatty. Building a digital surgical clinic & health coaching for surgical patients pre- and post-op. π²π₯π«
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Originally a doctor, Matthew Beatty was always drawn to the world of entrepreneurship, founding his first company in property technology (proptech). He then became an operator in the healthtech world by joining Huma, then called Medopad. Matt was the clinical lead of Humaβs commercial team. Sapien are a digital clinic run via a mobile app which helβ¦
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S2 010: Lucy Jung. Building global healthtech for Parkinsonβs patients. π¬π§π³π°π·
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From academia at Imperial College and the Royal College of Art, to bringing back smiles for patients with Parkinsonβs disease, Lucy Jung is the founder of Charco Neurotech. Parkinsonsβ Disease is the fastest growing neurodenerative disease in the world. Although the idea that vibration makes PD symptoms better has been around since the 19th centuryβ¦
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S2 009: Astrid Gyllenkrok Kristensen. Digitalising the post-partum period. π©π»βπΌπ²πΈπͺ
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With a background of digital innovation at CNN and ViaPlay in Sweden and social impact startup, Astrid Gyllenkrok Kristensenβs story to healthtech starts from a personal, lived experience. Having had three children, she found that in Sweden, she had access to great healthcare support during her pregnancies. However, once the child was delivered, shβ¦
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S2 008: Christoph Ruedig. Investing in healthtech at AlbionVC. π₯π²πΈ
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A former radiologist turned investor, Christoph Ruedig discusses his journey to healthtech from medical school and radiology to management consulting, an MBA from Insead and now being Partner at AlbionVC. One of the original doctor-turned-investors, Christoph has been investing for over a decade since the days that healthtech was called healthcare β¦
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S2 007: Mohamed Taha. Revolutionising male fertility at Mojo. π¬π€π¦
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With a deep technical background including a PhD in nanotechnology, Mohamed Taha ended up in the healthtech world after a health issue led him to have a sperm count done. He realised that sperm analysis was non-automated and non-standardised. A true entrepreneur, Mo became obsessed with the idea of making sperm analysis more accurate using AI. He fβ¦
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S2 006: Cecilie Hvidberg Jakobsen. Infertility support & data science at wawa. π©βπ§βπ§π€
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With a background in data science and fintech, Cecilia wondered how to take established solutions in fintech and translate them to the under-served healthcare market. wawa is an intelligent fertility assistant app that helps patients navigate the fertility journey. Used by couples who are experiencing infertility, single mothers and same-sex coupleβ¦
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S2 005: Jenny Saft. Fertility & Family forming benefits at Apryl. π€°π½π©πͺ
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Having just raised a EUR4.1M seed round, Jenny Saft, cofounder at Apryl is hoping to transform the way that employers provide fertility and family forming benefits to employees. From a business background of big corporates, an MBA and then fintech, Jenny moved into healthtech due to personal journey with egg freezing. Berlin-based Apryl believes thβ¦
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S2 004: Duleek Ranatunga. Computational biology at Pear Bio. π§¬π€
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As computational biology rises as a sector, we meet Duleek Ranatunga, founder of Pear Bio. A scientist founder, Duleek has a background in pharmaceuticals, nano-engineering and medical statistics. Having always wanted to start a biotech company, Duleek founded Pear Bio to build solutions in precision oncology. Pear Bio uses computational biology teβ¦
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S2 003: Barbara Domayne-Hayman β‘οΈ From big pharma to biotech startups & investing. π§ͺπ§¬π€
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From a PhD in chemistry to big pharma and biotech to startups and now investing, Barbara successfully navigates a portfolio career. Today, she sits on the investment committees of the Cambridge Enterprise seed fund and Life Arcβs seed fund. She is also the entrepreneur in Residence at the Francis Crick Institute in London. She also runs the KQ Labsβ¦
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S2 002: Rudy Benfredj at Mendelian β‘οΈ Rare diseases, genetics, AI. π§¬π€π₯
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A computer scientist fascinated by the genetic code and its application to rare disease, Rudy Benfredj moved into healthtech and cofounded Mendelian. Mendelscan, their core technology helps identify patients at risk of developing a rare disease early. We touch on the patientβs diagnostic odyssey on their way to being diagnosed with a rare disease, β¦
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S2 001: HΓ©lΓ¨ne Guillaume, founder of Wild.AI. Femtech, Sports, Female Representation ππ½ββοΈπ΄πΌββοΈ
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Ultra-marathoner, ice-swimmer and surfer HΓ©lΓ¨ne Guillame founded Wild.AI to help women to train, eat and recover across all stages of their menstrual cycle and through all stages of life. A former quant in a Hedge fund and a data scientist, HΓ©lΓ¨ne is bringing finance, data and AI skills to healthtech. In this podcast, we discuss how women are not rβ¦
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014: European healthtech journalism with Mimi Billing πππ²π¦
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This weekβs guest is Mimi Billing, a Swedish healthtech journalist, covering pan-European Healthtech for Sifted, a Financial Times backed media outlet. We discuss the state of European healthtech, how it differs across the Nordics, Germany and the UK and the important role that journalists play in the healthtech ecosystem. We also touch on culturalβ¦
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013: Hiring in global medical AI with Emil Larsson. ππ€π¨π»βββπ©π½βββ
