The Healthtech Podcast

This week, James is joined by Avi Mehra, a medical doctor by background and Associate Partner for Healthcare at IBM. He is also the Co-Founder of Doctorpreneurs, a non-profit organisation and global community for medical innovators and entrepreneurs.  Avi began his career as a doctor in the NHS before transitioning from clinical practice to industry roles. In 2014, he joined Bupa as a Clinical Fellow to the NHS National Medical Director, as part of a year-long NHS leadership and management fellowship programme, after which he was appointed as Bupa’s Clinical Lead for Digital Health. In 2016, Avi joined IBM’s newly formed healthcare technology and AI business unit, IBM Watson Health, where he held multiple global leadership roles.  Avi is also a Fellow at the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, and advisor/mentor to digital health start-ups through the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme among other programmes and initiatives.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avimehra3/Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/

Ranjan Singh is a digital executive, entrepreneur and private equity investor. He has been innovating and investing in sectors on the cusp of transformation for over 20 years. Prior to forming HealthHero, Ranjan held leadership positions in high growth digital companies and private equity firms. Ranjan was with a European PE firm, Penta Investments, leading their investments in digital health and also digital transformation of portfolio companies. Before that, Ranjan was an entrepreneur and founded isango.com, an online tours & activities platform which was acquired by TUI. His entrepreneurial venture followed leadership roles in Exepdia and Ebookers.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranjan-singh/Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/

This week our quick tips for entrepreneurs come from Better Therapeutics' Co-founder & Chairman, David Perry.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bettertx/Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/

This week, James is joined by Better Therapeutics' Co-founder & CEO, Kevin Appelbaum, and Co-founder & Chairman, David Perry. They started Better Therapeutics to change the way diabetes, heart disease and other metabolic conditions are treated by using prescription software instead of drugs to address the behaviour's that are root causes of disease. Better's prescription digital therapeutics deliver nutritional cognitive behavioural therapy that targets the cognitive structures and emotional patterns that drive disease-causing behaviours. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bettertx/Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/

This week our Quick Tips come from Jason Shuman, a Partner at Primary Venture Partners, the largest seed fund exclusively focused on New York City based companies.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonshuman/Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/

This week, James is joined by Jason Shuman, a Partner at Primary Venture Partners, the largest seed fund exclusively focused on New York City based companies. Jason leads new consumer and marketplace investments for Primary including consumer healthcare. Primary's previous healthcare investments include K Health, Alma, Dandy and most recently Perry Health. Jason was named Forbes 30 under 30 in venture capital and was listed by the venture capital journal as one of Venture Capital's 40 rising stars. Outside of work Jason serves on the Board of the Jeffrey Modell Foundation that supports research for Primary Immunodeficiencies as he was diagnosed with the disease at 6 months of age and he's a big supporter of mental health awareness.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonshuman/Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/

This week CEO Chaitenya Razdan of Care+Wear gives us his quick tips for entrepreneurs.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chaitenyarazdan/Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/

This week, James is joined by... Chaitenya “Chat” Razdan, the CEO and Founder of Care+Wear. Chat left his career as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs to launch Care+Wear and improve the experiences of those receiving critical treatment by changing the way the world looks and feels about healthcare. Care+Wear is a healthwear company bridging fashion and function so those receiving critical care can feel more like people and less like patients. Working alongside clinicians, designers, and patients themselves, Care+Wear creates functional and fashionable healthwear that promotes dignity, style, and comfort for people everywhere.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chaitenyarazdan/Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/

This week Dr Alex Young - an NHS trauma and orthopaedic surgeon by training and CEO/founder of mixed reality training platform Virti gives us his quick tips for entrepreneurs.Get in touch with Alex: https://www.virti.com/Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/

This week James is joined by Dr Alex Young. An NHS trauma and orthopaedic surgeon by training - Alex is the CEO and founder of mixed reality training platform Virti. Virti develops immersive training tools to improve human performance in organisations and institutions around the globe. Passionate about improving human performance, Alex built and sold an events company during medical school at Bristol, before boot-strapping and scaling an award-winning medical education company while still training in the NHS. Virti - Alex's most ambitious venture to date - has won a wealth of awards and grants, including being voted one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2021.Get in touch with Alex: https://www.virti.com/Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/