Season 1
Picking the best startups and VCs: Shubhra Jain - Tarsadia Investments
Insights from a physician, entrepreneur and investor: Shrawan Patel - Strategy Health and PharmStars
Leaving clinical medicine - Harvey Castro
Shubhra Jain is the Head of Healthcare investments at Tarsadia Investments. She moved to US after completing her MBBS in India, to pursue a Masters in mechanical engineering at Stanford after which she completed her MBA from Wharton.Shubhra is an incredibly sharp, reflective and humble person. I had a lot of fun talking to her about:Due diligence process for startups How she picks VC funds and GPs to invest in Her transition from physician to investor Market tailwinds in healthtech
Shrawan is a physician, entrepreneur and angel investor. He is the managing director at Strategy Health and founding team member at PharmStars. I have known Shrawan for a few months now and find him to be deeply reflective, intelligent, curious and open minded. We talk about His childhood Decision making The existence of a soul What he looks for in founders Clinical trials And more! I am thankful for his friendship and grateful for his transparency and honesty in sharing his experiences and knowledge.
Harvey is curious, kind and humble. He is a physician, healthcare consultant, and serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in the healthcare industry. He is the author of ChatGPT Healthcare and Success Reinvention. We talk about His journey out of clinical medicine Entrepreneurship Perseverance Profitability in healthcare
David Zhou runs ops and deal flow at On Deck Angels. He is a mentor and advisor to several accelerators and incubators including Techstars, WEVE, City University of New York and Alchemist Accelerator. You can follow his thoughts on his newsletter, Cup of Zhou. He has an inquisitive, curious and intelligent mind. We talk about his childhood, deal flow, decision making, market risk and more! I hope you all enjoy this conversation as much as I did. David Zhou: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidjzhou/ OnDeck: http://beondeck.com CupofZhou: https://cupofzhou.com/ Rishad Usmani: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishadusmani/ HealthTech Investors: https://www.healthtechinvestors.com/
Bharat is a co-founder and and principal at Amplitude Venture Capital. He has a PhD in Experimental Medicine and Masters of Science in Microbiology and Immunology from McGill University.
Josh is the CEO and cofounder of SeamlessMD, a patient engagement platform which improves patient satisfaction while reducing hospital length of stay, readmissions, and costs.. They have raised over $7.5 million and are used by various health systems including Stanford Health. He is intelligent, humble and posses incredible grit. We talk about his childhood, his journey from an interest in coding to medical school and then being a founder. We discuss ChatGPT, AI in healthcare, the future of private healthcare in Canada, raising money for his startup, 90% of the VC he met said no initially and his end goal in life. He was previously the Chair of the Canadian Medical Association’s Joule Innovation Council and on the Advisory Group to the Office of the Chief Health Innovation Strategist for the Ontario Ministry of Health. Joshua has also served on the Shad Valley Board of Directors and as a Startup Advisor to Northeastern University. Joshua has received numerous honours, including being named Digital Health Executive of the Year by Digital Health Canada, Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science and Healthcare, Canadian Top 20 Under 20, TD Canada Trust Scholar, Creative Destruction Lab Alumn and NEXT Canada Alumn.
Sam is a managing partner and co founder of Ambit Ventures (an early stage digital health venture firm), he is on the board of multiple startups. We are co-investors in SOAP health (early disease detection and diagnosis at the point of care). At the age of 53 he decided to pursue an MBA and transitioned to the private equity world before launching his fund with his cofounder. We talk about his childhood, launching a venture fund, decision making, life, what he looks for in founders and startups. I hope you guys enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
I always have a fun time speaking with Jawad Ali and it’s always a pleasure. Jawad is a practicing general surgeon, founder of Vality (a physician led consulting firm specializing in digital surgery, patient engagement and surgical devices) and founder of Austin MedTech Connect (a private community connecting founders, clinicians, investors and healthcare stakeholders). We talk about success, surgical innovation, physician burnout, medtech in Austin and goal setting. I hope you all enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
Josh is the chief medical officer and cofounder of Figure 1, a social network and medical education platform for physicians. Figure 1 has raised $23.5 million and serves over 3 million users worldwide. Josh is also a practicing intensive care physician and the medical lead for medical assistance in dying at Scarborough General Hospital. We had a frank and honest discussion on the path from idea to execution, the future of Canadian healthcare and medical assistance in dying.
ClinicUp was my previous startup which closed down in early 2022. It was a telemedicine company which served 1100 patients, we hired 10 physicians, we got a 6 million acquisition offer then got sued and lost it all.