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NYC is becoming the healthcare startup capital of the world. But don't ask me, I am biased, just look at the number of healthcare seed and growth investment companies and opportunities here!
Why choose to work with an incubator?
One word: DrChrono. Check out what happened to our friends Mike and Daniel (http://twitter.com/#!/danielkivatinos) and their creation DrChrono (http://blog.drchrono.com/) since they went through the Y-Combinator program: 5,000+ users, $675,000 in funding, articles in Wired (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/05/ff_ycombinator/all/1) and TechCrunch (http://techcrunch.com/search/drchrono). If you don't want to move to California, then attend this event and see what opportunities are sprouting up right here!
...and Now in New York!
There is no better time to start a healthcare company in NYC than now! Startup Health, Blueprinthealth, and the Health 2.0 Challenge are all brand new and NYC based. Health 2.0 has also designated JL Neptune, MD and founder of Healogica, to manage their challenge program right here in NYC. All three will present the criteria for inclusion, their challenges, and goals at this event. We also will highlight Rock Health and NYAS opportunities.
So in essence this is a Reverse Pitch event, where the startup incubators and funds tell us what they are looking for and encourage entrepreneurs to apply.
Agenda:
5:00 - 6:30 - Startup Interviews (NEW - See Darin Gordon or Jeff Nardine)
6:00 - 6:30 - Meet Tweet & Greet: Hashtag #H2NYC
6:30 - 7:45 - 10 minute presentations by each Panelist
7:45 - 8:30 - Q & A session with speakers
8:30 - 9:00 - Meet the speakers, Networking,...
9:00 - ???? - After party!
Thank you for your support for this idea. Especially to VNSNY for their continued venue sponsorship.
Please note that we only have 110 spots so Please adjust your RSVP if you can not make it and only RSVP if you know you can.
New Presenters Added:
Angels: Life Science Angel Network
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Milena Adamian, MD, Ph.D. @Madamian (http://twitter.com/madamian)
Director, Life Science Angel Network
New York Academy of Sciences
Milena Adamian joined New York Academy of Sciences as Director of Life Sciences Angel Network, that is intended to become a "one stop shop" for NYC and tri-state area scientists and entrepreneurs looking to fund innovation and promote entrepreneurship in biotechnology, medical devices and healthcare IT.
Targeting early stage opportunities in life sciences, LSAN provides young companies with financial and operational support, sector-specific mentorship, and access to a broad network of investors and entrepreneurs for subsequent institutional financing.
Dr. Adamian brings to the Academy a unique perspective of a clinician and academic researcher with genuine passion for breakthrough technologies enriched by industry knowledge, Wall Street, and venture capital experience.
Prior to joining the New York Academy of Sciences, Dr. Adamian ran the San Francisco office for NYC-based venture firm Easton Capital Partners.
Dr. Adamian is a cardiologist who went through extensive training at the world's best centers for Interventional Cardiology, including Centro Cuore Columbus in Milan, Italy with Dr. Antonio Colombo, and Lenox Hill Hospital/Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York City (http://adplexr.com/). Dr. Adamian is an author of a number of peer-reviewed publications, and has served as a faculty member at major professional society meetings.
Augmenting her medical accomplishments, Dr. Adamian was an Associate Medical Director at Boston Scientific Corporation, where she was responsible for design, management and analyses of the TAXUS (DES) clinical program and a key member of an award-winning Equity Research team at Lehman Brothers.
Dr. Adamian continues her involvement at Easton Capital as Venture Partner. In addition, she serves a member of the Device Screening Committee for Life Science Angels ( Palo Alto, CA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto%2C_CA)).
Dr. Adamian holds a Master of Science degree in Biostatistics from Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and MD and PhD degrees in Clinical Cardiology from Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.
VC: Milestone Venture Partners,
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Todd T. Pietri
Mr. Pietri co-founded Milestone Venture Partners with Ed Goodman in October 1999. He brings operating and investment experience to its management. Since launching MVP II in 2001, Mr. Pietri has developed expertise and relationships in the financial services IT, pharmaceutical IT, healthcare media, marketing services and outsourced business service sectors. Mr. Pietri is responsible for twelve Milestone investments: BizBash Media, Derivatives Portfolio Management (successfully sold to Mellon Financial in February 2005), Octagon Research Solutions (successfully exited majority of position in August 2008), GenomeQuest, Oddcast, SmartAnalyst, MedPage Today (successfully sold to Everyday Health in December 2010), MDX Medical ("Vitals"), Peridrome , TargetSpot, BA-Insight and Halfpenny Technologies.
His earlier financial experience includes co-heading the Technology and Communications Investment Banking Group at Legacy Securities, where he performed a broad range of capital raising, M&A and other financial advisory services. Mr. Pietri was also a member of Legacy’s direct investment team, which provided mezzanine and growth equity through its affiliate, Legacy Capital Partners. Mr. Pietri also has control investment experience, having worked as an Associate at Callier Interests, a turn-around LBO firm focused on middle market industrial distributors and manufacturers.
Mr. Pietri’s operating experience spans direct sales, sales management, channel management, business development and business process consulting. From 1992 to 1997, he ran IT consulting and direct sales for CompuSystems, an Atlanta-based ERP software and services firm focused on industrial distributors and manufacturers. He and his team provided solutions for inventory control, order processing, and financial reporting. Prior to his tenure at CompuSystems, Mr. Pietri worked in the voice processing software industry for Innovative Technology, Call Response Automation and his own consulting firm.
