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Ep 38A 60 second diagnosis? ⏱️

Join James, Jessica, Liam Cahill for another week of healthtech news and views.[03:20] - 📃 11 things I'd like to see national bodies tackle to make UK healthtech more viable[22:15] - 🩹 ‘Smart bandage’ with biosensors could help chronic wounds heal[31:40] - 📲 Babylon Health virtual GP app faces cash crunch (£)[41:50] - 🤬 Bayer plans to scale back women’s health R&D🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest at this form🖇 Connect with Liam on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn📖 Learn more about the SomX team at www.somx.co.uk

Apr 1, 20231h 0m

Ep 37The hero we deserve

Join James, Jessica, Huw and Numan's Chief Medical Strategy Officer, Sam Shah, for another week of healthtech news and views.[01:50] - The other funding gap: it’s not just unicorns that are leaving Europe[16:50] - The next challenge for ChatGPT? To save the NHS[36:10] - Woolworths-owned HealthyLife launches telehealth service[46:30] - Maven Clinic buys fellow virtual women's health company Naytal🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest at this form🖇 Connect with Sam on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn📖 Learn more about the SomX team at www.somx.co.uk

Mar 26, 20231h 0m

Ep 36SV almost goes B(ust) 📉

This week: Jessica Smith is joined by James, Belle and Albion VC's Molly Gilmartin.[01:50] SVB fuelled high-risk, high-reward tech firms. Now health start-ups feel bereft[10:00] Why do so many biotechs face being kicked off the Nasdaq?[15:15] How UK healthtechs can get a head start on their US expansion[28:05] Why investors should pay close attention to the UK’s healthtech sector in 2023✍️ Apply to be a guest at this form📖 Learn more about the SomX team at somx.health🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Molly on LinkedIn

Mar 17, 202344 min

Ep 35Responsible AI investing 💸

Henry is joined by Jessica Smith, Huw Penson, and Gus Kennedy, CEO at Hero Health.[02:30] What is changing in the GP contract for 2023/24? - What’s not changing? Will we see a GP strike? Will special guest Hero Health’s Gus Kennedy have any opinions on it in this week’s Pigeon Podcast?[17:20] Moving from exclusion to inclusion in digital health and care - This is how reports should be written. Clear, concise, waffle-free. If you see authors Pritesh Mistry or Joni Jabbal in the near future, give them a whopping great big high 5 from Pigeon.[31:05] 5 female-led biotech startups making waves - Only 34% of executives and 20% of CEOs in biotech are women. Here’s 5 female-led biotech startups smashing it.✍️ Apply to be a guest at this form📖 Learn more about the SomX team at somx.health ⚕️ Learn more about Hero Health at https://www.herohealthsoftware.net/🖇 Connect with Jessica S on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn 🖇Connect with Gus on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn

Mar 11, 202345 min

Ep 34Special K at your desk? 🥣

This week: Jess Farmery is joined by Jessica Smith, Huw Penson, and Dr Johnny Andrews, Chief Medical Officer at Certific. [01:20] Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Coming Soon To An HR Department Near You[11:10] After 8 years of losses, digital health scaleup Kry is heading for profitability in 2023[18:25] Five healthtech ideas VCs want you to pitch in 2023[24:40] Northumberland hospitals test drone flights for medical supplies[31:15] Medical body NICE backs online mental health treatments✍️ Apply to be a guest at this form📖 Learn more about the SomX team at somx.health⚕️ Learn more about Certific at certific.co/gb🖇 Connect with Johnny on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica S on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jess F on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn

Mar 4, 202341 min

Ep 33Healthtech decks that raised big 🎤

This week: Jess Farmery is joined by Henry, Huw, and Insider's Riddhi Kanetkar. [01:10] Investors take to the next shiny toy — AI[06:30] DrDoctor Raises £10M[09:25] 16 of the hottest pitch decks founders used to raise millions from investors[14:05] Skin + Me secures over £10 million for prescription-based approach to skincare[17:50] New AI and digital health resource published for the NHS📚 WSJ article link: AI vs Crypto 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with Riddhi on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jess on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn

