These guys should come hang out in the Twin Cities startup scene. Due to the presence of some health care giants (United Healthcare, Medtronic, etc), we have a lot of health-oriented startups, a lot of domain-specific talent, and a lot of interest in our local investing community.
As we've been growing our startup community here, one thing that interests me and a lot of others is how we can turn our concentration of Fortune 500 and big enterprise companies here into an advantage. Health care seems to be the best lever, to me.
Malay here from Rock Health—you're absolutely right. We have two close partners in the area (UnitedHealthcare and Mayo both) and come out once or twice a year.
I'd love to connect with the community next time I'm in the Twin Cities. Send me an e-mail (in profile or malay@rockhealth).
You should also get in touch with John Fein [0], who's running the Sprint/Techstars Accelerator [1] in Kansas City. They're doing mobile health, starting (today, as it happens) with ten companies.
Like the Twin Cities, KC has a growing health-tech scene, with Cerner and a slew of new companies. There are also more veterinary biotech companies here than anywhere else in the world, and many of them are looking for ways to bring their technologies into the human-health market.
As we've been growing our startup community here, one thing that interests me and a lot of others is how we can turn our concentration of Fortune 500 and big enterprise companies here into an advantage. Health care seems to be the best lever, to me.