The Healthtech Podcast

This week, James is joined by Dr. Jennifer Huberty, a leader in the digital health space with over two decades of experience shaping the intersection of science and wellness. Once at the helm of science at Calm, she's now the driving force behind Fit Minded Inc, guiding digital health companies with her unique blend of academic insight and industry savvy. https://www.jenhubertyphd.com/ Apply to be...

This week, James is joined by Max Parmentier, CEO and co-founder of Birdie, the intelligent platform for home care. Founded in 2017, Birdie now equips over 1,000 homecare providers with digital tools for managing, delivering and championing outstanding care.  Previously, Max founded and grew a global e-marketplace spin-off from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, funded and su...

This week, James is joined by Dr. Hugh, whose career spans over a decade, transitioning from a former Consultant Radiologist within the NHS to his current role as the Managing Director of Hardian Health. Hardian Health is a consultancy specialising in Software as a Medical Device, offering support to startups in the healthcare sector. Their services include clinical validation, regulatory approval...

This week, James is joined by Dr Aline Gégout, Global Head of Operations and Quality at Roche Diabetes Care. After starting with the company in 2009, she has held multiple leadership positions, including leader of a chemical production site, matrix leader in a global environment for different business units, and as Head of Operations in a diagnostics business area before accepting her current role...

We take a look back at episode 286, when James welcomed Caitlin Baltzer, CEO of MYndspan. In this clip, Caitlin shares her unconventional journey in the healthtech industry and highlights the importance of a passion for knowledge to achieve success in a new industry. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with Jame...

This week, James is joined by Patrick Short, co-founder and CEO of Sano Genetics. Sano Genetics are accelerating the world's transition to personalised medicine by revolutionising the medical research participant journey with engaging digital experiences, easy-at-home testing, and a privacy-first approach. Their platform allows researchers to conduct personalised medicine studies 10x faster and at...

This week, James is joined by Alison Sundset, CEO of HoloCare, a Norwegian healthtech startup developing mixed reality technology to help clinicians plan complex operations more effectively. Alison has over 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and clinical laboratory industries, and has built a track record of transforming patient care through intelligent integration of res...

This week, James is joined by Benjamin Viaris De Lesegno, NHS consultant, humanitarian doctor, and co-founder of Leva Clinic.  Leva Clinic is the first CQC registered online clinic for patients with chronic pain. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your...

Francesca Wuttke is the founder and CEO of nen, a digital health company founded to help children with cancer, their families, and HCPs with pain management. nen offers a novel mission-driven approach to address pain management through play, leveraging gamification approaches and CBT to modulate pain and improve overall wellbeing.  https://www.nen.health Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodca...

We take a look back at episode 270, when James welcomed Vishal Doshi, Founder of AUM Biosciences. In this clip, Vishal shares his experiences as a first-time entrepreneur in the biotech industry, and why he prioritised understanding points of failure in his business plan over points of success. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Grab a ticket for The Healthtech Podcast LIVE and use...

We take a look back at episode 307, when James welcomed Emil Hewage, CEO of BIOS Health.  In this clip, Emil and James share their insights into leading a team through challenges, the importance of purpose and vision, and the need for entrepreneurs to find their focal point. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Grab a ticket for The Healthtech Podcast LIVE and use the code james50 for...

This week, James is joined by Dr. Dom Pimenta, CEO of TORTUS, a generative AI startup building a next generation assistant for doctors. https://tortus.ai Dom is a UK-trained and practicing physician, and an AI healthcare academic with 16 years of clinical experience. He co-founded TORTUS in the LD19 cohort of Entrepreneur First. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Health...

We take a look back at episode 311, where James welcome Dom Raban, co-founder and CEO of Xploro. In this clip, Dom and James share their insights on gamification as a means to education, moving the adoption frontier forwards, and the importance of addressing fundamental needs before developing complex technology, with the simplest solutions sometimes being the most effective of all.   Xploro is a...

