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 […]
I had the pleasure of keynoting the recent UCLA Medtech Partnering Conference, where they asked me to speak on digital health,* and particularly its current state and where I see the opportunities and challenges over the next few years. I was happy to speak at this conference in part because it creates a forum to […]
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard A few blogs back I wrote about valuations, how they are determined and how crazy they have been. In that piece, called Unraveling the Magical Mystery of Valuation Math, I talked about how valuations of private companies are derived and, […]
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. That Dickensian construct is a perfect one for thinking about digital health before and after the advent of the coronavirus. As late as March, the runaway train that has been investment in digital health had been running along at Bullet Train speed. 2019 […]
Born and bred in Mill Valley, Marin County, California, home of the Tech Tonics recording studio, Sam Brasch saw himself as a modern-day Alex P. Keaton – he just wanted to be a business man. He was “that kid” who was reading the Lee Iacocca biography in 4th grade while the other kids played soccer […]
An unlikely pair, Brian Smith and Jerry Harrison came together over their shared passion for music and science and helping entrepreneurs succeed. Together they are helping healthcare startups find their rhythm and chart a path to success through a new expert crowdfunding platform called RedCrow. Here’s the backstory and it’s a good one: Brian Smith, […]
I started off the year with an interview with Oliver Wyman Health, one of the top global healthcare consulting firms. They asked me to offer some healthcare investment predictions for 2018. I figure this is a good way to start off the year so have reprinted a mildly expanded version of the article, which first […]
Note that this post originally ran in Forbes and is co-authored by me and Dr. David Shaywitz, my co-conspirator on the Tech Tonics podcast. By now, we have it on good authority that healthcare is complicated. Apparently, many healthcurious tech investors have come to similar conclusions. It seems that after several years of breathless hype, […]
Where have all the consumer digital health tech investors gone, long time passing? Where have all the consumer digital health tech investors gone, long time ago? Where have all the consumer digital health tech investors gone? Consumers have ignored them everyone. Oh, when will they ever learn? -Peter, Paul and Mary, as edited by me […]
These days it seems that nearly every major healthcare entity, whether public or private, for-profit or not-for-profit, considers venture investing a core activity to advance their innovation agenda. Some are in it to learn, some to profit, others are in it because everyone else is doing it and thus FOMO is activated writ large. Corporate […]
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.