#112: Sailing the high(er) SEIS 🌊
The one minute healthtech roundup. Yes, Pigeon knows it's not pronounced "seas".
Hi friends,
This week: A Peachy raise, techbio/biotech ones to watch, and the inherent impossibility of trying to be cooler than a robot-skeleton.
News Bites 🥪
👩🔬 18 European techbio startups to watch - according to investors - Is biotech now officially called techbio? Answers on a cardpost.
🍳 HEE CEO discusses digital workforce issues - “If you make systems simple and easy to use, people will use them”. Can we print this out and staple it to the desk of every CPO in the sector? (No, that would be a terrible use of resources - Ed.)
🧑🔧 Interoperable digital care can only be achieved with an open technology approach - In 2002, GDP growth nose dived, the Queen mother passed away, and figuring out interoperability was front and centre of the NHS’ plans. Progress.
🦾 Cionic gets $12.5M to accelerate its assistive mobility wearable - Of all the healthtech categories, robotic exoskeletons have to be the coolest sounding. “Oh, you’re in data interop? That’s cool. I make robo-skeletons, you absolute casual”.
🔥 11 VC investors behind the hottest healthtech deals - From large, general purpose VCs, down to boutique healthtech firms. ‘Boutique’ is a horrible adjective, but it’s the one Pigeon is sticking with.
🍑 Health insurtech startup Peachy raises £1.5m - Peachy getting that vitamin C, where ‘C’ equals 'cash' and ‘vitamin’ equals 'a vehicle to service this awful joke by'.
💰 Big SEIS changes in April '23 - Buried beneath the cacophony of great news coming out of last week’s definitely-not-a-budget, was the announcement that the SEIS threshold is being raised from £150k to £250k. Great for early stage startups.
What to listen to 🔊
🥼 #274 The Story of Patchwork Health with Dr Anas Nader👨⚕️ - This week on The Healthtech Podcast, James is joined by Dr Anas Nader. Anas is an A&E doctor and co-founder and CEO of Patchwork Health, which is helping healthcare organisations deliver sustainable workforce planning and giving all healthcare staff access to flexible work.
🌊 #112: Sailing the high(er) SEIS - This week: A Peachy raise, techbio/biotech ones to watch, and more interoperability than you can shake a stick at.
🧬 Christina Nesheva - Officinae Bio - The Women in HealthTech Show - CEO and co-founder of Officinae Bio, Christina talks about how to build successful teams, her book - The Entrepreneur’s BattleBook, and the challenge of designing health tech for patients with long term conditions.
Opportunities 🕵️♀️
⭐️ Intern - Account Executive, SomX - Statistically, this is 326% cooler than any other job in healthtech. Want to work with us? Grab your applying boots, strap on your application helmet and pop us a message.
🔬 Senior Software Engineer, Grail - Blood test cancer detection behemoth Grail are after a London based engineer. Backed by almost every healthtech VC out there to an $8bn val in 2020.
🌊 Product Designer, Inflow - Hoxton Ventures backed ADHD startup are after a product designer. Interested? Why not flow-in to their inbox? Get it? Yeah. That’s the level this week. I’m jet lagged, go away.