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Scalpels & Spreadsheets
#12 How AI Applications are changing Healthcare. Mahshid Yassaei.
As part of the Ctrl+Cure event held in Toronto August 2025, Mahshid Yassaei Joined us for a powerful fireside chat to share how Tali Ai is using AI to enhance a physician's workflow. Mahshid talks about what she things the future of AI scribes looks like, how to navigate among noise and larger incumbents in a competive market and how finding your specific customers can help you grow.Check out Tali AI: www.tali.ai/
2025-09-15
42 min
Scalpels & Spreadsheets
#11 Built to Last: Growth & Customer Retention in Healthtech. Caitlin McCabe. Neelam Bance.
Fireside chat from the She Speaks Health event held in Toronto July 2025.Caitlin McCabe brings deep expertise in customer success, with a focus on driving growth and long-term retention. She currently leads customer success at one of Canada’s top digital health companies, overseeing enterprise-level partnerships and helping teams scale sustainably by keeping customers engaged.She’s joined by Neelam Bance, whose career began in pharma and has evolved into a leadership role in precision medicine. At MedGeneius, she’s helping bring pharmacogenetic insights to the forefront of care, suppor...
2025-09-11
21 min
Scalpels & Spreadsheets
#10 What actually works in Healthcare Marketing. Francesca Passudetti. Tayler Hoffart.
Fireside chat from the She Speaks Helath event held in Toronto July 2025.Francesca Passudetti a senior marketing manager at ALK Canada, where she shapes strategies that bring allergy care innovations to patients and providers. Previously, she was a product manager at Novo Nordisk, leading patient strategy.She’s joined by Tayler Hoffart, who brings deep experience in business operations and growth across early-stage healthtech companies,most recently helping scale Empathia AI, a company using artificial intelligence to automate medical documentation for clinicians.In this episode, Tayler and Francesca explore what makes healthcare marketing re...
2025-08-22
18 min
Scalpels & Spreadsheets
#9 Canada’s Moment: How to Lead the Next Wave of Innovation in Pharma. Orchid Jahanshahi.
As part of the She Speaks Health event held in Toronto July 2025, Orchid Jahanshahi delivered a powerful keynote on how Canadians can lead the next big wave in pharma.Orchid is the founder of ThinkrBelle, an advisory firm bridging pharma and healthtech to drive smarter, faster innovation. With nearly 30 years in global pharma and a successful pivot into AI startups, she brings a rare blend of deep industry experience and startup execution. Orchid is also a mentor at the Creative Destruction Lab, supporting pharma professionals navigating change.In this episode...
2025-08-08
21 min
Scalpels & Spreadsheets
#8 How VCs Invest in Healthtech & Biopharma: From Pre-Seed to Series C. Zeeshan Ali. Suman Rao. Timothy Sung.
In this live panel episode, three leading VCs share how they evaluate and fund companies across healthtech, medtech, and biopharma — from pre-seed through Series C.Zeeshan Ali (MaRS IAF), Suman Rao (Lumira Ventures), and Timothy Sung (Esplanade Ventures) dive into storytelling for fundraising, what investors are looking for, how to prepare and make the most of your calls with investors, and how to set yourself up for success as a founder.Whether you’re building or scaling in regulated healthcare sectors, this episode offers clear, practical advice from investors actively deploying capital.
2025-07-25
29 min
Scalpels & Spreadsheets
# 7 How to scale your company with non-dilutive funding from Innovation Canada. Brian Gordon.
Brian Gordon is the Senior Innovation Advisor at Innovation Canada (part of ISED Canada). Innovation canada works with canadian businesses on scaling within and outside of canada through various programs and non-dilutive funding. Brian has extensive experience helping healthtech and medtech companies grow, in corporate and advisory roles, and shares his insights and advice for current entrepreneurs growing their ventures.Tune in to hear how to find and apply for grants with Innovation Canada. Check out Innovate Canada: www.ised-isde.canada.ca/
2025-03-26
27 min
Generative AI Group Podcast
Week of 2024-12-22
Alex: Hello and welcome to The Generative AI Group Digest for the week of 22 Dec 2024! Maya: We're Alex and Maya. Alex: First up, we’re talking about testing fluency in Text-to-Speech models, a puzzle Mahesh Chandran G raised. Maya: Testing fluency sounds tricky without a reference text, right? How do you even start? Alex: Luv Singh shared that he uses Speech-To-Text models, compares outputs to reference, and applies the Longest Common Sequence method to match the audio with text. Mahesh wanted to know other ways without references. Maya: So is there a way to score fluency without that gold standard? Al...
