Our Programs
VentureOut Explore One-Week Market Exploration Programs
Meet decision makers in Healthtech
Meet 20 thought leaders, decision makers and investors in Healthtech in NYC in 3 days. Whether innovation officers at top corporates, the most active venture investors or CEOs of the most innovative startups, this program will super charge your network in Healthtech.
Meet influential Healthtech investors
Meet over a dozen tier-1 venture capitalists and angel investors focused on Healthtech. Through VC office visits, one-to-one meetings and our pitch events, you will have the opportunity to learn from and pitch some of the world's leading Healthtech investors.
Develop your advisor and mentor network
Through one-to-one mentoring and advisory sessions with serial entrepreneurs, investors and industry thought leaders, you will have an opportunity to gain insights and feedback to enable a transformation in your strategy, pitch and messaging. Build an actionable network of mentors and advisors that you can leverage for years to come.
Accelerate your sales and marketing machine
For those of us that have not been a VP of Sales or Marketing, we are currently running the largest company we have ever run. The knowledge required to build scalable and replicable sales and marketing operations is something we need to learn: what are the right roles to hire for, processes that allow scalable repetition, tools to support these efforts? Come join us and learn!
Testimonials
Parth Khanna
Acto
"We got great value out of Healthtech program. We met some really awesome investors and advisors, focusing on health science and life science industry. At the same time, we got involved with a cohort of passionate entrepreneurs that are building really awesome products and bring great services to the market. I would give my full-hearted endorsement to this program. If you’re a growing startup especially in healthcare and life sciences space, this is the program for you. It’s helping you find right advisors and investors and also helping you relocate into the New York tech ecosystem."
Elnaz Sarabchian
MedAux
"VentureOut offered a great opportunity to us. We met a lot of great investors, Venture Capitalists during the program. We also established connections with two hospitals in New York City. I would recommend this program to all the entrepreneurs in Healthtech industry."
Angelo Umali
Simple Wearables
"VentureOut helps us move our company from Hong Kong to New York. It also accelerated our introduction to other entrepreneurs, angel investors, and VCs. It is very valuable experience as we scale the company."
Healthtech Partner
Medstartr
Medstartr is the leading crowdfunding site for medical innovations,
contests, and challenges for large healthcare organizations. Medstartr
ventures formed to help promising startups get more funding and meet
connections in the industry. Helping almost a thousand of products get
funded. Now they run events in 25 cities and are deploying capital
from their second fund into some of the most innovative and successful
startups changing medicine daily. You can join them on their mission
online at MedStartr.vc (MedStartr Venture Funds)
Healthtech Mentors
Alex Fair
Founder & CEO
Medstartr
Alex developed a leading healthcare innovation focused crowdfunding site and created a healthcare CrowdChallenge model to help partners and investors crowdsource and market test the best ideas in healthcare. He leads a team of up to 35 professionals in open innovation, product development, and business development programs for clients and sponsors including GE, Pfizer, Takeda, J & J, HHS, Aetna, the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association and over 70 more.
http://www.medstartr.comJustin Kreamer
Vice President
NYCEDC
Justin is the Vice President of NYCEDC, New York City Economic Development Corporation. NYCEDC consists of teams of skilled and dedicated individuals with know-how and expertise across many fields including community/neighborhood development, workforce development, real estate, industry and sector analysis, design, urban planning, marketing, engineering, financial analysis and more. He graduated from The George Washington University with a B.B.A. in International Business and Marketing. He also graduated N.Y.U. with an M.U.P.
www.nycedc.comMette Dyhrberg
Founder
Mymee
Digital Health Innovator. She has a Masters in Economics, graduated from Institute for Integrative Nutrition and is a serial entrepreneur. In her twenties, she went from top grades to unable to read a book by working as a model to being overweight and medicated like an elderly person. With a constantly changing and ever-expanding array of different diagnoses, Mette took matters into her own hands. Having felt the powerlessness of being an unsolvable case Mette want to help empower others in a similar situation.
http://www.mymee.comSamuel Newbold
Partner
CSG PC
Sam Newbold has been supporting VentureOut companies to secure US visas since 2013. He is experienced in a wide range of employment based, family based, and investment based immigration issues, working closely with the global startup and tech communities, representing cutting edge companies and talented individuals who comprise New York’s rapidly growing Silicon Alley.
