Episode #372 of The VentureFizz Podcast features Florian Hillen, CEO & Founder of VideaHealth.
It goes without saying that AI is going to transform pretty much every industry, but I think there is such a unique opportunity in healthcare as the benefits are hopefully going to be extraordinary.
The tricky thing about building a company in healthcare is that it’s heavily regulated industry, so you need to get FDA approval on the algorithms and AI technology if you are building software as a medical device, so that is going to take a lot of time… but once you get there, it makes your company highly defensible.
And this is the very case of VideaHealth which was ahead of the curve as an AI native company that has been in existence for 6.5 years and crossed the hurdles of the FDA.
Fast forward to today, VideaHealth has scaled to over 40,000 dental clinicians using their platform every day for identifying and treating dental conditions and the company is processing over a half of a billion x-rays a year. VideaHealth recently announced a $40M Series B round of funding.
In this episode of our podcast, we cover lots of great topics:
- Chapters:
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:10 The Rise of AI in Healthcare
- 03:19 Florian’s Journey from Medicine to Entrepreneurship
- 08:35 Founding VideaHealth: The Vision Behind the Company
- 12:03 The Importance of Oral Health and Its Impact
- 13:34 Early Days of VideaHealth
- 18:10 Transforming Dental Practices with AI
- 25:06 Scaling Through Strategic Partnerships
- 26:56 Hiring and Company Culture at Video Health
- 30:00 Lessons Learned in Building a Startup
- 30:15 Hiring & the Importance of Talent Density
- 31:09 Priorities and What You “Do Not Do”
- 31:49 Be Customer Obsessed
- 32:59 Process for Fundraising
- 39:07 App, Podcast, & Book Recommendations
