From identifying an unmet need to building a venture that transforms lives.
What does it really take to build a successful health tech company?
Join us for a podcast conversation exploring the founder journey, from spotting an overlooked problem and validating the opportunity to building a product, navigating regulatory and commercial challenges, raising investment, and scaling a company in one of the world’s most impactful industries.
This session will go beyond the headlines to uncover the realities of building a health tech startup, with practical insights for aspiring founders, innovators, researchers, and anyone interested in the future of healthcare innovation.
What we’ll cover
- Identifying and validating unmet healthcare needs
- Building products that solve real clinical and patient problems
- Navigating the unique challenges of health tech entrepreneurship
- Fundraising and scaling in a highly regulated sector
- Lessons learned from building a company in a historically underserved healthcare category
- Advice for founders looking to enter the health innovation ecosystem
Speaker:
Dr. Soum Rakshit, Co-Founder & CEO, MV.Health
Dr. Soum Rakshit, FIET, FRSA, is the Co-Founder & CEO of MV.Health. After completing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, he founded an eye-recognition startup that was later acquired by a US defence company. He then spent seven years in management consulting, delivering large-scale technology projects before founding MV.Health in 2014.
MV.Health combines defence electronics with medical expertise to develop innovative medical devices that adapt to the user’s body and deliver targeted vibration therapy. The company’s products address a wide range of conditions, including genito-pelvic pain, penetration pain, arousal disorder, erectile dysfunction, delayed ejaculation, prostatitis, period pain, mastitis, and more.
Moderator:
Navneet Kaur, Founder & Managing Partner, TechThrive Ventures | Founder, FemTech India
Navneet Kaur is the Founder & Managing Partner of TechThrive Ventures and the Founder of FemTech India, the country’s first and largest women’s health innovation ecosystem. Before entering venture capital, she built and scaled seven consumer brands across six states in India.
Through FemTech India, she has connected more than 450 founders and investors, supported over 200 startups (including one unicorn), authored the first FemTech industry book backed by UNFPA, and built a global media platform reaching audiences in over 90 countries with more than 3.5 million impressions. Her work spans venture capital, consumer health, women’s health, policy, and global ecosystem building.
Whether you’re building a startup, exploring entrepreneurship, conducting research, or simply curious about the future of healthcare innovation, this session will offer practical insights and inspiring lessons from founders at the forefront of health tech.
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