In this episode, serial entrepreneur (3x exited) Dr. Giovanni Colella pitches his fifth healthcare startup — and this time it’s personal. Vanna Health is reimagining care and community for people with serious mental illness. Focused on the most vulnerable and overlooked patients, Giovanni believes in the psychosocial rehabilitation model bringing together community inclusion and the social dimension of care.
Guest VC Greg Yap, partner at Menlo Ventures, and co-hosts Michael Esquivel and Halle Tecco, dive deep into what is the standard of care today for people with serious mental illness, how their care model is differentiated (and how exactly they take on full risk), their rate limiter for scaling, how Dr. Colella is thinking about his next round of funding, and the key milestones they need to achieve, and more.
Co-hosted by Halle Tecco and Michael Esquivel, Closing Time is a podcast where you, the listener, get to be a fly on the wall during a startup pitch meeting. Imagine being part of a room where passionate entrepreneurs are pitching their healthcare startups, the innovations that could very well shape the future of healthcare. This podcast allows you to do just that.