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Vishal Gulati

Tech Tonics

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Michelle Meyer

Brian Smith

Stephanie Tilenius

Dave Albert

Will Ahmed

Toby Cosgrove

Kevin Lyman

Madeline Bell

Rasu Shrestha

Brennan Spiegel

Matthew Holt

Martin Kelly

Chris Gibson

Kari Nadeau

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Vishal Gulati says he was “genetically predisposed to be a doctor.” But as it turns out, he was born to be a pioneer in open data, digital health and global venture capital. During his medical training, Vishal realized that the practice of one doctor seeing one patient at a time just wasn’t scalable.  Rather than spend his career practicing medicine, as his father and grandfather did before him, Vishal took a right turn into the Human Genome Project to help start of open data movement.  He went on to become a key driver in the creation of the digital health ecosystem in Europe. Called an “agitator by nature” (in a good way) by HealthXL’s Martin Kelly, Vishal has always been adept at seeing the trends coming.  16 years ago he took his talents to venture capital where he focused initially on India and now looks to Europe for digital health innovation in his role as a partner of DFJ Esprit. Vishal says that his investment thesis is informed by his medical training, “which protects one from the delusion that making major healthcare advances is ever easy.” We are grateful to HealthXL for sponsoring this episode of TechTonics. HealthXL is a global enterprise that empowers leading organizations and innovators to solve major healthcare problems through digital health collaborations.

<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vgulat" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vishal Gulati</a> says he was “genetically predisposed to be a doctor.” But as it turns out, he was born to be a pioneer in open data, digital health and global venture capital. During his medical training, Vishal realized that the practice of one doctor seeing one patient at a time just wasn’t scalable. Rather than spend his career practicing medicine, as his father and grandfather did before him, Vishal took a right turn into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genome_Project" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Human Genome Project</a> to help start of open data movement. He went on to become a key driver in the creation of the digital health ecosystem in Europe. Called an “agitator by nature” (in a good way) by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinkelly1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HealthXL’s Martin Kelly</a>, Vishal has always been adept at seeing the trends coming. 16 years ago he took his talents to venture capital where he focused initially on India and now looks to Europe for digital health innovation in his role as a partner of <a href="http://draperesprit.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DFJ Esprit</a>. Vishal says that his investment thesis is informed by his medical training, “which protects one from the delusion that making major healthcare advances is ever easy.” We are grateful to <a href="http://healthxl.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HealthXL</a> for sponsoring this episode of TechTonics. HealthXL is a global enterprise that empowers leading organizations and innovators to solve major healthcare problems through digital health collaborations.

Tech Tonics: Vishal Gulati, VC and Agitator By Nature