What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
Along with 9000 or so of my closest friends, I went to the HLTH conference right before Thanksgiving week. As that conference came to a close, Canary Medical, the company I recently joined, had its own conference (about implantable sensors) and some subsequent meetings. The net result: I spent 6 whole days in Las Vegas and […]
This blog post appears during the 2019 HLTH Conference, held in Las Vegas, NV. As a venture capital investor, I love Las Vegas. It is the ultimate home of hoping your money makes more money, so it is like my natural habitat. This is the 2nd year of the HLTH Conference, and already it is […]
There is an old song by Helen Reddy called “I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar.” It was written and sung in 1971 and the point of the song, one of the early pro-female rah-rah songs, is to encourage women to be confident, speak out, avoid being ignored. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br26Kj5C4T4 Today it is nearly 50 years later, […]
Back in June, Sara Holoubek, the rather awesome CEO of Luminary Labs, put words to the frustration so many women feel about the enduring problem of conferences that forget there are two genders. So often in healthcare, where there are panels there are men and where there are keynotes there are…men. This occurs despite the […]
There were so many interesting themes from the JP Morgan conference this year that I wasn’t sure what story I wanted to tell first: the focus on oncology, the rush of pharma to digital, the newfound interest in social determinants of health, AI as the all-being, master of time, space and dimension. But considering the […]
It has been a tough couple of weeks for America and it has finally caught up with me. I usually sit down to write this blog with relish for whatever topic I have on my mind and sense of humor ready to go, but this week I can only think of dark things and many […]
As part of my Aspen Institute Health Innovation Fellowship, I am required to dream up and start a “venture,” which can be anything that advances the leadership of innovators in healthcare. I had come up with an idea but wasn’t quite satisfied with it. I knew that I hadn’t hit on the right thing yet […]
Lisa Suennen is a venture capital investor and the managing partner of Venture Valkyrie, LLC, which publishes the Venture Valkyrie blog and co-produces the Tech Tonics podcast. She is also co-founder of CSweetener, a women's healthcare mentoring organization.