Feb 24, 202323 min

Ep 32Mick Jagger's Toothpaste 🕺

This week: Is the NHS app the answer to everything? [03:25] Does size really matter? $80bn sextech market still too taboo for VCs[14:00] Asabys Partners announces €100m first close for health and biotech fund[20:22] Is the NHS app the answer to everything?[37:55] A new wave of startups are tackling financial issues within the healthcare space🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jess on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Kai on LinkedIn

Feb 19, 202346 min

Ep 31AI goes bio 🤖

This week: The Future of Digital Health, medical technology strategy launched, and why the growth of gut-tech could transform female health outcomes.[00:50] Medical technology strategy launched[08:25] Why user needs should be at the heart of healthtech[14:00] The Future of Digital Health[24:20] Why the growth of gut-tech could transform female health outcomes🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jess on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Catriona on LinkedIn

Feb 17, 202337 min

Ep 30The Jargon Carousel 🎠

This week: Can Apple and Google continue as health app gatekeepers as well as distributors and developers?[1:55] 📱Can Apple and Google continue as health app gatekeepers as well as distributors and developers?[24:35] 🏥 Smart hospitals are the key to unlocking the next era of healthcare[35:50] 🎧 Spotify founder Daniel Ek takes on healthcare🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Hollie on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Hugh on LinkedIn and Twitter

Feb 5, 202354 min

Ep 29Anyone for Oregon? 🇺🇸

This week: December's biggest seeds, Microsoft is aggressively investing in healthcare AI, and psychedelic therapy is now legal in Oregon. Are investors and startups ready?[04:05] 📹 YouTube Health Showcases U.K. Strategy: 5 Things We Learned[16:50] 🍄Psychedelic therapy is now legal in Oregon. Are investors and startups ready?[24:25] 🌱December's biggest seeds[28:45] ☕️ Connecting clinicians over coffee [38:20] 💸 Microsoft is aggressively investing in healthcare AI🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn

Jan 27, 202343 min

Ep 28Why investors love healthtech 💌

This week: Researchers develop AI tool Sybil to predict lung cancer risk, how technology will shape healthcare in 2023, and biotech start-up announces first patient enrolled in endometriosis clinical trial.[01:35] 💁 Researchers develop AI tool Sybil to predict lung cancer risk [04:30] 𑗊 How technology will shape healthcare in 2023[11:35] 💊HealthTech nets £7.5m to tackle drug overdoses [18:45] 🧬 Biotech start-up announces first patient enrolled in endometriosis clinical trial[22:40] 🫁 Organs on demand: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023[26:00] 🏇The jockey, not the horse🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with Grant on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jess on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Adama on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn

Jan 22, 202331 min

Ep 27Of eternal mice and men 🐭

This week: Eternal mice, the expansion of US expansion, and top tips for getting into healthtech.📝 7 tips for breaking into Healthtech - [02:50]❓ 5 questions facing emerging biotech in 2023 - [11:50]📬 NHS ‘must speed up move to digital communication’ after patients miss letters due to Royal Mail strike - [17:15]🐭 Biotech startup says mice live longer after genetic reprogramming - [22:20]🚀 One in five UK HealthTech SMEs head to US for product launch - [28:25]🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with Nick on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Indi on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn

Jan 14, 202338 min

Ep 26New year, same ol' Pigeon. 🐣

Join Jessica, James and Dr Joel Brown for another week of healthtech news and views. Joel is an NHS GP and Chief Clinical Officer and Medical Director of Bionabu, a virtual “Knowledge-Marketplace." This week: 2023 AI predictions and is ‘smart toilet’ the worst combination of words ever?[04:05] Global collaboration is the answer to Medtech and Biotech’s biggest challenges[13:30] 6 healthcare AI predictions for 2023[31:50] We need to stop junior doctors leaving the NHS[49:25] Withings unveils urine analysis device that sits in your toilet bowl🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with Joel on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn

