Purpose-built, early-stage venture investor focused on health tech, with an infrastructure-first lens

San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2015
Healthy Ventures retweeted
Health insurance brokers play a major role in getting people covered, yet they neither come from nor serve communities of color at representative rates, @JalisaHealth @CMonahan10 report on what some state marketplaces are doing about it commonwealthfund.org/blog/20…
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Anyone else frustrated w/ not knowing how much your medical procedure might cost beforehand? 💰 💰 Esp. after learning 1 out of 6 Americans have #medicaldebt sent to collections... buff.ly/44WTGO6 #healthcare #healthinsurance #healthtech #medtwitter #pricetransparency
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Do the cost increases ever end? 😰 Employer benefits costs set to rise 5.4% next year, a new analysis from @mercer finds bit.ly/3PwvTAe #healthcare #healthtech #medtwitter #payers #insurance
Employer benefits costs set to rise 5.4% next year, a new analysis from @mercer finds bit.ly/3PwvTAe
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Patients ‘steered’ toward health systems, more costly treatment after vertical consolidation - via study buff.ly/3RnmkVA (@healthcaredive) #healthcare #medtwitter #healthcarecosts #doctors
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Of 78 million prescription 💊 transactions analyzed in 2022, nearly half the time, patients had an option that would've cost $0 😩 (via analysis from @ArriveHealth) #healthcare #pharmacy #prescriptions #meds #drugprices #healthtech #pricetransparency
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Healthy Ventures retweeted
Though there will never be a foolproof formula for finding product-market fit, here’s my best attempt at creating a guide for B2B startups that'll save you much time and pain. It's based on interviews and research into the PMF journeys of 25 top B2B startups. Here's a peek:
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Seeing on your EOB that everything was covered 😮‍💨🥹  #medtwitter #healthcare #medical #payers #insurance #healthinsurance
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Healthy Ventures retweeted
how to analyze healthcare datasets even if you're not technical - the post I wish I had when I was trying to do market sizing/benchmarking @BeaCapistrant and I put a lot of work into showing you how to find the answers to healthcare questions with publicly available datasets.
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Nearly 50 million older Americans are concerned they won’t be able to pay for needed healthcare services during the year 🥺 buff.ly/44qhz0f via @healthcaredive #healthtech #MedTwitter #healthcare #seniors #Medicare
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The US may never move to a fully value-based system, but venture capitalists still think it’s worth investing in. buff.ly/3QVgCdz via @HealthcareBrew #VC #VBC #healthcare #healthtech
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We're big fans of #JTBD! "One of the lies I was told growing up was build it and they will come” -- @bmoesta 👆 we see this fallacy often in #healthtech #founders too #startups #GTM
Bob Moesta (@bmoesta) is the co-creator of the Jobs To Be Done framework. He's also one of the most requested guests on the podcast. In our conversation, we discuss: ➔ Tips for conducting user interviews to uncover jobs to be done ➔ How Twitter, and other companies, implement JTBD incorrectly ➔ First steps in applying the JTBD framework ➔ Common misconceptions about the framework ➔ What Snickers and Milky Way can teach us about JTBD ➔ When to not use JTBD ➔ Much more
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Healthy Ventures retweeted
#Pricing is a #SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up 💸 @poyark shares the Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide here: openview.vc/3P706FN
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100 million people in the US carry #medical #debt 💸 💸 & it’s a uniquely American problem...it's so rare in Germany that the federal government’s statistical office doesn’t even track this! 🤦 via @kffhealthnews ➡️ buff.ly/47AIzgv #healthtech #MedTwitter #healthcare
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🤖💡 75% of health execs see #generativeAI transforming the industry, but only 6% have a game plan for harnessing its power buff.ly/3QJkwpI (via @BainandCompany) #AI #HealthTech #healthcare #GPT
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#Founders: The biggest hold-up to scale is #GTM friction. Just bc you build it, they do not come! So how do you increase likelihood of actual #traction? 🔑 : narrow target customer segment & drive bigger returns. See how: buff.ly/3OuN03S #healthtech #seedstage #startup
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#Healthinsurance companies reviewing our claims like... 😩😩 (@NewsHour piece on claim denials on the rise 📈 ... buff.ly/3CjWskZ) #healthcare #healthtech #MedTwitter #medical #medicine #payers #insurance
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hospitals, healthtech startups, and payers
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