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hi everyone welcome to the first YC
Healthcare and bio Summit I'm Kat mignon
yeah thank you
I'm captain yalick I'm head of Outreach
at YC and I will be your MC today I'm
super excited to see you all here and in
person uh and I wanted to mention before
we get started if you will be tweeting
or sharing about any of your thoughts
about the panels or talks feel free to
tag us I'm using ycbio or at y
combinator so we can follow along
all right so I am delighted for you to
meet serbisarna uh she's going to be
kicking things off and you'll be hearing
from her throughout the day Serbia is a
group partner at Y combinator and she
works most closely with the bio and
health care companies that go through
our program
so before joining us at YC Serbia was
the founder and CEO of Envision medical
they addressed the early detection of
ovarian cancer and the company was sold
to Boston Scientific for 275 million so
Serbia has a really strong vision of
what the future of Biotech startups will
look like which you'll hear about later
today and she's an incredible track
record of helping early stage bio
companies so I hope you all get a chance
to meet her if you haven't already all
right let's welcome serby to the stage
hi everybody and welcome to the
inaugural YC health and bio Summit I
cannot tell you how excited I am to be
here with all of you today and I know
how busy you are thank you for carving
time out of your schedules and a special
shout out and warm welcome to our YC
Alum who showed up here today in more
than a hundred strong welcome home guys
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so today in the audience we have
entrepreneurs and innovators Angel
Investors Venture capitalists doctors
other health companies
and you know these are incredibly
important elements of our bio and
Healthcare ecosystem but what really
brings us all together today
why did we choose the industries we've
devoted Our Lives to it's because we
were hoping for the chance the
possibility to better the condition of
our most important stakeholders
our patients our Earth and the future
health of our children
at a time where there are forces trying
to slash access to health care why see
funds and support entrepreneurs and
companies creating new channels for
patients at a time where environmental
laws and protection is being slashed why
see funds and support companies that are
creating a cleaner Greener future
we want to help you find the unfindable
cancer early to treat the untreatable
because when it comes to bio when it
comes to health care you're not just
making something people want you're
making something people need
so today's conference is geared toward
budding entrepreneurs or people who are
on in the audience who are thinking
about starting a healthcare or bio-based
company we want you to know that you can
absolutely be part of this movement
because we believe that the best
Innovation the most valuable Innovation
comes from companies which are
founder-led and yes that is true in The
Sciences as well we believe and
founder-led biotech we know and we have
seen time and time again that when you
arm the right entrepreneurs with the
right guidance and skill set right out
of the gate they can make a real impact
a real positive difference in this world
so welcome today I hope that you enjoy
yourself I hope you have some fun and
you learn something and most importantly
I hope you have the chance to mingle
with like-minded peers
so it's that let's get this party
started thank you guys welcome
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