This is a very special episode of the Podcast as it is the first video podcast, recorded live during the Final Pitch Event of the 2023 Children's Health Impact Accelerator, in London at the Science Gallery. If you wish to watch this episode, you can find it over on our Thinking of Oscar You Tube page.

In October 2023, David had the fortune of chairing an accelerator dedicated to Children’s Health in collaboration with London based Accelerator and Venture Builder Founders Factory, on behalf of UKRI / Innovate UK.

During the event we were fortunate enough to have a wonderful quartet of innovators who agreed to come on stage and talk about the opportunities, and some of the things to look out for, when financing a start-up focused on children’s health.

We are therefore delighted to share with you all a live recording of the panel conversation which included insights and guidance from Paediatric Venture leaders, John Parker and Marc Ramis, Children’s Health Innovation leader from Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Emma Hughes and wonderfully chaired by Founders Factory’s own healthtech investor Claire Mongeau.

Full details of each of the 10 wonderful start-ups who formed part of the accelerator can be found below:

🌟Happy Marlo
🌟ConsoneAI Ltd
🌟Goal Manager®
🌟Tutti Toot
🌟Hibi Health
🌟Grow with Iris
🌟Envisionit Deep AI®
🌟Moti Me
🌟Lorestry
🌟Tender Touch

I hope you all enjoy the conversation and please share and continue to shout from the rooftops the importance of investment in children’s health, not in the future, but now!

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 Our guest today on the Not Mini Adult’s Podcast is Entrepreneur, CEO and start-up founder of mOm Incubators, James Roberts.

James is the inventor of a new neonatal incubator, that has helped premature babies thrive in NHS hospitals and in war-torn Ukraine.  During our conversation he shares some invaluable advice for anyone looking to create an impact start-up, especially in the world of children’s health. 

The World Health Organization estimates that there are nearly one million preventable neonatal deaths each year. Keeping the infant warm could save thousands of new-borns each day. However, most incubators are too large, complicated, and expensive for universal use.

The mOm Essential Incubator is a compact, cost-effective machine that has been designed to work in multiple environments. It is being used in a series of pilots in the NHS to ease the need for short-term admission to special care, and to help maintain the core temperature of babies being moved around hospitals.

The Incubator has also been deployed in emerging economies and war zones. Over 75 incubators have been sent to Ukraine, where they are being used to keep babies warm in hospitals and bomb shelters transformed into make-shift neonatal wards.

James and his team have won numerous awards.  The mom prototype caught the attention of the James Dyson Foundation, which in 2014 awarded him the global James Dyson Award for innovation.

In 2018 James was named in MIT’s 35 under 35 and in 2023 he was presented with one of the most prestigious individual awards by the Royal Academy of Engineering – The Princess Royal Silver Medal.

I had the pleasure of inviting James to be a mentor on the recent Child Health Impact Accelerator that I chaired on behalf of Innovate UK and in partnership with Founders Factory.  And having got to know James, this was a story that we just had to share.

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Theme Music - ‘Mountain’
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Copyright Lisa Fitzgibbon 2000
Written & performed by Lisa Fitzgibbon,
Violin Jane Griffiths

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Podcast artwork thanks to - The Podcast Design Experts

On the 40th episode of the Not Mini Adult's Podcast we are thrilled to welcome Founder and CEO of Brazilian based start-up Joel de Oliveira Jr.  Joel is also our first interviewee from South America. 

Joel is a mechanical engineer and business executive by background and has many years of experience working in multinational companies such as Ericsson, Embraer and Kaelus, in a number of different countries.  After Joel lost his son, Lucas, to cancer he decided to move away from his corporate career to launch Luckie Tech.  Luckie Tech has an important mission, which is to reduce the mortality rate of children undergoing cancer treatment using innovative sensor technology.
 
Joel is a true inspiration, and we once again have a wonderful conversation which we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. 

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Theme Music - ‘Mountain’
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Copyright Lisa Fitzgibbon 2000
Written & performed by Lisa Fitzgibbon,
Violin Jane Griffiths

Podcast editing - Ora Podcasts

Podcast artwork thanks to - The Podcast Design Experts