This week’s guest is Mimi Billing, a Swedish healthtech journalist, covering pan-European Healthtech for Sifted, a Financial Times backed media outlet. We discuss the state of European healthtech, how it differs across the Nordics, Germany and the UK and the important role that journalists play in the healthtech ecosystem. We also touch on cultural differences across Europe, how that plays into go to market strategies and what healthtech founders should think about before pitching their...

This week’s guest is Emil Larsson, a global executive search specialist in the medical imaging space. Emil regularly places talent into many post series A startups and as I’ve got to know him, I’ve always been struck by how much insider knowledge he has of the whole medical imaging space. As global medical imaging AI landscapes develops and startups become scaleups, specialist recruiters are a key part of this bustling ecosystem. CM Medical and other specialist recruiters are moving beyond...

This week’s guest is Victoria Engelhardt, Founder of Keleya, an app that supports pregnant women in their journey to being new parents. Keleya is the latest addition to the Crista Galli Ventures portfolio. The Keleya app has so far been downloaded over 200,000 times and Victoria has been the Apple face of Germany 2020, recently being interviewed by Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple. Victoria touches on her career from Rocket Internet in Berlin to management consulting at Boston Consulting Group to...

This week’s guest is Dr Ben Evans, Managing Partner at InHealth Ventures. InHealth Ventures is an early stage healthtech fund investing at seed and series A, both in the US and Europe. Ben discusses his career from medicine to venture capital via management consulting at McKinsey, a stint at a startup and being an operations manager in the NHS. He also touches on what makes a successful founding team, go to market strategies in healthcare and the differences in early-stage innovation between...

This week’s guest is Stine Mølgaard Sørensen who is cofounder and COO of Radiobotics, an award-winning deep tech radiology AI startup based in Copenhagen in Denmark. As one of the newest companies in the Crista Galli Ventures portfolio, we are excited to have Stine on the show to share all things Radiobotics.  Stine discusses her background in global digital transformation and communication, how she exited a previous startup and just how important storytelling is to a startup. She also...

Dr Neha Tanna is a VC Investment Partner at Social Starts and Joyance Partners. Neha has had a very diverse portfolio career, starting off in medicine as a GP before moving into pharmaceutical medicine and biotech investing and then onto entrepreneurship and VC via an MBA at London Business School. Neha talks about why she joined Social Starts and Joyance Partners and discusses their really interesting investment thesis on health and happiness. She also touches on her experience of Venture...

Haris Shuaib is the AI Transformation lead at the London AI Centre which is a hub of innovation in healthcare in the UK, recently receiving £16m in funding to scale up AI work in the NHS and being appointed a preferred partner for NVIDIA’s proposed £40m healthcare supercomputer. With a background in theoretical physics, Haris trained as a medical physicist prior to moving into a leadership role in AI in the NHS. Haris discusses the variety of healthcare AI projects the London AI centre are...

Pam Garside is one of the most well-connected people in UK healthcare. A healthcare management consultant with extensive trans-Atlantic experience, Pam manages a wide-ranging portfolio career. She is a fellow at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and a member of the investment committee of Cambridge Enterprise, the Tech Transfer component of Cambridge University. Pam founded the Cambridge Health Network, a membership group of senior health leaders in the UK. A...

Professor Wieland Sommer is CEO and founder of Smart Reporting. The company is headquartered in Munich, employing over 60 people and has over 10,000 users in 90 countries around the world. Smart Reporting develops AI-based smart reports for radiologists and pathologists. They recently raised a EUR 15M funding round where we at Crista Galli Ventures participated. Wieland was in frontline medicine for many years, most recently as the Head of Oncologic Imaging at the Ludwig-Maximilians...

Dr Saira Ghafur is lead for Digital Health at Imperial College London’s Institute of Global Health Innovation and also a practising Consultant Respiratory Physician. She manages a portfolio career spanning policy, academia, frontline medicine alongside being a founder of two startups. Saira discusses her work on healthcare cybersecurity, evidence generation in digital health and the value of healthcare data in the NHS. She provides tips for managing a wide-ranging portfolio career, provides...

In episode four of The Healthtech VC, Crista Galli Ventures' founder Dr Fiona Pathiraja, is joined by Dr Tom Carrell - the founder and CEO of Cydar Medical. Tom was working as a consultant vascular surgeon in London when he decided to collaborate with Graeme Penney, an imaging scientist at King’s College London to turn traditional surgical visualisation on its head and transform patient outcomes in endovascular surgery. During the podcast, Tom and Fiona discuss the story of Cydar Medical and...

For episode three of The Healthtech VC, Crista Galli Ventures' founder Dr Fiona Pathiraja, is joined by Julie Sufana, Chief Marketing Officer of portfolio company contextflow, a Vienna based healthtech start-up developing deep learning-based tools to improve radiology workflows. Originally from the US, Julie has an enviably diverse range of cross-sector experience, prior to joining contextflow. Fiona and Julie explore why marketing in healthtech is frequently overlooked, the value of...

In this week’s episode of The Healthtech VC, Dr. Fiona Pathiraja meets fellow former radiologist Dr Lizzie Barclay, who is now medical director of Aidence, an Amsterdam based start-up creating innovative AI that helps radiologists in the diagnosis of lung cancer. Lizzie started her career in medicine as an NHS radiologist and after working on the frontline for a number of years, she decided her future lay outside the NHS, leading to her role at Aidence. Fiona and Lizzie discuss the role of...