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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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Advisor

    2021 - 2022

    Served as a formal adviser post the Velano Vascular acquisition during the integration period.

  • 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

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