| Hello EPPIC Global community,
EPPIC Global presents “Healthcare Start-ups: Opportunities, Challenges and Trends“.
Are you interested in healthcare start-ups? Do you want to understand how to create your own start-up in the industry today? EPPIC Global presents, “Healthcare Start-Ups: Opportunities, Challenges and Trends”. Come see guest speakers, John Engels, MBA, Nandini Devi, MBA, and Ursheet Parikh, MBA. Also featuring a moderated Q&A by Anne Merritt MD, MS.Healthcare Entrepreneurship and Life Sciences/ Medtech Start-up investing have always been part of a different and more complex innovation ecosystem. Highly Technical and capital intensive with multiple stakeholders and long product launch times and heavy regulatory oversight, it has never been for the amateur angel investor or the entrepreneur. However in a Post Pandemic world, a convergence of industries and technologies and high levels of interest in health care, is likely to bring new opportunities and challenges to health care entrepreneurship and investment.
The theme we are exploring is the emerging trends and investment opportunities afforded by the transformational shifts occurring in the healthcare ecosystem with rapid introduction of new technologies (AI, big data, genomics, digital health, Gene Editing ), consumerization of healthcare diagnostics (Apple smartwatch, Fitbit, Alivecore, 23andMe), and new entrants with deep pockets and track record of paradigm shifts in industries (Google, Amazon, Apple).
The first wave of these new entrants in this new health space have started making healthcare impact and have provided outsized returns to investors (Flatiron, Foundation Medicine). In the case of flagship pioneering they have also resulted in saving lives during the pandemic. In the diagnostics space mega investment deals in Grail, Twist, Zymergen on the one hand, and new entrants from the tech space is driving innovation.
New business models are being created with lower barriers to entry for angels compared to traditional capital heavy biotech investments. The event is geared to provide learnings from investors, entrepreneurs and professionals with deep domain expertise on the opportunities, pitfalls, risks and success stories and failures. Some of the Wharton Alumni who have built or invested in health care start-ups share their experiences in a panel moderated by a board member of Strat X, Stanford’s Life Sciences Accelerator.
If you are an entrepreneur or are looking to start a venture, investor, involved in product strategy or innovation in a healthcare company, you would find this panel exceptionally useful.
Looking forward to seeing you all. Register and join us to learn more. |
