​Founders, Funders, and Strategics:

​​Join us for an exciting event hosted by ZEISS Medical Technology in Dublin and presented by Alameda Alliance for Health focused on highlighting the investment opportunities in women's health. This event aims to publicize the Tri-Valley women's health innovation ecosystem and connect investors with entrepreneurs. Don't miss this unique opportunity to be part of a growing community dedicated to advancing women's health.

​We begin with networking. Lunch will be served and enjoyed while the program begins. This includes a keynote address by Suncoast Ventures founder and general partner, Genevieve LeMarchal, who led the expanded Series A investment in Raydiant Oximetry.

​The event will also feature a panel of women's health entrepreneurs and leaders from the Tri-Valley and Bay Area including:

• ​Moderator Linda Greub, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Avestria Ventures,

• ​Panelist Denise Malvehy, VP Global Marketing, Raydiant Oximetry

• ​Reem Mahrat, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Daybreak Labs, and founder and CEO of EazeBio

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​Event Agenda:

• ​11:30 am - 12 pm – Arrive and Mingle

• ​12 - 1 pm – Event Program

  • ​Lunch and Welcome: ZEISS Medical Technology 

  • ​Kickoff & Introduction: Yolanda Fintschenko, Startup Tri-Valley 

  • ​The Unseen Opportunities in Women’s Health: Genevieve LeMarchal, Suncoast Ventures  

  • ​Women’s Health Panel - founders, investors, health care leaders including Moderator Linda Greub, Avestria Ventures, and Panelists Reem Mahrat, EazeBio and Denise Malvehy, Raydiant Oximetry, Mads Lillebrand, Qvin, and Lailah Kara-Newton, MD, Aster

• ​Closing Remarks 

• ​1 - 1:30 pm – Networking

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​About the Keynote Speaker Genevieve LeMarchal

​General Partner at Suncoast Ventures

​Genevieve LeMarchal is the Managing Partner of Suncoast Ventures which backs resilient early stage healthcare tech, digital health and medical device founders. Prior to Suncoast she launched and ran Expert Dojo’s healthcare program and ran 3 full cohorts of health tech and medtech companies, becoming one of the most prolific early stage vc investors in Southern California (Crunchbase, 2022) and winner of the 2022 Biocom Lifescience Catalyst Award. She is passionate about entrepreneurs, and advising an mentoring founders. She loves to innovate financial models and find better ways to structure and fund companies and do deals.

​She previously served as Partner at a science focused advisory and fund in formation, was a General Partner at a small Oregon-based VC Fund, and she is co-founder of the Pacific NW based non-profit organization, XXcelerate. She is the host of the AdVentureous Podcast and often writes and delivers talks, keynotes and training to entrepreneurs and investors about venture capital and entrepreneurship, impact and equity investing and more.

​She is a Pacific Northwest native and a new resident to the East Bay area and now resides in Walnut Creek.

​PANEL

​Moderator

​Linda Greub
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Avestria Ventures
Linda Greub is a seasoned investor with a rich background in equity investment management and life sciences. She co-founded Avestria Ventures in 2019 to focus on early-stage women's health and female-led life science companies

​Linda's career spans roles at Bank of America Securities, Applied Biosystems, and various venture-backed life science companies. She is also actively involved in Springboard Enterprises' Women's Health Executive Committee

​Panelists

​Reem Mahrat
Founder & CEO, EazeBio
Reem Mahrat is a serial entrepreneur and chemical engineer turned biotech leader. She founded EazeBio to develop biomarker-based diagnostics for women's health, focusing on early detection and personalized healthcare. Reem's innovative approach aims to empower women to monitor their health at home

​Denise Malvehy
VP, Global Marketing, Raydiant Oximetry
Denise Malvehy leads global marketing at Raydiant Oximetry, a company dedicated to improving maternal health through innovative fetal monitoring technology. Denise's work focuses on leveraging AI and life sciences to make a global impact on maternal care

​Mads Lillebrand
Co-Founder, Qvin
Mads Lillebrand is the co-founder of Qvin, a pioneering healthcare service that uses menstrual blood for diagnostic testing. Qvin's FDA-cleared Q-Pad offers a non-invasive way to monitor health, transforming women's health diagnostics

​Lailah Kara-Newton
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Aster
Dr. Lailah Kara-Newton, MD, co-founded Aster to revolutionize prenatal and postnatal care with predictive and preventative technology. Inspired by her personal experience with undiagnosed preeclampsia, Lailah's work aims to improve maternal health outcomes through better access and monitoring

​About ZEISS Medical Technology

​With a special focus on ophthalmology, ophthalmic surgery, and visualization systems in the field of microsurgery, ZEISS Medical Technology supports healthcare professionals in setting new standards of care with proven medical technology and broad application competence based on cutting-edge innovations. Our global teams have succeeded in developing innovative technologies, digital solutions, and specific applications for the workflows of our customers, which enable them to preserve vision into old age and fight brain tumors. In addition to developing cutting-edge medical products, we focus on developing and establishing solutions that enable the secure and efficient management of health data, improve workflow automation, and enable the use of intelligent algorithms such as machine learning or artificial intelligence. Our workflow solutions, designed for a wide variety of clinical workflows, enable us as a medical technology company to take a holistic approach to addressing customer needs and to make a significant contribution to the digital transformation of the healthcare system. For more information visit our website at www.zeiss.com/med

​About Startup Tri-Valley
Startup Tri-Valley is an initiative to grow and strengthen our region by helping more startups succeed. We do this by connecting founders and innovators to a tightly networked ecosystem of resources built specifically for science-based startups. The initiative is sponsored by the Tri-Valley cities of Dublin, Livermore, Pleasanton, and the Town of Danville and i-GATE Innovation Hub partners Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories. To learn more, visit startuptrivalley.org.

​About i-GATE Innovation Hub

​i-GATE Innovation Hub is a non-profit organization focused on increasing economic prosperity through entrepreneurship in the Tri-Valley. i-GATE provides startup incubation resources through Daybreaks Labs, https://daybreaklabs.org/ and connects the regional innovation ecosystem through the Startup Tri-Valley initiative. To learn more, visit https://igatehub.org.

​City of Dublin, California

​From a population of approximately 14,350 in 1982, the City of Dublin has become a highly diverse city with a resident population of nearly 73,000, and a thriving community with over 2,100 businesses.

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