Pitou Devgon
Investor at Robin Hood Ventures
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overview
Work Experience
Angel Investor
2022 - Current
Advisory Board Member
2023
Uniting Penn Engineering, Penn Medicine, and beyond to create transformative technologies that address healthcare needs.
Advisory Board Member
2023
AI Optics is a medical device and digital health company focused on building products that prevent vision-loss using the power of AI
AI Optics is a digital health platform that focuses on building products that prevent vision-loss.
Raised $300,000.00 from Luminate.
Advisory Board Member
2022
A rapidly growing company in the healthwear space with over 80 hospital system customers and partnerships with brands like Oscar de la Renta, Natori Company and Major League Baseball.
Advisory Board Member
2022
Hanimune Therapeutics (with Lil Mixins subsidiary) is pioneering approaches to prevention and treat food allergies
Lil Mixins creates products to simplify early introduction of potential allergens to babies.
Raised $3,884,288.00 from FoodFutureCo.
Faculty Lecturer (Adjunct) - Healthcare Entrepreneurship
2023
Co-teach the full semester "Healthcare Entrepreneurship" course at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The course focuses on the creation, funding and management of healthcare enterprises. Over the past decade, founders from several healthcare startups including WarbyParker, PatientPing, 1DocWay, Gamma Basics, Velano Vascular, Allazo Health, Oncora Medical, and MedCrypt have participated in the course.
Executive Chairman
2022 - 2024
Early stage venture-backed company building the only breath support therapy designed to make breathing easier with a wearable device for people with respiratory disorders.
RightAir is developing noninvasive ventilators for COPD patients.
Raised $100,000.00 from Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Advisor
2021 - 2022
Served as a formal adviser post the Velano Vascular acquisition during the integration period.
A segment of leading global medical technology company BD
Co-Founder
2020 - 2021
Velano Vascular was acquired by BD in April 2021. Velano Vascular was transforming the inpatient experience with the PIVO™, a breakthrough needle-free blood collection device. PIVO aims to reduce painful needle sticks for inpatients, to improve practitioner safety, and to provide hospitals with a smarter financial solution for vascular access. Velano is backed by leading U.S. health systems including Sutter Health, Griffin Hospital and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, as well as First Round Capital, Kapor Capital, White Owl Capital, Safeguard Scientifics and dozens of heath industry veterans. Velano collaborates with innovators in patient-centered care, including Planetree, Intermountain Healthcare, Brigham & Women's Hospital and more. Our mission is to establish a new, more humane standard of care.
Chief Medical Officer
2017 - 2020
President & Co-Founder
2013 - 2017
Staff Physician
2008 - 2019
Resident Physician
2005 - 2008
Internal Medicine
Penn Medicine is the medical school that provides medical research and education services to students.
Raised $70,900,000.00 from Warren Alpert Foundation, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health and National Institutes of Health.