Mar 05 2025 46 mins
Episode 372 of The VentureFizz Podcast features Florian Hillen, CEO & Founder of VideaHealth.
It goes without saying that AI is going to transform pretty much every industry, but I think there is such a unique opportunity in healthcare as the benefits are hopefully going to be extraordinary.
The tricky thing about building a company in healthcare is that it’s heavily regulated industry, so you need to get FDA approval on the algorithms and AI technology if you are building software as a medical device, so that is going to take a lot of time… but once you get there, it makes your company highly defensible.
And this is the very case of VideaHealth which was ahead of the curve as an AI native company that has been in existence for 6.5 years and crossed the hurdles of the FDA.
Fast forward to today, VideaHealth has scaled to over 40,000 dental clinicians using their platform every day for identifying and treating dental conditions and the company is processing over a half of a billion x-rays a year. VideaHealth recently announced a $40M Series B round of funding.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:10 The Rise of AI in Healthcare
03:19 Florian's Journey from Medicine to Entrepreneurship
08:35 Founding VideaHealth: The Vision Behind the Company
12:03 The Importance of Oral Health and Its Impact
13:34 Early Days of VideaHealth
18:10 Transforming Dental Practices with AI
25:06 Scaling Through Strategic Partnerships
26:56 Hiring and Company Culture at Video Health
30:00 Lessons Learned in Building a Startup
30:15 Hiring & the Importance of Talent Density
31:09 Priorities and What You "Do Not Do"
31:49 Be Customer Obsessed
32:59 Process for Fundraising
39:07 App, Podcast, & Book Recommendations
It goes without saying that AI is going to transform pretty much every industry, but I think there is such a unique opportunity in healthcare as the benefits are hopefully going to be extraordinary.
The tricky thing about building a company in healthcare is that it’s heavily regulated industry, so you need to get FDA approval on the algorithms and AI technology if you are building software as a medical device, so that is going to take a lot of time… but once you get there, it makes your company highly defensible.
And this is the very case of VideaHealth which was ahead of the curve as an AI native company that has been in existence for 6.5 years and crossed the hurdles of the FDA.
Fast forward to today, VideaHealth has scaled to over 40,000 dental clinicians using their platform every day for identifying and treating dental conditions and the company is processing over a half of a billion x-rays a year. VideaHealth recently announced a $40M Series B round of funding.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:10 The Rise of AI in Healthcare
03:19 Florian's Journey from Medicine to Entrepreneurship
08:35 Founding VideaHealth: The Vision Behind the Company
12:03 The Importance of Oral Health and Its Impact
13:34 Early Days of VideaHealth
18:10 Transforming Dental Practices with AI
25:06 Scaling Through Strategic Partnerships
26:56 Hiring and Company Culture at Video Health
30:00 Lessons Learned in Building a Startup
30:15 Hiring & the Importance of Talent Density
31:09 Priorities and What You "Do Not Do"
31:49 Be Customer Obsessed
32:59 Process for Fundraising
39:07 App, Podcast, & Book Recommendations