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This weekβs guest is Emil Larsson, a global executive search specialist in the medical imaging space. Emil regularly places talent into many post series A startups and as Iβve got to know him, Iβve always been struck by how much insider knowledge he has of the whole medical imaging space. As global medical imaging AI landscapes develops and startupβ¦
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012: Keleya: Building a marketplace for pregnant women and midwives in Germany π€°π»π©πͺπ€±π½
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This weekβs guest is Victoria Engelhardt, Founder of Keleya, an app that supports pregnant women in their journey to being new parents. Keleya is the latest addition to the Crista Galli Ventures portfolio. The Keleya app has so far been downloaded over 200,000 times and Victoria has been the Apple face of Germany 2020, recently being interviewed byβ¦
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011: Trans-Atlantic healthtech investing with Dr. Ben Evans, Managing Partner at InHealth Ventures. π¬π§ πΊπΈ πΈ
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This weekβs guest is Dr Ben Evans, Managing Partner at InHealth Ventures. InHealth Ventures is an early stage healthtech fund investing at seed and series A, both in the US and Europe. Ben discusses his career from medicine to venture capital via management consulting at McKinsey, a stint at a startup and being an operations manager in the NHS. He β¦
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010: Radiobotics: Danish Deep Tech Radiology with Stine MΓΈlgaard SΓΈrensen π©π°π€
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This weekβs guest is Stine MΓΈlgaard SΓΈrensen who is cofounder and COO of Radiobotics, an award-winning deep tech radiology AI startup based in Copenhagen in Denmark. As one of the newest companies in the Crista Galli Ventures portfolio, we are excited to have Stine on the show to share all things Radiobotics. Stine discusses her background in globaβ¦
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009: Investing in Health and Happiness with Dr Neha Tanna. π©π½ββοΈπΈβ¨
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Dr Neha Tanna is a VC Investment Partner at Social Starts and Joyance Partners. Neha has had a very diverse portfolio career, starting off in medicine as a GP before moving into pharmaceutical medicine and biotech investing and then onto entrepreneurship and VC via an MBA at London Business School. Neha talks about why she joined Social Starts and β¦
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008: Shaping the role of AI in the NHS with Haris Shuaib. π¬π§π€π
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Haris Shuaib is the AI Transformation lead at the London AI Centre which is a hub of innovation in healthcare in the UK, recently receiving Β£16m in funding to scale up AI work in the NHS and being appointed a preferred partner for NVIDIAβs proposed Β£40m healthcare supercomputer. With a background in theoretical physics, Haris trained as a medical pβ¦
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007: Angel investing in healthtech with Pam Garside. πΈπ¬π§πΊπΈ
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Pam Garside is one of the most well-connected people in UK healthcare. A healthcare management consultant with extensive trans-Atlantic experience, Pam manages a wide-ranging portfolio career. She is a fellow at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and a member of the investment committee of Cambridge Enterprise, the Tech Transfβ¦
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006: Scaling a digital health startup to 90 countries, with Prof Wieland Sommer. π©πͺπ
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Professor Wieland Sommer is CEO and founder of Smart Reporting. The company is headquartered in Munich, employing over 60 people and has over 10,000 users in 90 countries around the world. Smart Reporting develops AI-based smart reports for radiologists and pathologists. They recently raised a EUR 15M funding round where we at Crista Galli Venturesβ¦
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005: Digital health academia and a portfolio career, with Dr Saira Ghafur. π‘π©π½ββοΈ
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Dr Saira Ghafur is lead for Digital Health at Imperial College Londonβs Institute of Global Health Innovation and also a practising Consultant Respiratory Physician. She manages a portfolio career spanning policy, academia, frontline medicine alongside being a founder of two startups. Saira discusses her work on healthcare cybersecurity, evidence gβ¦
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004: Cydar Medical and surgical visualisation, with Dr Tom Carrell π¦Ύπ¬π§
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In episode four of The Healthtech VC, Crista Galli Ventures' founder Dr Fiona Pathiraja, is joined by Dr Tom Carrell - the founder and CEO of Cydar Medical. Tom was working as a consultant vascular surgeon in London when he decided to collaborate with Graeme Penney, an imaging scientist at Kingβs College London to turn traditional surgical visualisβ¦
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003: contextflow and marketing in healthtech, with Julie Sufana π£π¦πΉ
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For episode three of The Healthtech VC, Crista Galli Ventures' founder Dr Fiona Pathiraja, is joined by Julie Sufana, Chief Marketing Officer of portfolio company contextflow, a Vienna based healthtech start-up developing deep learning-based tools to improve radiology workflows. Originally from the US, Julie has an enviably diverse range of cross-sβ¦
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002: Aidence and the future of radiology, with Dr Lizzie Barclay π€π³π±
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In this weekβs episode of The Healthtech VC, Dr. Fiona Pathiraja meets fellow former radiologist Dr Lizzie Barclay, who is now medical director of Aidence, an Amsterdam based start-up creating innovative AI that helps radiologists in the diagnosis of lung cancer. Lizzie started her career in medicine as an NHS radiologist and after working on the fβ¦
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001: Skin analytics and AI dermatology, with Neil Daly ππ¬π§
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In the first episode of The Healthtech VC, Crista Galli Ventures' founder, Dr Fiona Pathiraja, interviews Neil Daly, founder and CEO of Skin Analytics: a research-led, AI dermatology company committed to helping more people survive skin cancer. The Skin Analytics team has developed a clinically validated machine learning tool, DERM AI, that is as eβ¦
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