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Hydroponics DailyBootstrap to Success: Ditch credit for your customersDr. Russell Sharp explains why bootstrapping is the best route for many hydroponic ventures, emphasizing unique products, testing market demand, and protecting cash flow.
He warns against offering customer credit—suggesting pro forma payments and using strong order books to secure bank loans if scaling is needed—plus practical tips for long-term sustainability.
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2025-12-1009 min
EU-Startups PodcastEpisode 28: Interview with Dr. Fiona Pathiraja (Crista Galli Ventures)Interview with Dr. Fiona Pathiraja
Today we interviewed Dr. Fiona Pathiraja, founder and Managing Partner of the VC firm Crista Galli Ventures.
2022-10-1025 min
The Exploratory JourneyDr Fiona Pathiraja - From Medicine to Venture Capital and The World of HealthTechFiona is Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, a pan-European healthtech fund investing across 3 core pillars: deeptech, digital health & personalised medicine.
Outside her fund, Fiona is an active angel investor with over 100 angel investments, several of which are backed by Y Combinator. Fiona angel invests in startups building in female health, financial literacy, community + better representation for women.
Fiona is an Ex-NHS physician (consultant attending radiologist), and is dual board certified in clinical radiology & public health. In this episode, she speaks about her transition from medicine into VC, and explores the world of HealthTech.
2022-08-1922 min
RadCastTaking the Leap - From Radiology to Venture Capital with Dr Fiona Pathiraja (Founder & Managing Partner of Crista Galli Ventures)This month we speak to Dr Fiona Pathiraja, Founder & Managing Director at the venture capital investing firm Crista Galli Ventures and former Radiology Consultant at University College London Hospital. She tells us about her fascinating career journey encompassing radiology, public health, management consulting and health tech investing with stints at UCL, London Business School and Harvard. We discuss the challenges of leaving medicine, the exciting companies she is investing in and her experience as a female of Asian descent within the world of private investing.
2022-08-0129 min
Medics Money podcastEp 65 - From Doctor to Healthtech Venture Capitalist with Dr Fiona PathirajaLinks for todays episode
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2021-10-1922 min
Tech.euPatient capital in European healthtech, with Fiona Pathiraja, Crista Galli VenturesIn today’s episode, listen to an interview with Fiona Pathiraja, a former NHS doctor and the founder and managing partner of Crista Galli Ventures, a European healthtech VC based in London and Copenhagen. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to podcast@tech.eu or tweet at us @tech_eu.
2021-06-2325 min
The Scrubbed In Show by PeerrE84: Radiologist turned HealthTech VC Founder (Crista Galli Ventures) - Dr Fiona PathirajaIn this week’s episode we are joined by Dr Fiona who shares with us her story from the very beginning. We discuss the many transitions she has taken from medical student to consultant radiologist to eventually becoming a VC founder and managing partner. Dr Fiona talks about the importance of leadership, network effects and the efforts clinicians should make to broaden their horizons. Tune in as we discover why she pursued an MBA and how we can only connect the dots in our careers when we look backwards.
Finally we spend some time discussing the regret min...
2021-04-2546 min
The Healthtech VC014: European healthtech journalism with Mimi Billing 💊🗞📲🦠This week’s guest is Mimi Billing, a Swedish healthtech journalist, covering pan-European Healthtech for Sifted, a Financial Times backed media outlet. We discuss the state of European healthtech, how it differs across the Nordics, Germany and the UK and the important role that journalists play in the healthtech ecosystem. We also touch on cultural differences across Europe, how that plays into go to market strategies and what healthtech founders should think about before pitching their startup to a journalist.
Get in touch with Mimi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mimibilling/
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2021-04-1431 minThe Healthtech VC013: Hiring in global medical AI with Emil Larsson. 🌎🤖👨🏻⚕👩🏽⚕This week’s guest is Emil Larsson, a global executive search specialist in the medical imaging space. Emil regularly places talent into many post series A startups and as I’ve got to know him, I’ve always been struck by how much insider knowledge he has of the whole medical imaging space. As global medical imaging AI landscapes develops and startups become scaleups, specialist recruiters are a key part of this bustling ecosystem. CM Medical and other specialist recruiters are moving beyond ‘just’ hiring and now provide a whole suite of market intelligence and market insights to their clients. E...
2021-03-3134 minThe Healthtech VC012: Keleya: Building a marketplace for pregnant women and midwives in Germany 🤰🏻🇩🇪🤱🏽This week’s guest is Victoria Engelhardt, Founder of Keleya, an app that supports pregnant women in their journey to being new parents. Keleya is the latest addition to the Crista Galli Ventures portfolio. The Keleya app has so far been downloaded over 200,000 times and Victoria has been the Apple face of Germany 2020, recently being interviewed by Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple. Victoria touches on her career from Rocket Internet in Berlin to management consulting at Boston Consulting Group to founding Keleya. Now employing 18 people based in Germany, Keleya is building an ecosystem by not only bringing pregnant wo...
