Pear Healthcare Playbook

Had a great time at the Pear VC: Care CoLab event in SF yesterday -- we broke into clinician/engineer teams and pitched healthcare ideas all in an evening! Thank you to Andrew Parambath Lipsa P. Vivien Ho at Pear VC for organizing the event and Jessica Mega for inspiration!

I'm still thinking about last night's first Pear VC Care Colab...the Pear team healthcare team, Lipsa P. and Andrew Parambath, brought together 40+ clinicians and engineers to collaborate and pitch new solutions with the Pear's idea validation framework. We were lucky to have Dr. Jessica Mega give us inspirational welcome remarks on what she wish she knew when she joined Verily as a Co-Founder as a Cardiologist. I wanted to share a few of her inspirations which I think apply to any healthcare innovator whether at a startup or as a builder or clinician or any stakeholder in the system. 1. Start with a "Yes" mindset and focus on what is possible, rather than immediately thinking about reasons why something can't be done. Jessica shared that as technical individuals, it's very quick and easy to start thinking about reasons why something can't be possible, but it's our job to dream the possible, and together with these dyads, you're going to be able to see the world in a different way. Pessimists sound smart, but optimists make money, and optimists have good ideas. She reminds us to start with the idea of something could be possible. 2. Get out of your specialized lane and learn about other domains and perspectives to solve problems more effectively. Jessica reminds me us that we don't have to wear one hat. Both engineers and clinicians can come up with great ideas. 3. Become "bilingual" - learn to understand and communicate with people from different backgrounds and disciplines. We need to speak the same language in order to move forward and build together. Thank you Jessica for your wise words and your generosity to spend time with us and for being a Pear Healthcare Advisor! We hope exciting relationships bloom for this event and we continue to practice multi-disciplinary mindset to healthcare innovation. Our industry is not for the faint-hearted, but knowing the incredible builders and clinicians who are young and hungry to bring new technology to the forefront. We're going to be in good hands. Lucky to work with the amazing Pear healthcare team Lipsa P. and Andrew Parambath for working super hard to make this an impactful workshop, and grateful we can put this on while we're all the bay this summer! Shoutout to Hannah Berke, Rachael Ding, and Kaitlin Shavey for always making sure Pear Studio events are in good hands! #healthcareinnovation

🚀 Hi Bay Area Builders! Pear VC is hosting our first-ever Care Collab event on Wednesday July 24th between 5-7p in our Mission Bay office. Apply here: https://lu.ma/MDxSWE 💡 It will be a small brainstorming workshop between clinicians and engineers where you will get an opportunity to pair up with folks of complementary backgrounds, practice pitching an idea for a problem you see in your day to day experience and learn more about identifying a VC-backable idea. 🗣 The Pear Team will be presenting on how to identify problems worth solving and giving light feedback on pitches. 💪 Looking clinicians and engineers with a scrappy, founder mentality   who are interested in brainstorming and learning 🤠 Space is limited and we will be accepting people on a rolling basis Please apply and DM me to let me know!! Looking forward to meeting cool people! 😎

In a recent episode of the Pear Healthcare Playbook with Pear VC, Komodo's Web Sun talked with Andrew Parambath about how Komodo leverages data-driven insights to enhance patient care and alleviate disease burdens. Web also shares more on our future with AI, and insights for founders navigating the complex landscape of data science and healthcare. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gduMyT53 Komodo Health Co-Founder and President Web Sun and Slipstream IT Senior Vice President of Regulatory and Life Sciences Research Tracy Mayne, share more on the transformative power of real-world evidence in enhancing clinical trials, improving patient outcomes, and streamlining regulatory processes on the pharmaphorum podcast: https://lnkd.in/gpYzSktm Without accurate payer insights, commercial and market access strategies may not be strategic at all. Komodo uses the one source of truth — patient-level enrollment data — to untangle conflicting information in claims data and identify the “Unknown Payer.” Learn more:  https://lnkd.in/gU5qANEm #KomodoInsights #AI #RWD #RWE #healthcare #lifesciences #pharmacy #pharmaceuticalindustry #payers #marketaccess

Sitting down with Andrew Parambath at Pear Healthcare Playbook, I got to relive all the reasons why Arif Nathoo and I built Komodo Health. As consultants, we saw a unique opportunity to fix the insights workflow that so many companies rely on to advance their business goals, and do so in a way that also helped reduce disease burden. For us, it’s always been all about how the right data, the right technology and the right AI can meaningfully shorten time and democratize access to insights. We’ve spent years building a unified technology experience that enables better collaboration around data-driven intelligence – to advance healthcare’s evolution and improve patient outcomes using cutting edge technology solutions. When patient-centric insights can be effectively scaled across teams and the entirety of an organization, it can propel digital strategies forward and drive more value for patients. Looking back on my career – and Komodo’s growth – over the last decade, we’re continuing our laser focus on delivering what healthcare enterprises need to succeed with a hunger to create something meaningful and difference-making, inspiration fueled by a desire to fulfill our mission to reduce the burden of disease, and fundamental optimism to keep working towards a better future for the healthcare system and for patients. You can listen to my full conversation with Andrew on last week’s episode of Pear Playbook Post to hear more about my journey as a founder, what advice I would give myself if I had to start Komodo all over again, and what I do in my personal time that allows me to stay balanced and focused at work. https://lnkd.in/g-AKVKv2 #LifeSciences #KomodoInsights #Healthcare #RWE #RWD

