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Daisy Wolf

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Investment Partner @a16z focused on healthcare. Reluctant tweeter. Other interests: poker, theater, memoir, white noise. Alum: @Meta @YaleLawSch @StanfordGSB

Joined September 2009

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Daisy Wolf

9 months

(1/5) 🧵Recently, @vijaypande and I received an email about a healthcare panel on integrating AI with fax machines in healthcare. We had to laugh. Shouldn’t healthcare just get with the times and stop using fax machines?

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Where Will AI Have the Biggest Impact? Healthcare. | Andreessen Horowitz

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

1/ In the past few months, the founders of Instacart, Spotify, and Coinbase have all started new healthcare companies. This may seem odd to some – why are these seasoned tech founders jumping into tech-driven healthcare? A 🧵:

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(1/7) @vijaypande and I have a 🔥hot take🔥 heading into #HLTH2022 : the biggest company in the world will be a consumer health tech company. Read our personal opinions here (compliance made me say that 😉):

The Biggest Company in the World | Andreessen Horowitz

We think the biggest company in the world will be a consumer health tech company. This may sound crazy to some, but why shouldn’t this be true? Four of the top five biggest companies in the world are...

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

Our next @a16z healthcare playbook focuses on selling into SMBs – clinics, employers, and digital health cos. If your startups does this, we'd love to hear your perspective and potentially feature you in our piece! Just fill this quick survey out:

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2 years

1/ As a lover of regulated industries (or glutton for punishment) who went to law school “for fun,” I can’t help but get excited about the intersection of the two biggest regulated markets: healthcare ⛑ & fintech 💳

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1 year

(1/9) Our newest @a16z piece on the 🏆 biggest prize 🏆 yet to be claimed in healthcare x fintech. Consider this: most healthcare providers are flying blind when it comes to their finances. A 🧵:

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1 year

1/ Last month, @vijaypande and I predicted a consumer health company will be the biggest company in the world (‼️). This invoked lots of **feelings** 🤯. This month, @julesyoo and I dive into specific areas of consumer health where we see opportunity. A 🧵:

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Consumer Health: Areas of Opportunity | Andreessen Horowitz

In a market full of bears, we are bulls when it comes to consumer health companies. In our last piece, we made the bold claim that a consumer health tech company will become the biggest company in...

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

New year, new fund, new name! We’re now officially the “a16z Bio + Health” fund 🧪⚕️⛑. Here are a few of the many areas we’re pumped to invest in on the health side this year. A 🧵:

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Daisy Wolf

6 months

(1/8) Today, we @a16z are proud to share that we've led a $4M round of seed funding for Fortuna Health, a consumer-first platform for navigating Medicaid end-to-end.

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Exclusive: Medicaid navigator Fortuna Health inks $4M seed joined by John Legend

Getting and keeping Medicaid coverage is a complex endeavor.

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1 year

when you're the only person on your zoom call without a doodle

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1 year

In my mother’s kitchen and doubting whether we are actually related.

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1 year

1/ Last week @a16z released our Marketplace 100 list. Only 4 healthcare companies made the list (a record!)...but healthcare is 12% of household spend. Interestingly, all 4 are therapy marketplaces. Why are they working and where else can we build big health marketplaces? A🧵:

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2 years

📣 Calling all consumer health builders! 📣 We @a16z are planning events – fireside chats, dinners, & more – to bring together experts & smart folks in the space. Some virtual & some in person (NYC & SF to start). Interested in joining? Fill out this form!

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a16z Consumer Health Event Interest Form

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

1/ Are you a healthcare startup that sells into (1) individual practices, (2) SMB employers, or (3) digital health companies? Check out our latest @a16z go-to-market playbook on selling to SMBs. A 🧵:

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Selling to SMBs | Andreessen Horowitz

The 2010s era of VC-backed healthtech was largely an enterprise game, with most founders pursuing large payors, hospital systems, or jumbo employers as customers. This was because enterprises were...

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1 year

My DC bestie: “I’m flattered we even made it onto this grid.”

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How to dress based on where you are

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(1/3) A few weeks ago, when the world felt a little less scary, I had the honor of speaking at @jpmorgan 's 8th annual Leadership Day. Still pinching myself bc I got to share the stage w/ @naomiosaka , @Malala & Jamie Dimon!

