Steven Loeb speaks with Brent Vaughan, Chief Executive Officer at Cognito Therapeutics, a company developing novel disease modifying therapies for neurodegenerative diseases based on neuromodulation. 

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Interview with Brent Vaughan, CEO of Cognito Therapeutics

On the VatorNews innovation podcast, Steven Loeb speaks to Bobby Reddy, MD, COO and co-founder of Pi Health, an oncology-focused health technology and clinical research company.

Bobby Reddy, COO and co-founder of Pi Health, on the VatorNews podcast

On the VatorNews innovation podcast, Steven Loeb speaks to Eric Ly, CEO and co-founder of KarmaCheck, a company looking to make the background check and credentialing process faster, more accurate, and more positive across multiple industries, including healthcare, IT, clerical, and industrial staffing.

Eric Ly, CEO and co-founder of KarmaCheck, on the VatorNews innovation podcast

Will Peng, CEO and co-founder of Northstar joins Bambi Francisco Roizen on the VatorNews Innovation podcast.

Financial well-being can affect all areas of our lives - especially our physical and mental health. One survey found two-thirds of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Paying higher prices for gas and groceries is a big part of it. Higher interest rates also lead to higher credit card debt. It’s no wonder that financial stress is at an all-time high, according to a report. 

And we all know stress makes it harder to make the right decisions. In fact, one study conducted by Morgan Stanley added up the number of hours financially-stressed employees think about personal finances while at work. It’s so much time, employers are effectively paying their employees $4k more a year (based on the average American hourly wage). 

Fortunately, “Northstar" is having success taking that financial burden away from both the employer and the employee.

Will Peng, CEO of Northstar

Steven Loeb and Bambi Francisco Roizen speak with Ian Chiu, Managing Director at Owl Ventures, the largest venture capital firm in the world focused on the education technology market with over $2.5 billion in assets under management. 

The firm has a global portfolio with companies in the US, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and its companies are serving over 591 million learners across 241 countries, ~41,000 Higher Ed institutions and 930,000 employers, and have created over 46,000 jobs.

Ian Chiu, Managing Director at Owl Ventures, on the VatorNews innovation podcast

Omair Ansari, CEO & co-founder of Abhi, on the VatorNews Innovation podcast

In 2025, we may see radical top-down changes to our healthcare system as new heads of the NIH - National Institutes of Health, HHS - Health and Human Services; the CDC - Center for Disease Control and Prevention. And the FDA - Food and Drug Administration as well as CMS - Center for Medicare and Medicaid services. 

How will the heads of these government agencies ignite tech innovation in the healthcare industry?

We’re speaking to many healthcare tech CEOs to see what they think.

Our guest is Joe Wisniewski, AVP of Channel Sales at Turquoise Health. Turquoise is a healthcare pricing platform that uses data from hospital and payer machine-readable files to eliminate the financial complexity of healthcare. It raised $55.3 million from august VCs such as Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners.


Joe Wisniewski, AVP of Channel Sales at Turquoise Health, on the VatorNews podcast

In 2025, we may see radical top-down changes to our healthcare system as new heads of the NIH - National Institutes of Health, HHS - Health and Human Services; the CDC - Center for Disease Control and Prevention. And the FDA - Food and Drug Administration.

How will the heads of these government agencies ignite tech innovation in the healthcare industry?

We’re speaking to many healthcare tech CEOs to see what they think.

Joining us is Ritankar Das, Founder and CEO of Forta Health, which helps family caregivers manage their loved ones with chronic conditions. The first condition of focus is: autism. 

A year ago this month, Forta raised $55 million from VCs such as Insight Ventures and Alumni Ventures.


Ritankar Das, Founder and CEO of Forta Health, on the VatorNews podcast

In 2025, we may see radical top-down changes to our healthcare system as new heads of the NIH - National Institutes of Health, HHS - Health and Human Services; the CDC - Center for Disease Control and Prevention. And the FDA - Food and Drug Administration.

How will the heads of these government agencies ignite tech innovation in the healthcare industry?

We’re speaking to many healthcare tech CEOs, scientists, academics to see what they think.

Joining us is Dr. Robert Pearl, who served as CEO of The Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser Permanente), the nation’s largest medical group, for 18 years. During his tenure, he led 12,000 physicians and 43,000 staff, overseeing the nationally acclaimed care of more than 5 million Kaiser Permanente members on the east and west coasts.

Named one of Modern Healthcare’s 50 most influential physician leaders, Pearl is an advocate for the power of integrated, prepaid, technologically advanced and physician-led healthcare delivery. More than 60,000 readers subscribe to his newsletters on healthcare, including his widely read Monthly Musings on American Healthcare.

Pearl is a clinical professor of plastic surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches courses on strategy and leadership and lectures on information technology and healthcare policy.


Bambi Francisco Roizen and Dr. Pearl debate how to reduce healthcare costs amid a Trump administration

In 2025, we may see radical top-down changes to our healthcare system as new heads of the NIH - National Institutes of Health, HHS - Health and Human Services; the CDC - Center for Disease Control and Prevention. And the FDA - Food and Drug Administration.

How will the heads of these government agencies ignite tech innovation in the healthcare industry?

We’re speaking to many healthcare tech executives, such as CEOs and doctors and academics, to see what they think.

Joining us is Dr. Ivan Rusilko, a doctor of lifestyle medicine based in Miami. He’s been practicing this more natural way to address health and fitness for more than 15 years. He’s faced critics along the way but now his once-unconventional approach to medicine is being embraced.

Dr. Ivan Rusilko says Trump’s changes to healthcare leadership will boost lifestyle medicine

​Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning verification platform called World debuted in the US. Altman is known as founder of OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. What does this new biometric tool mean for US consumers?  

Joining us to talk about this announcement is Jake Brukhman, a Managing Partner, Founder & CEO of CoinFund, an investor in World (formerly Worldcoin).