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HEALTHCARE AND LIFESCIENCES TECH-TALK SERIES FOR STARTUPS
Dr. Amrita Sarkar is a Principal Healthcare and Life Sciences Startups Business Development Manager at Amazon Web Services, where she focuses on VC-backed Life Sciences startups. Prior to joining AWS, she spent seven years as a Venture Capital investor at a Corporate Venture Capital fund in Paris. In 2018, Forbes voted Amrita one of 92 women disrupting Tech in France. She has also been a Techstars mentor for their Paris and Oslo chapters. Amrita is trained as a Mathematician and has a PhD in Computational Biology.
Topic Description:
Healthcare and life sciences startups (HCLS startups) have specialized requirements and unique challenges as it pertains to funding and go-to-market needs. At AWS, our goal is to help HCLS startups accelerate time to market, surmount technical and regulatory challenges, build for and operate at scale, and win more business. We work at scale to track the highest-potential startups in the HCLS industry and amplify efforts to accelerate their science / engineering growth, communicate their stories to the market, and to connect them with customer channels.
We work as one team of HCLS focused BDs, account teams, solution architects and product specialists and leverage the variety of resources available at Amazon and AWS to serve our customers. In this introductory Tech Talk, you will hear from two tenured in-house AWS experts from the Specialized Segments Startup team and the Public Sector Venture Startups and Healthcare team regarding the various technical and business challenges that we help solve for our healthcare and life sciences startup customers and the resources we bring to bear.
We also feature one such funding resource for early stage startups today. IndieBio. is a high-touchpoint accelerator that funds early-stage startups at the pre-seed stage, looking to take their first institutional financing from private investors, and solve some of the biggest challenges in Therapeutics, Industrial Biology, Consumer Biology, Future of Food & Agriculture, Devices & Diagnostics, Computational Biology and Digital Health. Find out about their program, eligibility requirements, and how to apply during this information session.
If you are a healthcare or life science startup, learn how to leverage AWS resources to grow and scale. Join us in this webinar as we share information about dedicated resources, expertise, and support at AWS to help high-potential healthcare and life sciences startups excel.
Enabling Go-To-Market Success for Healthcare and Life Sciences Startups: An Overview of AWS Resources
Tuesday, March 28th 2023 at 1 pm ET/10 am PT
Led by Amrita Sarkar, Principal Healthcare and Life Sciences Startups Business Development Manager at Amazon Web Services and Amanda Goltz , U.S. Lead for Worldwide Healthcare Venture Capital and Startups at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Featuring Michael W. Craige, Venture Fellow, IndieBioNY
Amanda L. Goltz, MPA is the U.S. Lead for Worldwide Healthcare Venture Capital and Startups at Amazon Web Services (AWS), responsible for managing a portfolio of digital health companies and driving opportunities with AWS's enterprise healthcare and life sciences business. Before coming to Amazon, Amanda was Vice President of Digital Innovation at BTG (now Boston Scientific), a global medtech, managing the portfolio of digital initiatives combining clinical interventions, device technology, and digital services to incorporate the patient experience and improve measurable outcomes. Amanda advises several start-up companies as a mentor for the Alexa Fund, 500Startups, Rock Health, and StartXMed, the health and life sciences incubator for Stanford University.
Dr. Michael W. Craige is a Venture Fellow at SOSV’s IndieBio New York and a Research Scientist at Rutgers University. He is the recipient of the 2021 NSF Computing Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Michael is also an ex-founder of a scientific-informatics consulting firm, that operated across the US and Canada. He is an NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Fellow and Mentor, and a Kauffman FastTrac Entrepreneurial Fellow, and has given numerous talks to academic audiences, practitioners, and biotech entrepreneurs on a broad range of topics linked to his research, startup commercialization, due diligence, sourcing and triage investments, trends in biotech innovation, and philanthropy. Michael devotes his spare time to raising funds for sick children across the US, as the founding director of the CiDrep SickKids Foundation.
