Personalized medicine can’t come soon enough
I’m scheduling my fourth knee surgery. But Ange… how is that possible when you only have 2 knees? Many years of playing Ultimate Frisbee… As I’m heading into this surgery, it has occurred to me that personalized medicine cannot come soon enough. Below I’m going to share my own health story and struggles associated with […]
Introducing our first investment in genomics, Gencove – making genomic data accessible and useful
Today, we’re excited to announce our first investment in the genomics space. We welcome Gencove to the Version One portfolio: they’re making genomics accessible and useful to all. We first met Joe Pickrell, the founder of Gencove, a year ago when he shared that he was building an inexpensive technology that actually sequences the genome […]
Is it time to rethink the healthcare marketplace model?
It’s been a year since we published our series on digital healthcare which I co-wrote with Jonathan Libov of Union Square Ventures. The reception was overwhelmingly positive (we’re thankful to all of you who gave us feedback) and opened up the floodgates to patients, medical professionals, entrepreneurs, and investors who still reach out to us with their pains, […]
On the future of healthcare
It has been a while since we’ve written about healthcare. Our last update was in June 2014 when we shared what we were excited about: patient-doctor networks and patient health data. This hasn’t changed but we’ve certainly learned more from the many founders and physicians who we have spoken to over the past year. We […]
What excites us in consumer healthcare IT?
Last December, we published our thoughts on the healthcare market in a VentureBeat article: “The health-tech booster shot: bringing health care into the 21st century.” That was December 2013, and digital health funding for the year exceeded $19B with 195 venture deals (where over $2M was raised). These numbers were up 39% compared with 2012, and […]