Today we have Scott Pope, founder of In Scope Ventures, back on the Charlotte Angel Connection.  As we learned last week, Scott is working to bring a health care angle to the Charlotte startup scene – not necessarily in the traditional pharmaceutical or the medical device space but in medicine as a business.

I attended the first Health Innovators meeting in July 2018 and it was full – standing room only at the back.  There is certainly an interest from people in the medical community to support Scott right now, so it will be exciting to see where this Scott and the community can take things over the next 12 to 24 months.

In our discussion today, we covered the following:

Why not move to the triangle where he would have great research institutions and systems in place to support the health care initiative?

Can Premier be the catalyst in Charlotte that HCA was for the Nashville area?

What is the acquisition strategy of Premier right now?

Do you have enough community support at this time to help this thing grow, to put a flag down saying Charlotte can be a hub for health care business innovators?

Does he have to sell this to UNC Charlotte, Davidson, the Charlotte City Council and players?

Can Charlotte attract medical capital at this point in time?  Not necessarily from outside of Charlotte, but within in the Charlotte medical community is there an appetite to invest in these types of companies?

Does Scott see himself setting up his own venture fund with a health care focus?

How is Scott earning a living while he pushes this effort through the Charlotte community?

Can Charlotte attract existing companies in the business of health care to move here and grow?

And much more….

Scott’s passion for developing this will take it a long ways.  However, he needs support from the Charlotte community to continue to grow this effort.

Stick around next week for our first of two parts with Robert Reddick – long-time member of the Charlotte startup community.  Robert launched his first startup back in 2001 – INTV – which was essentially an online video sharing platform.  They were a little early to the game and then some little know company called YouTube came along a few years later and made waves.  Robert is back with Gatestaff.  He’s early on this one too but I don’t think he’s too early.  Come back to find out what he’s doing and where he is.

 

 

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