The Company Your Proteins Keep May Kill You or Make You Live Longer This week, Draper Esprit has announced that it is leading a significant investment round ($31m) into Cambridge (UK) based Fluidic Analytics to help it scale fast. BGF and Delin Ventures have joined our syndicate; existing investors IQ…

The genomic century has only just started. Get your seatbelts on! — Today, we are delighted to announce that Draper Esprit and DCVC are leading a $12.3m investment in Cambridge UK based company, Evonetix . I will be joining the board along with Matt Ocko, co founder of DCVC, and a leading voice in Silicon Valley deep tech VC community. Evonetix is…

Ieso’s aim is to improve access and quality of CBT for millions of people and we are delighted to be a part of their journey — Imagine a health debate where ministers promised that at least 15% of cancer sufferers will receive evidence based proven medical treatments. Or that they were hoping that at least 25% of expectant mothers will get access to safe childbirth. You would rightly think…

For those of you who have not experienced the frictionless new world of telemedicine, you may be excused for not believing this headline. — Your disbelief is supported by data. According to the King’s Fund, the number of GP appointments went up by 13% this year; increasingly, people are finding it harder to see their GP at their time of choice. A survey by Pulse (a publication for doctors) found that the average waiting…

Today, I am excited. The sun is out but more importantly, the news is out! Draper Esprit successfully raised another £100m in its listed fund Draper Esprit (LN:GROW). …

Data Science has been a Force Behind Medical Progress — Over 250 years years ago Edward Jenner, the “father of immunology” was born in Berkeley (Gloucestershire, not California). He spent years studying small pox, one of the greatest killers of the period. Over many years he made a crucial observation: those who were infected with a certain strain of cowpox…

It must be a slow news day at the BBC but this is an important wake-up call for healthcare service providers. …

On the 26th of May, I did a keynote on future of healthcare at the Charité Entrepreneurship Summit 2016 to an audience composed of investors, entrepreneurs and healthcare professionals (Charite Hospital is the leading centre of excellence in Berlin and plays an important role in education and healthcare entrepreneurship in…

Many decades before Elizabeth Holmes was born, Indian freedom fighter Subhash Bose had the rallying cry “Give me blood and I will give you freedom”. This may well have been Theranos’ motto as it championed the cause of patients having direct access to blood testing freeing them from the tyranny…