Funding Dreams -- how to put capital to work for your healthcare business

We are very excited to be bringing you our next event in collaboration with HxD Vancouver - a meetup focused on user interaction design and health technology!

The topic of discussion for our next meetup surrounds funding in health tech. What are the some challenges faced by health entrepreneurs? What are the peculiarities about growing in this space?

Bring your ideas, questions and curiosity for an evening of sharing and learning.

• 6:30 - 6:50pm: Food/Drink purchasing, networking

• 6:50 - 7:00pm: Welcome and intro by HxD and HTF

• 7:00 - 7:15pm: Tanis Steward, CEO, Sosido Networks

• 7:15- 7:25pm: Rich Osborn, Managing Partner, Recaphealth Ventures

• 7:25 - 8:00pm: Q&A + Discussions

• 8:00 - 8:30pm: Networking

Speaker Bios

Tanis Steward

Tanis Steward is an experienced leader in the healthcare industry, committed to sparking and sustaining conversations which will lead to breakthroughs in healthcare delivery and outcomes. In 2009 she co-founded Sosido Networks, a professional knowledge aggregation and collaboration platform for healthcare associations and their members. In May 2013 Sosido was bought by LX Ventures, a publicly traded company that acquires and accelerates high growth technology companies. Prior to founding Sosido, Tanis was CEO of association management company Malachite Management, where she worked with dozens of national and international healthcare associations. Tanis has BComm and LLB degrees from the University of British Columbia, and started her career as a lawyer with Vancouver firm Davis & Company.

Richard Osborn

Richard is the Managing Partner of RecapHealth Ventures. Prior to founding RecapHealth, Richard was a partner with Second City Capital Partners, a mid market private equity fund focused on multi-sector opportunities, Managing Partner of Greenstone Venture Partners, an institutionally backed venture capital fund he co-founded and Investment Manager for two venture capital funds affiliated with the Business Development Back of Canada. Richard has led seed and early stage investments in companies across Canada, the Western U.S. and Europe. Richard is a frequent speaker on private equity and finance and has been named as one of Vancouver's Top 40 under 40. He is also a founder of BC Technology Social Venture Partners (www.bctsvp.com (http://www.bctsvp.com/)), a group comprised of leaders from the B.C. business community that make investments into local non profits. Richard holds business degrees from University of British Columbia and Queen's University.

Please reach out if you have any further questions!

• HTF Vancouver Team