In the seventh episode of Closing Time, founder Pelu Tran pitches his company, Ferrum Health. Pelu is on a mission to use AI to reduce the impact of medical errors, modernize quality improvement, and improve patient outcomes. Ferrum Health, works directly with hospitals and clinics, serving as a middleware layer that everyone seems to be missing. With over 60 AI vendors, and a number of leading health systems on board, he aims to build the Plaid for healthcare AI.
Guest investor Jeff Hammerbacher, long time angel investor, data scientist, and a Board Member at DataVant, PerkinElmer, and Emids, and co-hosts Michael Esquivel and Halle Tecco, dive deep into building the middleware layer between providers and AI companies, the biggest pain points today for providers adopting AI tools (and the biggest pain points for the AI companies), how they make money today, and how he thinks they’ll make money in the future, taking capital from corporate venture capital (CVC), and how the worst number of CVC investors is one.
Co-hosted by Halle Tecco and Michael Esquivel, Closing Time is a podcast where you, the listener, get to be a fly on the wall during a startup pitch meeting. Imagine being part of a room where passionate entrepreneurs are pitching their healthcare startups, the innovations that could very well shape the future of healthcare. This podcast allows you to do just that.