A Healthtech Startup Bootcamp and Perfect cup of Morning Coffee
I hope that you’re enjoying the summer and reprieve from Canadian wildfires.
Way off topic today and written from a lake house in the Poconos.
First, the healthcare:
I’m running a free mentorship bootcamp and mini-accelerator in late August with some of my favorite digital health friends and mentors.
Each accepted team get 16 matched 1:1 mentorship sessions with folks who have already been down the road you’re on.
If you’re interested in mentoring or sponsoring, please reach out directly.
Applications due 5pm EST on August 6th.
This is my braintrust.
The folks volunteering to mentor have worked with patients, built, raised, sold, and exited in almost every corner of enterprise scale healthcare.
Free for startups.
Accepted teams are welcome to participate one or both days.
👇 A sample of who’s mentoring:
🚑 Ramon Lizardo, MD, MBA CEO Tele911 (ED diversion, 9.5M+ lives, 150 health plans)
🏆 Ron Goldman, two exits: Wisdo (to Talkspace) and Kognito (to Blackstone)
📈 Ansgar Lange, scaled home care delivery $0 to $250M; ex-COO of Nostos (exited)
📡 Alexandre Winter, serial founder; Placemeter (exited), now CEO of Norbert Health
🤖 Margaux Benoit, healthcare AI go-to-market at Nabla
💊 Owen Willis, operator turned investor; ex-COO of Osmosis (acquired), now GP Opal Ventures
🏘️ Moshe Bellows, 3rd generation LTC operator. Seed-stage healthtech investor at Maccabee Ventures.
🏥 Neil Carpenter, health system executive. Former chief strategy officer at NantHealth
🩺 Alex Tang, built, scaled, and operated primary care ACOs at the 6k provider level. Former ops leadership at CityMD and Rendr. Currently a GP at PhyCap Fund.
📱 Rachel Trobman, co-founder and CEO of Upside Health (RTM/RPM/CCM)
🎧 Nyamitse-Calvin Mahinda, ex-Cityblock, now founder and CEO of Vital Audio
🫁 John Joshua, RRT, MHA, healthcare operations, former Northwell Exec. Current strategy leader
🚀 Christine Lu Hong, repeat healthtech founder. Formerly program lead at Techstars NYC
Then a perfect cup of coffee:
Most folks who know me know that I’ve gone way way way down the coffee geekery rabbit hole.
Here’s my no-fuss daily driver method - learned from a Japanese world brewer cup champion’s Youtube channel two years ago.
How to Brew a Spectacularly Good Cup of Coffee at Home.
Enjoy the sunshine!
-V