Medtech Talk
A weekly conversation with the innovators who will change how health care is delivered.
- Update frequency
- every 25 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 200
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Baxter Ventures VP Anne Sissel Says Strategic Investors Can Help Start-Ups Reach Their Potential
Anne Sissel, vice president of Baxter Ventures, says she followed the numbers into Medtech. Now, she enjoys using the strategic's capital to help start-ups find ways to curtail costs and create new t…
00:33:50 |
Wed 04 Apr 2018
CEO Jim Buck Says Mardil Medical is Using Familiar Script to Rewrite the Rules on Treating FMR
Jim Buck, President and CEO of Mardil Medical, shares his personal and professional Medtech stories. The common thread? He doesn't give up. One result may be Mardil pushing for the rebirth of a once …
00:52:08 |
Tue 27 Mar 2018
Lightstone's Jason Lettmann Compares and Contrasts US, Irish Medtech Scenes After Three Years Abroad
When we last spoke with Jason Lettmann, general partner at Lightstone Ventures, he had just set up his firm's shop in Ireland. Three years later, the VC returns to Menlo Park and shares his Medtech o…
00:27:14 |
Fri 23 Mar 2018
CEO Stevens Says HeartFlow Took No Shortcuts to Commercialization, Raising $240 million Series E
John H. Stevens, MD, was too excited to sleep when he first heard what HeartFlow's technology could potentially do. Eight years later, he's sleeping a lot better, having secured $240 million to fund …
00:35:16 |
Tue 06 Mar 2018
Zenflow CEO Damiano Shares Start-up's Origins, Success in Building the Right Series A Syndicate
The Stanford Biodesign program created another promising start-up in Zenflow. Co-founder and CEO Nick Damiano explains how the program's fellows identified the opportunity in BPH and found the right …
00:33:01 |
Tue 27 Feb 2018
LRVHealth Tapping Providers for New $100 Million Fund
Tripp Peake co-founded Long River Ventures in 2000, just before the tech and venture capital industries took a dive. The firm survived, thrived, and is very much alive raising a $100 million fund und…
00:36:45 |
Fri 16 Feb 2018
Pixium CEO Sees Great Promise for PRIMA Implant
Khalid Ishaque says Bioelectronic Medicine has made great strides in treating hearing loss, depression, and other maladies and shows great promise in treating neurological disorders like Alzheimer's …
00:33:03 |
Tue 06 Feb 2018
SVB’s Numbers Guru Jon Norris Points to More Investors, Stronger Exits Facing Medtech in 2018
Hard to find anyone working harder than Jonathan Norris to help us see the forest for the trees.
Jon is a fixture at many conferences including – thankfully – the upcoming Medtech Conference on May 31…
00:41:40 |
Mon 29 Jan 2018
New Metavention CEO Todd Berg Talks M&A, Raising Capital, and Why He’s Excited to Join the Start-up
Todd Berg has a bit of a winning streak going. Berg worked at three Medtech start-ups prior to accepting the CEO post at exciting new start-up Metavention, and all three companies would be acquired i…
00:35:35 |
Tue 23 Jan 2018
Fractyl’s Rajagopalan Shares Fund-Raising Philosophy
What Went into Fractyl’s $44 million Round? CEO and co-founder Harith Rajagopalan, MD, PhD, discusses his approach to raising new capital and to building the right board.
00:36:46 |
Mon 08 Jan 2018
We Ask Anders Wold, Head of GE’s Clinical Care Solutions, Where GE Fits in Healthcare’s Future
Anders Wold, president and CEO of GE’s Clinical Care Solutions, is still fascinated by the power new technology can deliver to healthcare. So he’s understandably excited about the opportunities facin…
00:33:57 |
Fri 15 Dec 2017
AI Forerunner IDx Explains How New Test Could Cut Healthcare Costs, Improve Diagnosis of Eye Disease
The power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning looms over Medtech as a growing force that will bring change, good or bad. In this MedtechTalk Podcast, Michael D. Abramoff, MD, PhD, preside…
00:23:55 |
Tue 05 Dec 2017
Norwest’s Mittendorff Details Past Successes and Future Challenges Facing Healthcare Technology
Medtech and Digital Health technology increasingly have more and more in common. In this Medtech Talk Podcast, Robert Mittendorff, MD, a partner at Norwest Venture Partners, explains how Digital Heal…
00:38:43 |
Fri 17 Nov 2017
Cardionomic’s Goedeke Talks Team Jackets, Ski Lifts, and Changing How ADHF Is Treated
Steve Goedeke says he was the kid who liked to take things apart. But he’s built a career putting things together including a promising neuromodulation start-up called Cardionomic. In this episode, G…
00:37:52 |
Fri 10 Nov 2017
How Will CEO Pavlidis Help VytronUS Deliver Disruptive Ultrasound Tool to Treat Afib in the EP Lab?
John Pavlidis, president and CEO of VytronUS, has built a strong resume leading and selling Medtech start-ups. Now the self-described engineering “nerd” is leading VytronUS, a start-up combining the …
00:34:14 |
Fri 03 Nov 2017
Alexa! Ask Worrell How Voice Technology, Virtual Reality, and Other Exciting Tech Will Help Medtech
Medtech-device design firm Worrell now is envisioning how Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Voice-enabled Technologies like Amazon’s Alexa might treat chronic disease, manage clinical trials, a…
00:37:02 |
Sat 28 Oct 2017
Mylea Charvat Says Savonix Working to Turn Cognitive Function into Vital Measure
Faced with an unacceptable diagnosis after her husband was seriously injured in an accident, Savonix CEO Mylea Charvat created a tool to measure cognitive function to aid his recovery. Now Savonix se…
00:39:59 |
Fri 20 Oct 2017
Wahr says Nuvaira gives him a familiar feeling; lays out plans for fund-raising, commercial launch
Nuvaira CEO Dennis Wahr, MD, sees similarities between interventional pulmonology today and interventional cardiology in its early days. He hopes Nuvaira, which is developing a tool to ablate lung ti…
00:29:34 |
Fri 13 Oct 2017
CEO Jeffrey Brewer Details How His Family’s Health Helped Him Find Medtech’s Bigfoot in Diabetes
An ailing wife and son forced Bryan Mazlish to hack a cell phone, glucose monitor, and insulin pump to create an artificial pancreas. In this MedtechTalk Podcast, Jeffrey Brewer, CEO and president of…
00:33:42 |
Fri 06 Oct 2017
CEO Rogers Shares the Experiences that Helped Her Set a Successful Course for High Flying Silk Road
Silk Road Medical CEO Erica Rogers gives an honest look back at how her past successes and failures have helped her set the course for one of Medtech’s most promising stories. Flush with capital, Sil…
00:42:04 |
Fri 29 Sep 2017
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