2021-03-1734 minThe Healthtech VC011: Trans-Atlantic healthtech investing with Dr. Ben Evans, Managing Partner at InHealth Ventures. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 💸This week’s guest is Dr Ben Evans, Managing Partner at InHealth Ventures. InHealth Ventures is an early stage healthtech fund investing at seed and series A, both in the US and Europe. Ben discusses his career from medicine to venture capital via management consulting at McKinsey, a stint at a startup and being an operations manager in the NHS. He also touches on what makes a successful founding team, go to market strategies in healthcare and the differences in early-stage innovation between the US and UK health systems. We also discuss how small healthtech startups can survive and wa...
2021-03-0133 minThe Healthtech VC010: Radiobotics: Danish Deep Tech Radiology with Stine Mølgaard Sørensen 🇩🇰🤖This week’s guest is Stine Mølgaard Sørensen who is cofounder and COO of Radiobotics, an award-winning deep tech radiology AI startup based in Copenhagen in Denmark. As one of the newest companies in the Crista Galli Ventures portfolio, we are excited to have Stine on the show to share all things Radiobotics. Stine discusses her background in global digital transformation and communication, how she exited a previous startup and just how important storytelling is to a startup. She also touches on the Nordic healthtech ecosystem, how Radiobotics have been successful in raising over £2m in grant...
2021-02-1635 min
Faces of Digital HealthHealthcare is Diverse. Why Is Healthtech Investing Not? (Dr. Fiona Pathiraja)Diversity is an increasingly debated topic in startup investments, since founders of under-represented backgrounds may it be gender, race, age, and more too often experience inequality in opportunities. US VC funding for female-founded or co-founded companies has been trending up in recent years. However, last year women were impacted by the pandemic also on the funding level. According to Pitchbook, during the first quarter of 2020, 4.3% of VC deals went to companies founded by women, compared to 7.1% during the first quarter of 2019. Crista Galli Ventures Fund is especially attentive to giving an opportunity to founder with under-represented backgrounds. The fund w...
2021-02-0432 minThe Healthtech VC009: Investing in Health and Happiness with Dr Neha Tanna. 👩🏽⚕️💸✨Dr Neha Tanna is a VC Investment Partner at Social Starts and Joyance Partners. Neha has had a very diverse portfolio career, starting off in medicine as a GP before moving into pharmaceutical medicine and biotech investing and then onto entrepreneurship and VC via an MBA at London Business School.
Neha talks about why she joined Social Starts and Joyance Partners and discusses their really interesting investment thesis on health and happiness. She also touches on her experience of Venture Capital, how she wants to shape the investment world and provides tips for doctors looking to explore...
2021-02-0434 min
Big Picture Medicine#046 Radiology -> Venture Capital — Dr Fiona Pathiraja (Crista Galli Ventures)What are the pros and cons of VC funding as a doctorpreneur?
Dr Fiona Pathiraja was a Consultant Radiologist at UCLH and is now Founder and Managing Director of Crista Galli Ventures — a pan-European healthtech fund. She also holds an MBA and an MPH.
We dive into her story, Venture Capital and she gives loads of valuable advice for doctorpreneurs.
I hope you enjoy.
Crista Galli Ventures: https://www.cristagalli.com
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2021-01-2526 minThe Healthtech VC008: Shaping the role of AI in the NHS with Haris Shuaib. 🇬🇧🤖🚀Haris Shuaib is the AI Transformation lead at the London AI Centre which is a hub of innovation in healthcare in the UK, recently receiving £16m in funding to scale up AI work in the NHS and being appointed a preferred partner for NVIDIA’s proposed £40m healthcare supercomputer. With a background in theoretical physics, Haris trained as a medical physicist prior to moving into a leadership role in AI in the NHS.
Haris discusses the variety of healthcare AI projects the London AI centre are running, how they select which areas to prioritise, the challenges of heal...
2021-01-1935 minThe Healthtech VC007: Angel investing in healthtech with Pam Garside. 💸🇬🇧🇺🇸Pam Garside is one of the most well-connected people in UK healthcare. A healthcare management consultant with extensive trans-Atlantic experience, Pam manages a wide-ranging portfolio career. She is a fellow at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and a member of the investment committee of Cambridge Enterprise, the Tech Transfer component of Cambridge University.
Pam founded the Cambridge Health Network, a membership group of senior health leaders in the UK. A well-known, successful healthtech angel investor, Pam has a portfolio of 18 healthtech companies and she is on the board of Cambridge Angels, one of...
