Is Medicine a Big Data Problem?

Human beings are big data. We aren't just 175 pounds of meat and bone. We aren't just piles of hydrogen and carbon and oxygen. What makes us all different is how it's all organized and that is information. We can no longer treat people based on simple numbers like weight, pulse, blood pressure, and temperature. What makes us different is much more complicated than that.
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Harsh Patel Joins Claremont Creek Ventures

I'm thrilled to welcome Harsh Patel as a Partner at Claremont Creek Ventures. We believe people and relationships form the core elements of any successful entrepreneurial venture. We typically get involved early in a company's development, when a product is nascent and a market may barely exist. One of the distinguishing characteristics about Harsh is that he excels in the same type of , relationship-oriented investing that we value.
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Harveen Sethi Joins Claremont Creek Ventures as Associate

I am excited to announce today that Harveen Sethi has joined the CCV team as an associate. She will be working closely with Brad Webb and me. Harveen is passionate about impactful disruptive , especially in shaping the next frontier of . She is particularly enthusiastic about the potential of big data analytics and technology in advancing predictive diagnostics and . These are […]
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Ted Driscoll's WSJ interview: 23andMe Flap With FDA Just a Bump in the Road, One Genetics-Testing Investor Says

source:   by Timothy Hay When the Food and Drug Administration told personal-genetics company 23andMe Inc. in November to stop sending consumers detailed information about their DNA, some industry watchers said the move could be a devastating blow to an emerging area of medicine that holds promise for better health outcomes. But it was more of […]
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Assurex Health Launches Collaboration with Canadian Mental Health Center

Our portfolio company Assurex Health just announced the creation of a partnership with Canada's Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), one of the world's leading research centers in the area of addiction and mental health and Canada's largest mental health teaching hospital. CAMH will offer to Canadian citizens the firm's pharmacogenomic test, GeneSight, which […]
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Shotspotter's New Technology Grabs Feature On CNN's Erin Burnett Show

This story about Claremont Creek Ventures' portfolio Shotspotter covers how their new technology could improve how fast police respond to shootings inside schools and other buildings
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