Sameer Peesapati
Venture Partner at MedMountain Ventures
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Product
2022 - Current
Accountable for Product, Regulatory, and Business Development - Using consumer VR devices, eye, head, and hand trackers to build vision, neuro-ophthalmic, and cognitive exams to monitor eye and brain health - Generated a pipeline of customers with 7-figure weighted ARR - Games to improve cognitive health & solve design challenges in helping people aged between 55-75 use VR devices independently - Designed virtual onboarding and remote initiation of exams to move away from having clinicians travel to sites to administer exams - Securing strategic partnerships for clinical evidence and early adoption - Developed FDA and CE regulatory and reimbursement strategy for medical-grade offering - Build out the QMS to comply with FDA 21 CFR & ISO 13485 Used: UnityXR, Tobii Ocumen, AWS
Venture Partner
2024
Deal sourcing and due diligence on medtech and digital health ventures/prospective investments. MedMountain Ventures is a Physician entrepreneur-led venture fund that backs transformative health technology ventures (both device and software) at Seed and early growth stages.
MedMountain Ventures is a Seed VC that seeks to invest in companies that make a meaningful advancement to the care of patients.
Managing Partner
2019
Acquired 20 startup clients. Consulted senior executives on product design, US market entry, IP, regulatory, reimbursement, and operational challenges. Clients include startups building products in surgical technology, AR/VR, AI in medical imaging, assistive technology, implantable devices, and Software-as-Medical Devices. Helped founders raise $9mn in capital, achieve 3 FDA/ HC clearances, and 3 ventures hit $1mn in ARR. Scout/Diligence partner to VCs/ Family offices investing in this space to deploy $20mn in capital. Digital transformation to achieve compliance to DSCSA for Pharma and Biologics manufacturers Strategic advisory in Kidney disease: Relavo, Renalyx, Nephrodite (Implantable artificial kidney), and manufacturing partners Put my human factors & safety research expertise to use with researchers and industry to build safe & effective health AI products, to weed out dis/misinformation.
Founder and CEO
2020 - 2022
Founded a digital health startup that turned exercising into a daily habit, helping people with chronic pain return to activities they enjoyed. Bootstrapped startup with support from Entrepreneur First , Biotalent, Biomedical Zone, and a Friends and Family round Built a team of 6, acquired paying customers, and led product and business functions Conducted AI-based motion tracking research with Physiotherapists (PTs) to develop a web application with a 2-player mode to offer real-time exercise feedback using a phone or web camera Achieved completion of 3 at-home exercise sessions each week by 75% of members through using NLP on chatting functionality to generate SMS nudges personalized to each member and recommended exercise modifications to PTs
Founder-in-Residence
2020 - 2021
First North American Cohort in Toronto Founded Anooka
Sr. Manager, Technical Product Management and Usability
2016 - 2019
Built a 5-member team managing a 7-figure annual budget and a portfolio of hardware and digital products delivering 30 million life-saving hemodialysis treatments each year with deployments in 2400+ clinics, achieved FDA approval for 2008T BlueStar system. Built a validation lab that cut validation study times by 50% with 30% cost savings per study Developed product strategy for 2 key global therapy programs to transition from clinic to home hemodialysis - including 5008X HvHDF system offering HDF treatment which was observed to reduce risk of death by 19% Conducted upstream market research to help pivot to per procedure based pricing models in LMIC markets Primary liaison with the FDA for safety and usability, post market surveillance of 200K+ machines and their disposables. Day-to-day activities involved product compliance to IEC 62366-1, ISO 14971, ISO 13485 and FDA design controls. 5 patent grants by the USPTO which are a result of my field research visiting 100s of dialysis clinics interacting with Patients, Providers, & Technicians
Product Manager - Clinical Informatics
2014 - 2016
Led teams that built and deployed two new care management applications from concept to enterprise adoption, managing at-home recovery for 150,000 recently discharged patients. Lead product manager- designed UX and UI and led validation to launch CareTool, a post-discharge care management platform that scaled to delivering 20,000 patient interventions daily with 500+ daily active users Led design and technical teams to build ListApp, an app that stratified 30-60 day re-admission risk of patients recently discharged to help the health system prioritize care coordination and outreach activities Lead information architect and collaborated with the technical teams design a new FHIR API architecture built on top of in-house health information exchange that connects 1200+ information systems to build and launch low-code clinician-facing apps into production in < 4 months
Northwell Health is a healthcare provider that serves over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond.
Product Manager
2014 - 2014
Developed user and product requirements and interaction design including UX mockups for beneficiary ID and medicaid benefit eligibility verification app with hand-off to engineering teams in under 6 weeks
TriZetto is Powering Integrated Healthcare Management. With technology solutions touching more than half the U.S. population today.
Product Engineer - Industrial Imaging and Defect Recognition Products
2013 - 2014
Identified market opportunities, and led technical and support teams to build and deploy two new offerings, one using AI to detect defects in automotive parts and another a CT-imaging-as-a-service offering for R&D teams. Doubled the number of automotive parts inspected daily at 100 sites by designing a composable UI and leading product research to deliver an AI application that detected manufacturing defects per ASTM standards in real-time Built 2 state-of-the-labs to launch micro-CT and High-energy CT imaging services, attracting 10+ new customers in medical, aviation, and space industries while increasing CLTV of existing customers by 15% Designed a composable no-code UX architecture that helped automotive plants set up or modify X-ray based inspection lines for non-destructive testing by themselves within 10 days vs. 8 weeks of turnkey development and deployment Product, US Market Entry, and FDA Regulatory Research for portable X-ray Device to be Used in hand and foot surgery
Application Engineer - Biomedical Device Integration
2011 - 2013
A remote patient monitoring platform that facilitated bedside device and waveform data integration into commercial EHR systems like Epic. We designed proprietary edge and server hardware and software architecture to temporally harmonize data from multiple medical devices connected to a patient in the hospital, and standardize the feeds in HL7 format compatible with EHR systems. 2 FDA clearances were achieved during my tenure for Nuvon VEGA Nuvon Vitals systems. Following are my contributions: Collaborated with the implementation team for deployments at large health systems like Kaiser, Virtua, Northshore, Radys, Cleveland Clinic, and Johns Hopkins Led software verification and validation risk assessment per the IEC 62304 standard Reduced driver development times from 12 weeks to <5 days by designing a novel method for medical device auto-detection and HL7 translation API to integrate with EHR systems for clinical decision support Publication: Liberating medical device data for medical research AMA-IEEE-EMBS October 16 - 18, 2011 Tools used: C/C++, Keil, MSSQL, Wireshark