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Founders Keepers

Founders Keepers

Dr Grace Hatton

Want to hear the secrets to startup success, straight from founders' mouths? Interviews with the people behind exciting players in med/bio/healthtech - from initial concept through to investor backing and beyond. Get in touch at [email protected]
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Designed in conjunction with practising physicians, Cinapsis SmartReferrals reduces emergency department attendances in the UK by 83% through providing advice & supportive guidance. Family practitioners, nurses, paramedics and pharmacists can contact specialists directly through the platform for clinical advice on a patient case both quickly and securely. Since Cinapsis launched in 2019, thousands of doctors’ hours have been saved for the NHS, and Cinapsis has made it possible for 70% of non-urgent referrals (such as dermatology) to be managed remotely.

Owain is a former NHS surgeon with almost two decades of experience working in frontline clinical medicine. He has been awarded a personal Fellowship from the Medical Research Council and has twice received the British Journal of Surgery Prize.

In this short episode, we cover scrappiness in startups; paving the way for surgical care in the healthtech space; and, more philosophically, following your own path in life.

You can find out more about Cinapsis in the following ways:

Website: https://www.cinapsis.org/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/owainrhyshughes/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/myCinapsis

Find us on:

www.founders-keepers.com

Instagram: @founderskeepers.pod

Twitter: @founders.pod

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/founders-keepers-podcast

Get in touch: [email protected]

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Midnight Health is a digital healthcare platform based in Australia that has built a customer base of more than 30,000 people since its launch in early 2021. Offering a range of healthcare services from video consultations to home delivery of prescription medicines, its mission is to enhance patient outcomes through technology by consolidating the fragmented health industry, simplifying experiences, and improving accessibility.

Midnight Health has a current valuation of AUS$48 million as of August 2022, having recently taken on a AUS$12 million Series A investment from health insurer, nib. Nic is a serial entrepreneur who has built and made several successful exits from a number of businesses outside of the healthcare space, and in 2019 won the Australian Young Entrepreneur Marketing Award.

In this episode, we talk about single-handedly trying to revolutionise the digital healthcare space, learning from past building experience, and the future of telemedicine.

You can find out more about Midnight Health in the following ways:

Website: https://midnight.health/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/midnight-health/

Find us on:

www.founders-keepers.com

Instagram: @founderskeepers.pod

Twitter: @founders.pod

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/founders-keepers-podcast

Get in touch: [email protected]

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Sahha is an early-stage VC-backed digital health organisation with a platform that uses behavioural data from wearables and smartphones to deliver mental health care insights. Sahha collects digital phenotypes from mobile devices, such as a person's physical activity and sleep quality, and analyses that data through proprietary models to predict mental health conditions against standardised psychometric tests. In this way, Sahha state that they offer a predictive mental health technology platform to predicts the likelihood of the user's risk of depression, providing social support and recommends professional assistance based on insights gleaned. Aleks is a computer scientist by background and a serial entrepreneur. We talk today about his own brutally honest and personal journey with burnout and depression that inspired him to build Sahha, working through trial and error, and how an attempt at swiping cheese led to him gaining a new business investment. You can find out more about Sahha in the following ways: Website: https://sahha.ai/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sahhahealth/ Find us on: www.founders-keepers.com Instagram: @founderskeepers.pod Twitter: @founders.pod LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/founders-keepers-podcast Get in touch: [email protected]
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Convergent Therapeutics is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing next generation radiopharmaceutical therapies for prostate and other cancers. The company's proprietary technology involves dual-targeted radionuclide therapy that has been licensed to Convergent by Cornell University (USA). If FDA-approved, its flagship therapeutic would be the first antibody approved to direct a radioisotope to prostate cancer.

Dr Kantoff is a board-certified physician in internal medicine and medical oncology; a member of numerous professional societies and editorial boards; author of more than 500 articles and books; and has lectured throughout the world on the topic of cancer treatments. He has been honored with the Harvard Medical School Kantoff-Sang Lectureship Award, and recognized with the first Prostate Cancer Foundation Mentor of Excellence Award.

In this episode, we cover raising money in difficult climates, the important “engine of discovery” that is the biotech industry, and dealing with the unpredictable both as a physician and a company CEO.

You can find out more about Convergent Therapeutics in the following ways:

Website: https://convergentrx.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConvergentRx

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/convergent-therapeutics/

Find us on:

www.founders-keepers.com

Instagram: @founderskeepers.pod

Twitter: @founders.pod

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/founders-keepers-podcast

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Founded in 2016, South Rampart Pharma is a clinical-stage life science company dedicated to advancing the safe treatment of pain by developing new non-opioid small molecule solutions that lack the liver and kidney toxicity present in current pain medicines. The company's lead program, SRP-001, is currently in a Phase 1 study evaluating the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics with data expected later this year in 2023.

Hernan is an accomplished academic vascular surgeon who holds degrees in molecular biology and medicine and is a former Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Research Scholar at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is the co-inventor of 7 issued or pending patents and has authored over 50 publications.

In this episode, we talk about the innovation landscape in pain management, the challenge of translating scientific evidence into the clinic, and tackling curveballs thrown at you in business.

You can find out more about South Rampart Pharma in the following ways:

Website: https://southrampartpharma.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SR_Pharma

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/south-rampart-pharma-llc/

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www.founders-keepers.com and www.founderskeepers.substack.com

Instagram: @founderskeepers.pod

Twitter: @founders.pod

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/founders-keepers-podcast

Get in touch: [email protected]

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What: Natural Cycles is the developer of the only digital method of birth control cleared by regulators both in the US and in Europe, based in Stockholm. The company's application uses its own algorithm to predict and detect women's ovulation, allowing them to prevent or plan pregnancies in a non-invasive, hormone and side-effect-free way.