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1 year

(1/9) We're excited to announce @a16z 's Series A investment in @MarkerLearning , which is proving affordable and accessible learning disability assessments & support to schools and families✏️📒. Here’s why this is important ⬇️

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

Had the best night hanging with this AI x health crew🗽

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11 months

(1/8) We at @a16z are thrilled to announce our Seed and Series A investment in @pomelocare , which is building a tech-enabled, value-based model for maternal and neonatal care.

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Pomelo Care collects $33M for maternal and newborn VBC

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1 year

using twitter like insta 🌸 spring in NYC

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1 year

We @a16z are so excited about the healthcare x fintech opportunity that we created a whole website for it. Learn more about our existing portfolio in the space and the areas where we’re actively looking to invest 👇

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Healthcare Meets Fintech | Andreessen Horowitz

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

Thrilled to announce our investment in the food-as-medicine platform Season Health! It’s no secret that the food we eat affects our health. But for far too long, food & nutrition have been disconnected from healthcare. 🍓🍳🥑

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Daisy Wolf

3 months

A break from regularly scheduled healthcare content for a video of my *all-time* greatest athletic achievement (the bar is low): bowling a strike at the White House bowling alley 💁‍♀️🎳

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

(1) Curious about how trends in regulation might affect health startups? Check out my interview with the coolest telehealth lawyer Sarah Thomas, GC of Sameday Health & former Counsel @ Favor & Smile Direct Club A 🧵w/ takeaways & predictions from Sarah:

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

Fun evening interviewing @flahertyiv , SVP of Growth @Ro , about how to build great companies in consumer health! The NYC healthtech ecosystem is on 🔥. Thank you to @ribbonhealthAPI for hosting and to all those who came to listen🗽

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1 year

(1/3) Did you know that UnitedHealth has a $20B dollar bank (much larger than most neobanks!) and a whole org devoted to fintech?

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

(1/n) Great new @a16z podcast featuring @vijaypande and @Tocelot on the intersection of health x gaming. Here’s what I’m pondering after listening and discussing the topic with @vijaypande :

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‎Raising Health: Bio x Games: Is a Fun, Therapeutic Game Possible? on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Raising Health, Ep Bio x Games: Is a Fun, Therapeutic Game Possible? - Oct 20, 2022

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1 year

Fun evening hanging with the people doing all the work behind the scenes in healthtech, chiefs of staff! Thanks for leading an excellent conversation @thebettychang and for organizing with @ribaroff & @sk_leung .

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1 year

Had a great time discussing the state of women's health investing at the New York Stock Exchange. Thank you to @jjfeds for organizing this lively summit! @nyse

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

5/ Here’s what sounds crazy in 2023: Trying to fix the United States’ gigantic mess of a healthcare system.

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

We're looking for entrepreneurs innovating at the intersection of Fintech x Healthcare. @dhaber and @julesyoo lay out three themes we find interesting. Building in this space? Our DMs are open.

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David Haber

2 years

. @julesyoo and I are very excited about the intersection of Fintech x Healthcare: "As fintech makes its way into healthcare services and software, we see the potential to rewire incentives and remove inefficiencies to pave the way for a more value-oriented healthcare system."

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Daisy Wolf

10 months

Fun panel discussing LLMs in healthtech w/ @WillManidis , @ellie & @IttaiDayan . Thanks to @Nadav_Shimoni_ for moderating and @ymachad0 for organizing!

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Daisy Wolf

8 months

Interested in where there is opportunity for AI in enterprise healthcare? Check out our latest piece, in which @JayRughani , @julesyoo , @vijaypande and I dive into promising areas 👇

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Commercializing AI in Healthcare: The Jobs to be Done | Andreessen Horowitz

Building specialist AIs to perform healthcare tasks offers the most challenging technical problems in the field today, as well as the greatest opportunity for impact.

