StartUp Health NOW Podcast

StartUp Health NOW Podcast


Latest Episodes

For Victor Penev, Good Leadership Starts With a Healthy Mind
July 20, 2021

Like so many founders, Edamam CEO & Founder Victor Penev went through a phase with his first startup where he worked all day and was stressed all night. He didn’t sleep enough. He gained weight. He wa

Achieving Health Moonshots w/ Vinod Khosla
July 12, 2021

Last month, Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, came back for part II of his Fireside Chat where he joined our co-founder, Unity Stoakes, to talk about achieving Health Moonshots, how COVID open

Gates Foundation on Taking Investment Risks Others Can’t (or Won’t)
July 06, 2021

In a recent StartUp Health Fireside Chat, we chatted with Annie Ye, the Program Manager of Digital Health Innovation at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Ye has experience in technology and analy

Four StartUp Health Entrepreneurs Tackling Cognitive Health Concerns
June 29, 2021

This episode is part of our monthly Health Moonshot series. Last month it was all about women’s health, today, we’re talking about founders and companies rethinking brain health. Kate Rosenbluth, PhD,

Building Exceptional Healthcare Provider & Patient Experiences With Karen Martell
June 22, 2021

This week, we sat down (virtually) with an entrepreneur who's still in the thick of scaling a business, Karen Martell, VP and GM at Alto Pharmacy. Karen built her career in tech, working at Square, bef

Payor Collaboration With Terry Booker of Independence Blue Cross
June 15, 2021

Today we’re talking with Terry Booker, the VP of corporate development and innovation at Independence Blue Cross. Booker combines years of experience in investment banking and business development wit

How Babyscripts Powers ‘Connected Pregnancies’ and Brings OB Care Where It’s Needed
June 08, 2021

In this episode, we sit down with Juan Pablo Segura, co-founder of Babyscripts, about virtual healthcare for moms-to-be.Around 50% of counties in the United States don’t have an OBGYN to take care of

Safi Bahcall on Achieving Health ‘Loonshots’
June 01, 2021

Bestselling author Safi Bahcall, a physicist by training and the former CEO of Synta Pharmaceuticals, believes that a key to achieving transformative ‘loonshots’ lies in asking better questions. During a recent StartUp Health Fireside Chat,

Linking Clinical & Technical Worlds With Yauheni Solad, MD
May 25, 2021

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 what it really takes to have a successful partnership between a startup and a large health syste...

Transforming Women’s Health With Dorothee Goldman and Missy Lavender
May 18, 2021

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 the health of every woman all around the globe, no matter the barrier.