Mr. Newbold also works closely with foreign investors seeking nonimmigrant or immigrant status through EB5 or E-2 investments, and he is also experienced in helping foreign business owners receive L visa status through establishing New Offices in the United States.
www.csglaw.comDr. Richard Park
CEO
CityMD
Dr. Richard Park is board-certified in emergency medicine and completed his medical studies at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Dr. Park is the author and co-editor-in-chief of McGraw-Hill’s Intensive Review of Emergency Medicine. His unparalleled education combined with his vision for delivering highly accessible, top-quality medical care has made CityMD the top urgent care in the NY metro area. Dr. Park lives on Long Island with his wife and two children.
http://www.citymd.comMichael B. Laskoff
Co-founder and CEO
Annum
Michael is an expert healthcare innovator and experienced entrepreneur. As CEO, Michael raised three rounds of venture funding and secured health plan partnerships to cover over 30 million people.
www.annum.comWalter Olshanski
Director Healthcare Investment Banking
PwC
Walter Olshanski works in the New York office of PwC Corporate Finance LLC, and covers the Healthcare sector with emphasis on payers and providers. Prior to joining PwC, Walter was a senior investment banker at KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc providing M&A, strategic advisory, valuation, and financing options services to the healthcare services sector.
http://www.pwc.comJonathan Gordon
Managing Director
Winter Street Ventures
Jonathan Gordon is Managing Director of Winter Street Ventures. They are healthcare executives and medical professionals experienced in transforming and improving healthcare delivery to vulnerable patient populations.
He is a healthcare innovator with deep industry experience on both the provider and entrepreneurial sides. Focus on the intersection of innovation, strategy, and policy to identify opportunities to change and improve healthcare.
www.winterstreetventures.org
Adam Dakin
Managing Director
Dreamit Ventures
Prior to joining Dreamit, Adam has held various senior management roles in sales, marketing, product development, clinical affairs, operations, and general management. His career has focused exclusively on building early stage venture-backed health tech companies. He has co-founded five health technology companies which have raised over $60M in early-stage capital.
http://www.dreamit.comHaithem Elembaby
SVP of Global Business Development and Strategy
Harbinger Strategy
As a startup founder with multiple exits, He thinks there are a lot of things broken with the way that entrepreneurs approach sales and marketing in today’s complex market. His team’s focus in 2018 is to make sure they can help as many people as they can scale their businesses without running out of money. He has knowledge of various fields that is helpful for startups and also can provide insight into many areas such as Team Building & Strategic Planning, Corporate Innovation & Partnerships, Growth Hacking & Lead Generation, Marketing & Community Engagement, Seed & Venture Capital, Emerging Trends & Digital Technology.
http://harbingerstrategy.comJo Schneier
CEO
Trusty Care
Joseph Schneier is the founder and CEO of Trusty.care, a company dedicated to improving the financial and health outcomes of older adults. He has been working at solving complex social issues for the past twenty years. With a commitment to leaving the world a better place, Jo has been privileged to build products around early childhood literacy, foreign language acquisition, workforce development and has also conducted research on behalf of the Department of State, USAID, Johns Hopkins SAIS, and many other organizations.
Mr. Schneier is a frequent speaker and mentor and has recently spoken at TEDMed, Lake Nona and StartupHealth JP Morgan. He is a mentor at Cornell, NYU, Columbia and Wharton. Cognition is a Techstars and StartupHealth company and won the 1776 Challenge Cup.
trusty.careJoseph Daniels
Partner and Co-Chair, VC & Emerging Companies
McCarter & English
As a business lawyer, Joseph represents startups to publicly-held technology, life science and consumer companies, venture capital and private equity funds and investment banks in a wide range of seed and venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and other public offerings. Joseph has represented issuers and underwriters in dozens of IPOs and follow-on public offerings involving companies in the technology, life sciences and consumer sectors, including leading investment banks such as Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, and Oppenheimer.
He is currently a partner and Co-Chair of the Venture Capital & Emerging Companies Practice of McCarter, a 400+ lawyer U.S. law firm with a global practice.
www.mccarter.comJacob Jackson
Head of Sales
MedStack
Jacob is working at the nexus of startups, technology, and healthcare. He is developing successful business ventures that advance healthcare and our transition to a clean energy future. His current work focuses on healthcare security and technology adoption and is informed by rigorous medical research as a team member at innovative laboratories at McMaster and UBC.
medstack.coOmid Akhavan
Managing Director
Anthro Ventures
Omid joined ZA Ventures in 2017. Before joining ZA Ventures, he was the Investment Principal at MVM. Prior, he was the Director of Strategy and Business Development for Becton Dickinson’s $1.3B diagnostics business. Omid was also a management consultant in Monitor Deloitte’s Life Sciences and Healthcare team.
