#06 🍩 What the Health - Money, Meetups and Mass Med(tech) Recruitment
#06 🍩 What the Health - Money, Meetups and Mass Med(tech) Recruitment
Your fortnightly healthtech TL;DR roundup
Anyone else sick of screens?
The zoom fatigue is real and this article shows just how your brain reacts to zooming all day, causing extra stress, anxiety, and brain noise…
So, instead, come join me and some other great humans in the Healthtech sphere IRL for some old school socialising! 🍷
Melbourne - Come say hey at our first meetup (ft free drinks) on Thursday May 13th with our fab sponsors Nutromics and Axiom IO
Sydney - We’re having a lil closed drinks on Tuesday May 11th
If you’re interested fill out this EOI
I’d love to see you! But please RSVP via the links above (it makes life SO much easier)
Can’t make it but want to stay in the loop? Join the Meetup so you don’t miss out
Know someone who might like to come? Share it with them👇
Noteworthy 🗞️
🌈 Google takes another crack at personal health records recruiting android users
💰 New Japanese fund raising $50M looks to hit Aussie Medtech Market
💉 Vic leads Vaccine charge with Melbourne to be the first mRNA Manufacturer in the Southern Hemisphere
💸 Cardiobionic bags $4.1M to power medical device progress in emerging markets
🎮 Vantari VR joins EmergiSim with US$100 000 from Epic Games for Medical VR
🌱 Philia Labs announced a $560,000 seed round to help improve stress management
🇺🇸 Arli continues its run eyeing US market after closing its seed round
✅ WeGuide’s products for patient engagement gets the tick from the TGA
♀️ Who needs hormones? Femtech pioneers new mucus contraceptive
📈 $10B Boost for aged care from the federal budget is on its way
📺 Telehealth extended until at least Dec after $2.8B in payouts
🧬 OminiWell, VECtor Medical Technologies & VeinTech - claimed victory last week in the 2021 Medtech Actuator Origin
🏆 Ovira Founder Alice Williams takes the Women Leading Tech Entrepreneur Award
🏢 Melbourne Connect launches new collaborative tech hub and coworking space
Startup Stuff 🚀
💹 Looking For an Equity Free Way to Validate and Scale Sustainably?
Macquarie University Incubator is now taking applications - Apply Here
🔥 Looking For Help From Aus & NZ’s Top Operators?
Startmates Office Hours with 2 weeks of 1:1 mentoring, founder-to-founder relationship building & functional workshops is now taking applications
🌏 Amazon Launchpad Innovation Grants Are Open
Looking to bring your products online & reach Amazon customers? You could get the chance to pitch Amazon Aus HQ and bag a prize pool worth >$200,000 - Check it out
💰How Do I Commercialise Evidence-Based Digital Health Products?
ANDHealth’s Masterclass: ACCELERATE accelerator program is a 6-day intensive interactive program to prep you for success - Find out more here
📱Free UX Projects? Surely Too Good to Be True…
Academy Xi gives student’s hands-on experience with real-world cases from startups, NFPs & impact businesses to revamp your UX. Interested? Just fill out this app
📣 Keen to Pitch to VCs and Corporates?
The MedTech Actuator Investor Bus with CATALYST, Singapore's innovation space for health and medtechs is bringing a closed-door fundraising event - Find out more
🎓 Student Looking to Dip Your Toes in Startups?
Check out the Startmate Student Fellowship!
Events💥
Thurs 29th Apr: BioSymposium – Devices + Diagnostics: Navigating our New World
Thurs 29th Apr: Macquarie Park Innovation Summit Series: MedTech/Cybersecurity Innovation Summit
Thurs 29th Apr: MTPConnect: Partnering for Success - How to maximise virtual partnering meetings
29th - 30th Apr: ANZ Healthcare Leaders Forum 2021 - Sydney
Mon 3rd May: MDPP Presents: MedTech Mondays - Applying for Grants 101
3rd - 6th May: SOUTHSTART- Adelaide
Wed 5th May: VicHealth & MJA - What is our path to better health for all?
Wed 5th May: The Medtech Actuator Investor Bus
Thurs 13th May: Digital Health CRC - Idea to Action: Think like a health-tech entrepreneur webinar
17th - 21st May: AusMedtech 2021
18th - 19th May: AWS Summit Online
1st - 2nd Jun: Digital Health Festival
Consumable Content 💎
🎙️Reimagining Healthcare #42: Achieving healthcare outcomes with human-centred Design – Ricardo Escalon
🚀 Check out this global list of 450+ VCs that have invested in Healthtech
🔥 SPACs are so hot right now but what’s it mean for the ecosystem? RockHealth Reports on what they think
🍀 Interested in Medicinal Plants? Cornell University has some cool courses
📽️ Missed Startmates Demo Day? Check out their healthtech companies pitches here
💻 Want to get into Startups but don’t know where to start? Stone & Chalk launched their free online StartSmart Academy
A 12 module free course to help guide you through startup land, applications and adjusting to this slightly strange world
Juicy Jobs 🔥
uPaged - Customer Experience / Sales Support (Hospital & Nurse Liaison)
Tobacco Free Portfolios - US Director
Evrima Technologies - Patient Experience Lead
HotDoc - Head of Marketing
Telstra Health - Senior UX Designer
See-Mode - Sales Development Representative
Eucalyptus - Ops Product Manager, Customer Experience Lead & Data Analyst
Arli - Head of Marketing
Presagen (Life Whisperer) - Business Analyst
Umps Health - Embedded Systems Engineer
Atidia - Full Stack Engineer
CancerAid - Account Manager
Mindset Health - Senior Performance Marketer & Copy & Content Writer
Nutromics - Medical Device Service Design & User Experience (UX)
Galileo Ventures - Community and Operations Manager
Airtree is on a hiring spree
Innovation Bay - Membership and Programming Manager (Canopy)
St Vincent’s Health - Group Manager Innovation and Experience
St Vincent’s Health - Telehealth and Innovation Manager
Mexec - Project Manager Drug Development
Ypsomed Australia - Key Account Manager
UoM: Research, Innovation and Commercialisation (RIC) - Business Development Manager (MDHS)
Fun Freebies… Want to go to the Digital Health Festival? 🧁
June 1st - 2nd | Online
I got you! Snag your ticket (worth $95) for What the Health peeps here 🎫
Check out the 60+ speakers across panels, roundtables, workshops and networking on The future of medicine, The digital hospitals of the future, What’s hot in US Health Tech & more. Attend live or watch later on-demand - Program here
Other Opps ✨
Consumer Advocacy Is All the Rage
Jump into HETI’s Mental Health Consumer Advocacy Course to upskill
Proof of Concept Research Eyeing Commercialisation?
Apply for the NHMRC Development Grant Scheme for health and medical research
Want Access to Top Research Facilities to Progress Your Research?
The Pipeline Accelerator by Therapeutic Innovation Australia (TIA) is taking apps to fund projects to access one or more of these top centres
Annnnnd we’re done
If you know anyone who might be interested in the endless jobs listed above, do flick it their way. Good talent is super hard to find
See you soon (maybe even in person 🎉)
👋 Emily