Unity Stoakes, President, Co-founder & Managing Partner at StartUp Health, is on a life-long mission to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in the world. Since 2011, he’s been investing in a global army of entrepreneurs, called Health Transformers, in order to achieve health moonshots.
Videos
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Vinod Khosla — Achieving Health Moonshots in an After-COVID World
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Dr. Jennifer Schneider, Former President of Livongo, on Achieving Health Moonshots
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Dr. Toby Cosgrove Sees Moonshot Potential in an After-COVID World
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Exit Strategies: M&A Wisdom From Entrepreneur-Investors Samer Hamadeh and James Marciano
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Vinod Khosla: Investing in the Future of Healthcare & Moonshot Thinking
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StartUp Health Festival Fireside Chat: Sandro Galea, MD, Boston University School of Public Health
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2020 StartUp Health Festival Welcome: Steven Krein & Unity Stoakes, San Francisco
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StartUp Health TV 2020: Roberto Ascione, Healthware Group
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StartUp Health TV 2020: Unity Stoakes & Steven Krein, StartUp Health
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StartUp Health Festival: Fireside Chat with Jeanne Kehren, Bayer
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Fireside Chat: Eugene Borukhovich, Global Head of Digital Health Incubation & Innovation, Bayer #227
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Fireside Chat with Steven Krein & Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health & Esther Dyson, Wellville: #232
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Fireside Chat with Bernard J. Tyson, Chairman & CEO, Kaiser Permanente #218
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Fireside Chat with Bertrand Bodson, Chief Digital Officer, Novartis #213
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John Speakman, Senior Director of Research IT, NYU Langone Health #206
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Tim Verduin, PhD, Director of Technology and Innovation, NYU Langone Health #205
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Dr. John-Ross “JR” Rizzo NYU Langone Health #203
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Dr. Jennifer Meller, CEO & Founder, Navimize #196
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Devin Mann, MD, Senior Director of Informatics Innovation, MCIT, NYU Langone #194
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Helen Egger, MD, Director, Child Study Center, NYU Langone Health #192
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Deepak Hegde, PhD, Associate Professor, NYU Stern School of Business #191
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Dr. Achiau Ludomirsky, NYU School of Medicine #199
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Jack Barrette, WEGO Health #208
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Dave deBronkart, e-Patient Dave #188
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Daniel Penn, Tickit Health #189
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Nigam Shah MBBS, PhD, Stanford University #207
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Hari Prasad, Yosi #195
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Sanjay Shah, Dignity Health #209
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Jakob Dahlberg, Joint Academy #186
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Verily’s Commitment to Improving Global Health: Jessica Mega, MD, Verily Life Sciences #175
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Bringing the Magic and Wonder Back to Health: Vas Narasimhan, MD, Novartis #170
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Mitesh Rao, MD, MHS, System Patient Safety Officer, Stanford Healthcare #187
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Building a Balanced Model for Healthcare: Rasu Shrestha, Chief Innovation Officer, UPMC #168
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Avinash Kodey, CEO & Co-founder, MDOps #197
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How One Company Is Redefining Best Practices in Internet Technology: Gregg Alwine, Corsis #166
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The Ripple Effect: Creating Successful Startups: Doug Galen, CEO & Co-founder, RippleWorks NOW #162
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Creating a Virtuous Cycle of Health Innovation: Sarah MacArthur, MD, NYU NOW # 160
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Cristina Torres, CEO & Co-founder, Seed - StartUp Health NOW
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Lessons From a Man of Many Hats: Charles Huang, Lynchpin Technologies NOW #159
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Linking EMS Data With Hospitals to Improve Care: Jonathon Feit, Beyond Lucid Technologies NOW #158
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The Rise of Open APIs in Healthcare: Aneesh Chopra, President, Care Journey NOW #156
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Turning Your Bra Into a SUPA Power: Sabine Seymour SUPAspot NOW #155
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Why Finland Is a Hotbed for Health Tech: Kalle Palomäki, HLD Healthy Life Devices: NOW #154
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How Innovation Is Changing Healthcare Around the World #153
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Good Bye Thermometer, Hello MouthLab: NOW #152
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In the Neo-biological Revolution, You Will Hack Your Body: Jane Metcalfe, Neo.life NOW #151
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Reimagining Healthcare Together: Mike Biselli, Catalyst HTI NOW #150
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This Smart Pill Bottle Will Remind You to Take Your Meds: Josh Stein, AdhereTech NOW #149
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These Smart Devices Are Transforming Respiratory Care: Dan Weinstein, Cohero Health NOW #148
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Revolutionizing the Diagnosis of Brain Disorders: John Kelley, CereScan NOW #147
Podcasts
Unity Stoakes – StartUp Health NOW Podcast
Achieving Health Moonshots w/ Vinod Khosla
Last month, Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, came back for part II of his Fireside Chat where he joined our co-founder, Unity Stoakes, to talk about achieving Health Moonshots, how COVID opened more doors to innovation and experimentation, finding societal impact without expertise, and identifying your long-term and basecamp vision. Listen to part I here.
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Blog
Achieving Health Moonshots With Vinod Khosla
September 9 2021
“The team you build is the company you build, not the business plan you make.”Investors, get a first look at how you can back health moonshots through StartUp Health’s new rolling impact fund.Back in January, we hosted an interactive Fireside Chat with longtime friend of StartUp Health, Vinod Khosla, the founder of...
Dr. Jennifer Schneider Achieves Success Through Understanding
April 30 2021
“We deeply understood how hard it was to live with diabetes, and so we built solutions that made it easier for people to do that,” says the former president of Livongo.After five years at Livongo, Dr. Jennifer Schneider is taking a step back to assess her next steps. It’s been a...
Dr. Toby Cosgrove Sees Great Potential for Advancement in an After-COVID World
March 2 2021
Dr. Toby Cosgrove Sees Moonshot Potential in an After-COVID WorldThe former head of the Cleveland Clinic believes health entrepreneurs can benefit from a moment of reflection before a time of accelerated innovation.Toby Cosgrove, MD, Executive Advisor, and former CEO and President of Cleveland ClinicWhile this may be the first global...
Our plan for the StartUp Health Festival and Health Transformer Collaboration in 2021
October 22 2020
Our Plan for the StartUp Health Festival and Health Transformer Collaboration in 2021A post-COVID gameplan to supercharge Health Transformer access to customers, investors, and experts all year long.We wanted to share an update on our plan for the 10th Annual StartUp Health Festival, which would normally bring us together in San Francisco...
The Transformation of Digital Health in COVID Times With Unity Stoakes
September 11 2020
It’s late August, approximately six months since the coronavirus pandemic sent us indoors, stunted the economy, and sparked a rapid global transformation in healthcare. To get a high-level retrospective on those six months and what this period in history means for health innovation going forward in this podcast, we dialed...