Jan 7, 20231h 5m

Ep 25A Healthtech Pigeon Christmas Bonanza

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Join Henry, Jess, Huw, Belle & Dr Steve for the inaugural Healthtech Pigeon Christmas Quiz.A slightly different format this week - we'll be taking a look back at the last 12 months in healthtech.With three of our regular panellists joined by Dr Steve Cross & special guest Business Insider's Riddhi Kanetkar.🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn🖇Connect with Belle on LinkedIn🖇Connect with Riddhi on LinkedIn🖇Connect with Steve on Twitter

Dec 18, 202254 min

Ep 24Is healthtech recession-proof? 📉

Join Henry, Jess, and Huw for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: AI, IVF, and a robotic NHS.[01:08] - 🦯 WeWalk raises for smart cane for visually impaired people - GPS enabled walking sticks could be the future for visually impaired people.[02:44] -🚨 Healthcare may be a recession-proof field, but healthtech is not[08:32] - 🏙 First four regional secure data environments confirmed- Beneath the dull title, this is a real step forward for the data saves lives policy being implemented.[13:11] - 🧑‍💼How an ageing population will change health care[19:30] -🤖 Sunak tells NHS to embrace robots as it prepares to sack staff🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn

Dec 9, 202229 min

Ep 23WHOOP, there it is!

Join James, Jessica, and Henry for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: McKinsey Biotech reports, Anne Hathaway turns LP, and NHS data guardian says suppliers must share core values.[01:17] -🧪 WHOOP identifies a novel pregnancy digital biomarker for premature birth[11:15] - Switzerland to accept medical devices with FDA approval[27:44] - Switzerland to accept medical devices with FDA approval[34:10] - 🎬 Anne Hathaway backs Pact, an all-women-led VC for mission-driven startups🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn

Dec 3, 202238 min

Ep 22The Inappropriate Joke Robot

Join Henry, Jessica, and Huw for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: Theranos sentencing, nurses go to prison in VR, and long COVID startups.[01:33] - Joke-telling vacuum robot under-fire at Darent Valley Hospital[06:53] - New device measures haemoglobin more accurately in dark skin[10:42] - Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes jailed for fraud[17:15] - HEE launches VR app for nurses to experience prison healthcare settings[23:06] - Long Covid may affect 100m people — meet one of the first startups looking to help them🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn

Nov 26, 202226 min

Ep 21$7 short of an $8 blue tick

Join Henry, Indigo, and healthcare whirlwind Rachel Murphy for another week of healthtech news and views. Rachel is raising money to support families in Ukraine - you can help out here.This week: Men's health, the NHS' agency crisis, and biotech's ethical conundrum.[02:03] - The digital future of men's health[06:30] - NHS forking out £2,500 a shift to agency nurses to stop staffing crisis - The NHS spends[14:00] - Twitter changes cost big pharma $15bn [19:04] - Biotechnology is creating ethical worries—and we’ve been here before[24:32] - How Apple is empowering people with their health information 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Indigo on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Rachel on LinkedIn

Nov 18, 202236 min

Ep 20A Healthtech Bond Villain

Join James, Jessica, Jess, Henry and Credentially's Dr Kit Latham, for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: Murder, M&A, and October's hottest seeds.[02:51] - Biotech co-founder, facing murder-for-hire charges, accused of fabricating data[06:40] - Exploring 2022 digital health M&A trends[12:42] - Leva Clinic fundraises £3m for UK’s first digital chronic pain platform[20:45] - The 50 most active early-stage healthtech investors[28:03] - October's hottest seeds🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jess on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Kit on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn

Nov 11, 202247 min

Ep 19Pumpkin-Spiced Pathways 🧋

Join James, Jessica, Henry and special guest Dr Maslah Amin, for another week of healthtech news and views.This week: The metaverse and patient care, AI training for NHS staff, and investors not yet willing to splash the cash.[01:08] - NHS report calls for artificial intelligence training for all staff[05:27] - Biotech IPOs are strange, even in a down market[09:25] - YouTube will let doctors and nurses apply to be labelled as reliable[22:50] - The top 3 cyberthreats facing healthcare organisations today[29:25] - Peachy's Patel gives his view on Apple's latest healthtech move🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Maslah on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn

