SomX
Healthtech Pigeon
Like normal healthtech news but, you know, not boring. The team at SomX bring you the audio version of the weekly Healthtech Pigeon newsletter - a panel show with journalists, VCs, podcasters, entrepreneurs, execs and those with a strong opinion to make things interesting. Regular hosts and guests are Dr James Somauroo, Jessica Smith, Belle Taylor, Huw Penson, Jess Farmery from the SomX team.🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🚀 Learn how SomX can help your healthtech company at www.somx.health
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Episodes
$7 short of an $8 blue tick 18.11.2022 36:32
Join Henry, Indigo, and healthcare whirlwind Rachel Murphy for another week of healthtech news and views. Rachel is raising money to support families in Ukraine - you can help out here . This week: Men's health, the NHS' agency crisis, and biotech's ethical conundrum. [02:03] - The digital future of men's health [06:30] - NHS forking out £2,500 a shift to agency nurses to stop staffing crisis - Th...
A Healthtech Bond Villain 11.11.2022 47:14
Join James, Jessica, Jess, Henry and Credentially's Dr Kit Latham, for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: Murder, M&A, and October's hottest seeds. [02:51] - Biotech co-founder, facing murder-for-hire charges, accused of fabricating data [06:40] - Exploring 2022 digital health M&A trends [12:42] - Leva Clinic fundraises £3m for UK’s first digital chronic pain platform [2...
Pumpkin-Spiced Pathways 🧋 06.11.2022 35:31
Join James, Jessica, Henry and special guest Dr Maslah Amin, for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: The metaverse and patient care, AI training for NHS staff, and investors not yet willing to splash the cash. [01:08] - NHS report calls for artificial intelligence training for all staff [05:27] - Biotech IPOs are strange, even in a down market [09:25] - YouTube will let doctors a...
The Return Of Theranos? 🩸 28.10.2022 42:16
Join James & Henry and SomX's PR lead, Jess Farmery, for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: Daye raise €11.5 for vaginal microbiome testing, the problems with voice biomarkers, and is military metaphor appropriate for talking healthcare? [00:55] - Healthtech-specific risks for medical malpractice liability [07:56] - "Voice biomarker" tech analyses your voice for signs of dep...
Spicy Goggles = Less Drugs 🌶 21.10.2022 42:46
Join James & Henry and special guest Professor Andrew Farmery, who, amongst many other things, heads up the undergraduate programme at Wadham Colllege, Oxford. This week: A sensible article about the state of the market, healthtech amasses more unicorns than any other tech, and people in nerd goggles need less drugs. [06:05] - Mid and South Essex ICS create a single waiting list for all electi...
Aussies, AI & A Worrying Trend 🇦🇺 14.10.2022 46:32
Join James & Henry and special guest Peter Birch, founder of Talking Healthtech, Australia's biggest and best healthtech community, for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: A well-being invasion, period apps continue to fail privacy tests, and definitely-not-a-metal-band Malware as a Service comes to the fore. [01:38] - WHO launches the world's most extensive freely accessible...
Healthtech User's Biggest Turnoffs 👋 07.10.2022 28:53
This week: Why users stop using health apps, Rock Health’s Q3 funding review and VR renders Plymouth more palatable. [1:50] - Why healthcare organisations should adopt modern data platforms [4:16] - Q3 2022 digital health funding: The market isn’t the same as it was [7:54] - Virtual wards are failing patients and clinicians [15:05] - University Hospitals Plymouth introduces virtual reality for new...
Sailing The High(Er) SEIS 🌊 30.09.2022 27:16
This week: A Peachy raise, techbio/biotech ones to watch, and more interoperability than you can shake a stick at. [1:31] - 11 VC investors behind the hottest healthtech deals [3:21] - HEE CEO discusses digital workforce issues [7:14] - Health insurtech startup Peachy raises £1.5m [17:45] - 18 European techbio startups to watch - according to investors [21:43] - Interoperable digital care can onl...
Stuck in limbo 24.09.2022 26:15
This week: Google’s health-conscious sibling Verily secures pocket money from the parents, health apps are giving us a stonking headache, and a modern day “David vs Goliath” story or shall we say Hippocrates vs Dr Google. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 👨🏻🦱 Conn...
Arms Race 💪🏻 16.09.2022 32:06
This week: Google’s health-conscious sibling Verily secures pocket money from the parents, health apps are giving us a stonking headache and a modern day “David vs Goliath” story or shall we say Hippocrates vs Dr Google. 1:35 - Google’s Verily secures $1B to bolster armoury 3:30 - Health apps are a headache and how to fix them 8:30 - Redesign Health bags $65M to incubate more tech-enabled healthca...
The Biotech Bee Gees 🕺 03.09.2022 27:14
This week: Triage accuracy of symptoms checkers low, why the Bee Gees are popular with biotech investors, and llongyfarchiadau i Diurnal. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin 🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin 🤦🏼♀️ Connect with...
You are not a gorilla 🦍 27.08.2022 28:10
This week: Organ harvesting, animal testing, death to gorillas, and other uplifting stories. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin 🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin 🤦🏼♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin
Soonicorn yoghurt 🍯 20.08.2022 34:16
This week: 10 caretech startups to watch, integration depression, and why women should be doing more acid*. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin 🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin 🤦🏼♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin
Benchmarks, biotech & big bangs 12.08.2022 42:22
This week: Patchwork raise, Space force gets physical, and Bessemer Venture Partners teach us our COGS from our ARPU. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin 🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin 🤦🏼♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin
Rise of the chatbots 💬 05.08.2022 25:27
This week: Cera raise big, unicorn stock sinks, and if we lose a funding battle to Proptech, Pigeon will turn this car newsletter around and go back home. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin 🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin 🤦🏼...
The end of Googling symptoms?🚦 29.07.2022 21:23
This week: What’s gone on at NHS AI lab, analysing Apple’s approach, and Australian startup wants you to stop Googling your symptoms. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin 🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin 🤦🏼♀️ Connect with Jess...
Part-man, part-building 🏢 23.07.2022 46:00
This week: Overstuffed olive slims down, uplifting ALS breakthrough, and meet Fred Hutchinson, part-man, part-building. Joining as a guest this week is Lauren Bevan, currently head of health and social care at BJSS and has worked in the industry for almost 20 years. She comes bringing strong views but a weak wi-fi signal. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by...
Two sides to every correction. 15.07.2022 33:46
This week: Flesh penetrating waves, The Rut’s 1979 single Babylon’s Burning becomes prescient 43 years too late, and NHS staff given a pay rise. No. Sorry. Pigeon’s misread that. NHS staff given a share of a £312 medal. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🙋🏻♂️ Connec...
Healthtech 1 - 0 Fintech 🌱 09.07.2022 32:38
This week: Fintech plays second fiddle (poorly probably), blood test startups are back, and how switching thinking from biotech to techbio could unblock the sector. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin 🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Li...
Centaurs & Unicorns 🦄 03.07.2022 35:10
This week: Birdie confirms avian supremacy with $30m series B and cofounder and CPO Rajiv Tanna joins James, Jess and Henry to discuss the raise and the rest of the week's news in healthtech. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin 🕺...
Raise, Sell, Sleep. Repeat ♽ 25.06.2022 31:41
The one-minute healthtech roundup. Now in podcast form. James, Jessica and Henry from SomX bring you the first episode of this brand new, weekly panel show covering the healthtech news. This week, Apple & Alphabet’s differing approaches, mental health raises, and EMIS picked up for $1.5bn. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Lear...
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