2021-01-0431 minThe Healthtech VC006: Scaling a digital health startup to 90 countries, with Prof Wieland Sommer. 🇩🇪🌏Professor Wieland Sommer is CEO and founder of Smart Reporting. The company is headquartered in Munich, employing over 60 people and has over 10,000 users in 90 countries around the world. Smart Reporting develops AI-based smart reports for radiologists and pathologists. They recently raised a EUR 15M funding round where we at Crista Galli Ventures participated.
Wieland was in frontline medicine for many years, most recently as the Head of Oncologic Imaging at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles across a range of topics from radiology to public health and neuroscience.
2020-12-1430 minThe Healthtech VC005: Digital health academia and a portfolio career, with Dr Saira Ghafur. 💡👩🏽⚕️Dr Saira Ghafur is lead for Digital Health at Imperial College London’s Institute of Global Health Innovation and also a practising Consultant Respiratory Physician. She manages a portfolio career spanning policy, academia, frontline medicine alongside being a founder of two startups.
Saira discusses her work on healthcare cybersecurity, evidence generation in digital health and the value of healthcare data in the NHS. She provides tips for managing a wide-ranging portfolio career, provides advice for startups looking to develop clinical partnerships and has tips for those looking to publish research in the digital health sector.
Sa...
2020-11-3030 minThe Healthtech VC004: Cydar Medical and surgical visualisation, with Dr Tom Carrell 🦾🇬🇧In episode four of The Healthtech VC, Crista Galli Ventures' founder Dr Fiona Pathiraja, is joined by Dr Tom Carrell - the founder and CEO of Cydar Medical. Tom was working as a consultant vascular surgeon in London when he decided to collaborate with Graeme Penney, an imaging scientist at King’s College London to turn traditional surgical visualisation on its head and transform patient outcomes in endovascular surgery. During the podcast, Tom and Fiona discuss the story of Cydar Medical and the journey from hospital research to commercial product, as well as sharing their insights and advice on fu...
2020-11-1631 minThe Healthtech VC003: contextflow and marketing in healthtech, with Julie Sufana 🗣🇦🇹For episode three of The Healthtech VC, Crista Galli Ventures' founder Dr Fiona Pathiraja, is joined by Julie Sufana, Chief Marketing Officer of portfolio company contextflow, a Vienna based healthtech start-up developing deep learning-based tools to improve radiology workflows. Originally from the US, Julie has an enviably diverse range of cross-sector experience, prior to joining contextflow.
Fiona and Julie explore why marketing in healthtech is frequently overlooked, the value of storytelling and realities of working for a start up. The pair also share their experiences as women in healthtech, and the importance of diversity in delivering...
2020-11-0234 minThe Healthtech VC002: Aidence and the future of radiology, with Dr Lizzie Barclay 🤖🇳🇱In this week’s episode of The Healthtech VC, Dr. Fiona Pathiraja meets fellow former radiologist Dr Lizzie Barclay, who is now medical director of Aidence, an Amsterdam based start-up creating innovative AI that helps radiologists in the diagnosis of lung cancer.
Lizzie started her career in medicine as an NHS radiologist and after working on the frontline for a number of years, she decided her future lay outside the NHS, leading to her role at Aidence.
Fiona and Lizzie discuss the role of AI in the future of healthcare, how Aidence co-create tech solutions wi...
2020-10-1932 minThe Healthtech VC001: Skin analytics and AI dermatology, with Neil Daly 🔍🇬🇧In the first episode of The Healthtech VC, Crista Galli Ventures' founder, Dr Fiona Pathiraja, interviews Neil Daly, founder and CEO of Skin Analytics: a research-led, AI dermatology company committed to helping more people survive skin cancer. The Skin Analytics team has developed a clinically validated machine learning tool, DERM AI, that is as effective as a dermatologist and is key to creating AI-powered clinical dermatology pathways. Neil worked extensively in mobile innovation and strategy consulting, holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Western Australia and an Executive MBA from London Business School.
This week's...
2020-09-2353 min
The Healthtech Podcast#131: The Story of Crista Galli Ventures, with Dr Fiona Pathiraja 🏥💰This week, James is joined by Dr Fiona Pathiraja, a consultant radiologist by background and now Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, a brand-new healthtech-specific VC fund investing pan-Europe into companies building the future. James and Fiona discuss her background through clinical medicine, management consulting, and MBA and now founding her own fund. They also discuss the vision for Crista Galli Ventures and Fiona's passion for diversity in both the healthtech and investing spaces.
To learn more about Crista Galli Ventures and Dr Fiona Pathiraja:
https://www.cristagalli.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/fionapathiraja/
2020-09-1641 min