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Health tech is one of the fastest growing industries. Last year, $11.5 billion of capital was poured into health tech companies ($3.5B more than 2016).
In this boom, New York City has emerged as a major hub for health tech startups, and home to major players in the game like ZocDoc, Oscar Health, and Blink Health, and for new companies like Roman and Smart Vision Labs.
Although health tech startups face challenges many other companies don't - they have to deal with established giants like hospital systems, insurers, drugmakers, while navigating regulations and laws that make it difficult to enter the market.
Through all these hurdles we've seen health tech companies make our lives better by offering easier access to doctors, medicine, insurance, and more.
Join us as we find out what it takes to build a health tech startup in NYC! We'll discuss
- Hiring a team for a health tech startup
- Testing and launching an MVP
- Building momentum for your product
- Adhering to rules & regulations
- Helpful tools to use
- Finding the correct target market for your product
- Investors and ways to get funding
... And much more!
About the panelists
- Zachariah Reitano is the CEO and Co-founder of Roman, an end-to-end service for men’s health backed by $3.1M in VC funding. Roman handles everything from online diagnosis to the convenient monthly delivery of medication – the first product helps treat the 30 million men who experience erectile dysfunction. He launched Roman with a mission to provide the most seamless and affordable way for men to receive healthcare treatment and start them on the path to identifying the root cause and living a healthier life. Prior to Roman, he was the EIR at prehype, a leading venture studio in NYC. He also previously founded Shout, a mobile Craigslist backed by Accel and YC.
- Katherine Ryder is the founder and CEO of Maven, the digital clinic empowering women with expert, convenient, and compassionate healthcare. Previously, Katherine worked as an early stage investor at Index Ventures, where she focused on investments in digital health and education. Prior to that, she was a journalist, writing for The Economist from Southeast Asia, New York, and London. In 2009, she worked with former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, helping him write his memoirs about the U.S. financial crisis.
- Neha Kumar is a Director of Product at Oscar and oversees the company's suite of products for healthcare providers, including the apps Oscar doctors log into for patient information, internal tooling for network management and servicing, operational systems and infrastructure, and integrations with our healthcare provider partners. Prior to joining Oscar, she worked in strategy and product at American Express where she worked on assessing the growing digital payments space and building out alternative banking products.
- Alexander Fabry is a product leader with eight years of experience building and scaling consumer-facing technology companies. He is currently Head of Product at Galileo, an early stage AI healthcare application, and previously let product teams at Blink Health a New York-based digital health startup that has raised over $160 million from investors like 8VC. Before Blink, Alexander was Director of Product Operations and Analytics at Artsy, where he was one of the first ten employees. He previously cofounded a non-profit to work on off-grid electrification in Africa and studied at Harvard and Cambridge Universities.
Schedule:
6:30 - 6:50: Drinks & Networking
6:50 - 7:50: Panel
7:50 - 8:15: Audience Q&A
8:15 - 9:00: More Drinks & Networking