Innovation4Alpha

Yuri is a forward-thinking entrepreneur and thought leader who has a true passion for community and global impact projects. He has served in a wide range of business and technical capacities across varied industries and nonprofits. He has a desire for developing and leading teams, strategic initiatives, streamlining key business processes, as well as creating innovative products, services, busines...

Geoffrey Colby, MD, PhD is a neurosurgeon and expert specialist in the open microsurgical and minimally-invasive endovascular treatment of cerebrovascular disorders of the brain and spine. He is the Director of Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery and an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiology at UCLA. Dr. Colby is also the Director of the Neurosurgery Residency training Program at UCLA and Chai...

Matt Patsky is CEO and Lead Portfolio Manager of the Trillium ESG Global Equity strategy and Portfolio Manager of the Trillium Sustainable Opportunities strategy. Matt has over three decades of experience in investment research and investment management. He began his career at Lehman Brothers in 1984 as a technology analyst. In 1989, while covering emerging growth companies for Lehman, he began to...

Lactiga is a venture-backed, NIH-funded biotherapeutics company developing patented biologics to treat and prevent mucosal infections with a focus on improving the quality of life in patients with Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases. They are unlocking the full therapeutic value of human milk antibodies to create the next-generation of anti-infectives that can battle even the world’s most dangerous...

Julie Anderson is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at Cambia Grove and a healthcare veteran. Cambia Grove is a health care innovation hub focused on bridging the gap between entrepreneurs and the traditional health care sectors.  Formed by a large payor, the organization sits in an interesting spot to help startups navigate some of the complexities of healthcare, reimbursements and more. Camb...

iVizz, is a Bay Area technology company which enables hospitals to prevent in-patient infections outbreaks. https://www.angelmd.co/en/startups/ivizz

Elims is a social impact company that combines seriously effective oral care + real sustainability. They believe you don't have to compromise your health for the planet. That's why Elims is not just  sustainable. Each of their products are crafted by dentists, biotech professionals and sustainability experts, and they actually work at keeping your teeth clean and sparkling white. They combine the...

Katherine Hill Ritchie has extensive background running single family offices including a strong emphasis on sourcing alternative investments. Her most recent role involves both investment sourcing and project sourcing for a Cleveland based family office rooted in industry design.

Hall Venture Partners is located at a state-of-the-art Hall Labs innovation campus in Provo, Utah. Hall Venture Partners was established to address the growing demand by investors for curated opportunities in early growth technology companies and an opportunity to co-invest alongside the Hall Family in ventures throughout their modern Edison Labs ecosystem. The Hall Venture Partners team are a sea...

AvodahMed is an advanced technology company improving quality care for patients and healthcare providers. They provide a unique solution that embeds AI throughout live video conferencing with computer vision, real-time language translation, and patient vitals informing both patient and doctor in new and novel ways. They facilitate an experience aimed to exceed a live visit.

Unity Stoakes is the Co-Founder of the Startup Health organization now in its 10th year. The group centralizes their focus on 12 "Moonshots" which are based on key areas of healthcare innovation need around the world. The group has a new Impact Fund which enables investors to participate in their prolific investment activity on a quarter by quarter basis.

Dr. Krell is a fascinating general dentist with a combined business background. He is currently the Head of Marketing at Simplifeye, based in NYC, and the Chief Marketing Officer of Verena Solutions, based in Chicago. He oversaw provider and clinical growth initiatives at quip, the oral health and subscription electric toothbrush company, and has since built out the Barchester Bay Group, a portfol...

Eyetamins is a healthcare technology and life sciences company focused on therapeutics and consumer innovations in the $200B eye health and wellness space. They launched the company with natural supplements for eye health, which is a $37B industry. They have a patent-pending formula for dry eye, which is an $8B untapped market.

Sanjay Prasad, MD, FACS leads a multi-sided marketplace platform startup helping patients (self-insured employers) find surgeons with the best outcome history by procedure.

Chronic pain affects the mental health of young people and it requires continuous and complex self-management that often fails. Happyr Health supports teens with chronic conditions and their families by implementing treatment plans, lifestyle changes and personalized psychological exercises through a novel "game-ified" mobile application.

Recalibrate Solutions (RS) is creating a stethoscope for stress health monitoring of kids. It’s a 5-minute, disposable cortisol test that helps identify kids suffering from toxic stress and get them connected to the help they need. The problem is toxic stress affects 17% of all US children and costs the healthcare system $748 billion each year, yet physicians have no objective way to identify who’...

Andrew Malloy spent a career on Wall Street and also happens to be part of a 3rd generation family office created because of his family's successful history in the retail industry. He shares his insights about family office interest in being involved in impact investing.

On July 13, 2021, AngelMD is hosting the Healthcare Impact Investing Summit with a coalition of partners all focused on improving innovation in healthcare. The event was born out of frustration with what is often billed as "Impact Investing" but instead is fee based social engineering at the expense of American retirees. Instead, impact investing in healthcare has potential for sizable returns whi...

RiskLD is a physician-led startup out of Cleveland focused on improving maternity outcomes.

Mike Ricci leads Spect, a Y Combinator startup focused on combining eye-care diagnostics and artificial intelligence.

In this episode, host Tobin Arthur is joined by colleagues Katie Richardson, MD and Mike Schmanske interviewing startup Founder Kate Dilligan of Cooler Heads. Kate shares how her personal experience battling cancer led to the creation of Cooler Heads produces a product to help those undergoing chemo treatment keep from losing their hair.

In this episode, host Tobin Arthur is joined by colleague Michael Schmanske in a discussion with DJ Verret, MD, a plastic surgeon and seasoned startup investor. Dr. Verret shares his lessons learned after making several dozen investments over the past decade.

This is a quick episode to describe what to expect from the Innovation4Alpha podcast hosted by Tobin Arthur.