Hey friends,

Sending love from lockdown here in Melbourne this week.

Thankfully virtual catch-ups are still allowed.

I’m doing an “Ask Me Anything” next week on Tuesday, June 8th on taking the leap from Medicine and carving out (jokes, stumbling) onto my new path. Warning - it’s not glamourous. Want to come hang out and hear a badly articulated story? - Fill out this

Otherwise… Meetups (please COVID gods let this dissipate quickly🤞)

🍸 Women in Healthtech Dinner & Drinks (Invite-only)

Want to meet other wonderful women in the world of healthtech?
Join a small, select group for an evening of fabulous socializing.

• Melbourne because we need something to look forward to - EOI here

• Sydney you can have one too - EOI here

Everyone else… you’ll just have to wait. But stay tuned.

Noteworthy 🗞️

🧫 SA biotech BiomeBank leading the way in microbial therapy is raising $30m

💰NZ’s Mentemia announces close of Series A to accelerate workplace wellbeing

🎉 HealthMatch partners with Boehringer Ingelheim to increase clinical trial access

❤️ Vexev’s swanky new vid on how they’re changing the future of vascular disease

🏆 Nutromics takes “Best Translational Research” at AusMedtech 2021’s Early Stage Investment Forum

🧾 Medipass starts doing digital invoicing for Comcare

🏢 Digital Health CRC revamps rolling out new offices across Syd, Melb & Adl

US FUN STUFF 🇺🇸

🤝 Google did a deal to use patient records to build & test healthcare algorithms

💵 JPMorgan takes another crack at healthcare after Haven’s collapse

🏥 Doximity, the US social network for doctors, files for IPO

Wheres the Aus version? Please and thank you

👟Why Nike and its CEO are focusing on mental health - partnering with Crisis Text Line to provide everyone in the U.S. free, 24/7 mental health support

🤖 AI can detect Depression from your voice & it’s 2x as accurate as humans

🔍Google launches AI health tool for skin conditions to help users self-diagnose

🤔 Patients may not take advice from AI doctors who know their names

📈 Google helped launch a Health Equity Tracker, highlighting the seriously unbalanced impacts of COVID19 on communities

🔬Researchers develop microscopic implantable chips for physiological monitoring

Startup Stuff 🚀

⏰ 2 Days Left to Apply For Aus & NZ’s Most Ambitious Accelerator!

Startmate helps back and accelerate our most ambitious founders with startups ranging from Idea to Pre-Series A with some of the best in the biz- More here

💹 AI Startup Looking to Scale?

Applications for Boab’s 6-month Scaleup program with tailored operational and financial support are open and close soon - More here

💊 What’s Needed to Develop Medical Devices and/or Medicines?

ARCS ft REDI launched some 5-day Foundations Bootcamps designed for Start-ups, SMEs & clinicians to provide practical education on incorporating regulatory and reimbursement needs for both domestic and international markets

😇 Keen to Get Into Angel Investing? Check Out Antlers Program

Antler has launched apps for Antler Angel Experience Cohort 2 (AA2). An investor track to unlock earlier, in-depth access to Antler Deal flow - More here

👩‍💼Woman in NSW With an Early Stage Venture & Looking for Help?

Tech Ready Women are seeking early-stage founders or those keen to give it a crack for the next round of their gov backed online program.

📲Need to up Your Social Media Game?

UNSW Business School seeks companies keen to get free help via student projects to analyse their Instagrams visual and textual content and conduct analytics to identify effective strategies - More here

🌏 Want to Improve Youth Wellbeing & Don’t Mind Moving to London?

Zinc’s Venture Builder is a full time, 12-month program to build brand new companies that tackle the biggest social challenges in the developed world through creating scalable products with top technologies and design - Apps close June 25

🦌 Need Help Validating an Idea or Building Your Biz?

Join office hours with Antler's Associate Partner, Laura Faulconer who can help with research commercialisation, market validation, or growth problems - Book here

🚺 Female After the Right Community & Funds to Change the World?

