Isabelle Kenyon, Calibrate
Isabelle Kenyon is the Founder & CEO of Calibrate, a metabolic health company on a mission to change the way the world treats weight.
Consumers and health plans spend more than $600 billion a year treating obesity, while ¾ of American adults continue to have overweight and obesity today.
In this conversation for Finding Genius, Isabelle shares several important takeaways on building a startup in healthcare including:
Understanding supply and demand constraints where patients are underserved
Table stakes in healthcare: speaking to researchers and understanding what happened in a clinical trial and what can be replicated in the real world
Founders have to build with purpose in healthcare as they search for growth. Medication/lifestyle interventions are not transferrable to adjacent care categories and each new category is a massive undertaking.
Calibrate has raised over $125 million in venture funding to date. Most recently, Calibrate raised a $100 million Series B led by Founders Fund and Tiger Global.