Who: Elina is a particle physicist and entrepreneur who began her career at CERN before going on to build the Natural Cycles app together with her husband Raoul.

We talk about: Working on the hadron collider (yes, really), making fun of business partners, and using data to drive fertility innovations.

📝 You can also now read the accompanying "podnotes" to the episode on Substack, where key insights from every conversation will be shared for those who prefer short and snappy takeaways: founderskeepers.substack.com

Find out more: www.founders-keepers.com

Instagram: @founderskeepers.pod

Twitter: @founders.pod

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/founders-keepers-podcast

Get in touch: [email protected]

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Tonix Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company based in New Jersey focused on repurposing drugs for neurological conditions and developing vaccines for COVID-19, smallpox and other biodefense projects. More recently, the FDA awarded one of its drug candidates, TNX -102 SL, with breakthrough therapy designation for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder following studies in the US military. Seth is an enormously accomplished physician, scientist and entrepreneur. In particular prior to co-founding Tonix, where he is now the current President and Chairman, he worked as an assistant professor at Columbia University on the team that discovered the CD40-Ligand (CD154) and elucidated the molecular basis of T cell helper function. This discovery alone has since led to the development of treatment candidates for numerous autoimmune diseases as well as for organ transplant rejection. In this episode, we cover the biotech revolution in vaccine development, the need for versatility in hiring, and inherent difficulty of “doing science” in the real world. You can find out more about Tonix Pharmaceuticals in the following ways: Website: https://www.tonixpharma.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TONIXPharma LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tonix-pharmaceuticals/ Find us on: www.founders-keepers.com Instagram: @founderskeepers.pod Twitter: @founders.pod LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/founders-keepers-podcast Get in touch: [email protected]
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Founded in 2020, Béa Fertility is a London-based startup that provides at-home fertility treatment and ovulation tracking services for UK residents. Its aim is to increase access to effective and affordable fertility treatments by offering an alternative to high-cost fertility clinics, and the company has raised nearly £1m in funding for its non-invasive treatment option.

Tess is a serial entrepreneur and marketing executive who has prior experience founding both a successful femtech brand and a B2B marketing agency.

In this week’s episode, Tess shares probably the scrappiest story we’ve heard on the podcast to date; the trials and tribulations of fundraising; and the challenges of getting a new treatment to market (including guinea pig shortages).

You can find out more about Bea Fertlity in the following ways:

Website: https://beafertility.com/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beafertility/

Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/beafertility

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@beafertility

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beafertility/

Find us on:

www.founders-keepers.com

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Twitter: @founders.pod

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/founders-keepers-podcast

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Advanced Human Imaging (AHI) uses smartphone-based scanning technology that combines proprietary deep learning models and state of the art processing techniques that return body circumference, body composition, health risks, and risk indicators from photo images taken on your phone. Comprising Body, Face and Dermatological scans, with a diverse range of data-driven applications across multiple industries, they aim to unlock the unique aspects of an individual's health, wellbeing, and chronic disease risk.

Vlado is a founder, investor, entrepreneur, advisor and business consultant with over 30 years of experience in assisting businesses in healthcare and technology with strategy, structure, and entry to capital markets. He began his career as a co-founder of MyFiziq (now known as Advanced Human Imaging) and is their head of strategy and revenue growth.

In this episode, we cover his company's "Black Mirror" moments, convincing investors, and how getting out of your own way can be a key to success in business.

You can find out more about AHI in the following ways:

Website: https://www.ahi.tech/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/advancedhumanimaging/

Find us on:

www.founders-keepers.com

Instagram: @founderskeepers.pod

Twitter: @founders.pod

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/founders-keepers-podcast

Get in touch: [email protected]

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Founders Keepers - #39 Tim Veron - Real-time health tracking with Vively
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03/10/23 • 29 min

What: Vively is a software-as-a-service platform supporting people with lifestyle-related diseases: From providing real-time feedback to consumers on diet, exercise, sleep and stress to integrating continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) and wearables for real-time data analytics about how users’ lifestyle impacts their health. The organisation collaborates with a team of leading integrative doctors, behavioural scientists and holistic health practitioners to create and combine digital therapeutic programs with on-demand coaching and health analytics, and recently secured AUS$1.5 million in pre-seed funding to support their expansion.

Who: Tim is a serial entrepreneur with a background in venture capital who prior to co-founding Vively had invested and founded various different startups active across Asia and Australasia.

We talk about: Tim's obsession with entrepreneurship from a young age; finding a solution to medical conditions brought on by lifestyle choices; and how building his own product at Vively identified a potentially serious health complaint in Tim despite his triathlete background.

📝 You can also now read the accompanying "podnotes" to the episode on Substack, where key insights from every conversation will be shared for those who prefer short and snappy takeaways: founderskeepers.substack.com Find out more: www.founders-keepers.com Instagram: @founderskeepers.pod Twitter: @founders.pod LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/founders-keepers-podcast Get in touch: [email protected]

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How many episodes does Founders Keepers have?

Founders Keepers currently has 46 episodes available.

What topics does Founders Keepers cover?

The podcast is about Entrepreneurship, Podcasts and Business.

What is the most popular episode on Founders Keepers?

The episode title '#02 Livia Ng - Revolutionising clinical trials with Neucruit' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Founders Keepers?

The average episode length on Founders Keepers is 28 minutes.

How often are episodes of Founders Keepers released?

Episodes of Founders Keepers are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Founders Keepers?

The first episode of Founders Keepers was released on May 25, 2022.

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