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(1/7) Over the past half century, Wall Street was completely revolutionized by computers. Not so long ago, human brokers on the stock exchange floor haggled to buy and sell every stock, writing their agreements on pieces of paper. A 🧵:

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

9/ Read why @vijaypande and I think tech builders should jump into healthcare:

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

✌️conferences in☝️day! Thank you @WhartonHCMAA & @nyc_alleycon for having me as a panelist. I had a blast chatting healthcare w/ @andrewhedin (Partner @BessemerVP ), @BobbyGuelich (CEO @ Elion), Bruce Gottlieb (COO @flatironhealth ) & @realDanikaFry (Exec Director @MorganStanley )!

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1 year

Welcome to the @a16z portfolio, @hippocraticai , the first safety-focused LLM for healthcare!

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Julie Yoo

1 year

1/ “Solving consumer engagement is worth $1T to our org,” a health plan exec once said to me. While sensationalist, it’s a common trope that much of healthcare's problems stem from the system's inability to engage patients cost-effectively and at scale.

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2 years

Medical debt really sucks!!! And 50% of Americans have it. @MAndrusko1 and I are both shy on the internet, but wrote about this topic b/c we @a16z believe regulatory tailwinds make now the perfect time to innovate in medical debt resolution.

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1/Medical debt is a massive market. Half of Americans carry medical debt, and btwn debt sitting with collectors ($140B), on card balances, and in unpaid medical bills, Americans owe $1T for healthcare services they've already received.

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2 years

a16z NYC has a nice ring to it🗽

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a16z: 📍The Cloud ➕ 🌴 Miami Beach 🗽 New York 🏄‍♀️ Santa Monica Read more here 👇

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Daisy Wolf

9 months

Games can be a force for good & improve human health. We're super interested in games that promote physical and mental health. Plus, I love spending time with our @a16zGames team. Read more 👇

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Robin Guo

9 months

Normies think games are toxic for society. But we believe games are actually the key to solving many consumer/population health problems. Why I'm excited for games x healthcare, and why you should apply for SPEEDRUN if you're building in this space🧵

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2 years

We're excited to announce our new @a16z funds! If you're building a healthcare company (or even just thinking about it), my DMs are open. There has never been a better time!

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1 year

(7/7) Are you so psycho (in a good way) that you’re trying to build the biggest company in the world? If so, we’d love to chat @a16z @a16zBioHealth

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

Do you work in healthcare but still find drug pricing and the pharma value chain very confusing🤔? You're not alone! Check out this @a16z pod in which @julesyoo and @OliviaWebbC interview @DrugChannels . It's the clearest explanation I've heard of how things work!

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Julie Yoo

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1/ For the coolwonks who follow ,👂to this pod w/the one and only Adam Fein on financial incentives + market distortions of the pharma value chain, which I've been fascinated w/since being acquired into a PBM in a prior startup life:

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

Incredibly proud to be on a team that backs founders working tirelessly to help those who need it most. @waymark_care will improve the lives of Medicaid patients (and physicians) nationwide. Congrats @vintweeta , @vmocherla , @justin_larkinMD , and @JayRughani

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Vineeta Agarwala

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1/8 “Equal means everybody gets the same. Equity means everybody gets what THEY need." - Bernard Tyson (fmr CEO/Chairman, Kaiser Permanente) We're proud to back @waymark_care , a new platform to scale personalized, community-based care for Medicaid pts:

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(1/2) Have you ever woken up with a sore throat, googled your symptoms, and eventually diagnosed yourself with a rare form of cancer on WedMD? If so, you’re not alone. In fact, you’re just like everybody else.

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The Next WebMD: An LLM as Your Front Door to Healthcare | Andreessen Horowitz

While the Google --> WebMD --> Friend protocol may be a common way to enter into the healthcare system, it is certainly not an optimal one. Most of us are not well-equipped to self-diagnose from a...

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6/ The U.S.’s largest industry – 1/5 of the American economy – is unspeakably broken. The United States severely lags behind other developed nations in terms of health outcomes and cost. Hundreds of thousands of people die each year because of avoidable human errors.

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1 year

Had lots of fun chatting consumer health with @SabK last night! Thank you to @TiEGlobal for hosting this fireside chat.

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7 months

Building (or interested in building) in healthcare x fintech? Join us during NY Tech Week – we have a few spots left! @mandrusko1 @julesyoo @dhaber

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

@dvasishtha 👋👋👋 we are deploying!

