MedTech Summit
1PM Central Time, 8 July, 2025
🚀 The startup journey in MedTech and HealthTech is unlike any other. What if you could take a peek at the map?
You're not just building a product—you're navigating FDA regulations, clinical trials, lengthy sales cycles, and critical decisions impacting real patients and their families. The stakes are higher, the timelines longer, and the expertise required is incredibly specialized.
That's exactly why I'm excited to announce the MedTech Summit🏥
🗓️July 8th | 🕐 1:00 PM Central | 💻 Virtual Event
This isn't another generic startup event. We're bringing together seasoned MedTech and HealthTech founders and leaders who've been in your shoes—who've raised rounds, scaled teams, gotten through regulatory hurdles, and built sustainable businesses in this complex industry.
What you'll gain: ✅ Real strategies for navigating regulatory pathways, ✅ Insights on fundraising in the MedTech space, ✅ Lessons from founders who've scaled from prototype to market, ✅ Q&A, and ✅ Actionable advice you can implement immediately
Whether you're in digital health, medical devices, diagnostics, or health IT—if you're an early-stage founder looking to learn from those who've walked this path before you, this summit is for you.
The future of healthcare depends on the success of innovative startups like yours. Let's learn from each other and build that future together. Ready to accelerate your MedTech journey?
Speakers & Talks
Designing for MedTech
▶︎ Abhi Ghavalkar, Co-Founder of third space therapy
Abhi Ghavalkar is an artist, designer, engineer, and third culture kid. An amalgamation of his time growing up and living across 3 continents, his work takes a global lens on problem solving. He's spent the last 5 years working in healthcare and wellness, using design as his primary guiding principle. Outside of his day-to-day work, Abhi's passionate about educating the next generation of designers and entrepreneurs. He likes to paint, play the guitar, and support his favourite football team – Arsenal.
Partnering with MDs as an Industry
▶︎ Matthew Ian Mace, President & Co-Founder of Study Connect
Matthew is President and Co-founder of Study Connect, connecting researchers and clinicians with the medical innovators and help them collaborate through an online portal.
Fundraising in a Difficult Capital Raising Environment
▶︎ Sal Braico, CEO of Pivotal Healthcare
Sal is CEO of Pivotal Healthcare, a HealthTech startup offering house calls and telemedicine with a unique combination of target markets, technology, and operational efficiency.
Hiring early talent, partnering with researchers & clinicians, and product best practices
▶︎ Victoria Lahutskaya, CEO & Co-Founder of tori health
Victoria is CEO and Co-Founder of tori health, an online mental health provider treating some of the most complex and under-served mental health challenges in a group format. *note: John Knox is an investor in tori health.
Three Overlooked Seeds of Innovation Adoption DNA: Layer-Specific Communication, Cross-Layer Engagement, and Agility-Robustness Balance
▶︎ Shervin Majd, Ph.D., CPO and VP of AI, Footura Inc.
Shervin is the CPO and VP of AI at Footura, an AI-driven health and fitness coaching app.
Adapt to Thrive: The Role of Pivoting in Startups
▶︎ Jolly Nanda, CEO & Founder of Altheia
Jolly Nanda has two decades of experience in healthcare and life sciences; she has direct experience in entrepreneurship and understands the struggles of startups firsthand. She is the founder and CEO of Vikriti Management Consulting which focuses on strategic planning, change management and startup/commercialization consulting. She is also the visionary behind Altheia , a healthcare SaaS company focused on providing whole person views to improve health outcomes.
From Idea to Impact: Prioritizing and Efficiency in Early Medtech R&D
▶︎ Nathan Friedman, CEO of HemaSense
Nathan is CEO of HemaSense, an early warning system for subcutaneous bleeding after surgery.
Medtech Venture, Partnership, and M&A Trends through Q2 2025
▶︎ Chris Dokomajilar, CEO & Founder of DealForma
Chris will present the latest charts from the DealForma database tracking venture investments, licensing partnerships, and M&A in the medtech space as of Q2 2025.
Chris Dokomajilar is the founder and CEO of DealForma, the biopharma and medtech deals database and custom analytics service providing benchmarking data for licensing and funding. Prior to founding DealForma, Chris held research, management consulting, and industry roles at Recombinant Capital, Deloitte, Thomson Reuters, BioCentury, and the University of California San Francisco with molecular biology degrees from the University of California Berkeley.
Opening & Closing Remarks
▶︎ John Knox, CEO & Founder of Moving Average Inc
John is the organizer of the MedTech Summit. As a seasoned technology leader and investor, he brings a unique combination of expertise spanning seven industries and a few boom/bust cycles. His origin in software engineering combined with leadership experience and angel investing has evolved into a focus on bringing innovative technology to market, building strong organizations, and enabling strategic business growth. His track record includes investments in many growing SaaS and medical technology startups — some growing at 20-30% month-over-month.
Details
MedTech Summit will be held online as a streaming LinkedIn Live event. Please register here to reserve your free spot!