The Digest for Health Transformers & Changemakers
Greg Yap has spent decades on both sides of the table, running diagnostics at Roche, building genomics businesses at Affymetrix, and founding two companies of his own before becoming a Partner at Menlo Ventures. In a StartUp Health Fireside Chat with Unity Stoakes, Yap explained why product differentiation is becoming a "more fragile moat" as AI tools level the playing field, what Menlo's research revealed about the fastest-growing use case in health AI, and why the bar for a seed round keeps moving.
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Yair Saperstein, MD, MPH, CEO & Co-founder of Avo, on the company’s expanded MEDITECH Alliance partnership, bringing its suite of AI-powered products to MEDITECH's EHR.
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Victor Penev, CEO & Founder of Edamam, on the company’s partnership with ckbk to power nutrition data for cookbook recipes.
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Yossi Shahak, CEO & Co-founder of Maverick Medical AI, on the release of the company’s proprietary Clinical-to-Revenue Foundation Model, designed to bring revenue certainty to the hospital revenue cycle.
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Shameet Luhar, CEO & Co-founder of Vheda Health, on securing $47M from Agora to scale the company’s outcomes and analytics platform for health plans.
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