What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
I am clearly on a digital health kick, blog-wise, as I look back on my last few posts. Having spent time at both CES and the JP Morgan Healthcare conference, where digital health was a hot topic, it seems that the subsector is definitely having its day in the sun. I was particularly honored to […]
Back in February I chaired the IBF’s Consumer Health and Wellness Innovation Summit. When I wrote about it on my blog, I closed by describing a tongue-in-cheek conversation I had with a fellow investor about how the company pitches kept veering to the pet food/service market. To excerpt myself: As I and my table-mate, a well-known […]
Ok, remember about a week and a half ago when I published a post called TMI Dude!? It was about the current craze, popular among the health conscious, to use the latest sensor technology to track and report their every move and vital sign. Commonly known as the Quantified Self Movement, this trend is characterized […]
Ok, remember about a week and a half ago when I published a post called TMI Dude!? It was about the current craze, popular among the health conscious, to use the latest sensor technology to track and report their every move and vital sign. Commonly known as the Quantified Self Movement, this trend is characterized […]
If you are a baseball fan like I am, it is not unusual for you to spend time with your fellow sports fanatics comparing statistics. A player’s batting average, on base percentage, runs batted in, earned run average, home run stats and how those compare to their team mates’ stats–all fair game for friendly conversation. […]
Health insurers have long shunned skydivers and hang gliders. Seems they are now thinking hard about extreme athletes of all types. If you were one of the half a million Americans who ran in a marathon in the last year, this might mean you. There was an article in today’s New York Times that discussed […]
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.