Arkitekt Ventures

Grateful for Business Insider's The Seed40 List: Best women early-stage investors of 2024, and to be amongst friends, colleagues and legend investors! Even more grateful for the rockstar founders I've backed, whose crazy hard work enabled me to be on that list Andrea Coravos, Robin Berzin MD, Samuel Whitaker, Carolyn Witte, Felicity Yost, Sahil Choudhry, Kwasi Kyei, Oded Eran, Lauren Makler, Halle Tecco, Brad Olson, Sean Kevlahan, Anshul Rathi, Chris Mirabile and many more! Thanks Rebecca Torrence, Matt Turner and Termina for the rankings! CC Arkitekt Ventures, Pavan Choksi https://lnkd.in/e5ip2Jdb

Huge congrats to our Managing Director Enke Bashllari, Ph.D. on being named to Business Insider’s The Seed 40: The best women early-stage investors of 2024 list!! ?? Well deserved recognition for the best early stage healthcare & bio investor committed to improving and advancing human health! https://lnkd.in/eyHSf9GA Arkitekt Ventures

Jimini's novel therapy approach is now live in Florida, California and Colorado! Try it out at www.jiminihealth.com! Luis, Mark & Sahil have developed a novel mental health care model that is both evidence-based AND continuous via text-based therapy. Because therapy should not be limited to a 1-hr session or the patient's access to a qualified therapist. This is how we scale & improve mental healthcare across the world.

Thrilled to announce that our portfolio company HumanFirst was acquired by healthcare intelligence platform giant ICON (Nasdaq: ICLR)! I still remember ideating on the business model with Andrea Coravos in Back Bay 6+ years ago and is incredible to see she built what has become the world's leading library of validated digital health technologies & biomarkers for clinical trials, utilized by the top 22 pharma across 45 countries. We at Arkitekt Ventures backed Andy at Day 0 from pre-seed to A, and witnessed her literally bring integration of validated digital biomarkers to the clinical trial world, which is no small feat. Wishing Andy and the HumanFirst team absolutely the best in this next chapter and grateful for being part of their journey! Cc: Pavan Choksi https://lnkd.in/e-wsAdPm

A very different mindset from how I have been trained as a currently practicing physician. Exciting times for bio/ health and medicine. Let’s get to it! Started my first week of AV Startup School: Health & Bio with Dr. Enke Bashllari, Founder and Managing Director of Arkitekt Ventures. Thank you for doing this! Enke Bashllari, Ph.D. My key takeaways for those who want to do a startup involving patients: 1. Who will pay? Patients? hospitals? insurance companies? If your answer is?“doctors”, we need to talk.? 2. No one is going to pay for your science projects. Is there a need for your idea??Prove it. Validate your idea by showing people are willing to pay for it. 3. Need for business development. You may have the most impressive CV, but without a working team of tech and sales to round out your vision, you’re a miss.?Time to drop our MD egos and know we cannot do it all alone.

We back companies like Handspring Health, a mental health provider to children, because we believe in our firm's mission: to improve and advance human health. There is no better reward than reading this parent's life changing experience with Handspring. Kudos to Sahil & Kwasi for running one of the best mental health companies in the market, with best in class patient care and best in class margins. CC: Arkitekt Ventures Pavan Choksi

We are thrilled to announce our AV Startup School: Health & Bio! Join us for 6 weeks to learn how to: ?? Turn your idea into an MVP? ?? Set up your business model and commercial strategy? ?? Create an effective pitch deck? ?? Successfully raise a VC round ?? Avoid the costly but common early stage mistakes ?? And much more! Who Should Apply: - If you are considering starting a company in Health or Bio and are a PhD, MD, MBA, engineer, product manager or a technical graduate - If you have recently started a company in Health or Bio but have raised less than $500K Having seen thousands of pitches from brilliant technical founders, we realized there are some business fundamentals and common but costly startup mistakes, the knowledge of which would make any technical founder much more effective at building or fundraising, so we tailored the AVSS program to address that need. Start Date: Tuesday, Feb 13th @4:30-5:30pm ET Session Dates: 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/5, 3/12, 3/19 ?? Apply at?https://lu.ma/AVSS *We are not taking any equity; our program is 100% free of charge.

To those aspiring to drive advances in health and bio, please note the upcoming Jan 3 deadline for the MS/MBA Biotech program at Harvard. This unique dual degree program offers an MBA from @Harvard Business School and an MS from @Harvard Medical School, integrating business acumen with scientific expertise. We're proud to have our Managing Director Enke Bashllari, Ph.D. serve as an advisor for the program, bringing her wealth of experience to the program's development. If you're passionate about making a significant impact in life sciences or healthcare this program is for you. Apply by January 3rd, 2024. Learn more below: https://lnkd.in/ekxx_Pvf #Harvard #biotechnology #lifesciences #health #hbs