Becca Shmukler
Principal at Laerdal Million Lives Fund
Atlanta, Georgia
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2020 - Current
Investing in commercial-stage healthcare companies meaningfully impacting mortality and morbidity rates across the world. Portfolio companies: Aloe Care Health, RapidSOS, Avive Solutions, MobileODT, Tele911, Reliance Health, Cardiosense, AMOpportunities, Novocuff, Sovato
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