Woebot hires regulatory technique exec and extra digital well being hires
Woebot Well being, maker of a psychological well being chatbot, lately appointed Dr. Robbert Zusterzeel as vice chairman of regulatory science and technique.
Zusterzeel involves Woebot from IQVIA, the place he served as senior director of U.S. regulatory science and technique. He’d beforehand labored on the FDA for almost 10 years.
“We consider in and have embraced regulation from the beginning and have expanded our science-based product group, which makes it the right time so as to add deep experience to speed up the method towards clearance. Robbert’s distinctive mixture of scientific, scientific and regulatory abilities and keenness for this rising area shall be instrumental in bringing our clinically-proven merchandise to market,” Woebot founder and president Alison Darcy stated in an announcement.
In March, the startup added a $9.5 million funding from Leaps by Bayer, constructing on a $90 million Collection B from July 2021. Woebot additionally acquired FDA Breakthrough System Designation for its investigational postpartum melancholy digital therapeutic, WB001, final 12 months. Moreover it is engaged on a product for adolescent melancholy, dubbed WB002.
Decentralized scientific trial startup Curebase named Sean Lynch as vice chairman of scientific operations.
Lynch beforehand labored as senior director of scientific venture administration at tech-driven scientific trial firm TrialSpark. He’d additionally served as senior director of world gross sales and senior venture supervisor at scientific analysis group Syntactz.
“Sean is an skilled scientific trial skilled with a powerful enterprise improvement background, which makes him superb to steer our scientific operations,” Curebase founder and CEO Tom Lemberg stated in an announcement. “His capability to arrange and encourage scientific trial groups and his venture administration coaching will drive development for the corporate whereas opening up alternatives for extra folks to take part in medical analysis.”
Earlier this 12 months, Curebase raised $40 million in Collection B funding.
Ophelia, which provides digital remedy for opioid use dysfunction, appointed Lon Binder as chief know-how officer.
Binder most lately was CTO at Cityblock Well being, a tech-enabled supplier startup aimed on the Medicaid and low-income Medicare populations. He has additionally served as CTO at vision-care and glasses retailer Warby Parker.
“Lon is an skilled know-how chief with a uncommon mixture of imaginative and prescient, creativity, coronary heart and drive,” Zack Grey, cofounder and CEO of Ophelia, stated in an announcement. “We could not have discovered a greater match for our mission, tradition and workforce. We’re extraordinarily proud to work with him and to construct the core know-how collectively that may energy the way forward for habit remedy.”
Ophelia raised two rounds of funding in 2021: a $15 million Collection A introduced in April and a $50 million Collection B from December.
Suki, maker of an AI-backed healthcare documentation assistant, introduced two new hires for its product workforce.
Belwadi Srikanth will function vice chairman of product and design. He labored at Google for greater than 15 years, the place he labored as director of product administration.
Anmol Rastogi was named senior director of product administration. He’d beforehand served as vice chairman of merchandise at Indian on-line mortgage firm Lendingkart and as India product lead with monetary companies agency Tala.
“At Suki, we acknowledge that profitable merchandise come from groups comprised of deep expertise. We need to entice one of the best within the enterprise as we purpose to convey pleasure again to drugs by assuaging doctor burnout,” Punit Soni, founder and CEO of Suki, stated in an announcement. “These two new product leads are key appointments who’re greater than ready to supply the management that may make our product imaginative and prescient a actuality within the coming years.”
Suki most lately introduced a $55 million Collection C spherical in late 2021.
House and senior care platform Honor Expertise named Andrew Steinberg as chief monetary officer.
He beforehand labored at funding banking agency Evercore, the place he was a managing director centered on M&A and capital markets advisory in software program, AI and machine studying, medtech and journey tech.
“I’m thrilled to welcome Andrew along with his deep breadth of data to our government management workforce,” Honor CEO and cofounder Seth Sternberg stated in an announcement. “His alignment with Honor’s mission to develop the world’s capability to care will place us to optimize the huge alternatives we’re experiencing within the house care market and improve our capability to ship on this imaginative and prescient.”
In October, Honor introduced it had raised $70 million in a Collection E spherical and $300 million in debt financing, incomes the corporate unicorn standing with a valuation of greater than $1.25 billion. The corporate additionally lately acquired house care supplier House As an alternative.