2024-12-22
00 min
Expert Talk with Bhavya Desai
Shark Tank EXPOSED: WatchOut Wearables, Smartwatches, Funding Market ft. Abhishek Baheti | Ep 21
In this episode, we discuss India's wearable market, the Shark Tank experience, how to navigate the startup & funding ecosystem with Abhishek Baheti, Founder & Director of WatchOut Wearables.The episode features a lot of information if you're an entrepreneur seeking to raise funds and run a successful startup. 📢 Don’t forget to Like, Comment, and Share this video! Your engagement helps us bring more such content. ✅ Subscribe to Expert Talk with Bhavya Desai for more updates on our political series and hit the bell icon to stay notified about our latest episodes. This podcast was shot on Sony A7 IV and FE...
2024-09-20
1h 19
Happy & Human
Financial Independence for Couples with Aman Costigan
Send us a textSeema and Dinesh dive deep into all things personal finance, money talks in marriage, and personal development in their conversation with lawyer and law firm partner turned Life Strategist for Couples, Aman. She shares the sacrifices her and her family have made on their path to financial independence and prioritize saving. As two accomplished attorneys, Aman and her husband committed to personal development and intentional living. She’s sharing their tips with others so they can find that financial freedom in their own lives. Aman has a special for Happy and Hum...
2024-09-03
1h 06
Spender Bender
Spender Bender ft. Aman Jotwani & Night Toothpaste
Welcome to Spender Bender, the podcast where the hosts and the guests talk about the dumb and ridiculous things they've bought over the course of their lives. Aman brings a whiteboard (2nd whiteboard on the show) and a map, Govind brings his aphrodisiac drink and an actual mall metal detector, and Hoshang brings his dental care products with specific use-cases.Follow Govind Menon: https://www.instagram.com/agovindmenon/Follow Hoshang Maini: https://www.instagram.com/hoshangmaini/Follow Antariksh Takkar: https://www.instagram.com/antariksht/Follow Aman: https://www.instagram.com/amanjotwani_/Produced by Antariksh TakkarExecutive Producer - Aashna SanghviArtwork...
2024-08-31
1h 04
Spill the Tea with Sneha
Zeenat Aman and Shabana Azmi | Bun Tikki | Spill The Tea with Sneha
A Film Companion exclusive from the sets of Bun Tikki with Zeenat Aman and Shabana Azmi. Sneha Menon Desai takes you on the sets of the Manish Malhotra produced film directed by Faraz Ansari for the shoot of the film's climax scene. The actresses talk about their stories from the sets in the 80s, their working relationship and how they choose their projects now. Of course we asked Zeenat Aman about her Instagram A-game! Follow Us Onhttp://instagram.com/filmcompanionhttps://www.twitter.com/filmcompanion https://www.facebook.com/filmcompanionF...
2024-07-16
26 min
Scalpels & Spreadsheets
# 6 From Tae kwon do to entrepreneurship: How far wearable health data can take us to improve lives. Marco Benitez.
Marco Benitez is the CEO & Founder of ROOK. ROOK solves the challenge of wearable health data integration by providing its clients with clean and structured data sets through API. The implications are massive for insurance, digital health and pharmaceutical companies as ROOK enables them to focus on generating value for their end-users.Tune in to hear about how ROOK is looking to improve predictive and preventative healthcare, how personalized health data can generate value for businesses and end-users, and how ROOK is gearing for long-term growth.Marco also reflects on experiences from his life that...
2024-06-17
49 min
Scalpels & Spreadsheets
# 5 Why the Middle East could be the perfect place for your next healthcare venture. Kseniya Ponomareva.
Kseniya Ponomareva is the Business Development Manager at EMedSupport. EMedSupport helps physicians make evidence-based decisions to prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases and has offices in Cyprus and the UAE. Kseniya joined EMedSupport about a year ago after having had a career as a Product Manager at Sanofi.Kseniya moved to the UAE two years ago, and she shares her learnings about the scope of healthcare innovation across the Middle East, the pathways to seek regulatory approval for new or existing health innovations & technologies, and the best way for others to explore opportunities in the region as she...
