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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Jas Grewal, CEO of CareSkore (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Tell us a little bit about your company. You’re a venture-funded company in the Bay Area, right? Jas Grewal: Yes, we are. The company started in 2015. We signed on a couple of pilot customers that we built our initial products around. We were looking at data. We were working incognito for a
Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Jas Grewal, CEO of CareSkore (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the payer side. What is the use case on the payer side and how do you cater to those customers? Jas Grewal: Interestingly, both have the same use cases. On the payer side, they also want to understand the existing and future risks of the patient. We are working with
Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Jas Grewal, CEO of CareSkore (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What about disease-specific or more demographic-specific? Jas Grewal: I’ll take a disease-specific example. In our latest presentation, we followed 12 years of data for cardiology patients. One of the really surprising findings was that 58% were women. It is seen as a man’s disease but, at the same time, it’s known as a
Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Jas Grewal, CEO of CareSkore (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: These models that are helping with the recommendations, do you have heuristics? How are the models architected? Jas Grewal: The models are actually based on past research. One of the things about CareSkore is that we are a pretty academic company. We started following patients. We have historical data from Stanford and Yale.
Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Jas Grewal, CEO of CareSkore (Part 1)
Jas bootstrapped CareSkore with a paycheck and then was accelerated at YCombinator. The company rapidly scaled to over $5 million in revenues in 2016 selling a patient relationship management to hospitals and insurance companies. It’s a great window into a segment of Healthcare IT! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to CareSkore. Jas
Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Philippe d’Offay, CEO of PMD (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Talk to me about revenue ramp. You talked about hitting $1 million in 2009. How did the business accelerate from thereon? What were the drivers? Philippe d’Offay: We’re a four-time Inc 5000 nominee. That is one distinction that we’ve had. Last year, we generated $6.4 million in revenue. From 2009 to 2015, there was
Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Philippe d’Offay, CEO of PMD (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: What you described is a very interesting organizing principle for organizational behaviour. Philippe d’Offay: It was fascinating. I’m one of those people who can’t just stop thinking about identifying the solution to the problems. Sramana Mitra: When you figured this out, you were able to put back the right dynamics in place? Philippe
Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Philippe d’Offay, CEO of PMD (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: After you moved to the Bay Area, what were the next major strategic moves? Philippe d’Offay: After moving to the Bay Area, we had a product that physicians were very happy with. We were cash flow positive for four straight years. I talked about almost being bankrupt when we were in Atlanta. The