Get a peek inside Accorded’s mission to accelerate value-based care contracting with Pear Healthcare Playbook: https://lnkd.in/ezFGBnzr

As part of the Pear VC + Pear Healthcare Playbook's Medicaid series, we are reposting an episode hosted by Andrew Parambath on Medicaid individuals with serious mental illness (SMI). In this episode, we chat with Samir Malik about his company firsthand and how firsthand's care model fills gaps and supports unmet needs for folks living with SMI. Samir started his business with the core insight that supporting Medicaid members living with SMI through wraparound behavioral health services and meeting them where they are can significantly reduce overall cost for these individuals for the health plan. This episode aired nearly a year ago to date but still contains excellent insights on building for the Medicaid population. Specifically, it's important to understand how to tailor your intervention to the exact population for which you are trying to improve outcomes. Read more and listen here: https://lnkd.in/eZKCyNQR

Congratulations to PearX S20 Alum Seven Starling for raising their Series A. I am thrilled to be joining their board of directors and doubling down in our partnership. #PearX https://lnkd.in/d6nAAJf4

Seven Starling was one the first companies I worked with at Pear and it's been incredible to support them in their journey. Building in healthcare is filled with ups and downs and building in women's health is even more amplified, but if there is one thing I have seen from Tina Keshani, Sophia Richter, Julia A. Cole and the entire team.... is their incredible determination to run through walls and their phenomenal execution horsepower. A few years ago, we introduced them to an experienced medical leader and OBGYN and former CMO of The Pill Club, Amy Roskin MD, JD as an advisor. Amy saw the incredible determination and strength of the team and joined as Seven Starling's CMO. The Pear talent team Laura Wright also supported their founding engineer! We're excited to bring on more incredible and experienced talent that is ready to make a REAL impact on women's health. Women's Health is still a huge untapped opportunity and behavioral health impact is inseparable from a woman’s overall health outcome. We at Pear VC are excited to double down and Mar Hershenson, my Managing Partner is joining the Board of Directors. We're proud to continue partnering with them in this next phase of growth. 🕊

I’m so excited to announce Seven Starling's $10.9M Series A led by RH Capital, as we further advance Seven Starling’s mission to reduce the stigma around women’s mental health and ensure that every woman has access to the high quality mental health care she needs, when she needs it. 💜 As a new mom myself, Seven Starling’s mission is deeply personal. Today, 1 in 5 women experience a perinatal mood and anxiety disorder during the pregnancy and postpartum period, and over 75% of those diagnosed never get treated. In addition to all the typical challenges of accessing mental health care like long waitlists and affordability, new mothers are also balancing taking care of a newborn, disrupted sleep, feeding pressure, and enormous stigma surrounding their mental health. Most of all, women lack a tailored and accessible solution that *just gets it*. 🌟 We founded Seven Starling to be *that* safe, easy, and supportive place for women to seek and get help through every life stage. Since launching, we’ve treated thousands of patients with our specialized clinical model, with over 90% of patients seeing a clinically significant improvement in their symptoms upon completing the program. We’ve done this in partnership with over 1,000 OBGYNs who trust us as their go-to mental health referral partner for their patients. In parallel, we’ve stayed committed to making our services affordable through broad in-network coverage with health plans. I’m thrilled to share that we’ll also be expanding to Medicaid this coming year. 🕊 In my roles as mom and CEO, I am so proud of the Seven Starling team and my co-founders Sophia Richter and Julia A. Cole for achieving this important company milestone that enables us to treat many more thousands of women as we continue to expand across the US. We’re thankful for our patients for trusting us during their most vulnerable moments in their lives. And we couldn’t have done it without our exceptional team of clinicians and physicians whose hard work and dedication improve the lives of so many. 🙏 We are so grateful for our incredible group of investors who recognized the opportunity and the massive impact of our mission. Thank you RH Capital Pear VC Emerson Collective Expa Magnify Ventures Inflect Zeal Capital Partners Ulu Ventures Fiore Ventures March of Dimes Rogue Venture Partners Graham & Walker Wisdom Ventures Four Cities Capital. At a time when only 3% of health tech venture funding goes to women’s health and 2% of venture funding to all-female founding teams, we’re proud to have you on our cap table. 🪄 And most importantly - huge shout out to the Seven Starling founding flock who make magic happen: Amy Roskin MD, JD Ceili Cascarano Chase Martin Marissa Managhan Melissa Adams Hallie Savage Kate Naylor Suleq Gure Imani S. Kelly Snyder Nazaneen Homaifar. You all are the dream team and I’m eternally grateful to get to learn and work alongside each of you. We're just getting started!