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Excited to share our first Pear VC Care CoLab 👩⚕️ x 👨💻 - co-hosted with Lipsa P. (Technical builder) and Andrew Parambath (Clinician) – a two hour collaboration between clinician and technical builders where clinicians come with problems they have seen in the healthcare system and they can collaborate with engineers on how they would build a solution with AI! July 24 Wed 5-7 PM San Francisco We have limited spots due to the curation between clinician and engineer groups we are hoping to create. So please request an invite below! https://lu.ma/MDxSWE #healthcareAI

Excited to share our first Pear VC Care CoLab 👩⚕️ x 👨💻 - co-hosted with Lipsa P. (Technical builder) and Andrew Parambath (Clinician) – a two hour collaboration between clinician and technical builders where clinicians come with problems they have seen in the healthcare system and they can collaborate with engineers on how they would build a solution with AI! July 24 Wed 5-7 PM San Francisco We have limited spots due to the curation between clinician and engineer groups we are hoping to create. So please request an invite below! https://lu.ma/MDxSWE #healthcareAI

🚀 Insider secrets of startup success! Want to know how one of the top startup accelerators helps startups succeed, from 0 to unicorn 🦄? Find out in our latest episode! The new episode of Next Unicorn Podcast, an interview with Ajay Kamat , Partner at Pear VC , and Head of PearX, one of the top startup accelerators, is now available! In this episode, we talk about: -The PearX method of startup success -How PearX helps startups find product-market fit -How PearX helps B2B vs B2C startups -How to avoid common startup mistakes -The most intriguing business models for new AI startups -How to know when it's time for a startup to pivot -How major pivots in PearX startups have led to dramatic successes -What PearX looks for in startups and how PearX evaluates startup teams -How the PearX approach has changed over time and how PearX became one of the top startup accelerators -Ajay's personal career path, including a big unexpected change, and time as a founder -The Next Unicorn bonus round -And more! Listen to this Next Unicorn Podcast 🦄 interview on Apple Podcasts 🍎, Spotify 🎙️, or any other podcast platform. The video version is also available on YouTube 🎥! Just search for “Next Unicorn” on any platform. What’s your biggest takeaway from this episode? Share your thoughts in the comments below! Follow ✅ the podcast and subscribe 🔔 on YouTube so you don’t miss future episodes! #startups #founders #VC #venturecapital #innovation #technology #entrepreneurship #tech

🚀 Insider secrets of startup success! Want to know how one of the top startup accelerators helps startups succeed, from 0 to unicorn 🦄? Find out in our latest episode! The new episode of Next Unicorn Podcast, an interview with Ajay Kamat , Partner at Pear VC , and Head of PearX, one of the top startup accelerators, is now available! In this episode, we talk about: -The PearX method of startup success -How PearX helps startups find product-market fit -How PearX helps B2B vs B2C startups -How to avoid common startup mistakes -The most intriguing business models for new AI startups -How to know when it's time for a startup to pivot -How major pivots in PearX startups have led to dramatic successes -What PearX looks for in startups and how PearX evaluates startup teams -How the PearX approach has changed over time and how PearX became one of the top startup accelerators -Ajay's personal career path, including a big unexpected change, and time as a founder -The Next Unicorn bonus round -And more! Listen to this Next Unicorn Podcast 🦄 interview on Apple Podcasts 🍎, Spotify 🎙️, or any other podcast platform. The video version is also available on YouTube 🎥! Just search for “Next Unicorn” on any platform. What’s your biggest takeaway from this episode? Share your thoughts in the comments below! Follow ✅ the podcast and subscribe 🔔 on YouTube so you don’t miss future episodes! #startups #founders #VC #venturecapital #innovation #technology #entrepreneurship #tech

Exciting new development from the Nightfall AI team: the Nightfall Feed! It's a community and library for discovering, sharing, and collaborating on templates for data leak prevention (#DLP) policies and detectors. Make sure to check it out!

❓"How do I get people to open my emails? Does cold outbound still work?" ❓ These are HIGH on the list of FAQs I get from founders. And why I've wanted to host Samantha McKenna on our Winning Wednesdays webinar series for so long. Sam is the 👑 queen of outbound. She champions humanity in sales while also prioritizing efficiency and results, and simply gives me hope for the future of GTM 😁 #IYKYK 🏆 I'm beyond thrilled to have her joining us on Winning Wednesdays NEXT WEEK to share her gems of wisdom, specifically tailored for founders doing sales for the first time. 👏 Founders, if you want to learn how to fill the top of your funnel the right way, register to join us here: https://lu.ma/rgj8o9cb #samsales #founderledsales #techfounders #winningwednesdayswithpearvc #winningwednesdays #perfectingcoldoutreach #coldoutbound

Generative AI is the latest “it” technology—but it’s also the newest threat vector. So what can your organization do to anticipate threats and secure your sensitive data? Nightfall’s Firewall for AI is a high-accuracy, low-latency API that protects sensitive data in any GenAI or SaaS app. ✅ Scan for PII, payment card data (PCI), healthcare data (PHI), credentials, intellectual property, and more. ✅ Automatically redact, delete, encrypt, or mask sensitive data before it’s leaked to third-party LLMs, embedded in RAG databases, or added to your model training data. ✅ Experience unmatched accuracy, throughput, and response times. Explore our platform and create your free account using the link below ⬇️ https://firewallforai.com/

Don’t miss this upcoming Winning Wednesday session!

📣 I’m excited to share the second episode of Pear Healthcare Playbook's Medicaid Series, brought to you by Pear VC! In this episode, we interview Tracy Douglas, the CEO of Virginia Community Healthcare Association, which is a primary care association representing Virginia’s Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Look-Alike Centers (LALs). If you don’t know what those are — no worries 😉, tune in to learn more about this bedrock provider of services for Medicaid members. Unlike our traditional founder stories, this episode aims to help listeners understand the Medicaid landscape. Accompanying this episode is the first in a series of basic primers on the subject. Read more here (https://lnkd.in/gBRQ9YPU) ✅ Tracy Douglas, with over 25 years in healthcare administration, has held executive roles in FQHCs in Indiana and Maryland. She's led operations in various healthcare settings, including pediatric centers of excellence and a large health system’s managed care division. Currently, as CEO of the VCHA, she oversees operations, program development, and fiscal control, advocating for members with policymakers to enhance primary care access for the underserved in VA. In this episode Tracy and I discussed: ⭐ An overview of FQHCs and LALs, their operational scope, and their financing methods ⭐ The challenges faced by FQHCs ⭐ The process FQHCs use to evaluate and select vendors ⭐ Opportunities available for builders If you’re intrigued by this teaser, check out the episode below and the read-along substack guide. Also watch out for yours truly regularly confusing FQHCs with FHQCs. Acronyms in Healthcare → IYKYK 😅 📖 https://lnkd.in/exKdeiDk 🎙️ https://lnkd.in/e28ppQzS Stay tuned next week for more content!

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