Nov 6, 202235 min

Ep 18The Return Of Theranos? 🩸

Join James & Henry and SomX's PR lead, Jess Farmery, for another week of healthtech news and views.This week: Daye raise €11.5 for vaginal microbiome testing, the problems with voice biomarkers, and is military metaphor appropriate for talking healthcare?[00:55] - Healthtech-specific risks for medical malpractice liability[07:56] - "Voice biomarker" tech analyses your voice for signs of depression[12:16] - UK-based gynae health startup Daye raises €11.5 million to launch at-home screening kit and bridge the gender health gap[16:27] - From ‘war rooms’ to ‘cancer battles’: history shows military metaphors are detrimental to the NHS[23:30] - xWave partners with Royal College of Radiologists to tackle backlog🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest at this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jess on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn

Oct 28, 202242 min

Ep 17Spicy Goggles = Less Drugs 🌶

Join James & Henry and special guest Professor Andrew Farmery, who, amongst many other things, heads up the undergraduate programme at Wadham Colllege, Oxford.This week: A sensible article about the state of the market, healthtech amasses more unicorns than any other tech, and people in nerd goggles need less drugs.[06:05] - Mid and South Essex ICS create a single waiting list for all elective[12:26] - Study finds patients immersed in VR could need less anaesthetic during surgery[22:28] - The future of augmented reality in four charts[31:20] - After two exuberant years, health innovation funding recalibrates to pre-pandemic levels🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn

Oct 21, 202242 min

Ep 16Aussies, AI & A Worrying Trend 🇦🇺

Join James & Henry and special guest Peter Birch, founder of Talking Healthtech, Australia's biggest and best healthtech community, for another week of healthtech news and views.This week: A well-being invasion, period apps continue to fail privacy tests, and definitely-not-a-metal-band Malware as a Service comes to the fore.[01:38] - WHO launches the world's most extensive freely accessible AI health worker[6:48] - September's hottest seeds[12:34] - Wellbeing startup banks $35 million[19:06] - Declining VC investment in digital health[24:47] - Malware as a Service emerging in healthcare🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Peter on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn

Oct 14, 202246 min

Ep 15Healthtech User's Biggest Turnoffs 👋

This week: Why users stop using health apps, Rock Health’s Q3 funding review and VR renders Plymouth more palatable.[1:50] - Why healthcare organisations should adopt modern data platforms[4:16] - Q3 2022 digital health funding: The market isn’t the same as it was[7:54] - Virtual wards are failing patients and clinicians[15:05] - University Hospitals Plymouth introduces virtual reality for new emergency centre[18:18] - What makes users stop using their mobile health apps?🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🔗 Connect with Henry on Linkedin🔗 Connect with Belle on Linkedin🔗 Connect with Huw on Linkedin

Oct 7, 202228 min

Ep 14Sailing The High(Er) SEIS 🌊

This week: A Peachy raise, techbio/biotech ones to watch, and more interoperability than you can shake a stick at.[1:31] - 11 VC investors behind the hottest healthtech deals[3:21] - HEE CEO discusses digital workforce issues[7:14] - Health insurtech startup Peachy raises £1.5m[17:45] - 18 European techbio startups to watch - according to investors[21:43] - Interoperable digital care can only be achieved with an open technology approach🐦 Grab the newsletter at healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🤳Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🤳Connect with Henry on LinkedIn 🤳Connect with Huw on LinkedIn

Sep 30, 202227 min

Ep 13Stuck in limbo

This week: Google’s health-conscious sibling Verily secures pocket money from the parents, health apps are giving us a stonking headache, and a modern day “David vs Goliath” story or shall we say Hippocrates vs Dr Google. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health👨🏻‍🦱 Connect with James on LinkedIn 👩🏼Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🤦🏼‍♀️ Connect with Jess on Linkedin