Omid holds a Masters in Bioengineering Innovation & Design from the Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia. He was also awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research on access to healthcare in the Middle East.
George T Mathews
Chief Medical Officer
DXC Technology
DXC is the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change. Created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology is a $25 billion company with a 60-year legacy of delivering results for thousands of clients in more than 70 countries. Our technology independence, global talent and extensive partner network combine to deliver powerful next-generation IT services and solutions.
http://www.dxc.technologySander Duncan
Partner
Lifeforce Capital
Sander is a Partner at Lifeforce Capital, a leading early-stage, healthcare-focused venture capital firm based in San Francisco and New York. Previously, Sander served as Vice President, Business Development for Pager, a venture-backed digital health company focused on improving patient access to the right care. Sander helped to evolve Pager’s business to a national enterprise-facing company selling to leading payers and health systems while overseeing sales, account management, strategic partnerships, and corporate development. Before Pager, Sander was a founder of Northwell Ventures, the corporate venture arm for New York State’s largest health system, and a leader at Cleveland Clinic Ventures focused on making venture investments in outside companies and developing spin-outs based on Cleveland Clinic technology. He began his career in healthcare private equity after graduating from Dartmouth with a BA in Molecular Biology.
www.lifeforcecap.comGaurav Mehta
Angel Investor
Berkeley Angel Network
Gaurav is a principal investor who originates and executes private equity and private debt investments in growth stage and middle market companies. Additionally, Gaurav invests his own capital as an independent angel investor (associated with Berkeley Angel Network).
Gaurav currently works for China Orient Asset Management ($160 billion AUM) and previously worked in investment banking for six years at institutions such as Barclays and BMO Capital Markets. Prior to his career in investment banking, Gaurav headed Corporate Development at US Oncology. Prior to US Oncology, Gaurav held a number of roles investing in private and public securities.
As an angel investor, Gaurav seeks investment opportunities in growth-stage companies in the HCIT, healthcare services, consumer, and TMT industries (although open to looking at businesses in other industries).
www.berkeleyangelnetwork.comPeter Frishauf
CEO and Co-Founder
Medscape
Peter is best known as the founder of Medscape. While he was CEO of SCP Communications, Inc., Peter was inducted into the Medical Advertising Hall of Fame in 2013, and he has been listed as one of the 1,000 most creative people in the U.S. He is past president of the Healthcare Marketing & Communications Council, Inc., a director of both Crossix and Context Matters and a member of the Medical Advisory Boards of Everyday Health, Milestone Venture Partners, TrialX, and the Markle Foundation’s Connecting for Health Initiative. A frequent guest speaker and widely published author, Peter holds an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. from New York University.
www.medscape.comHealthtech Alumni
MedAux
MedAux is an HIPAA compliant patient education and messaging system among physicians, patients, and PAs. MedAux enables physicians to send daily patient education materials including videos, images, and files to their patients via a secure messaging platform. We also provide physicians a database of research driven patient education materials presented in patient-friendly videos. Physicians can also record their own videos to answer common patient questions.
http://www.medaux.comCheck with Ellie
Ellie is filled with information verified by experienced lactation consultants. You have enough on your mind caring for your newborn without searching for breastfeeding resources. Ellie is available 24/7 through Facebook messenger to help identify and treat common breastfeeding challenges.
http://www.checkwithellie.com
SimpleShow
Simpleshow was founded in 2008 and has since risen to become the market leader for explainer videos. Now headquartered in Luxembourg, the company has international offices in Berlin, Stuttgart, London, Miami, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo to serve customers from more than 50 countries. simpleshow reduces the complexity of topics by developing innovative and creative solutions for communication and education. In 2016, the company launched the online video creator mysimpleshow - a software that allows users to create their own simpleshow videos.
http://simpleshow.com/us-enAgogie
ACTO App
We’re a sales learning app that helps you launch products more successfully and quickly by getting your reps to deliver your sales and marketing messages more consistently in the field so that they’re having more effective conversations with buyers.
actoapp.comMission 360
Mission 360 is a highly curated, multidimensional community dedicated to empowering those seeking a stronger body, enriched spirit and expanded mind.
