Healthtech Pigeon

This week: Jessica Smith is joined by James, Belle and Albion VC's Molly Gilmartin. [01:50] SVB fuelled high-risk, high-reward tech firms. Now health start-ups feel bereft [10:00] Why do so many biotechs face being kicked off the Nasdaq? [15:15] How UK healthtechs can get a head start on their US expansion [28:05] Why investors should pay close attention to the UK’s healthtech sector in 2023 ✍️ Ap...

Henry is joined by Jessica Smith, Huw Penson, and Gus Kennedy, CEO at Hero Health. [02:30] What is changing in the GP contract for 2023/24? - What’s not changing? Will we see a GP strike? Will special guest Hero Health’s Gus Kennedy have any opinions on it in this week’s Pigeon Podcast? [17:20] Moving from exclusion to inclusion in digital health and care - This is how reports should be written. C...

This week: Jess Farmery is joined by Jessica Smith, Huw Penson, and Dr Johnny Andrews, Chief Medical Officer at Certific. [01:20] Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Coming Soon To An HR Department Near You [11:10] After 8 years of losses, digital health scaleup Kry is heading for profitability in 2023 [18:25] Five healthtech ideas VCs want you to pitch in 2023 [24:40] Northumberland hospitals test drone fl...

This week: Jess Farmery is joined by Henry, Huw, and Insider's Riddhi Kanetkar. [01:10] Investors take to the next shiny toy — AI [06:30] DrDoctor Raises £10M [09:25] 16 of the hottest pitch decks founders used to raise millions from investors [14:05] Skin + Me secures over £10 million for prescription-based approach to skincare [17:50] New AI and digital health resource published for the NHS 📚 W...

This week: Is the NHS app the answer to everything? [03:25] Does size really matter? $80bn sextech market still too taboo for VCs [14:00] Asabys Partners announces €100m first close for health and biotech fund [20:22] Is the NHS app the answer to everything? [37:55] A new wave of startups are tackling financial issues within the healthcare space 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍...

This week: The Future of Digital Health, medical technology strategy launched, and why the growth of gut-tech could transform female health outcomes. [00:50] Medical technology strategy launched [08:25] Why user needs should be at the heart of healthtech [14:00] The Future of Digital Health [24:20] Why the growth of gut-tech could transform female health outcomes 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.heal...

This week: Can Apple and Google continue as health app gatekeepers as well as distributors and developers? [1:55] 📱Can Apple and Google continue as health app gatekeepers as well as distributors and developers? [24:35] 🏥 Smart hospitals are the key to unlocking the next era of healthcare [35:50] 🎧 Spotify founder Daniel Ek takes on healthcare 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍...

This week: December's biggest seeds, Microsoft is aggressively investing in healthcare AI, and psychedelic therapy is now legal in Oregon. Are investors and startups ready? [04:05] 📹 YouTube Health Showcases U.K. Strategy: 5 Things We Learned [16:50] 🍄Psychedelic therapy is now legal in Oregon. Are investors and startups ready? [24:25] 🌱December's biggest seeds [28:45] ☕️ Connecting clinicians...

This week: Researchers develop AI tool Sybil to predict lung cancer risk, how technology will shape healthcare in 2023, and biotech start-up announces first patient enrolled in endometriosis clinical trial. [01:35] 💁 Researchers develop AI tool Sybil to predict lung cancer risk [04:30] 𑗊 How technology will shape healthcare in 2023 [11:35] 💊HealthTech nets £7.5m to tackle drug overdoses  [18:45]...

This week: Eternal mice, the expansion of US expansion, and top tips for getting into healthtech. 📝 7 tips for breaking into Healthtech - [02:50] ❓ 5 questions facing emerging biotech in 2023 - [11:50] 📬 NHS ‘must speed up move to digital communication’ after patients miss letters due to Royal Mail strike - [17:15] 🐭 Biotech startup says mice live longer after genetic reprogramming - [22:20]...

Join Jessica, James and Dr Joel Brown for another week of healthtech news and views. Joel is an NHS GP and Chief Clinical Officer and Medical Director of Bionabu, a virtual “Knowledge-Marketplace." This week: 2023 AI predictions and is ‘smart toilet’ the worst combination of words ever? [04:05] Global collaboration is the answer to Medtech and Biotech’s biggest challenges [13:30] 6 healthcare AI p...

Join Henry, Jess, Huw, Belle & Dr Steve for the inaugural Healthtech Pigeon Christmas Quiz. A slightly different format this week - we'll be taking a look back at the last 12 months in healthtech. With three of our regular panellists joined by Dr Steve Cross & special guest Business Insider's Riddhi Kanetkar. 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by fill...