Mr. Pietri received his BA (cum laude) in English from Duke University in 1989. While working full-time for CompuSystems, Mr. Pietri earned his MBA from the two year Executive MBA Program at the Robinson School of Business at Georgia State University in 1997, graduating first in his class. He is also CFA charterholder and graduate of the Venture Capital Institute Graduate Program.
Mr. Pietri currently serves as a director of GenomeQuest, SmartAnalyst, MedPageToday, MDX Medical ("Vitals"), Peridrome, BA-Insight, Halfpenny Technologies and BizBash Media. He is a regular guest lecturer on venture capital at The Johnson School, Cornell University’s MBA program. He is also an advisory board member of NYC Seed, a public and private joint venture which provides capital and support to NYC-based seed stage entrepreneurs.
Corporate Venture: Mike Monson of VNSNY
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Senior Vice President of Performance & Innovation,
VNSNY, with $1.2 billion in revenue, is the country’s largest not-for-profit home based company providing a variety of homecare and health plan services to the metro New York City marketplace. Performance & Innovation is VNSNY’s internal management consulting group focusing on the core strategic and operational management issues facing the company. At VNSNY, Michael has been involved with a range of issues including developing growth strategies for the overall company, forecasting market trends, leading scenario planning for the health plan, improving the financial and operating performance of the homecare business, and optimizing the sales force. Michael joined VNSNY in 2004 after having spent six years working for McKinsey & Company where he worked primarily with media and nonprofit clients. Michael has a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Incubator: StartupHealth (http://www.startupHealth.com) @StartupHealth
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Steven H. Krein, Co-founder, StartupHealth
Steve is the Co-founder and CEO of OrganizedWisdom Health. A serial entrepreneur, Steve was also the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of the first Internet promotion and technology company, Promotions.com, which was founded in 1996, went public on Nasdaq in 1999 and was acquired by iVillage in 2002. Steve worked briefly at iVillage as a senior executive before founding Transformation Ventures, where he created and coached entrepreneurs on The 10 Laws of Creating Equity Value™. Steve was also Assistant Publisher of the first Internet service for lawyers, Law.com, which was founded in 1994 as Law Journal Extra! and subsequently acquired by American Lawyer Media. Steve is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurism and health-focused social media, and has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, the Fox News Channel, CNBC Power Lunch, CNBC Marketwatch and Bloomberg News. Steve received his J.D. degree from Widener University School of Law and his B.A. degree from the University of Maryland College Park. Steve is a Member and Board Member of YPO (the Young President's Organization) Metro New York Chapter and lives in New York City with his wife and three daughters.
http://organizedwisdom.com/skins/orgwis2/images/Unity-Stoakes.jpg Unity Stoakes, Co-founder, StartupHealth
Unity Stoakes is the co-founder and president of OrganizedWisdom (http://organizedwisdom.com/), an expert-driven platform for health and wellness and is on a mission to transform people's health by leveraging the power of innovation, technology, data, design, community, and collaboration. Unity, is also co-founder and partner at StartUp Health (http://startuphealth.com/), an initiative to inspire, educate, and provide resources for entrepreneurs to build sustainable health and wellness companies.
Unity is a serial entrepreneur and active in the Health 2.0, Social Media, and Quantified Self communities. He is a long-time advocate for meaningful innovation and works to inspire and support the best talent (entrepreneurs, designers, technologists, engineers, clinicians, investors, marketers, scientists, futurists...) of our time so they can invest their time to help solve the world's greatest challenges such as improving health and wellness for all.
Prior to OrganizedWisdom, Unity helped build several companies including Middleberg Interactive, The Privacy Council, and Webstakes/Promotions.com, a company that he helped take public on NASDAQ in 1999 with his current business partners in OrganizedWisdom.
Unity is a founding member of the Society of Participatory Medicine and a mentor at Blueprint Health (http://www.blueprinthealth.org/), an accelerator for health and wellness startups. He received his bachelor's degrees in Communications and Political Science from Boston University. Unity resides in New York City. Follow him on Twitter @unitystoakes (http://twitter.com/unitystoakes).
Incubator: BlueprintHealth (http://www.blueprinthealth.org)
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Matthew Slade Farkash, Founding Partner
Founding Partner at Blueprint Health (http://www.linkedin.com/company/2115476?trk=pro_other_cmpy) Executive Board Member at Venture For America (http://www.linkedin.com/company/1904212?trk=pro_other_cmpy) Founder / Philanthropreneur at Blueprint Summit
Blueprint Health is a mentorship-driven startup accelerator program in NYC that will be focused on helping entrepreneurs seeking to innovate at the intersection of health + technology. We are a Charter member of the TechStars Network
Contest / Grant: Health 2.0 Challenge (http://www.health2challenge.org)
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Jean-Luc (“JL”) Neptune, MD MBA is Senior Vice President at Health 2.0. In his role JL is responsible for managing Health 2.0's innovation competition ("Challenge") program which includes a recently awarded multi-million dollar grant from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). In addition to managing the Challenge program, JL is also responsible for building Health 2.0's Innovation Community, a network of software developers, designers, researchers, entrepreneurs and other individuals interested in driving innovation in the health industry. Jean-Luc is a veteran of Gerson Lehrman Group, the world's leading expert network company, where he was responsible for managing GLG's pioneering network of industry experts. He has also co-founded two Health 2.0 startups including Healogica, an online clinical trials matching platform, and ExpertConsensus, a virtual second opinion service. JL earned his BA and MD degrees from Columbia University and an MBA from the Wharton School. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and is licensed to practice medicine in New York. JL is an angel investor in a number of web-based ventures and has consulted for the New York Academy of Sciences.