SheEO Ventures wants people with big ideas for action to join their global community, and get expert coaching, support & funding. No decks needed - More here

❓What’re the Biggest Challenges You’ve Faced Going From Founder to C-Suite in Your Biz?

The legends at LUNA would love your thoughts to better understand whether education can be built to fill any gaps. They’ve put together this short survey that is completely anonymous - Help them out by filling this out (so they can help us all)

For other accelerators & opps check out the last roundup here

Events💥

1st - 2nd Jun: Digital Health Festival - Snag your free ticket here 🎫

Thurs 3rd Jun: AWS Machine Learning Summit

Thurs 3rd Jun: China+APAC Opportunities for Aussie Entrepreneurs Post-Pandemic

Tues 8th Jun: Ask me Anything (Yes, me) - Taking the (terrifying) leap from Medicine

7th - 9th Jun: 2021 Annual ARCS Conference - Syd

10th -18th Jun: BIO Digital (Global Biotech Partnering Event)

15th - 18th Jun: Digital Pharma Innovation Week

18th - 20th Jun:MedCon21 (WA) - Perth

Thurs 24th Jun: Talking Healthtech Winter Summit

*POSTPONED until 10th-11th August *: Informa Innovate Health 2021 - Melb

Consumable Content 💎

🔈 a16z’s Bio Eats World #55: The Trials of Clinical Trials

🎮 Gamification is the future of fitness (and tech) Read about it in Fitt Insider

📱Keen to upskill on all things social media? Check out Meltwaters free courses

🎥 Want to develop a product that you and your customers believe in?
Watch “How Noom Became an 'Overnight' Success- After Over a Decade”

Noom just raised a $540M Series F and bagged $400M revenue in 2020. They are the kings of behavioural change and product design… for now

📸 Interested in the top US Health Influencers? TAMs released its top 30 to follow

💸 Raising? Read On Deck’s A Tactical Guide to Seed Fundraising
(it’s US-based but still ace)

Juicy Jobs 🔥

Startups

• Mindset Health - Growth Manager, Healthcare & Business Operations Lead

• Perx - Sales & Partnerships Lead, BD (US Market) & Legal & Ops Associate

• Vexev - Software Engineer, Firmware Engineer & general EOI

• HotDoc - Head of Growth

• HealthMatch - Social & PR, Performance Marketing, Customer Success Lead, Account Manager & More

• Eucalyptus - Everything… too much to list. Just look here

• Harrison.ai & Annalise.ai - Senior Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer - Frontend & Commercial Finance Manager

• Ovira - Performance Marketing Manager

• Swoop Aero - Mobile Developer, Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineers & more

• Audeara - Marketing Manager

• Medmate - Web and Backend API Developer

• My Mirror - Telehealth - Online Psychologist

Ecosystem/Industry

• Remarkable - Head of Accelerator

• Doctors Without Borders (MSF) - Director of Communications

• LaunchVic (The Alice Anderson Fund) - Investment Associate

• Vic Health - Executive Manager, Future Healthy Group & Engagement Coordinator, Young People

• Square Peg - Senior Associate or Principal VC Investor & Global Tech Fund

• RMIT - Community and Startup Programs Coordinator

• Startmate - Financial Operations Manager

• Western Health - EMR Trainer/Business Analyst

Other Opps ✨🍩

Want to Learn the Ins and Outs of Sextech?

Sextech legend (and Aussie) Bryony Cole, Founder of Sextech School & Future of Sex Podcast has opened EOIs for her much awaited “Sextech School” - Register here

Working in Healthcare and Want to Nab a Fully-Funded Grad Cert in Digital Health?

The Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre is offering 8 full scholarships to RMIT’s new online graduate course - Find out more and apply here

Interested in a Career in Public Health? Give It a Try With This New Virtual Program

The new ASHM (Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine) Public Health Virtual Experience Program launched ft Forage to provide students with whats needed for careers in Public Health

As always, would love to hear from you… about, well… anything.

Catch you soon

👋 Emily