Sameer Peesapati

Venture Partner

2024 - Current

MedMountain Ventures is a Physician entrepreneur-led venture fund that backs transformative health technology ventures (both device and software) at Pre-seed and Seed stages.

Head of Product

2022

Product, Regulatory, and BD for: VR in neurocognitive exams VR games for rehab

Product, UX, and Go-to-market consultant

2019

Consulting on product (incl. Regulatory strategy), Usability/Human Factors/Safety system design, and GTM (incl. Market Access + Reimbursements) for medical device & digital health companies for their 0->1 initiatives. Business and technical diligence for private market investors pursuing health technology investments. Solved Human Factors, FDA regulatory, and US go-to-market challenges for 12 clients building surgical technology, medical imaging, extended reality, assistive technology, implantable devices, and Software-as-Medical Devices, leading to 3 FDA/ Heath Canada clearances, and $5mn in non-dilutive grant funding, facilitated close of contracts amounting to six figure ACV per deal. Ongoing projects Product strategy and Interaction Design for AR Smartglasses Advisory Roles: Relavo, Renalyx, Nephrodite (Implantable artificial kidney), Anchor Balloon (PCI device) Technical expertise in: Quality systems (21 CFR part 820/ ISO 13485), Ergonomics/HF (AAMI HE 75) Usability (IEC 62366), and Safety (IEC 60601-1-8 and ISO 14971)

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

2020

Founder and CEO

2020 - 2022

At Anooka we helped people suffering from Chronic Pain make lifestyle modifications to live a more fulfilling life with much less suffering from Pain. Our initial research involved application of AI human pose estimation on 2D and 3D videos for real-time exercise feedback, form detection via skeletal tracking, rep counting, ROM and computation of other measures, targeting patients with stroke and SCI. COVID changed course towards Chronic Pain. Bootstrapped startup with early support from Entrepreneur First and a Friends and Family round for Pre-seed Built a team of 6, acquired paying customers, and led product and business functions Our exergames platform is designed to deliver individualized health and movement coaching with the help of clinically validated methods. - Introduced 2-player exergames to practice new exercises remotely and a chatbot within the chatting experience, resulting in 75% of members completing 3 exercise sessions per week over 12 months For our customers we - improved their understanding of pain and brain/body with pain neuroscience education (health literacy), - helped them overcome barriers like access, affordability, social and behavioral - ensured that they stayed consistent and motivated (80% of our current members have finished 16 months with us) - Offered personalization with accommodation of common comorbidities - poor sleep, depression, anxiety, body image issues, diabetes/hypertension, weight management - helped learn exercises and movement activities via exergaming that involved being assigned to a buddy with similar health issue and shared goal of being able to perform ADLs. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - Recognized as a NASDAQ milestone maker for work done to alleviate suffering of individuals suffering from chronic pain - Wearer of many hats: Regulations, Product, fundraising, BD & GTM, R&D

Founder-in-Residence

2020 - 2021

Explored multiple ideas Birthplace for Anooka

Head of Product and Usability Engineering

2016 - 2019

Lead a team responsible for technical product management, and human factors of hemodialysis machines with an installed base of 200,000 and facilitating 30mn hemodialysis treatment each year. Built a validation lab that sped up design iteration by 2x with 30% lower cost to run usability testing Developed product strategy for 2 key global therapy programs to transition from clinic to home hemodialysis Conducted upstream market research to help pivot to per procedure based pricing models in LMIC markets Primary liaison with the FDA for safety and usability, post market surveillance of machines and disposables Day-to-day activities involved product compliance to IEC 62366-1, ISO 14971, ISO 13485 and FDA design controls. Program, budget, and people management. Multiple patents which are a result of my field research visiting 100s of dialysis clinics interacting with Patients, Providers, & Technicians

Product Manager - Clinical Informatics

2014 - 2016

Lead product manager, UX and information architect for CareTool and ListApp, leading a group of cross-functional experts in Engineering and Clinical domains. Designed a new FHIR API architecture built on top of in-house health information exchange that connects1200+ information systems to build and launch low-code clinician-facing apps into production in < 4 months Mobile/ Web Apps launched: * Patient care management platforms - Care Tool for BPCI and other NY state sponsored value based care initiatives. The first target groups included Joint Replacements, CABG, COPD and stroke. Tha application has since grown to serve over 150,000 patients annually across multiple post-discharge programs. * Readmission risk stratification tool with a front end for follow-up and at-home interventions - ListApp * NSLIJ Presidents Award for Innovation runner-up.

Project Associate

2014 - 2014

Developed user and product requirements and interaction design including UX mockups for beneficiary ID and medicaid benefit eligibility verification app with hand-off to engineering teams in under 6 weeks

Product Engineer - Industrial Imaging and Defect Recognition Products

2013 - 2014

Built a new industrial CT Imaging-as-a-Service offering that acquired new customers like SpaceX, Tesla, and medical implant makers, delivered a 15% increase in CLTV from existing auto manufacturing customers. Product lead for AI-based automatic defect recognition of automotive parts from their X-ray scans Designed a composable no-code UX architecture that helped automotive plants set up or modify X-ray based inspection lines for non-destructive testing by themselves within 10 days vs. 8 weeks of turnkey development and deployment Product, US Market Entry, and FDA Regulatory Research for portable X-ray Device to be Used in hand and foot surgery