Join Henry, Jess, and Huw for another week of healthtech news and views.  This week: AI, IVF, and a robotic NHS. [01:08] - 🦯 WeWalk raises for smart cane for visually impaired people - GPS enabled walking sticks could be the future for visually impaired people. [02:44] - 🚨 Healthcare may be a recession-proof field, but healthtech is not [08:32] - 🏙 First four regional secure data environments co...

Join James, Jessica, and Henry for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: McKinsey Biotech reports, Anne Hathaway turns LP, and NHS data guardian says suppliers must share core values. [01:17] - 🧪 WHOOP identifies a novel pregnancy digital biomarker for premature birth [11:15] - Switzerland to accept medical devices with FDA approval [27:44] - Switzerland to accept medical devices...

Join Henry, Jessica, and Huw for another week of healthtech news and views.  This week: Theranos sentencing, nurses go to prison in VR, and long COVID startups. [01:33] - Joke-telling vacuum robot under-fire at Darent Valley Hospital [06:53] - New device measures haemoglobin more accurately in dark skin [10:42] - Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes jailed for fraud [17:15] - HEE launches VR app for...

Join Henry, Indigo, and healthcare whirlwind Rachel Murphy for another week of healthtech news and views. Rachel is raising money to support families in Ukraine - you can help out here . This week: Men's health, the NHS' agency crisis, and biotech's ethical conundrum. [02:03] - The digital future of men's health [06:30] - NHS forking out £2,500 a shift to agency nurses to stop staffing crisis - Th...

Join James, Jessica, Jess, Henry and Credentially's Dr Kit Latham, for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: Murder, M&A, and October's hottest seeds. [02:51] - Biotech co-founder, facing murder-for-hire charges, accused of fabricating data [06:40] - Exploring 2022 digital health M&A trends [12:42] - Leva Clinic fundraises £3m for UK’s first digital chronic pain platform [2...

Join James, Jessica, Henry and special guest Dr Maslah Amin, for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: The metaverse and patient care, AI training for NHS staff, and investors not yet willing to splash the cash. [01:08] - NHS report calls for artificial intelligence training for all staff [05:27] - Biotech IPOs are strange, even in a down market [09:25] - YouTube will let doctors a...

Join James & Henry and SomX's PR lead, Jess Farmery, for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: Daye raise €11.5 for vaginal microbiome testing, the problems with voice biomarkers, and is military metaphor appropriate for talking healthcare? [00:55] - Healthtech-specific risks for medical malpractice liability [07:56] - "Voice biomarker" tech analyses your voice for signs of dep...

Join James & Henry and special guest Professor Andrew Farmery, who, amongst many other things, heads up the undergraduate programme at Wadham Colllege, Oxford. This week: A sensible article about the state of the market, healthtech amasses more unicorns than any other tech, and people in nerd goggles need less drugs. [06:05] - Mid and South Essex ICS create a single waiting list for all electi...

Join James & Henry and special guest Peter Birch, founder of Talking Healthtech, Australia's biggest and best healthtech community, for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: A well-being invasion, period apps continue to fail privacy tests, and definitely-not-a-metal-band Malware as a Service comes to the fore. [01:38] - WHO launches the world's most extensive freely accessible...

This week: Why users stop using health apps, Rock Health’s Q3 funding review and VR renders Plymouth more palatable. [1:50] - Why healthcare organisations should adopt modern data platforms [4:16] - Q3 2022 digital health funding: The market isn’t the same as it was [7:54] - Virtual wards are failing patients and clinicians [15:05] - University Hospitals Plymouth introduces virtual reality for new...

This week: A Peachy raise, techbio/biotech ones to watch, and more interoperability than you can shake a stick at. [1:31] -  11 VC investors behind the hottest healthtech deals [3:21] - HEE CEO discusses digital workforce issues [7:14] - Health insurtech startup Peachy raises £1.5m [17:45] - 18 European techbio startups to watch - according to investors [21:43] - Interoperable digital care can onl...

This week: Google’s health-conscious sibling Verily secures pocket money from the parents, health apps are giving us a stonking headache, and a modern day “David vs Goliath” story or shall we say Hippocrates vs Dr Google. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 👨🏻‍🦱 Conn...

This week: Google’s health-conscious sibling Verily secures pocket money from the parents, health apps are giving us a stonking headache and a modern day “David vs Goliath” story or shall we say Hippocrates vs Dr Google. 1:35 - Google’s Verily secures $1B to bolster armoury 3:30 - Health apps are a headache and how to fix them 8:30 - Redesign Health bags $65M to incubate more tech-enabled healthca...