
Pear Healthcare Playbook
We share stories from trailblazing entrepreneurs and leaders on how to build a healthcare business from 0 to 1. The Pear Healthcare Playbook, a podcast by Pear VC and hosted by Vivien Ho, Dr. Andrew Parambath and Lipsa Panda created a playbook for founders and operators to learn from other healthcare leaders who done it before.
Latest episodes

Feb 15, 2022 • 26min
Lessons from Connor Hailey, Axle Health, Bringing healthcare into the home
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.

Feb 10, 2022 • 32min
Lessons from Pouria Sanae, ixLayer, Scaling healthcare infrastructure with enterprise giants
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.

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Feb 1, 2022 • 40min
Lessons from Manav Sevak, Memora, Scaling go-to-market strategy in healthcare
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.

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Jan 27, 2022 • 35min
Lessons from Tom Lee, Galileo, Building tech-enabled services from 0 to IPO
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.
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