2024-03-20
40 min
Scalpels & Spreadsheets
# 4 Why female health deserves much more of the spotlight. Lauren Barker.
Lauren Barker is the CEO of Uresta. Uresta is a Canadian female health organization that is looking to solve bladder leaks and urinary incontinence with an innovative health product. Lauren joined Uresta after having had a career in Investment Banking and Private Equity intrigued by positive impact Uresta could have on women’s health. Tune in to learn about Lauren’s journey into entrepreneurship and how she’s been able to create a go-to-market and organic growth strategy for a problem space that’s been considered taboo in the past. Lauren also talks about the need for...
2024-01-09
47 min
Scalpels & Spreadsheets
# 3 Why you should break all the rules of entrepreneurship. Nikhit Anilbhai and Sonakshi Senthil.
Nikhit Anilbhai and Sonakshi Senthil are the co-founders of Your Cue. Your Cue is a UK-based startup that came to fruition out of the COVID-19 pandemic after Nikhit experienced challenges with ensuring patient safety without consistent vital signs monitoring during work as a frontline physician when healthcare systems were at a breaking point. With the goal of ensuring every patient is continuously monitored at an affordable price, Sonakshi and Nikhit began ideating on solutions that ranged from software to hardware solutions before settling on a finger-based wearable device. They share their experience of prototyping their product without...
2023-12-11
47 min
Scalpels & Spreadsheets
# 2 Solving the massive U.S. healthcare staffing shortage with clinical students. Eric Alvarez.
Eric Alvarez is the Founder and CEO of Grapefruit Health. Grapefruit Health is looking to relieve pressure caused by staffing shortages on the U.S. healthcare system by contracting clinical students to take over lower acuity work, improving patient outcomes.Eric shares what Grapefruit Health has been able to accomplish over the past year and a half, including iterating on feedback, successfully fundraising, and creating a flexible and versatile solution catered to the needs of providers. Eric also shares how Grapefruit Health has benefitted from his prior experiences working at a now-acquired enterprise healthcare solutions company and...
2023-11-20
46 min
Scalpels & Spreadsheets
# 1 How patients and their caregivers can benefit from simplified, accessible data. Shannon Aylesworth.
Shannon Aylesworth is the Founder and CEO of Ursamin. Ursamin is looking to help patients suffering from chronic illnesses and their caregivers make better health decisions by improving access to easily-interpretable health data.We talk about the growing problem of chronic illnesses impacting the U.S. healthcare system, how we can collect and interpret health data from multiple sources for meaningful health insights, and how an entrepreneur can position themselves to make an impact in healthcare. Check out Ursamin: www.ursamin.comBe a guest: www.scalpelsandspreadsheets.comFollow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin...
2023-09-05
42 min
Scalpels & Spreadsheets
# 0 Welcome to Scalpels & Spreadsheets!
Welcome to Scalpels & Spreadsheets. This episode lays down my goals with this podcast.
2023-06-17
01 min
Power-Up With The Most Vivid Full Audiobook Today!
The Retreat: A Novel by Zara Raheem
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614321to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Retreat: A Novel Author: Zara Raheem Narrator: Soneela Nankani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In Zara Raheem’s newest novel we meet Nadia Abbasi—whose attempts to save her marriage create unexpected complications—and follow her as she navigates the twists and turns of love. Perfect for fans of Sonali Dev, Christina Lauren, and Sara Desai. Nadia Abbasi’s marriage is falling apart. It starts with a gifted Roomba, but when she stumbles upon some questionable photos in her husband...
2023-04-25
8h 53
Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Drama
The Retreat: A Novel by Zara Raheem
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614321 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Retreat: A Novel Author: Zara Raheem Narrator: Soneela Nankani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In Zara Raheem’s newest novel we meet Nadia Abbasi—whose attempts to save her marriage create unexpected complications—and follow her as she navigates the twists and turns of love. Perfect for fans of Sonali Dev, Christina Lauren, and Sara Desai. Nadia Abbasi’s marriage is falling apart. It starts with a gifted Roomba, but when she stumbles upon some questionable photos in her husband...
2023-04-25
05 min
Download Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women
The Retreat: A Novel by Zara Raheem
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614321 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Retreat: A Novel Author: Zara Raheem Narrator: Soneela Nankani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In Zara Raheem’s newest novel we meet Nadia Abbasi—whose attempts to save her marriage create unexpected complications—and follow her as she navigates the twists and turns of love. Perfect for fans of Sonali Dev, Christina Lauren, and Sara Desai. Nadia Abbasi’s marriage is falling apart. It starts with a gifted Roomba, but when she stumbles upon some questionable photos in her husb...
