Anne DeGheest

Anne DeGheest pioneered the HealthTech or Digital Health space as a healthcare executive, an entrepreneur, angel investor, corporate advisor and mentor capitalist. She is the founder of HealthTech Capital and MedStars. She organizes and moderates the HealthTech Conference on how to successfully build innovative HealthTech businesses and change healthcare delivery.

Since she founded MedStars in 1986, she has been a corporate development advisor to large healthcare companies and a mentor capitalist specializing in investing and mentoring early stage companies in healthcare. Her life science portfolio companies have generated over $6 billion exits. She provided angel capital, hands-on operating expertise and/or business strategy in the founding of major venture-backed companies like Pyxis (CareFusion), Aspect Medical (acquired by Covidien), VISX (acquired by AMO), Thermage (merged into Solta Medical), VISICU(acquired by Philips), Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI). She also helped grow new entrepreneurial division of large corporations like Johnson & Johnson, Baxter, Medtronic and McKesson. She was also part of the founding executive team of Nellcor (a division of Covidien), MedPool and OmniCell (Nasdaq: OMCL). She was an Entrepreneur-In-Residence with Canaan Partners and IVP.

Anne founded in 2010 HealthTech Capital, a group of private investors dedicated to funding and mentoring new "HealthTech" startups to decrease healthcare cost and empower patients. HealthTech capital is an ecosystem of angels, venture capitalists, providers, payors and healthcare industry key players with the three sets of expertise needed to succeed in this new HealthTech space: healthcare, technology and user engagement.

She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and a guest-lecturer on entrepreneurship and angel investing at Stanford Business School, Dartmouth Tuck and Singularity University.

MBA from Harvard and a Master in Business Engineering from University of Brussels.

adegheest@healthtechcapital.com

Anne DeGheest speaker

• JANUARY 11, 2017
  Health 2.0 Wintertech 2017, San Francisco
  Moderator: VC and their CEOs with Science 37 and Sanofi ventures
  https://events.bizzabo.com/wintertech2017/
  

• FEBRUARY 14, 2017
  AGC Partners 13th Annual west Coast InfoSec and tech Conference, San Francisco
  Panelist on "IOT for Connected Care panel" with panelists from Sentrian, Bernoulli Health, GreatCall and Kaiser Permanente Ventures
  http://agcpartners.com/conf/sanfran-2017/attendees/

• FEBRUARY 28 AND MARCH 1, 2017
  Young StartUp
  Computer History Museum at 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA
  Judge of Life Sciences/Healthcare Tracks
  Moderator VC Panel:  The Future of HIT: Where Investors Are Putting Their Money with panelists from Hearst ventures, GE ventures, Nexus ventures, Three leaf ventures and Maven Ventures
  http://www.youngstartup.com/west2017/agenda.php
  save $150 off the current fee with discount code: " DEGHEEST_VIP"
  

• MARCH 20-21, 2017
  22nd Annual Medical Technologies: A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange
  Lowes Coronado, San Diego, CA
  Panelist on "Investment Strategies for the Innovation Frontier" with panelists from Johnson& Johnson Innovation and QUALCOMM ventures
  www.frost.com/medtech

• MARCH 29, 2017
  8th annual Bay Area Biomedical device conference at San Jose State University
  Student Union Ballroom at San Jose State University.
  Key Note: "Connected Health: Hype vs. Reality in Transforming healthcare delivery"
  www.biomedconference.org

• APRIL 10, 2017
  Stanford Business school
  Panelist featuring investors in the life sciences as well as entrepreneurs
  

• APRIL 27-28, 2017
  Angel Capital Association 2017 Summit
  San Francisco Marriot Marquis
  Panelist on "Silicon Valley to Medical Alley: Industry Trends in Healthcare and Beyond"
  ACA members receive a 25% discount, Use discount code MNMCA
  https://www.angelcapitalassociation.org/2017-summit-agenda/
  

• MAY 18, 2017
  Flanders Bio: Knowledge for Growth Europe life science conference
  ICC in Ghent, Belgium
  Key Note speaker: "Connected Health and digital therapeutics: Hype vs. Reality in transforming healthcare delivery"
  http://knowledgeforgrowth.be/en/programme-2017/speaker/anne-degheest
  

• JUNE19-22, 2017 BIO 2017
  San Diego Convention center
  Panelist on "Alternative Venture Approaches to Life Science Portfolios"
  http://convention.bio.org/2017/
  

• JUNE 27-29, 2017
  Sensors expo in San Jose, CA
  http://www.sensorsexpo.com
  
  

2016 speaker list

• JANUARY 12, 2016
  Redefining Early Stage Investment Conference (RESI) in San Francisco
  Panelist on "Healthcare IT" panel with panelists from Merck Global health, QUALCOMM Life, Asset management and IBM Watson
  http://www.resiconference.com/

• FEBRUARY 3, 2016
  Stanford University
  Invited speaker for class: "Angel Investing for the Serious Investor"
  

• FEBRUARY 9, 2016
  ABL - Silicon Valley Round Table
  El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, CA
  Speaker: "HealthTech Industry Status"
  

• MARCH 1-3, 2016
  HIMSS in Las Vegas

• MARCH 10, 2016
  Harvard Business School Judge at "HBSANC 2016 New Venture Competition"
  Palo Alto, CA
  

• MARCH 16, 2016
  Plug and Play Judge at Health Selection Day
  Sunnyvale, CA
  

• APRIL 4, 2016
  Judge at Genentech "The Quest Innovation Awards"
  Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco, CA
  

• APRIL 26, 2016
  AARP Annual 2016 Health Innovation @50 live pitch
  Judge
  Plug and Play, Sunnyvale, CA
  

• MAY 17-18, 2016
  Huawei
  Key note on "Wearable and Connected Health"
  Shenzhen, China

• JUNE 2016
  National Cancer Institute
  Reviewer and judge for "Devices/Imaging/e-Health"
  

• JUNE 21-22, 2016
  California Israel Chamber Of Commerce (CICC)
  Judge and panelist with panelists from Oracle, Johnson&Johnson Innovation, Life Science angels and Fogarty Institute
  

• JUNE 14, 2016
  Moore Foundation
  Judge and reviewer for "Moore Inventor Fellows" selection
  

• AUGUST 8, 2016
  Fog conference
  Panelist and speaker on "Future of healthcare"
  Plug and Play, Sunnyvale, CA
  

• NOVEMBER 2, 2016
  Moore Foundation: Moore Inventor Fellow
  Panelist on "The "Importance of Invention" with panelists from Berkeley National Laboratory, Stanford University and Harvard University
  San jose Tech Museum, San Jose, CA

• NOVEMBER 29, 2016
  Stanford Business School
  Invited speaker on HealthTech Investment opportunities and Challenges
  

• DECEMBER 14, 2016
  Plug and play
  Judge on "Health & Wellness EXPO" 
  Sunnyvale, CA