Why Health Tech Needs More Clinicians at the Table, And on the Cap Table! With Scrub Capital's Rebecca Mitchell

Rebecca Mitchell is a physician, product strategist, and founding partner at Scrub Capital - a new kind of venture fund built from first principles to fix what’s broken in health tech investing. Alongside her co-founders, Rebecca is working to make sure that healthcare startups aren’t just built for clinicians, they’re built with them.

In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker talks with Rebecca about why it’s time to give clinicians more power. Not just at the bedside, but on the cap table. They dive into how Scrub Capital is supporting over 800 physicians, nurses, and frontline leaders as active collaborators in early-stage investing. From prescribing infrastructure and fertility tech to virtual specialty care and IVF lab automation, Rebecca shares where she thinks health tech is headed and why the industry’s obsession with hype has blinded it to what actually matters in care.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• Why clinicians should stop waiting for a seat at the table and start investing in the companies shaping care
• How Scrub Capital is building a community of over 800 clinicians to co-create the next generation of health tech
• What Rebecca looks for in a founder and why “missionary, not mercenary” is her #1 investing filter
• Why many health systems fail at innovation and how digital health can succeed where they don’t
• Which trends in healthcare are overhyped, underhyped, or actually worth the buzz (GLP-1s? Wearables? Psychedelics?)
• How software, not just new hardware, is unlocking the future of innovation
• Why now may be the best time to start a healthcare company - if you’ve got the right insight and a long-term mindset

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