Sep 24, 202226 min

Ep 12Arms Race 💪🏻

This week: Google’s health-conscious sibling Verily secures pocket money from the parents, health apps are giving us a stonking headache and a modern day “David vs Goliath” story or shall we say Hippocrates vs Dr Google. 1:35 - Google’s Verily secures $1B to bolster armoury3:30 - Health apps are a headache and how to fix them 8:30 - Redesign Health bags $65M to incubate more tech-enabled healthcare businesses13:00 - ⏩ Digital health trends coming in 202319:35 - 🤖 Dotplot wins UK Dyson award 25:45 - Creating a digital Hippocratic Oath for the 21st century🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health👩🏻 Connect with Belle on Linkedin 💃🏻 Connect with Indigo on Linkedin🤦🏼‍♀️ Connect with Jess on Linkedin

Sep 16, 202232 min

Ep 11The Biotech Bee Gees 🕺

This week: Triage accuracy of symptoms checkers low, why the Bee Gees are popular with biotech investors, and llongyfarchiadau i Diurnal.🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🙋🏻‍♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin🤦🏼‍♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin 👩🏻 Connect with Belle on Linkedin

Sep 3, 202227 min

Ep 10You are not a gorilla 🦍

This week: Organ harvesting, animal testing, death to gorillas, and other uplifting stories.🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🙋🏻‍♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin🤦🏼‍♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin

Aug 27, 202228 min

Ep 9Soonicorn yoghurt 🍯

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This week: 10 caretech startups to watch, integration depression, and why women should be doing more acid*.🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🙋🏻‍♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin🤦🏼‍♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin

Aug 20, 202234 min

Ep 8Benchmarks, biotech & big bangs

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This week: Patchwork raise, Space force gets physical, and Bessemer Venture Partners teach us our COGS from our ARPU.🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🙋🏻‍♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin🤦🏼‍♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin

Aug 12, 202242 min

Ep 7Rise of the chatbots 💬

This week: Cera raise big, unicorn stock sinks, and if we lose a funding battle to Proptech, Pigeon will turn this car newsletter around and go back home.🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🙋🏻‍♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin🤦🏼‍♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin

Aug 5, 202225 min

Ep 6The end of Googling symptoms?🚦

This week: What’s gone on at NHS AI lab, analysing Apple’s approach, and Australian startup wants you to stop Googling your symptoms.🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🙋🏻‍♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin🤦🏼‍♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin

Jul 29, 202221 min

Ep 5Part-man, part-building 🏢

This week: Overstuffed olive slims down, uplifting ALS breakthrough, and meet Fred Hutchinson, part-man, part-building. Joining as a guest this week is Lauren Bevan, currently head of health and social care at BJSS and has worked in the industry for almost 20 years. She comes bringing strong views but a weak wi-fi signal.🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🙋🏻‍♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin🤦🏼‍♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin🐥 Connect with Lauren on Linkedin

Jul 23, 202246 min

Ep 4Two sides to every correction.

This week: Flesh penetrating waves, The Rut’s 1979 single Babylon’s Burning becomes prescient 43 years too late, and NHS staff given a pay rise. No. Sorry. Pigeon’s misread that. NHS staff given a share of a £312 medal.🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🙋🏻‍♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin🤦🏼‍♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin🐥 Connect with Rajiv on Linkedin

Jul 15, 202233 min

Ep 3Healthtech 1 - 0 Fintech 🌱

This week: Fintech plays second fiddle (poorly probably), blood test startups are back, and how switching thinking from biotech to techbio could unblock the sector. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🙋🏻‍♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin🤦🏼‍♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin🐥 Connect with Rajiv on Linkedin

Jul 9, 202232 min

Ep 2Centaurs & Unicorns 🦄

This week: Birdie confirms avian supremacy with $30m series B and cofounder and CPO Rajiv Tanna joins James, Jess and Henry to discuss the raise and the rest of the week's news in healthtech.🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🙋🏻‍♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin🤦🏼‍♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin🐥 Connect with Rajiv on Linkedin

Jul 3, 202235 min

Ep 1Raise, Sell, Sleep. Repeat ♽

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