The Healthtech Podcast
The Healthtech Podcast covers the latest in health and technology through interviews with disruptive healthtech startups and leaders. Whether youβre a patient, founder, investor or simply interested in healthtech, The Healthtech Podcast has it covered. π Listeners in 120 countries. π New episode every week. π£ Hosted by Dr James Somauroo. www.thehealthtechpodcast.com | www.somx.health | www.jamessomauroo.com
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#333 Unlocking VC Funding: Secrets and strategies from entrepreneur and investor Gian Seehra
This week, James is joined by Gian Seehra. A previous biotech entrepreneur where he raised $16m and a previous investor at Octopus Ventures in the health team. He now helps tech founders raise venture capital by helping them building fundraising operating systems. Founders have gone on to raise over $150,000,000 doing
This week we look back at episode 293, where James and Thomas discuss the recent surge in public understanding of nutrition and the microbiome, the remaining knowledge gap, and the need to be wary of "cowboy" companies mistaking correlation for causation. Thomas Gurry is a computational biologist and co-founder of myot
#331 Gender stereotypes and leadership: rejecting the pressure to conform with Sasha Tory from Ally Health
This week we're revisiting episode 302, where James and Sasha covered some of challenges women encounter in business, unpacking issues such as gender stereotypes in leadership roles and the pressure to conform to masculine traits, as well as highlighting the unique benefits women bring to the table. Sasha is the co-fou
Dr Harvinder Power is a medical doctor, and the co-founder and CEO at Motics. Born out of a frustration with the current state of physiotherapy, Harvinder and his co-founder developed the technology to enhance the physiotherapy experience, allowing users to transform their phone into a personal physiotherapy assistant,
#329 Combining LLMs and the microbiome for truly personalised health, with Leo Grady from Jona
Leo Grady who is internationally recognized for his work to deliver AI in healthcare for 20 years at pioneering bay area startups (HeartFlow), multinational medical companies (Siemens) and, most recently, as CEO of Paige.ai. As CEO of Paige, Leo led the company to become an industry leader, internationally launching gr
#328 Does 8M followers make you a healthtech entrepreneur? Is an influencer a new, tech-enabled public health doctor? With Dr Karan Rajan
Dr Karan Rajan is an NHS surgeon and clinical lecturer at The University of Sunderland Medical School. However, he is also a social media educator, with over 5.2 million followers on TikTok, dispelling popular medical myths and working to make health, science and medicine engaging, entertaining, and accessible to a wid