
Katya Hancock is a Partner at StartUp Health, and the Director of the StartUp Health Network. StartUp Health is on a mission to transform global health by investing in and supporting an army of Healthcare Transformers around the world.
At StartUp Health, Katya focuses on a broad range of activities designed to help Health Transformers build equity value including: building strategic partnerships that unite entrepreneurs with key industry stakeholders, leading Investor Relations (Ping An, Novartis, Guidewell, Kaiser Permanente and others), and more. Katya regularly meets with senior leadership across the healthcare industry to help them advance their innovation strategies, and prepare them to work with the best startups in healthcare.
Prior to StartUp Health, Katya worked in investment banking, and in the technology industry as an early team member at three financial tech start-ups, helping two of them grow to be acquired by Fortune 500 companies. Her experience includes corporate strategy, strategic partnerships and business development, product management, marketing, and capital raising.
Katya recently moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area to launch StartUp Health's west coast headquarters after a decade in New York City, along with her husband, son and daughter. Follow her on Twitter @katyahancock.
At StartUp Health, Katya focuses on a broad range of activities designed to help Health Transformers build equity value including: building strategic partnerships that unite entrepreneurs with key industry stakeholders, leading Investor Relations (Ping An, Novartis, Guidewell, Kaiser Permanente and others), and more. Katya regularly meets with senior leadership across the healthcare industry to help them advance their innovation strategies, and prepare them to work with the best startups in healthcare.
Prior to StartUp Health, Katya worked in investment banking, and in the technology industry as an early team member at three financial tech start-ups, helping two of them grow to be acquired by Fortune 500 companies. Her experience includes corporate strategy, strategic partnerships and business development, product management, marketing, and capital raising.
Katya recently moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area to launch StartUp Health's west coast headquarters after a decade in New York City, along with her husband, son and daughter. Follow her on Twitter @katyahancock.