Health Creators

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was the third leading cause of death worldwide, causing 3.23 million deaths in 2019. In 2023, the WHO estimates the pooled global prevalence of COPD to be 15.7% in men and 9.93% in women. Despite such high prevalence, many COPD sufferers are left with no solution debilitated by an inability to maintain their normal standard of life. Stephen is on a miss...

In 2022, it was estimated that up to 90% of startups failed within the first 5 years of forming. Against these odds, Dr. Mike Romanos successfully built 3 world-class biotech spinouts. After raising a Series C in his previous startup and 35 years in industry, Mike has joined Imperial as Associate Dean for Enterprise in the Faculty of Medicine. In his role at Imperial as well as at LifeArc, Mike ai...

90% of women of reproductive age experience several premenstrual symptoms (PMS) varying from mild to severe. PMS can be debilitating for women. It can prevent us from working or living life normally yet, so few solutions exist for it. Emilė is on a mission to eradicate PMS and solve critical issues in women's health through wearable neurotechnology. By making neurotechnology tailored to women, we...

In this episode, Jason Foster deep dives into how to be a CEO through his own journey of being onboarded as CEO of Ori Biotech following prior success in healthcare companies. In many cases, companies in the science and healthcare space are run by scientists. Although there are a lot of benefits to being a scientist CEO, often at the growth stage scientist founders bring on experienced CEOs (like...

From dorm room biotech to VC, in this episode, Emmanuel Hui and I dive into his journey building Moogene from zero to IPO, how VCs consider deals and how a healthcare founder can raise venture financing from China. Emmanuel is on a mission to help science entrepreneurs go from zero to one. Currently, as CEO of Tiger Jade Pebble Accelerator, Emmanuel works with one of the biggest CROs in Asia to he...

📝 Solve for the hard problems and do it with a great team Kfir Oved is the founder and CEO of Canopy Immuno-Therapeutics and a serial entrepreneur in the healthcare space. I asked him 4 questions: 1. Why build a healthcare startup? 2. #1 do for building a healthcare startup 3. #1 don’t for building a healthcare startup4. What’s the one impact you want to leave on the world?

By 2050, the world's population of people aged 60 years and older will double (2.1 billion). The number of persons aged 80 years or older is expected to triple between 2020 and 2050 to reach 426 million. Chris is the founder and CEO of Tiggo Care, using technology to transform care for the elderly. Although formerly a venture-backed YC founder, Chris has built Tiggo bootstrapped from the ground-up...

Dave Stapleton is the founder and CEO of BUA Fit, a marketplace connecting trainers and people looking for a fun way to get fit. Worldwide, around 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men do not do enough physical activity to stay healthy. Insufficient activity increased by 5% (from 31.6% to 36.8%) in high-income countries between 2001 and 2016.Dave is on a mission to get people fit again, and help thousands o...

Jenny Barnett is the founder and CEO of Monument Therapeutics, building precision medicine for psychiatry and neurology. The medicines currently used to treat psychiatric and neurological conditions are often ineffective. Antidepressants taken by 16.7% and 14.2% of the US (CDC-2020) and UK populations (NHS-2021), respectively have been found to improve symptoms in only 20% of cases (IQWIG-2006). J...

John Boghossian is the founder and COO of Pangea Botanica, a drug discovery and development venture builder focused on nature-inspired therapeutics. Today, less than 1% of nature's small molecules have been mapped and explored. With a seasoned clinical, pharmacological and business development team, Pangea aims to explore the other 99%, enabling the discovery of new nature-inspired medicines for h...

Elena Rueda is the founder of Dama Health, a precision contraception solution enabling individuals to know exactly what contraception to take based on their DNA. For most women, finding the right contraception is a trial and error process that can take years. Different women respond differently to different hormones, and these hormones can have a wide range of both negative effects. What if we cou...

Hamish Grierson is the founder and CEO of Thriva, a remote diagnostic solution a remote diagnostic solution that enables at-home testing and longitudinal tracking of biodata.. In the last few years, regular testing has become an integral part of our lives. What if we could apply the same principles to other aspects of our health? This could have profound impacts on the early detection of life-thre...

Anna Luisa Schaffgotsch is the founder of Impli , an implantable hormone tracker that revolutionizes IVF with the potential to drastically transform all other hormone-related conditions. IVF is often seen as the promise-land for women who want to have children later in their lives but the truth is it fails in over 70% of cases. Like most treatments in female health, scientific knowledge around the...

Ed Farrar is the founder of Oto, helping people get their life back from tinnitus. Approximately 14% of the world population have experienced tinnitus (ringing in your ears). For some, this ringing stays and there is currently no cure for this. Ed’s on a mission to transform the way we cope with the incurable, starting with habituation in tinnitus.

Steve Roest is the founder and CEO of PocDoc (2022 Novartis BIOME winners) who have developed rapid, at-home tests for heart disease, stroke and other life threatening diseases. Today, 99.9% of tests go through the pathology system which is slow and inconvenient. By enabling rapid testing, PocDoc improves accessibility. Steve’s on a mission to get millions of people tested, improve early detection...

Alannah Chauhan is the director of Business Development at Medable where she brings decentralised clinical trials to Big Pharma, globally. Today, healthcare is entirely different across APAC, EMEA and the US - cultural differences are rarely factored in when we talk about technology. Alannah’s on a mission to improve accessibility to research by leveraging culture and technology.

Oliver Rockall is the founder of Tailoraid, tech to determine how much medicine you should really take. Today, we give the same pill at the same dose to people who are entirely different leading to 200,000 annual deaths in Europe - and the fifth leading cause of death in the US. Oliver's on a mission to change that by allowing people to use their own data to figure out the right dosage of medicati...