Health Stack

Stefan van der Fluit is the founder and CEO of FLOWBIO, the London company behind the S1, a reusable sensor that measures water and electrolyte loss in real time. Stefan's route into hydration came through sport. Trying to go pro as a triathlete, he learnt that dehydration is not a lack of water but the balance of water to salt, and that the only way to measure it was a lab test costing hundreds o...

In this episode, I sit down with Will Reed. An exited founder and prominent investor in the health industry. Will spent the first part of his entrepreneurial career building Sideways6, an employee ideas platform that worked with companies like M&S, British Airways, and Primark. After nearly a decade of growing Will exited the business in 2023 Since then Will has immersed himself into the Europ...

In this episode, I sit down with Nicola Gunby, founder of CLIQ, a social networking and community app focused on getting people off their phones and into real-life communities and events. Nicola quit university at 21, moved to Southeast Asia and Australia with her partner Jason for three years, and came back to her parents' spare room to start MyRev, a marketplace for freelance beauty professional...

In this episode, I sit down with Richard Carter, CTO of Proximie, a health technology company using computer vision and connected software to help surgeons collaborate, improve outcomes and scale expertise across operating rooms. Richard started his career in law and investment banking before moving into healthcare, looking for work with more direct impact. At Proximie he’s spent years thinking ab...

In this episode, I sit down with Shaun Traynor, founder of kip, a product designed to help people reduce screen time by combining a physical tag with an app to control how they use their phone. Shaun didn’t come from a technical background and had to figure out how to build both the product and the company from scratch. What started as a personal frustration with phone use turned into something bi...

In this episode, I sit down with Dan Strang, Co-Founder of Coopah, a run coach app built for performance-focused runners. Dan grew up around sport and business, but spent over a decade building and exiting a previous tech company before starting again. Coopah began as a way to fix broken training plans, but quickly became something deeper as the team realised runners needed more than automation to...

In this episode, I sit down with Ryan Hopkins, two-time TED Talker, bestselling author, and Chief Impact Officer at JAAQ Ryan broke his leg at 19, lost his identity overnight, and spent years battling bulimia, anxiety, and an undiagnosed autism and ADHD diagnosis. Now everything he does is built around one mission: helping people not end up where he did. We get into why most company mental health...

Two ex-Bank of England analysts. One idea that wouldn't go away. The SPORTL story. Matt and Ryan didn't set out to disrupt fitness. They started with a grassroots sports idea, got told the money wasn't there, pivoted, and landed on something they couldn't shake: why is pay-as-you-go the norm in every industry except fitness? In this episode we get into the full story. The validation walks around L...