Category: Perspectives

Bridging the Rural-Urban Divide: Cultivating Digital Health Innovation in America’s Heartland

PerspectivesBridging the Rural-Urban Divide: Cultivating Digital Health Innovation in America’s Heartland Geography should not be a determining factor for health status. Yet, in the US, the zip code you live in plays an outsized role in determining your health and life expectancy. It directly impacts whether one has access to preventative care, healthy foods, and [...]
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7wireVentures Presents: Top of the Ladder Featuring GroundGame.Health Co-Founder and CEO Susan Rawlings Molina

Perspectives7wireVentures Presents: Top of the Ladder Featuring GroundGame.Health Co-Founder and CEO Susan Rawlings Molina Susan Rawlings Molina is the Co-Founder and CEO of GroundGame.Health, a digital healthcare platform that connects Community Based Organizations (CBOs) with health plans to meet Social Determinant of Health (SDoH) needs of the most difficult to engage healthcare populations. Before leading [...]
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Transforming Consumer Health: How Digital Health is Catalyzing Change in Weight Management

PerspectivesTransforming Consumer Health: How Digital Health is Catalyzing Change in Weight Management Obesity is one of the nation’s most prevalent health issues; its impact is pervasive within our society – from direct medical spending to links with other chronic diseases (e.g., heart disease, stroke, and diabetes) to societal and emotional effects. Strikingly, 1 in 6 [...]
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7wireVentures Presents: Top of the Ladder Featuring Summer Health Founder and CEO Ellen DaSilva

Perspectives7wireVentures Presents: Top of the Ladder Featuring Summer Health Founder and CEO Ellen DaSilva Ellen DaSilva is the Founder and CEO of Summer Health. Summer Health is a consumer-first, longitudinal pediatric care platform that leverages convenient text-based care and LLMs to efficiently meet the health needs of families and children nationwide and 24/7. Founded in [...]
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7wireVentures Presents: Top of the Ladder Featuring 9amHealth Co-Founders & Co-CEOs Frank Westermann and Anton Kittelberger

For Homethrive’s two founders, Dave Jacobs and David Greenberg (colloquially and warmly known as “The Daves”), the experience of caregiving for family members while working represented a major challenge. They found a confusing, hard to navigate system and even after taking countless days off work and spending long hours on the phone, they couldn’t find the answers they needed. They knew there had to be a better way – not just for them, but also for the over 50M Americans that are serving as caregivers to their loved ones today. Thus, in partnership with the 7wireVentures team, Homethrive was Hatched in 2018.

Through this engaging discussion, The Daves share more about their founding story, the challenges and learnings gained from pivoting from multibillion dollar corporate organizations to a scrappy early-stage startup, their perspective on the future of caregiving, and much more in 7wireVentures’ latest Top of The Ladder feature.

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