Our favorite thing about working in healthcare is the people.
This industry brings together brilliant, highly-motivated individuals who are driven by the opportunity to make a difference. This podcast introduces you to these leaders and how to make sense of what’s going on in the healthcare industry.
Episode by episode, we’ll figure out how to improve healthcare for all.
Halle Tecco
Halle Tecco is an entrepreneur and angel investor passionate about fixing our healthcare system. She is the founder of Natalist (acquired by Everly Health), digital health venture fund Rock Health, and co-founder / Chair of Cofertility. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, teaching the first MBA-level course on digital health investing. since 2015
A proud first-generation college graduate, Halle earned an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a B.S. from Case Western Reserve University.
She has served as a Board Member to Resolve since 2022, the International African American Museum since 2018, and as an Advisor to the Harvard Medical School Department of Biomedical Informatics since 2014.
Halle has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and CNBC. She was named as one of Goldman Sach’s Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and listed on the Forbes 30 under 30. She has spoken at the Aspen Ideas Festival, CES, TechCrunch Disrupt, and was a SXSW Keynote speaker.
Steve Kraus
Steve Kraus is a partner at Bessemer in the Cambridge office and a world-renowned healthcare investor. He is the author of Bessemer’s 10 Laws of Healthcare and Benchmarks for Growing Health tech Businesses. Steve currently sits on the boards of Bright Health Group, Headspace Health, Groups, Qventus, AspenRx, HouseRx, Oshi Health, Folx Health, Mural Health, and Alcresta.
Steve graduated from summa cum laude from Yale University and earned his MBA from Harvard, where he was a Baker Scholar.
Prior to joining Bessemer, Steve worked for a growth-stage, private equity firm and as a management consultant at Bain & Company. He has also worked as a journalist and on several different political campaigns throughout his career.
He serves as an Observer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an advisor to Boston Children’s Hospital and the Harvard Business School’s Center for Entrepreneurship, and on the investment committees of BCBS Massachusetts and Rock Health.
Steve has appeared in Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Axios, STAT News, and others.
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