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

8/ The most impactful companies are built at the frontier, and healthcare is the next frontier. It’s time to put our tech skills to work. The mother of all markets is ripe for disruption.

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

Check out what we're excited about for 2023 👇

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a16z

1 year

With 2023 on the horizon, a16z asked our partners: What ONE big idea do you expect tech to tackle in the coming year? From small modular reactors to having fun with AI applications, their answers tell us a lot about what's likely to come in tech. 👇

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

We're hiring for our health investing team @a16z ! Interested? Check it out 👇

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Julie Yoo

2 years

Are you a healthcare biz model nerd? Get a kick out of Health Affairs articles and digital health 10-Ks? Psyched about the future of virtual-first value-based care? Come be a Healthcare Deal Analyst on Team @a16z bio+health

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(5/7) The first is a vertically integrated path of building a “payvidor” (a combined payor and provider) that eventually owns most care. Imagine UnitedHealth Group⚕️ but with the UX of Apple🍎 – who wouldn’t choose this insurance plan and provider!?

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Daisy Wolf

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2/ Healthcare is 1/5th of U.S. GDP, but most wildly successful fintech companies haven’t made a dent in the market. For a number of reasons, healthcare needs dedicated fintech solutions, and the opportunity is massive. 🤑

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

That joyous feeling when good things happen to good people. @sarahdingwang is brilliant, extraordinarily kind and giving, and so very deserving of this promotion. Made my Monday.

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David George

2 years

Some very exciting @a16z news today. I’m thrilled to announce that we’ve promoted @sarahdingwang to General Partner for the Growth Fund. More below on why…and welcome Sarah to this new role, I’m proud to call you my partner!

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7/ Modern technology has little penetration in healthcare. The industry still largely relies on paper and fax machines for communication.

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

“Julie is incredible…she does not stop.” Couldn’t have said it better myself, @fyietc ! @julesyoo is a boss and I’m lucky to work with her 💪

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Mario Aguilar

2 years

a16z's @julesyoo told me health care funding rounds might be getting bigger, but infrastructure, regulatory burden and clinical rigor are not cheap. "This is not a space where you can cobble something together, throw it over the fence and hope it works."

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

We @a16z are excited about the intersection of science 🧪 ➕ SaaS 👩‍💻. Check this awesome piece by @JayRughani and @JorgeCondeBio 👇

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Jay Rughani

1 year

Science needs better Software. The good news: waves of talented builders are jumping in to help, enabling biotech to further accelerate how drugs are Discovered + Developed + Distributed. @JorgeCondeBio & I "sketch out" Biotech’s Tech moment:

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(6/7) The second is a horizontal path of building a consumer marketplace or infrastructure layer that enables all other care delivery companies. Imagine the Amazon📦or Visa💳 of healthcare.

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

As always, we'd love to chat if you're building in bio or health! ☕️ @julesyoo @vintweeta @vijaypande @JorgeCondeBio @justin_larkinMD @JayRughani @beckypferdehirt @heyjudka

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Daisy Wolf

11 months

@thebettychang coming in hot with the best menu at healthcare happy hour

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1 year

(3/3) In it, we cover (1) how Kurt transitioned into healthcare (& why you should too!), (2) the future of consumer and provider fintech experiences in healthcare, and (3) what types of startups Optum is looking to partner with. Check it out 👇

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

Awesome thread & blog post by @anneleeskates on opportunities in the Learning Economy ⬇️ Reminds me that many parallels exist between edtech & healthtech because of third-party payors (school funding & health insurance) 🎒🧑‍🎓💊⚕️

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Anne Lee Skates

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Over the past decade, $20B has been invested into US edtech, yet only 3 companies have gone public: @Coursera , @Duolingo , @Udemy . Many have written off the space. 🔥take: we are entering the decade of the “Learning Economy,” which spans way beyond traditional education. More🔽

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1 year

Are you both a policy wonk 🇺🇸 and a healthtech nerd 🤓? Check out our latest @a16z podcast in which @vintweeta interviews the CEO of the @nvca !

