Charla Triplett

Advisor

2023 - Current

Startup Advisor to Savorease, an early stage healthcare company focused on creating safe foods for people with Dysphagia.

Senior Venture Partner

2021

Suncoast Ventures focuses on diagnostics, digital health and medtech and supports our companies through scale and exit with deep technical expertise and market access. Leveraging our partners’ access to top tier dealflow and our highly vetted network of industry partners, we get introduced early and add value through mentorship and advising. In addition we have a highly curated bench of deep and specialized technical talent in our focus areas. Early stage biotechnology, diagnostics, digital health, healthIT, insurance tech, select medical devices and medical AI/QuantumML.

CEO

2019

Spine by Design is developing surgical decision support software to identify those patients most likely to have reherinations after a microdiscectomy spine surgery using computer vision and machine learning.

President

2019

Catalyze supports early stage Med Device and Digital Health startups with market research, user experience, quality and regulatory, product engineering and design, sales, capital readiness and fundraising. We can help you build the right team to take your company from idea to revenue. Some of our amazing strategic partners: Synaptiq, Make and Scale, and Formos

Managing Director

2023 - 2024

Led Launch Oregon, a non profit dedicated to supporting research translation and creating a robust infrastructure for innovators to commercialize their ideas. This is a unique partnership between the University of Oregon and the University of Oregon Foundation.

Senior Venture Partner, Healthcare

2021 - 2023

Expert Dojo is the most active early stage accelerator and fund in Southern California, and the third most active seed stage investor in the US (according to Crunchbase). We invest in pre seed and seed stage healthcare, life sciences, biotechnology, digital health, medical device, and medical AI/ML companies all over the world. To date, most of our start-ups are minority and female founded technology companies. We are a growth accelerator and we are looking for companies that are ready for growth and scale. Fundraising, pitching and intros to investors is only the bare minimum a program should offer. In addition to the mentorship, programming, education and resources and fundraising help and introductions our startups receive, we also partner with growth hackers and marketers to help our companies scale. Learn more and apply for our next cohort at ExpertDojo.com

Partner, Commercial Science

2019 - 2021

I lead the University Partnership effort for a fund in formation. Aventurine will focus on investing in early stage science companies with strong IP. We identify opportunities through discovery, analysis, strategy and management focused on your Research and IP.

Senior Director Product Development Strategy, Medical Device and Healthcare Lead

2017 - 2019

Principal Consultant

2000 - 2018

Over 20 years experience working with scientists, engineers, human resource and marketing professionals. Areas of expertise include: Business Development ---- Process design/improvement Account management ---- Project management Marketing/digital marketing ---- Academic/industry partnerships Career development ---- Strategic planning Technical recruiting ---- Event planning

Director of Strategic Partnerships, College of Business

2016 - 2017

Taking the lead on developing transformational partnerships with private, public, and Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) entities for the OSU College of Business. Supporting the mission of the College and Strategic Initiatives focused on corporate engagement, alumni relations, fundraising and other external engagement activities.