Harry Lykostratis is an innovative software developer, start-up founder and practising orthopaedic surgeon, with a particular interest in all things digital, specifically designing effective and safe care pathways, data analysis and AI. Merging his extensive background in healthcare within the NHS together with his passion for software engineering led to the development of Pathpoint - an interoper...

This week, James is joined by Gian Seehra. A previous biotech entrepreneur where he raised $16m and a previous investor at Octopus Ventures in the health team. He now helps tech founders raise venture capital by helping them building fundraising operating systems. Founders have gone on to raise over $150,000,000 doing this. http://www.gianseehra.me Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com...

This week we look back at episode 293, where James and Thomas discuss the recent surge in public understanding of nutrition and the microbiome, the remaining knowledge gap, and the need to be wary of "cowboy" companies mistaking correlation for causation. Thomas Gurry is a computational biologist and co-founder of myota, a prebiotic supplement tailored to improve gut health https://myotahealth.com...

This week we're revisiting episode 302, where James and Sasha covered some of challenges women encounter in business, unpacking issues such as gender stereotypes in leadership roles and the pressure to conform to masculine traits, as well as highlighting the unique benefits women bring to the table. Sasha is the co-founder of Ally Health, a platform to connect patients and practitioners effectivel...

Dr Harvinder Power is a medical doctor, and the co-founder and CEO at Motics. Born out of a frustration with the current state of physiotherapy, Harvinder and his co-founder developed the technology to enhance the physiotherapy experience, allowing users to transform their phone into a personal physiotherapy assistant, with AI-powered insights to track progress and optimise movements, and real-tim...

Leo Grady who is internationally recognized for his work to deliver AI in healthcare for 20 years at pioneering bay area startups (HeartFlow), multinational medical companies (Siemens) and, most recently, as CEO of Paige.ai. As CEO of Paige, Leo led the company to become an industry leader, internationally launching groundbreaking products and receiving the first-ever FDA approval for an AI produc...

Dr Karan Rajan is an NHS surgeon and clinical lecturer at The University of Sunderland Medical School. However, he is also a social media educator, with over 5.2 million followers on TikTok, dispelling popular medical myths and working to make health, science and medicine engaging, entertaining, and accessible to a wide audience. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healt...

Hamish Grierson is CEO of the personal diagnostics and health platform, Thriva, which he set up in 2016 with co-founders, Eliot Brooks and Tom Livesey. Thriva's core mission is to put better health in people’s hands with affordable, clinical-grade testing based on the latest research. Thriva has helped over 650,000 people across the UK proactively manage their health. Its at-home testing kits can...

Mark E Watson III is an entrepreneur, BioTech investor, advisor and philanthropist. His portfolio companies range from the fastest-growing physician-dispensed skincare brand (Alasting Skincare) to a platform predicting patient responses to oncology therapeutics (Xsphera Biosciences), as well as several InsureTech startups in the US. An alumnus of Harvard Business School and YPO Presidents' Program...

Yonatan Adiri is the founder and CEO of Healthy.io, the global leader in providing platforms and services that offer at-home clinical-grade digital health solutions, including transforming the smartphone camera into an FDA-grade medical device. Recently selected as one of Fortune's 10 innovators shaping the future of health and listed in Time Magazine's 2018 "50 most influential people in healthca...

Lukasz is a founder of Trustedoctor (founded in 2016), a digital health platform infrastructure for medical providers, insurers and employers focused on virtual care in specialised medicine. Trustedoctor merged with Further in 2020 creating the world's first digitally enabled cancer insurance with over 4m policies holders in 35 countries. Since exiting, he now I am now focuses on the applications...

This week, James is joined by Dr Dom Pimenta, CEO of TORTUS, an AI healthtech company co founded with Christopher Tan at Entrepreneur First in London in Nov 2022: https://tortus.ai Dom was formerly the lead specialty research physician at Richmond Research Institute, running clinical trials in digital health and AI, publishing original research in everything from in-human physiology studies to art...