Pear Healthcare Playbook

In this episode, we’re excited to learn from Vik Bakhru, Chief Health Officer at Circulo Health. Circulo is building the Medicaid insurance company of the future to provide tech-enabled, world-class care to the nation’s most underserved populations. Vik is also currently a member of the clinical advisory board at Bright Health and a practicing Staff Physician at UCSF Medical Center. Prior to Circulo, Vik was the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at SameSky Health (formerly Consejosano) for almost 4.5 years and COO of First Opinion. In February 2021, Circulo launched out of stealth at $50M led by Drive Capital, General Catalyst, Oak HC/FT and SVB Capital. 

In this episode, we’re super excited to have Connor Hailey, CEO and Co-Founder of Axle Health here with us today. Founded in 2020, Axle Health enables any healthcare organization to send health professionals to patients’ homes to administer blood draws, vaccines, injections and other physical services. We dive into Axle's founding story, the future of home health, landing their first pilot and then converting their pilots into expanded contracts as well as figuring out how to stack rank features during early stage product development. Axle Health has raised a $3M seed round led by Pear VC in Spring of 2021.

In this episode, we’re excited to learn from Pouria Sanae, CEO and Co-Founder of ixLayer, which provides an elegant solution for integrated health systems to easily deploy and manage affordable and reliable remote lab testing solutions. In March 2021, ixLayer raised an oversubscribed $79M Series A led by General Catalyst— Pear has been a proud investor in ixLayer since the pre-seed and seed days.

Manav Sevak, CEO and Co-Founder at Memora Health discusses the challenges in healthcare journeys, the development of their platform, the future of healthcare, and lessons on entrepreneurship and motivation.

Vivien interviews Tom Lee, founder of Galileo, One Medical, and Epocrates. They talk about the challenges of starting and running tech-enabled healthcare services. They discuss patient acquisition, differences in target populations, and the role of technology in serving underserved communities.