HealthTech Hour

Sebastian Anastassiou is an ex medic and successful investor at Nina Capital. If you want advice about your startup, listen up! He loves synthetic data, AI and healthtech that underpins healthcare systems. He and Steve Roest talk about Silicon Valley Bank, what entrepreneurs need to survive in the next 2 years and the next generation of exciting healthtech companies...including PocDoc!

In this clip from this week's HealthTech Hour, Dame Jessica Ennis Hill explains to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc, that during her athletic career, even surrounded by the highest quality team, there was no discussion nor support around hormone related issues for female athletes. Partly due to the male dominated coaching teams, but many other factors played a role.

Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill is one of the UK's leading sporting heroes and has dedicated her life after her sporting career to women's health, educating women about their hormone levels and what that means for their overall health. An advocate of body-literacy, she founded Jennis, a women's health platform to allow women to monitor their hormone levels more accurately. Dr Michelle Tempest is an adviso...

This clip comes from the full interview with Matt Hancock (ep58) and in it, he discloses that he was responsible for stopping Donald Trump and the EU from stealing the UK vaccine's supply. Fiery claims and in light of recent disclosures in the UK media, very interesting to hear!

Female tech founder Lina Chan explains where to find menopause advice on the highstreet (clue: Holland & Barrett) and how Davina McCall broke through the menopause taboo.

Marcel is CEO of Cyted, a unique AI-driven cancer diagnostics company that works with the NHS across the UK diagnosing more people with esophageal cancer, one of the most dangerous forms of cancer. Sara leads the NHS DigitalHealth. London accelerator, helping introduce and scale digital innovation in the NHS. Sara's background is a 30 year career as a nurse in the NHS.

Ali Parsa is the charismatic, inspirational founder of Babylon Health, one of the most successful digital health companies ever founded. In this clip from the full show with Steve Roest, Ali talks about the one skill every founder needs to survive - ALWAYS BACK YOURSELF. Enjoy!

Lina Zakarauskaite is a leading VC investor and she explains why as the world is diverse, so too does the industry funding the companies to solve the world's problems need to reflect that diversity

Extract from the full show with Lina Zakarauskaite, lead investor at a major venture capital fund in the UK called Stride VC. In this clip, she and Steve Roest discuss how scientific research has been massively undermined by junk research but blockchain and decentralisation could rescue it from oblivion.

Lina Zakarauskaite is principal investor at Stride. VC, a leading early-stage investment fund in the UK, who invest in health technology start ups. If you want to hear about how to get funding in the current tough climate, why the NHS is amazing but also very tough, how blockchain can solve the crisis in academic research and why VCs can do better in terms of diversity and female representation -...

Jason C. Foster is the CEO of Ori BioTech, one of the leading companies focused on helping the scale up of cell and gene therapies that can cure cancer - but currently are too expensive to distribute to people in need. He also serves as a Non-Executive Director for multiple healthtech startups. Steve and Jason speak about a range of issues, including what Jason looks for in healthtech startups he...

Lina Chan is the CEO of Parla Health, recently acquired by Holland & Barrett one of the leading high street health retailers in the UK. Lina is an expert on women's reproductive health and in this episode Lina explains how Parla helps support physical and mental wellbeing for women across all stages - preconception, conception, fertility issues, menopause, PCOS, endometriosis and more.

Christoph focuses on investments in life sciences and digital health. He spent 3 years at Bain and Company, then joined 3i in their Healthcare Venture Capital, moving on to General Electric's healthcare division…

Lord James Bethell, former Parliamentary Undersecretary of State at the Dept of Health and Social Care and current member of the House of Lords led the government’s test and trace programme and is a health campaigner

Amanda Lambert is Chief Customer Officer for Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest healthcare charity with a purpose to build a healthier nation

Lucius Cary raised his first science and technology seed fund in 1983, after founding and exiting two successful businesses. He has been investing in startups ever since…

Richard Phillips, Head of Strategy at the Association of British Health Technology, the UK's leading HealthTech industry body

Dr. Ahmed Shahrabani is a NHS clinician, Forbes 30U30 honouree and Co-Founder of Locum’s Nest. Together with his Co-Founder, Nick they embarked on a mission to solve the NHS staffing crisis…

Dr Hakim Yadi OBE is a Co-Founder and chief executive of Closed Loop Medicine, a global leader in the development of single prescription drug to optimise dosing on an individual level…

Darren Evans has provided technical solutions to Health and Social care for over twenty years, leading the team that rolled out some of the early ‘joined up’ social prescribing projects now widely adopted.

Dr Rachael Grimaldi is a senior anaesthetic registrar at Great Ormond Street Hospital… and is Co-Founder and CEO of CardMedic.

Steve welcomes Christiane Gross, the International Business Development Lead at Barcelona-based Femtech startup LactApp

Steve welcomes Mary Fenske CEO and inventor of Posture Wings, the industry-disrupting bra that comfortably supports your breasts, spine, neck and shoulders

Dom Raban, CEO and Co-founder of Xploro a digital therapeutics platform using augmented reality and games to reduce anxiety for young patients in hospital

Steve interviews former Health Secretary, Matt Hancock