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Vineeta Agarwala

1 year

In honor of elections in the US, we sat down for a special policy-themed episode of Bio Eats World with Bobby Franklin, president and CEO of @nvca . We chatted about how healthcare policymaking can be bipartisan, and how startups and DC can collaborate:

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Daisy Wolf

11 months

Very well put, @vijaypande

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11 months

"You’d be hard-pressed to find many who think we’d be better off without electricity or cars. In 30 years, we’ll think the same about A.I.," writes @vijaypande .

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2/ In 2013, @pmarca observed that the biggest, most successful companies have all done something that seemed completely “crazy” at the time of creation.

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

Wonderful read by the brilliant @thebettychang on why now is the perfect time to build in healthtech & what pitfalls founders should avoid.

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Betty Chang

1 year

1/ Building a digital health startup? Sharing common pitfalls I’ve seen early-stage startups make & advice for founders on how to avoid them. Advice comes from seeing the highs 📈& lows📉 of 100+ startups that I’ve gotten to know (including my own).

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(3/3) Being on stage in Times Square was the closest I’ll ever come to my childhood dream of being a Broadway star, so thank you @jpmorgan !

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10/ Curious about where else this might work in healthcare and learnings from other industries? Check out our piece! @julesyoo @omooretweets @conniechan @a16z

Healthcare Marketplaces, Where Art Thou? | Andreessen Horowitz

At a16z, marketplaces represent one of our favorite business models. Our annual Marketplace 100 provides insight into the latest consumer marketplace trends across industries. But we on the healthc...

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

Go @memorahealth and @mnvsevak !! 👏👏👏

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Manav Sevak

1 year

1/ So excited to be publicly sharing @memorahealth 's $30M strategic financing led by @chriswbischoff @htaneja and @generalcatalyst along with several strategic partners including @NorthwellHealth , @NorthShoreWeb , @pagsceltics , and others!

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

Awesome thread on consumer social metrics 👇

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Bryan Kim

1 year

How do you know if a social app will be a "hit?" Predicting what goes mainstream - and what stalls out - might seem random. But after years of leading growth @Snap & investing in consumer social at @a16z , I've found early signs of huge products 👇

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Join us November 15-17 in Phoenix!

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Solome Tibebu

10 months

LAST DAY to secure the best possible price for the 2023 Behavioral Health Tech conference! Join us with leading venture capital investors like @daisydwolf , Partner at @a16z , to discuss the state funding and innovation in mental health and substance use:

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4/ But what sounds crazy in 2023? Certainly not another meal delivery service, recruiting tool, or dating app. More broadly, we all agree that mobile, internet, the cloud, and SaaS are consensus and mainstream.

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Daisy Wolf

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(2/7) This may sound crazy 🤯 to some, but why shouldn’t this be true? Four of the top five biggest companies in the world are consumer companies and healthcare is one of the nation’s biggest industries.

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

A+ discussion on the future of health policy. Check it out 👇

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Julie Yoo

1 year

@paulkeckley and I talked health policy "greatest hits", hospital system survival playbooks, employers disrupting insurance, the next era of Medicare Advantage, and more... @a16zBioHealth @OliviaWebbC

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

(2/3) In our latest @a16z podcast on healthcare x fintech, @mandrusko and I interview Kurt Adams, CEO of Optum Financial, about the $100B revenue opportunity that UnitedHealth sees in healthcare x fintech.

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

Great content by @vintweeta and @JayRughani on two-sided networks! 🔥🔥🔥

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Vineeta Agarwala

2 years

What are two-sided network businesses in healthcare? How do they connect patients, providers, payors, & pharma? And when is this the right biz model for you? @JayRughani and I had a blast speaking w/ founders who successfully navigated this complex GTM strategy Check it out! 👇

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

(3/7)Much larger, in fact, than the size of the *global* advertising industry in which consumer giants like Google and Meta operate. From that standpoint, the #1 slot *should* belong to a consumer health company.

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

(2/n) Engagement in healthcare sucks, and is probably the industry’s biggest problem. Therefore diverse areas of healthcare ranging from mental health to weight loss can all benefit from gamification. It’s clear healthcare could learn a lot from the gaming world!

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

3/ The examples from the last two decades are clear. Sleeping in a stranger’s home? Airbnb. Getting in a stranger’s car? Lyft. Putting a personal computer in everyone’s home, and then in everyone’s pocket, and then on everyone’s wrist? Apple.

