Health tech entrepreneurs need the right investment at the right time to drive growth and scale innovation.

We believe that productive partnerships grow from a shared vision of a better world. Our track is dedicated to exploring moonshot business models with investors and entrepreneurs so that we can remove barriers to visionary alignment and grow investment opportunities.

Collaborators

Speakers

Draper Esprit

Vishal Gulati

Draper Esprit

HS.ventures

Dr. James Somauroo

James is a Founding Partner at HS.Ventures, which builds, scales and invests in the best healthtech startups. He is also a healthtech contributor for Forbes and hosts the HS. Health-Tech Podcast, which is listened to in >60 countries. James is an anaesthetics and ICU doctor by training has held roles in leadership and management at NHS England, Health Education England and the British Medical Journal and previously directed an accelerator that provided startups with market access to the NHS. He also has degrees in biomedical sciences and education and is a guest lecturer on healthtech innovation and entrepreneurship at University College London.

 
Joyance Partners

Paolo Pio

Managing Director Joyance Partners

Paolo has thirteen years of experience in the technology industry, with expertise in product development and strategy, international business development, and enterprise sales. He most recently ran Cisco’s Data Center Networking business development team for the region of Asia Pacific. Paolo is an Angel investor and serves in various startup advisory roles, including mentoring at Virgin Startups and TechItalia Lab. He holds an MBA from London Business School, where he was recognized for excellence in asset management, and a Cum Laude MS Engineering degree from Politecnico di Torino. If you want to see his eyes light up, talk to him about meditation, nutrition, training, and wellbeing.

Optum Ventures

Vijay Barathan

Medical doctor turned healthcare investment banker and healthcare VC

Before Optum Ventures, Vijay was a life science partner with Catapult’s GM&C Life Sciences Fund leading and managing investments across life sciences with a specialist focus on digital health. Vijay has invested in data driven companies targeting respiratory health, complications of diabetes, patient safety, consent and education. Prior to this, he was chief investment officer at a health care IP commercialisation company focused on digital health, diagnostics and therapeutics investments. He was previously a health care investment banker at Peel Hunt and Piper Jaffray, looking after listed health care clients as well as undertaking IPO, M&A, private placement and secondary fundraising transactions. Vijay began his career in medicine and worked as a doctor for the NHS. He qualified from Guy’s Kings and St. Thomas Medical School in London and holds a MBBS in Medicine and a B.S. in Development Neurobiology

Apposite Capital

David Porter

Apposite Capital LLP

David Porter has over 30 years' experience in private equity and investment and is the Founding Partner of Apposite Capital LLP, a private equity firm exclusively focused on healthcare.

Artis Ventures

Vas bailey

ARTIS ventures

Vasudev Bailey is a Partner at Artis Ventures. Previously, he led healthcare at Quid, worked at McKinsey & Co and co- founded several startups, including the GLG Institute. Vasudev received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Chronomics

Toby Call

Chronomics

Toby co-founded Chronomics to power a preventive healthcare revolution. He studied at Oxford, UCL, and Cambridge, with a stint alongside NASA. He believes a paradigm shift in healthy ageing is imminent, starting by quantifying wellbeing.

Forwardhealth

Dr.Barney Gilbert

Forward Health

I see the world through a healthcare lens, shaped by experiences as a medical doctor, hospital porter, economist, & tech founder.

MedCity

Joana dos Reis

Angels in Med City

Lead of the Angels in MedCity programme: connecting life sciences companies and business angels and providing education on the sector's opportunities. BSc, MSc (from Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon) and PhD in Biochemical Engineering from University College London

Octopus Ventures

Gian Seehra

Octopus Ventures

Gian is an investor at Octopus Ventures, focusing on the future of health. Prior to joining the Octopus Ventures team, Gian built biotechnology companies Pebble Labs and Trait Biosciences

Wharton Asset Management

Eva Tarasova  

Wharton Asset Managemen

Ovy

Lina Wüller

Ovy

Sigrid Therapeutics

Sana Alajmovic

Sigrid Therapeutics

Feebris

Elina Naydenova

Feebris

Caura

Renato Circi

Caura

Curated by

Gabrielle Powell

Co-founder, Healthforce Africa

Gabrielle is co-founder of Healthforce Africa - a tech enabled clinic chain disrupting primary healthcare in Ethiopia. She was previously Director of Finance at Dr.Consulta and has experience building, advising and investing in companies across education, healthcare and social enterprise.

Dr. Neha Tanna

Principal, Joyance Partners

Neha is a principal at a seed stage venture capital fund, focusing on the emerging science and technology of health and happiness. She started her career as a GP before moving to the Life Sciences and then Investment industry.