2024 Fuel For Your Health Accelerator Part 1 The Bentonville Beacon podcast

Summary

In this special three-part series of The Bentonville Beacon, host James Bell meets with cohort members of this year’s Fuel for Your Health Accelerator. James kicks off the episode with Fuel’s Director, Darian Harris, who shares how this accelerator matches scalable health tech startups with key enterprise partners to expedite the adoption of their transformative medical technologies. Different from other programs, during each Fuel accelerator, high-growth startups from around the world benefit from programming and support focused on developing operational value and selling to large customers, rather than just venture capital coaching.

This episode highlights several of Fuel’s current cohort members and innovators, including Tyler Zanon, CEO of EndoShunt Medical; Beth Gall, Vice President of Sales with Rainfall Health; and Andy Olson, Co-Founder and CEO at Inherent Biosciences.

Chicago, Illinois-based EndoShunt Medical offers an innovative medical device used for targeted hemorrhage control in emergency situations. With a vision of ending preventable abdominal hemorrhage death and improving patient outcomes, EndoShunt’s goal is to give trauma surgeons the gift of time so they can give trauma patients the gift of life. The device is a novel endovascular delivery system that allows surgeons to place a temporary length adjustable shunt within the major abdominal vessels, effectively controlling hemorrhaging from an injury while maintaining blood flow to the rest of the body.

Berkley, California-based Rainfall Health was established to help bridge the gap in providing access to quality healthcare in medical deserts by breaking down barriers to healthcare and ensuring patients receive the comprehensive care they deserve. Rainfall Health is a partner to health systems, healthcare plans and government organizations, where its platform enables streamlined clinical care, in-depth health analysis, patient care coordination and rural care with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). For patients, it provides quick scheduling, easy discovery of in-network providers plus immediate access to provider ratings.

Salt Lake City, Utah-based Inherent Biosciences is a team of molecular biologists, data scientists, healthcare providers and entrepreneurs at the intersection of epigenetics and AI. They are working together to create new clinical solutions to address complex healthcare concerns. Through the use of its platform, Inherent Biosciences detects dysregulation across multiple genes and related pathways to pioneer a new category of diagnostics and therapeutics, radically transforming how healthcare providers diagnose and treat complex diseases like infertility.

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Show Notes

Timestamps in this blog are for the audio-only version of the podcast; video timing differs.

(0:54) Introduction to Darian Harris

(2:19) About the Fuel Accelerator

(4:31) How Fuel Partners with Other Organizations

(5:25) Darian’s #BecauseBentonville Story

(8:29) Introduction to Tyler Zanon

(9:17) About EndoShunt Medical

(11:12) How Fuel and Bentonville Has Helped Tyler

(13:08) Tyler’s past Experiences in Bentonville

(16:17) Tyler’s #BecauseBentonville Story

(17:29) Introduction to Beth Gall

(18:46) About Rainfall Health

(20:18) How Fuel and Bentonville Has Helped Beth

(21:49) Beth’s #BecauseBentonville Story

(23:10) Introduction to Andy Olson

(24:17) About Inherent Biosciences

(29:13) How Fuel and Bentonville Has Helped Andy

(33:44) Andy’s #BecauseBentonville Story

(37:14) Closing Thoughts

‍Links

Darian Harris, MBA (darian@startupjunkie.org)

Fuel for Your Health Accelerator

Tyler Zanon, MPH (tyler@endoshunt.com)

Bentonville Economic Development

Greater Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce