Define Ventures + MIT Hacking Medicine: Starting Companies in HealthTech

​Good engineering and AI is only one key component of a building a scalable business. Come hear from Hong Truong, a Silicon Valley healthcare investor, and Gina Kim, multi-time entrepreneur (and MIT alum) about what technical entrepreneurs have to get right in order to build a multi-billion dollar business in healthcare.

​Location: MIT Stata Center, Room: 32-144

Speakers:
Hong Truong - Hong is a long time health tech investor, having worked in the venture capital arms of major healthcare organizations like Kaiser Permanente and Cedar Sinai. Before joining Define, she was at the California HealthCare Foundation making strategic investments on behalf of the 14M Medicaid members in California.

​Gina Kim - Gina has been an early employee at some of the most recognized names in digital health like Cohere, Verily and Kyruus, including multiple digital health companies that have now scaled to over $100M in revenues. She is now a founder at a Define Ventures partner company and is also an MIT alum.

​Hosted by:
Define Ventures: Define Ventures is a $800M Silicon Valley venture fund focused exclusively on early stage digital health. We're ex-operators, with careers spanning go-to-market, commercialization, product, and strategy across payers, providers, employers, life sciences, and consumer. At our core, we want to do everything we can to enable our entrepreneurs to build the best organizations they can through our relationships and experience. We were founded in 2018 by Lynne Chou O'Keefe, who led Kleiner Perkins' digital health efforts and has invested in companies from Livongo to Unite Us to HIMS.

​MIT Hacking Medicine: At MIT Hacking Medicine we channel MIT’s entrepreneur spirit to challenge and change the status quo in healthcare. We host healthcare innovation events in Boston and around the globe. Our goal is to bring the brightest minds together and focus on relevant challenges and find innovative solutions