2023-04-25
05 min
Download Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women
The Retreat: A Novel by Zara Raheem
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614321to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Retreat: A Novel Author: Zara Raheem Narrator: Soneela Nankani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In Zara Raheem’s newest novel we meet Nadia Abbasi—whose attempts to save her marriage create unexpected complications—and follow her as she navigates the twists and turns of love. Perfect for fans of Sonali Dev, Christina Lauren, and Sara Desai. Nadia Abbasi’s marriage is falling apart. It starts with a gifted Roomba, but when she stumbles upon some questionable photos in her husband...
2023-04-25
8h 53
Heinous – An Asian True Crime Podcast
The Sorcerer | Ahmad Suradji | 1997 | 2/2
In April of 1997 in Aman Desai, Indonesia, 21 year old Sri Kemala Dewi was feeling lost and hopeless. As a result, she turned to her village's spiritual leader and Sorcerer, Ahmad Suradji, in search of guidance. Unfortunately however, Dewi would end up as a victim to one of Indonesia's most notorious serial killers. In Ep 1. we'll learn of the tragic fate of Kemala Dewi, and how it led to the capture of Ahmad Suradji - The Sorceror. In Ep 2. We'll discover the disturbing dream that corrupted Ahmad Suradji's soul, one that set him on...
2022-10-25
18 min
Heinous – An Asian True Crime Podcast
The Sorcerer | Ahmad Suradji | 1997 | 1/2
In April of 1997 in Aman Desai, Indonesia, 21 year old Sri Kemala Dewi was feeling lost and hopeless. As a result, she turned to her village's spiritual leader and Sorcerer, Ahmad Suradji, in search of guidance. Unfortunately however, Dewi would end up as a victim to one of Indonesia's most notorious serial killers. In Ep 1. we'll learn of the tragic fate of Kemala Dewi, and how it led to the capture of Ahmad Suradji - The Sorceror. In Ep 2. We'll discover the disturbing dream that corrupted Ahmad Suradji's soul, one that set him on...
2022-10-18
20 min
LEO Podcast
Product Management 101 | Interview of a senior Paypal PM| Ft. Khanjan Desai
Hey guys, today's episode is all about Product Management. This episode is meant for people who want to get into Product Management but don't know how to get started with it. Khanjan Desai who is a senior PM at Paypal and a Ex-Razorpay PM talks about it from the very basics to who a PM is ? to how you can crack a PM interview? Stay tuned as this episode will be extremely insightful. So sit back, relax and watch the episode till the end.Link to Umang's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umangj09/ Link to...
2021-10-19
42 min
Movie Wala Podcast
4: S2E4 - Amar Akbar Anthony - Top 10 Family Dramas
Amar Akbar Anthony - directed and produced by Manmohan Desai, the film stars Vinod Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor opposite Shabana Azmi, Parveen Babi and Neetu Singh in the lead roles. It's a story of three brothers who are separated in childhood and adopted by three families of different faiths and how they are brought together after many years due to various circumstances. You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on this player below. Podcast Episode Summary: • We talk about Manmohan Desai wh...
2020-08-27
31 min
South Asian Stories
Aman Advani – Co-founder and CEO of Ministry of Supply and his mission to Make Dress Clothes feel like Gym Clothes
Aman Advani is Co-founder and CEO of Ministry of Supply, a clothing brand inventing a new category: Performance Professional OR performance dress clothes. The company was founded in 2012 with the mission to make dress clothes feel like gym clothes by incorporating fundamental engineering and performance principles into dress clothing staples, ultimately building a wardrobe that both looks good and feels comfortable. (Think Nike meets Brooks Brothers). Prior to co-founding Ministry of Supply, Aman spent 4 years in management and non-profit consulting with Deloitte and TechnoServe. He holds a BSIE from Georgia Tech, and half an MBA fr...
2020-01-13
46 min
The Indian Edit
Ep. 22: Best of Summer: what to watch, read, hear (and eat) with producer Priya Giri Desai
SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 22:The pilot Episode of the podcast with PriyaMore on Priya’s work with the India Center hereLovesick The FilmTV Shows we discussed:Amazon’s Made in HeavenAmazon’s MirzapurAmazon’s Four more Shots PleaseNetflix’s Sacred GamesLittle Lunch on NetflixYeh Meri Family on NetflixFILMS we discussed:IFFLA’s 2019 line-upHamid on NetflixAndhadhun on NetflixThe Odds by Megha Ram...
2019-08-22
48 min