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October 23, 2025
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US HealthTech VC Virtual Networking
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US HealthTech VC Virtual Networking

For investors, startups, corporates, and all HealthTech ecosystem players

OCTOBER 23, 2025 – 100% Online on Zoom
8 AM San Francisco | 11 AM New York
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  • Dave Messina
    General Partner
    @ Pioneer Fund - Future of Health
    100+ deals

    Where the next billion-dollar healthtech companies will come from


    Dr. Dave Messina has over 25 years of experience in healthcare and has been leading healthcare investments at Pioneer Fund since 2019. He has led 100+ deals including top portfolio companies like Gilgamesh ($1B exit to Abbvie), Assort Health ($500M+ valuation), Stepful (20x+ MOIC), Freshpaint (8-figure ARR), and PostEra ($1.3B in deals with Pfizer and Amgen). Previously he founded the RNA and machine learning company Cofactor Genomics and led it to national Medicare reimbursement for its technology that improves outcomes for cancer patients. Dr. Messina also worked on the Human Genome Project and authored over 20 research papers.
  • NanaYaa Mensah-Thomas
    Managing partner, Founder
    @ Purelite Ventures
    Up to $500K checks

    HealthTech trends 2025 and forecast for 2026


    NanaYaa Mensah‑Thomas is the managing partner and founder of Purelite Ventures, a New York‑based healthcare venture fund that invests in US startups at the seed-stage, typically writing checks under US$500K for biotech, healthcare‑AI, and software‑as‑medical‑device companies. She's a former research and quality‑assurance leader with 20+ years at Memorial Sloan‑Kettering Cancer Center. NanaYaa is also a Business Mentor in Techstars and directs Project 2.8’s venture‑incubator program, which has supported 30 women‑led startups since 2021.
  • Jasper Cannon
    Venture Partner @ MedStartr Ventures
    $50K-250K checks

    Panel: "Where capital is flowing in HealthTech"


    Jasper Cannon is a venture capitalist and startup advisor focused on building and scaling innovation in healthcare and technology. Jasper serves as a Venture Partner at MedStartr Ventures, where he helps identify, evaluate, and accelerate promising healthcare startups through MedStartr’s data-driven, crowd-validated investment model. Jasper also owns a consulting firm, Chesterton Hills, that partners with Fortune 500 enterprises and high growth startups to solve their most pressing challenges in business growth and transformation.
    Jasper is a recognized strategist who has been invited to advise startups through 15 organizations, including Johns Hopkins University, MassChallenge, and Springboard Enterprises, where he sits on the Healthcare & Technology Council.
  • Mike Ma
    Managing Partner @ Sidecut Ventures
    $100K–500K check

    Fundraising in a tight market: How HealthTech founders should pitch to VCs today


    Mike Ma is the Managing Partner of Sidecut Ventures, a pre-seed VC firm with a multi-million-dollar Fund I. He typically writes $100K–$500K checks in fintech, healthtech, climate, and edtech startups. Previously, Mike launched Nex Cubed’s $40 million HBCU Founders Fund and served in leadership roles at Sway Ventures and high-growth fintechs (e.g. CMO of Betterment, now $63 billion AUM), Own Up (raised $55M), even leading Vanguard’s $60 million “Vanguarding” campaign.
  • Deborah Adewale
    Investor @ Healthworx Ventures

    Panel: "How to source deals and build repeatable deal flow in HealthTech?"


    Debbie Adewale is an investor at Healthworx Ventures, the strategic venture arm of CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield, where she leads the fund's work in B2B enterprise software. Prior to Healthworx, Debbie was at McKinsey & Company where she worked on growth strategy for healthcare and insurance clients. Debbie holds a BA from the University of Chicago in Biology and Public Policy, where she completed an undergraduate thesis about how differences in private sector funding by cancer type impact health disparities.
  • Paulo Machado
    CEO/Founder @ Health Innovation Inc
    50 angel HealthTech deals

    Panel "Where capital is flowing in HealthTech"


    Paulo Machado is a healthcare startup advisor/operator/investor with over 50 angel investments since 2020 and LP stakes in 4 funds. Paulo founded Health Innovation Inc in 2008 to help digital-health companies build & scale patient centric solutions. Paulo has been in 3 startups that were acquired, and his investments include Alto Neuroscience (IPO) and Gilgamesh (acquired). Paulo mentors healthcare founders across mulitple accelerators/incubators and now serves on the board of the Lung Cancer Foundation of America.
  • Eric Beier
    Partner and Chief Medical Officer
    @ Boomerang Ventures

