We met with Skip Fleshman, Partner at Asset Management Ventures at the Connected Health Symposium in San Diego. We asked him about trends in venture capital funding. Here is our interview..
If you’re keeping tabs on the health startup space, you know that it’s white-hot! Digital, SaaS, mobile, even hip new medical devices that “talk” to your iPhone.
Every year thousands of children undergo limb length and scoliosis correction surgery… Doctors and medical device companies have long sought a better way and that is where Ellipse Technologies has succeeded.
Are you a current or aspiring entrepreneur? And are you (or one of your core startup team) an alumnus of the UC educational system? Then listen up – there are changes happening to the long-established startup competition sponsored by the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship that have widened the scope to include alumni from all of […]
If you are looking for success in medical devices, ReWalk (RWLK) would be a good one to emulate. Today, ReWalk executives rang the opening bell at Nasdaq. Business press has crowned them Hottest IPO of the Year. In case your missed it: Marlborough, MA—June 26, 2014 — Exoskeleton leader ReWalk Robotics announced today that the U.S. […]
“The consumer role in healthcare is changing from passive to active. Changes in the health care industry are arming consumers with more knowledge and better tools to be more engaged than ever in their health. These changes are shifting the power dynamics and economics of the industry.”
Produced by the research and industry analyst team at Parks Associates, the two day event delivered a powerful program for innovators everywhere. Here I highlight the points that heard that define this rapid growing section
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the largest event that ties technology to consumers in the US. Over the past 3 years, the section covering health, fitness, and health care has exploded. Everyone wants to have control of their own bodies and health. We are all looking for ways of monitoring, analyzing, and improving our health – whether it is through better communications with our doctors and medical support, our personal fitness, or …
Have you ever attended a health hackathon? If you haven’t, you should give it a shot, especially if you have caught the “entrepreneurial bug”. I attended MedHack last Saturday in San Francisco, at UCSF’s McLaren Hall. MedHack is an event produced by Prebacked, a health accelerator located in San Francisco. Before letting anyone code wildly […]
Last week I attended the first ever MedicineX workshop event on the Stanford campus. It surpassed my expectations (which were frankly pretty high, given the source) regarding the content, the caliber of the speakers and the general attendees/networking. I only wished that I had more time to meet people by the end of the day. […]
We recently posted a video on our site of an ear being printed with a 3D printer and MM–352while there is great “wow factor” in watching it form through the injection process, the reality is we are a very long way off from being able to print body parts and organs that can be attached or implanted. That said, Molecular Matrix, a Biotech start up in Davis, CA has developed an inexpensive scaffold that can allow cells to grow naturally in a three dimensional environment