www.mission-360.comLIFT session
LIFT launched in early 2015 with the goal of making top fitness coaching accessible to anyone. Through its critically acclaimed live online LIFT sessions, LIFT enable anyone access to customized fitness training, from any location and on-demand. Its members enjoy the most efficient, challenging, fun and safe fitness programs built for their needs, whether training for a competition, preparing for an event like a wedding, looking to shed a few pounds before summer time, or just looking to de-stress from work.
wellness.liftsession.comSynergistic Creations
The KnKt’d Health platform (App/Encrpted cloud database/Provider Portal) is designed to capture daily patient data, cultivate engagement and track clinical outcomes. Each colored square in the provider portal is an individual tracking module bringing in real-time data, graded on a Likert scale and color coded for quick and easy visual digestion. HIPAA compliant, EHR bridgeable, intuitive, easy to use and infinitely scalable.
http://www.myknktd.comWellb
wellb - an app that promotes a healthier lifestyle by enabling access to a range of one-on-one wellness services at any time, location and price. Experience the marketplace that ”will change the way the world approaches wellness." (AOL, Feb 2016) Available on IOS, Android and web at wellb.me Formely she was the founder of Jumpstart (a consulting firm for entrepreneurs) and IDW (a business development platform for Israel Design)
http://www.wellb.meWelltory
Welltory is an app that uses data & science to help people boost their performance today and feel better tomorrow without long-term wellness programs. Users run health checks with their smartphone & finger. Then, it connects this data with data from gadgets, smart home, and work apps to generate daily recommendations that yield immediate results.
welltory.comProvia Labs
Provia Labs is an FDA regulated cGMP cell manufacturing company focused on applications in personalized medicine. Its first offering (Store-A-Tooth™) is the collection, processing, and preservation of valuable stem cells found within children's healthy teeth (baby and wisdom) for the child’s future use. It invested millions into infrastructure to process these cells in compliance with FDA guidelines for cell manufacturing.
www.provialabs.comiRxReminder
Anthony Sterns founded iRxReminder after 10-years of research on caring for people living with dementia. People lose their independence due to failing to take their medications correctly, and healthcare professionals are disconnected from what their patients are experiencing and cannot share their expertise and help. iRxReminder's core purpose is to empower patients and healthcare professionals to manage medications together, to achieve high adherence, lower ER visits, and improve health outcomes.
www.irxreminder.comValkee HumanCharger
Valkee Ltd. is private health technology company found in 2007. Valkee studies health benefits of light, and develops and markets portable bright light therapy devices for treating seasonal affective disorder (SAD), and for accelerated recovery from jet lag.
humancharger.comLeanOnWe
LeanOnWe is a uniquely designed managed marketplace to address the needs of the wildly underserved hire-on-your-own market. Consumers are stuck between a rock (costly home care agencies) and a hard place (hiring privately with no safety net). Bridging the gap between what customers want from a traditional home care agency but love when hiring privately, LeanOnWe is successfully helping families slash their costs and control who comes into their home.
http://LeanOnWe.commymee
Our mission is to help people identify the root causes for their problems and inspire them to change the specific habits to reverse their symptoms. We call it Data Driven Coaching, and it's an innovative new way to use technology to effectively subdue the illness through behavioral change.
http://www.mymee.comXploro
Xploro is an award-winning health information platform that uses augmented reality, gameplay, and artificial intelligence to deliver health information to young patients, in a way that makes them feel empowered, engaged and informed, whilst having fun at the same time.
xploro.healthNotesFirst
NotesFirst helps doctors and healthcare providers in emerging markets electronically document patient information at the point-of-care. NotesFirst has been deployed in fourteen countries around the world, including to UCSD’s health clinics in Tijuana and Ensenada, Mexico and throughout the De La Salle Medical System in the Philippines.
www.notesfirst.comHealing Clouds
Healing Clouds is an online holistic health-care platform, offering distance healing through live and secure video sessions globally. Our aim is to build awareness and promote the benefits of holistic healthcare. At Healing Clouds, we aggregate practitioners of various modalities on a single online platform. Clients can now book holistic healing sessions on demand. These sessions are conducted on our website through live and secure video.
www.healingclouds.comDaily Dental Care
Daily Dental Care is a life sciences company that leverages expertise in microbiology to create consumable oral care products that promote oral and overall health. Using proprietary SelectiveMicrobial Metabolism Regulation Technology (SMMRT) to manage microorganisms and their activity in a biofilm, we are able to address the root cause of many dental diseases and promote strong teeth, healthy gums and fresh breath.