    Panel "Where capital is flowing in HealthTech"


    Eric Beier, MD, MBA is Partner & Chief Medical Officer at Boomerang Ventures, a combination venture studio and venture fund focused on commercializing connected health technologies. He brings 30+ years of physician-entrepreneur experience and angel / private equity investments to his role. He co-founded and led two physician billing / management startups and raised $1.3M from angel investors and over $1M from a commercialization strategic partner as CEO of a cancer diagnostics startup. Earlier in his career, he practiced emergency medicine and managed a cardiovascular diagnostics product line at Boehringer Mannheim / Roche.
  • Rene Baston
    Venture Partner @ Covenant Venture Capital

    Panel: "How to source deals and build repeatable deal flow in HealthTech?"


    René Bastón is a Venture Partner at Covenant Venture Capital, a New York-based deep tech firm that manages private credit and early through late stage equity funds. He focuses on deep tech investing (healthtech, cleantech, robotics). He's also the host of the AI on the Hill podcast and was recently honored by NYU's Entrepreneurial Institute, which awarded him their 2025 Mentor of the Year Award. Previously, he had the pleasure of being the founding VP of Strategy and a member of the ideation team at Team8 Health, a digital health startup foundry focused on building and scaling transformative healthcare companies.
  • Samir Batra
    Managing Partner @ HIP

    How we grew to 275 healthtech investors and what founders should seek in theirs?


    Samir Batra is a seasoned healthcare professional with 25 years’ experience as an investor, entrepreneur, advisor and management consultant. After a being a healthcare entrepreneur for 14 years (4 startups: exits to PE, acquisition, and IPO in Australia), Samir founded HIP - a rapidly growing healthcare venture firm (with no prior venture experience) - that utilizes a collaborative network model that brings cross-healthcare industry focused investors and advisors to actively invest in early-stage and opportunistically in late-stage healthcare startups. HIP invests across all sectors of healthcare minus drug development and biotech and takes a unique hands-on approach with their post investment advisory and full life cycle thesis and model. Samir also manages BAHA, a boutique healthcare advisory firm that works with healthcare enterprise, strategic and startup communities on complex strategy creation and execution (i.e. innovation, incubation, growth, product strategy). 
  • Narayan Kulkarni
    Founder & Host @ Founders Amplified

    Track Moderator


    Narayan Kulkarni is a health-administration operator, purpose-driven global mentor, and emerging angel who has supported 1500+ changemakers from 90+ countries across 6 continents. As Founder & Host of Founders Amplified, he has featured 30+ underrepresented founders (including 10+ first-time podcast guests) and grown listeners in 30+ countries. In healthcare, he has helped academic medical centers identify and advance improvement efforts, such as cutting transplant transfer times by 45%+ , reducing 30-day readmission rates, and earning adult and pediatric specialty care excellence designations.

  • Dr. Erik Reis
    Co-Founder, Director of Health and Wellness @ Nobody Studios
    900+ investors

    Moderator of the Panel "Where capital is flowing in HealthTech"


    Dr. Erik Reis is Co-Founder & Director of Health & Wellness at Nobody Studios, a venture studio aiming to launch 100-native startups in 5 years, where he shapes people-first health ventures and de-risks ideas to build companies from 0-1. Nobody studios is currently raising a $15 million Series A round and has investors from over 55 countries around the world. Erik is a clinician-founder with 12+ years in functional neurology and rehabilitation, is the founder of The Neural Connection Clinic, and speaks internationally on brain health, longevity, and performance.

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    CIO @ Alaris Capital
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    Founder & Growth Architectr @ BEBURAS
    The Capital Networking Virtual Conference was absolutely incredible — I had the chance to meet so many inspiring people, gain actionable insights.

    I'm incredibly honored to be among the 14 participants selected to receive a book for sending LinkedIn invitations — it truly means a lot to me and feels like a big recognition. I can’t wait for the book to arrive and dive into it!

    Already looking forward to the next edition — if it’s even half as good as this one, it’ll still be top-tier!

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