Show Notes:

Playing the US Open at only 15 years old, CiCi Bellis is no stranger to performing under pressure. She brings these experiences as a professional tennis player — leading a team, weighing risks and returns, focusing on optimizing health and performance — to her new role as Managing Partner at Cartan Capital.

Eyeing the sports and health tech markets, Cartan Capital invests in companies that innovate within the following four sub-verticals: sports performance, health & medical, fan engagement, and wellness & lifestyle. Surrounded by experts in technology, finance, health, and media, CiCi is the latest professional athlete to begin a career in venture capital.

Today’s episode covers longevity & wellness, the intersection of sports and health, and raising a $10m fund at just 24 years old.

Timestamps:

0:27: CiCi’s journey to VC

3:01: Running your own “business” as a professional athlete

4:07: WTA partnership with Indiana University East

5:01: Cartan Capital’s focus on longevity and wellness

7:34: Wearable device applications for consumers

9:25: Raising a pledge fund as a young GP

11:49 Prospective companies

12:12: Supporting the tennis community through VC

14:28: The intersection of sports and health

18:05: Demand for mental coaching solutions

19:54: Drawing parallels between tennis and investing

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Calley Means, Founder of TrueMed, has an education in policy that informs his understanding of incentives in modern-day healthcare. While hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and insurers rely on patients getting sick, Calley hopes to change this backward system by prescribing food, exercise, and sleep as medicine.

His company leverages HSA/FSA funds to subsidize healthy brands, creating affordable access to nutritious foods, sleep and stress wearables, and even gym equipment. Partnering with companies ranging from Crossfit to InsideTracker, TrueMed connects consumers with tools that help them prioritize healthier lifestyle habits at a lower cost.

Today’s episode covers rising rates of chronic disease, the economics of the food industry, and gaps in modern-day medical school curricula.

Timestamps:

0:23: The story behind TrueMed

3:45: Unlocking FSA/HSA spending for healthy living

5:20: Backward incentives and systemic problems in healthcare

7:30: Economics of the food industry

9:01: Taking health outside the doctor’s office

10:10: Food, sleep, nutrition, as medicine

10:50: Speaking out against corruption

13:04: Innovation in consumer health

15:20: Changing medical school curriculums

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For Brian Ferguson, CEO of Arena Labs, patient safety means supporting clinician wellbeing. Brian’s career has been dedicated to service, highlighted by his time at the White House as an appointee in the office of the Secretary of Defense as well as 7 years as an officer in the Navy.

Influenced by the insights gained from biometrics and wearable technologies while in the military, Arena Labs is pioneering high-performance medicine by equipping front-line healthcare workers with the information and tools needed to improve recovery and manage stress. In doing so, Brian and his team are changing the clinician wellbeing narrative, shifting the focus from burnout to human flourishing.

Today’s episode covers Brian’s connection to healthcare, high-performance medicine, and how Arena Labs is tackling clinician burnout.

Timestamps:

0:31: The idea behind High-Performance Medicine

2:10: Brian’s journey to creating Arena Labs

5:16: Shifting the narrative from burnout to human flourishing

8:13: Using wearables to track biometrics of clinicians

12:15: Evolution of the Arena Labs model

16:14: How understanding healthcare drives content

17:37: New partnership with Oura Ring

20:53: Bringing value to health systems

23:43: Impacting clinician well-being at scale

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