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Medtech Talk

A weekly conversation with the innovators who will change how health care is delivered.

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Episode 148: Kaiser Permanente’s Liz Rockett on Her VC Career and Gender Inequality in the Industry

Episode 148: Kaiser Permanente’s Liz Rockett on Her VC Career and Gender Inequality in the Industry

As an English Major at Princeton, Liz Rockett could not have imagined how her VC career would take off and the places it... Read more

21 May 2020

52mins

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CEO Stevens Says HeartFlow Took No Shortcuts to Commercialization, Raising $240 million Series E

CEO Stevens Says HeartFlow Took No Shortcuts to Commercialization, Raising $240 million Series E

John H. Stevens, MD, was too excited to sleep when he first heard what HeartFlow's technology could potentially do. Eigh... Read more

6 Mar 2018

35mins

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Justin Klein, MD, JD, Partner at New Enterprise Associates

Justin Klein, MD, JD, Partner at New Enterprise Associates

Justin Klein, MD, JD, sits down with Healthegy TV to provide details on where his firm, New Enterprise Associates, sees ... Read more

29 Feb 2016

24mins

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HealthQuest’s Kong on teamwork, Medtech, and investing $225 million

HealthQuest’s Kong on teamwork, Medtech, and investing $225 million

HealthQuest Capital secured a $225 million fund to invest in new health care technologies. Managing Director Garheng Kon... Read more

30 Mar 2016

26mins

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Relievant CEO Kevin Hykes Shares the Advice that Led Him to Set a Successful Course as CEO

Relievant CEO Kevin Hykes Shares the Advice that Led Him to Set a Successful Course as CEO

Under CEO Kevin Hykes, Relievant Medsystems is racking up some wins. The company closed on a $58 million Series E round ... Read more

13 Jul 2018

37mins

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Advice of the Valkyrie – GE Venture’s Lisa Suennen Explains How Medtechers Can Find Their Voice

Advice of the Valkyrie – GE Venture’s Lisa Suennen Explains How Medtechers Can Find Their Voice

For more than a decade, Lisa Suennen, Senior Managing Director, healthcare at GE Ventures and Managing Partner at Ventur... Read more

6 Apr 2017

39mins

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Foundry’s Gifford: Innovating Innovation in a Changing Health Care World

Foundry’s Gifford: Innovating Innovation in a Changing Health Care World

Hanson Gifford of The Foundry reviews the evolving challenges behind Medtech innovation and shares details on Fire1 and ... Read more

23 Apr 2015

27mins

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Stryker’s Kevin Lobo Explains Why He Calls Medtech Home, How the “Serial Acquirer” Will Keep Growing

Stryker’s Kevin Lobo Explains Why He Calls Medtech Home, How the “Serial Acquirer” Will Keep Growing

Growing up in Canada, Kevin Lobo only knew he wanted to be a senior executive at a global company someday. That overridi... Read more

17 Jun 2019

37mins

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SVB’s Jon Norris Reveals Medtech’s Most Prolific Investors, Hottest Areas, and Biggest Exits

SVB’s Jon Norris Reveals Medtech’s Most Prolific Investors, Hottest Areas, and Biggest Exits

Earlier this month, Silicon Valley Bank released its Trends in Healthcare Investments and Exits 2019, the latest of the ... Read more

25 Jan 2019

40mins

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Stanford’s Yock Talks Medtech Costs, Biodesign’s Birthday, and How He Feels about Apple and Google

Stanford’s Yock Talks Medtech Costs, Biodesign’s Birthday, and How He Feels about Apple and Google

Paul Yock, MD, started Stanford’s Byers Center for Biodesign to help teach innovation. While the idea didn’t excite ever... Read more

3 May 2017

25mins

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Managing Director Kirk Nielsen Talks Origins, Medtech, and Versant Ventures’ new $400 Million Fund

Managing Director Kirk Nielsen Talks Origins, Medtech, and Versant Ventures’ new $400 Million Fund

Kirk Nielsen’s path to Versant passed through thoughts of medical school, a short stint in the NHL, and a span at Medtro... Read more

17 Mar 2017

29mins

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Propeller Health CEO David Van Sickle Explains How Sensors, Data Can Help Manage Respiratory Disease

Propeller Health CEO David Van Sickle Explains How Sensors, Data Can Help Manage Respiratory Disease

David Van Sickle, CEO & Co-Founder of Propeller Health, brings his public health background to health tech start-up ... Read more

11 May 2018

33mins

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How Will Abbott & Auris Deals Impact Early Stage Start-ups?

How Will Abbott & Auris Deals Impact Early Stage Start-ups?

Abbott’s move to acquire St. Jude demonstrates how Medtronic’s moves toward “Total Solutions” may change the game in Med... Read more

3 May 2016

21mins

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Ceterix CEO John McCutcheon Is Writing a Different Ending with New Tech That Can Save the Meniscus

Ceterix CEO John McCutcheon Is Writing a Different Ending with New Tech That Can Save the Meniscus

In 2010, John McCutcheon joined Ceterix, a start-up with big goals and a surer FDA path than his previous company. McCut... Read more

26 Apr 2018

35mins

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How Will CEO Pavlidis Help VytronUS Deliver Disruptive Ultrasound Tool to Treat Afib in the EP Lab?

How Will CEO Pavlidis Help VytronUS Deliver Disruptive Ultrasound Tool to Treat Afib in the EP Lab?

John Pavlidis, president and CEO of VytronUS, has built a strong resume leading and selling Medtech start-ups. Now the s... Read more

3 Nov 2017

34mins

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SVB’s Numbers Guru Jon Norris Points to More Investors, Stronger Exits Facing Medtech in 2018

SVB’s Numbers Guru Jon Norris Points to More Investors, Stronger Exits Facing Medtech in 2018

Hard to find anyone working harder than Jonathan Norris to help us see the forest for the trees.Jon is a fixture at many... Read more

29 Jan 2018

41mins

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FundRx Finding the Formula to Bring LPs, VCs, Individuals to Fund Promising Medtech Start-Ups

FundRx Finding the Formula to Bring LPs, VCs, Individuals to Fund Promising Medtech Start-Ups

Zeshan Muhammedi thinks he and his co-founders of FundRx have identified some “misalignments” in funding Medtechs. The s... Read more

24 Feb 2017

34mins

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Mylea Charvat Says Savonix Working to Turn Cognitive Function into Vital Measure

Mylea Charvat Says Savonix Working to Turn Cognitive Function into Vital Measure

Faced with an unacceptable diagnosis after her husband was seriously injured in an accident, Savonix CEO Mylea Charvat c... Read more

20 Oct 2017

39mins

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NxThera CEO Bob Paulson Talks M&A, Career Twists, Family, and Lessons Learned from Selling Yogurt

NxThera CEO Bob Paulson Talks M&A, Career Twists, Family, and Lessons Learned from Selling Yogurt

Boston Scientific's acquisition of NxThera obviously signals an end of one era. The 10-year-old start-up will live insid... Read more

7 May 2018

44mins

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Wahr says Nuvaira gives him a familiar feeling; lays out plans for fund-raising, commercial launch

Wahr says Nuvaira gives him a familiar feeling; lays out plans for fund-raising, commercial launch

Nuvaira CEO Dennis Wahr, MD, sees similarities between interventional pulmonology today and interventional cardiology in... Read more

13 Oct 2017

29mins

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