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Our final episode of C-Sweet Talks Season 1 features Lisa Suennen! Lisa is a venture capital investor and the managing partner of Venture Valkyrie, LLC, which publishes the Venture Valkyrie blog and co-produces the Tech Tonics podcast. She is a previous co-founder of CSweetener, a women's healthcare mentoring organization.Currently, Lisa Suennen is a managing director with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, where she leads the firm's Digital & Technology Group and its venture capital fund, Manatt Ventures. With more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, board member, and strategic advisor, she helps companies adopt and leverage digital technologies, develop strategies for growth through innovation and investment and build strong collaborations between established players and entrepreneurs.
In this episode, we chat about some of Lisa’s pithy, spot on publications (“3 Questions Every Investor Must Ask”, “13 Rules for Healthcare Entrepreneurs/Innovators”), her role in advancing women in healthcare, and how she got to where she is today. Lisa Suennen currently works at Manatt, where she runs the digital technology group, consults with the healthcare group, and runs Manatt Venture Fund. Lisa also writes a popular blog, Venture Valkyrie, and co-hosts a podcast called “TechTonics” with David Shaywitz. We were thrilled for the chance to sit down with such a pillar in the digital health ecosystem and had a fantastic time getting to know her.
Lisa Suennen, Leader, Manatt Digital & Technology Lisa Suennen is the leader of Manatt Digital and Technology and the firm's venture capital / emerging companies practice. With more than 30 years' experience as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, board member and strategic advisor, she has focused broadly on new technologies and how they are transforming businesses. She has spent much of her career helping companies adopt and leverage digital technologies, develop strategies for growth through innovation and investment, and build strong collaborations between established players and entrepreneurs. Lisa heads the firm's digital and technology businesses as well as the firm's venture capital fund. She also works closely with Manatt Health, engaging with payers, health systems and companies to provide strategic advice on innovation, digital strategy and growth. Lisa previously served as managing partner of Venture Valkyrie LLC, an advisory firm focused on helping healthcare organizations adopt venture capital and innovation programs and develop new business creation models and digital health strategies. Lisa spent the past 20 years as a venture capitalist, first as a partner with Psilos Group, then leading the healthcare fund at GE Ventures. Prior to that, she was part of the leadership team that built Merit Behavioral Care, an $800 million behavioral healthcare company, guiding it through its successful IPO and exit. Her earlier career focused on product management and marketing in the technology sector. Lisa currently serves on several private company boards and chairs the advisory board of the NASA-funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health. She is also on the faculty at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, and is cofounder of CSweetener, which matches women in and nearing the healthcare C-suite with mentors. Additionally, Lisa writes the Venture Valkyrie blog and hosts the Tech Tonics podcast.
Investing in healthcare and technology is critical for building a healthier world. Lisa Suennen of Venture Valkyrie and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, unpacks what this looks like, predicts the future of health and tech, plus she shares her connection to four-leaf clovers.
Episode 2 features Lisa Suennen, venture capital investor, healthcare industry advisor and founder of Venture Valkyrie. Listen as she and Dr. Kvedar discuss the role of venture capital funding for healthcare, her trailblazing work as a woman in an historically male dominated field and her thoughts on the emerging trends we can expect for the... Read more »
This week you’re gonna hear from Lisa Suennen, Venture Valkyrie herself - she shares her thoughts on blockchain in tech (whiz bang buzzword alert!), on price transparency, and how tech continues to transform the healthcare landscape … slowly. The combination of technology and humanity will indeed be the winner. That’s what I’m working toward, and what Lisa Suennen is devoting her time, talent, and treasure to on the daily. If you wanna stay woke on separating shiny objects in healthcare technology from the real tech-human acceleration machines, follow Venture Valkyrie’s “what would Lisa Suennen say?” insight factory, also known as her blog. She’s got a podcast, too - Tech Tonics, which she co-hosts with David Shaywitz. Lisa Suennen on Twitter https://venturevalkyrie.com/ https://twitter.com/VentureValkyrie https://venturevalkyrie.com/ https://venturevalkyrie.com/the-tech-tonics-podcast/ Venture Valkyrie press clips: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/lists/female-health-it-leaders-to-know.html https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/06/lisa-suennen-health-care-gatekeeper/ Mentions: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/upshot/costs-health-care-us.html https://medium.com/@mightycasey/selling-my-health-data-cut-me-in-bitches-447880201004 https://evidation.com/ https://allofus.nih.gov/ Corrie Painter, Broad: https://www.broadinstitute.org/bios/corrie-painter Metastatic Breast Cancer Project: https://www.mbcproject.org/ Angiosarcoma Project: https://ascproject.org/home Prostate Cancer Project: https://mpcproject.org/home THIS WEEK’S RANT! Speaking of spending like drunken sailors on healthcare, this week saw some hilarious fist fights over a report from the Mercatus Center, a libertarian think tank at George Mason University, that pearl-clutched over Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All bill in the Senate, exclaiming that Sanders’ plan would increase US healthcare spending by THIRTY TWO TRILLION DOLLARS OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS. Oh, the humanity!! But … wait a minute. We’re spending close to three and a half trillion a year right now, with costs predicted to increase in the next ten years by an average of 5.5% a year. Back of the napkin, simple arithmetic, that means that we’ll be spending close to FIFTY FIVE TRILLION bucks on healthcare in the next ten years with our current status quo payment model. So Bernie’s Big Idea looks like it could SAVE us almost TWENTY TRILLION BUCKS! And everybody would be covered. So … LET’S DOOOOO EEEEET! Oh, right, that’s a terrible idea. ‘Cause helping every American person be as healthy as possible is just a shitty idea, right? ‘Merica! It’s a wonderful country! Just don’t get sick! Sponsor: Danny van Leeuwen, also known as Health Hats - with his diverse and prolific health experience, Danny uses his multiple hats to empower people as they travel toward their best health. To join Danny on that best health journey visit his blog. Music: Movin’ On Up by Podington Bear http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Upbeat/MovinOnUp Podcast distribution rights: Creative Commons 3.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Figuring out how to systematize productize and simplify the access to the social determinants of health
Lisa Suennen is Managing Director at GE Ventures and Managing Partner at Venture Valkyrie. She spends a lot of time evaluating young healthcare companies, as well as tracking trends and evaluating the healthcare industry as a whole. Because of that, Lisa has developed a keen eye for what's real, what's working, and what...might not be living up to the hype. Two of the things that she's poking some holes in are population health and consumer health. Be prepared for the quote, “short term savings and long-term nothing.”
For more than a decade, Lisa Suennen, Senior Managing Director, healthcare at GE Ventures and Managing Partner at Venture Valkyrie, LLC, has blogged and opined on the healthcare industry. In this podcast she reveals what first led her to speak up and shares how Medtech execs can find their own voices. She also talks about CSweetner.org, a not-for-profit she created to help women executives rise to the C-suite.