Anne DeGheest - MedStars

Anne DeGheest pioneered the HealthTech or Digital Health space as a healthcare executive, an entrepreneur, angel investor, corporate business consultant, and mentor capitalist. 

She is the founder of HealthTech Capital and MedStars. Since she founded MedStars in 1986, she has been a corporate business consultant to large healthcare companies and a mentor capitalist specializing in investing and mentoring early-stage companies in healthcare. 

Her life science portfolio companies have generated over $27 billion in market capitalization including 8 IPOs. She provided angel capital, hands-on operating expertise and/or business strategy in the founding of major venture-backed companies like Pyxis (CareFusion), Aspect Medical (acquired by Covidien/Medtronic), VISX (acquired by AMO), Thermage (merged into Solta Medical), VISICU(acquired by Philips), Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI). She also helped grow new entrepreneurial divisions of large corporations like ASP/Johnson & Johnson, Baxter, Medtronic and McKesson. She was also part of the founding executive team of Nellcor (a division of Covidien/Medtronic), MedPool and OmniCell (Nasdaq: OMCL). She was an Entrepreneur-In-Residence with Canaan Partners and IVP.

Anne founded in 2010 HealthTech Capital, a group of private and corporate investors dedicated to funding and mentoring new "HealthTech" startups to decrease healthcare cost and empower patients. HealthTech capital is an ecosystem of angels, venture capitalists, providers, payers and healthcare industry key players with the three sets of expertise needed to succeed in this new HealthTech space: healthcare, technology and user engagement.

She is a recognized artist. Anne organized the HealthTech Conferences between 2012-2015 and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and a guest-lecturer at Stanford Business School. She has an MBA from Harvard and a master's in business engineering from University of Brussels.  

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