Becca Shmukler
Principal at Laerdal Million Lives Fund
Atlanta, Georgia
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2025 - Current
Principal
2020 - 2025
Investing in digital health and medical device companies meaningfully impacting mortality rates across the world. Portfolio companies include Novocuff, Sovato, Boulder Care, RapidSOS, Avive Solutions, Reliance Health, Cardiosense, Corflow, and more.
Laerdal Million Lives Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in life-saving technologies.
Director Of Partnerships
2017 - 2020
- In first year as strategic lead and only sales hire, grew new business by 570%, overall revenue by 190% and rebuilt entire client offering from the ground-up - Independently lead and manage the entire sales, account management, and renewal process - from initial prospecting, to deal closing, to managing delivery of benefits, to contract renewal - Securing client relationships with major healthcare and Fortune 500 companies, including: Google, Optum, Intermountain, Sanofi, GlaskoSmithKline, LabCorp, CVS Health, and Blue Shield of CA, and dozens of other healthcare brand-names
Rock Health specializes in providing funding to entrepreneurs working in healthcare and technology.
Senior Manager, Strategic Alliance Development
2016 - 2017
Responsible for leading Castlight's strategic relationships with national health plans (Aetna, Cigna, UHC), PBMs (Express Scripts, CVS, Optum Rx), and dental and behavioral health carriers. Manager, Strategic Alliance Development -- January 2016 - April 2017
Castlight Health provides a healthcare navigation platform with resources for benefits, and vendors.
Raised $184,099,999.00 from Venrock, T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley, Wellcome Trust, Maverick Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners, Employee Stock Option Fund and Oak Investment Partners.
Director, Accountable Care and Value-Based Strategy
2014 - 2015
Led multidisciplinary efforts to build innovative healthcare reimbursement & care delivery models.
Senior Analyst, Research and Insights
2011 - 2014
Led hundreds of interviews with senior hospital and health system executives to identify and understand best practices in a given topic area. Authored original research analyzing and prescribing solutions to critical, industry‐wide issue sets for thousands of hospital and health system executives to guide strategic and operational decision-making. Analyst, Research & Insights -- March 2012 - December 2013 Research Associate, The Expert Center -- May 2011 - March 2012
Mental Health Program Intern
2010 - 2011
The Carter Center’s Board of Counselors is a leadership advisory group that conducts activities among private sector opinion leaders.
Medical Unit Intern
2009 - 2010