dailydentalcares.com/siteAlertgy
Alertgy revolutionizes the way diabetics can manage their disease through leading edge sensor and materials technologies. We improve the quality of life and medical treatment of diabetics with a wearable, inexpensive, truly non-invasive blood sugar monitoring technology that works with a smartphone. Our technology assures that the diabetic can accurately monitor and log their blood sugar levels and alert them, their loved ones and/or their caretakers if they are having a low or high blood sugar event.
http://www.alertgy.comTrusty.care
Trusty.care helps you demonstrate concrete savings, personalize ways to save on filling prescriptions and help you direct your members to stay in-network for medical services, and shows the right insurance plan for each individual.
trusty.careFace2Face Health
Face2Face Health is a web & mobile-based holistic pediatric telehealth platform, based on our model of Learn, Care, Share. Our mission is to help parents & caregivers accurately learn about, identify, and manage their children’s health and well-being challenges. We identified this need based on the fact that 1 in 5 U.S. children have developmental, emotional, physical or learning issues and only 30% of all children are screened or have access to care, information, and support.
http://www.f2fhealth.comOlive Healthcare
In March 2016, Olive Healthcare Inc. was established on the innovative technology and ideas to give people a better quality of live. Their expert teams design wellness device and medical diagnostic device for people to easily manage their health and prevent diseases.Value to customers
Olive Healthcare focuses on the research to discover new biomarkers and health index to be used in medical diagnosis field. They will also be used in Olive Healthcare's personal healthcare products to help individuals care and monitor their health more easily.
Blue Genes
African-American and various marginalized communities are 20% more likely to be diagnosed with a serious mental illness than White Americans, yet less than half of this underserved population actually receives treatment. Blue Genes is here to change that through an AI-driven mental health platform that provides culturally-competent digital therapy integrated with physical channel services. The core technology is wrapped in a lifestyle brand that uses trusted, cultural entry points like music, arts, sports, fashion, etc. to have conversations with people about their mental health and guide them to personalized treatment. Blue Genes combines science, technology, design, and culture to provide people with safe, affordable, and competent treatment anytime, anywhere.
Jaiyou
Jaiyou combines fashion and technology to design the most effective & fashionable body braces. Jaiyou know that one size and one style does not fit all anymore. People deserve thoughtful products and high-quality items and feel special and better. JAIYOU aims to combine fashion, and technology into orthotics, sports medicine, and functional wearables.
www.jaiyou.comBirya BioTech
Birya BioTech's system takes EpiPen autoinjectors where the drug inside has expired (12-18 months after purchase), securely opens it up using a specially designed, patent-pending device, and refills the epinephrine inside. Our system is small and mobile so this can take place in a local pharmacy within a few minutes. Schools will send Briya BioTech their unused EpiPens at the end of a school year for a bulk refill. Pharmacies will be able to refill their leftover stock and will be able to use our system to offer autoinjector refills to patients. Similar bulk customers include hospitals, airlines, summer camps, restaurants, EMS companies, and more.
http://biryabiotech.comBreathing.ai
Breathing.ai PERSONALIZATION OF SCREENS WITH AI & BIODATA + Improve your immune system, focus & efficiency + Generate calming states of mind using a patented Adaptive Interface + Enhance your health with every screen interaction + Visuals adapt to users' bio-metrics using machine learning + Science- & patent-based What are your heart's favorite colors? Our latest prototype detects your heart rate via a webcam and personalizes your screen colors and fonts with adaptive machine learning technology Breathing.ai offer: Personalization of existing and new text editors, chat apps, websites, and other screen experiences Personalization of audio and olfactory experiences (patent included) Collaborations to improve screen experiences Licensing of patents Breathing.ai personalizes your screen experiences, patent-based.
breathing.aiDirectShifts
DirectShifts is an online marketplace that connects clinicians directly to employers for short term staffing needs (locum tenens) bypassing the need for external recruiters. Using technology, they are making healthcare recruiting much more 1) convenient, 2) transparent and 3) cost-effective for both employers and clinicians. MISSION At DirectShifts, they deeply care about empowering clinicians and hospitals to deliver the best care to their patients. Through DirectShifts' platform, they are eliminating some of the inefficiencies in the healthcare system that prevent a clinician on focusing on what clinicians do best: seeing patients.
http://www.directshifts.com