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

(9/9) Building (or exploring) at the intersection of healthcare & fintech? We’d love to hear from you. @julesyoo @dhaber @mandrusko1 @Annie_m_collins

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

Go @vijaypande and @JorgeCondeBio !

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a16z

2 years

We are entering a new era of human health, powered by a revolution in biological engineering. @vijaypande and @JorgeCondeBio share with @endpts their journeys, perspectives, and why they believe that biology is eating the world.

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

@nikillinit Check out

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Daisy Wolf

5 months

(7/7) Here’s our take @a16z on what past technological revolutions tell us about how AI will impact the healthcare markets and who will reap the rewards. @vijaypande @JayRughani @adelatomsejova

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Underestimating AI in Healthcare | Andreessen Horowitz

100% of stock trades used to be made by humans. Today, 80% are made by computer algorithms. AI is about to bring a similar revolution to healthcare. Over the next few decades, at least half of the...

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Daisy Wolf

6 months

(8/8) We’re excited to have so many amazing folks around the table, including singer-songwriter @johnlegend , @BoxGroup , @ycombinator , @CyrusMassoumi , @elliotcohen , @iyahromm , @ellenjdasilva . cc @julesyoo @Annie_m_collins

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

(7/9) This would be a real-time, action-oriented engine that ingests financial data from the EHR, RCM, banking & credit products, and payroll to become the financial system of record for practices.

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

@Jillwillnyc I’m spending a lot of time at the intersection of fintech and healthcare these days — we should chat!

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

(5/n) Ideally, founding teams would have expertise in both health and gaming. This is currently a rarity, but we’re one of the few firms with teams dedicated to both, and we’d love to connect builders in these two words.

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

9/ In essence, these mental health marketplaces have followed the following playbook:

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

Digital health tech stack: everyday it becomes easier to start a healthcare company. We believe this is a great benefit to society and we’re investing heavily in companies that enable this future. 💪

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

Check it out ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Jay Rughani

2 years

How can you better connect our healthcare system through software? One increasingly promising way is to take a multi-sided network strategy. @vintweeta & I explore *how* with 5 iconic founders in this episode of GTM in digital health by the @a16z team:

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

4/ We think now is the perfect time to build fintech for healthcare. Whether you’re a fintech builder still learning the language of healthcare or a healthtech nerd already, @dhaber , @julesyoo , @mandrusko1 and I would love to connect with you. Our DMs are open! 💪

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

3/ In our first @a16z blog post on subject matter, we explore the opportunities in healthcare fintech through the lens of unbundling the world’s largest healthcare companies. 🏥

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Daisy Wolf

6 months

(2/8) In the U.S., low-income adults, children, pregnant women, and people with disabilities are entitled to free health insurance through Medicaid. Medicaid is the lifeblood of America: the program covers slightly under half of births in this country.

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

(2/9) Once a medical provider treats patients, they don’t really know how much they’ll get paid, when they’ll get paid, and if that payment is more or less than they’re owed.

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

Building in the space or considering doing so? We’d love to hear from you. @julesyoo @dhaber @mandrusko1 @Annie_m_collins

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Daisy Wolf

1 year

Great thread on retention curves. Consumer health companies, take note!

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Olivia Moore

1 year

Retention curves that "smile" are always great, right? Not when they're masking cohort degradation. Here's what to watch out for when analyzing your cohorts ⬇️

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

🚨🎙🚨Check out episode 2 of @a16z 's series on new go-to-market motions in digital health! In it, @julesyoo and @justin_larkinMD clearly break down risk-based contracting for value-based care 💊💵💊

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Justin Larkin, MD

@justin_larkinMD

2 years

What's all the hype about value based care and "going at risk" in digital health? 🚨 Second chapter of our @a16z GTM Playbooks for Digital Health is out! @julesyoo and I dig in with builders on key questions every founder should consider: 👇

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Daisy Wolf

2 years

Virtual-first, value-based care models in primary care and chronic diseases: telemedicine isn’t just for urgent care anymore. 🤳

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Daisy Wolf

6 months

(5/8) This is unacceptable – life or death matters like health insurance shouldn’t be subject to whether the government has your up-to-date mailing address.

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