Client:
An early-stage, founder-led healthtech startup focused on improving the patient-doctor experience, following its second round of funding, with a team of approximately 50 people.
Challenge:
The company needed a Head of Growth & Strategy who could combine marketing, go-to-market, and sales leadership with direct healthcare/wellness domain experience — someone able to build a B2C acquisition and retention strategy from the ground up. The existing sales leadership was earlier in their career, and the company needed a more seasoned operator to drive results ahead of its next funding round, with roughly eight months of runway. The role also required proximity to the Northeast to work closely with the founder, and the person would need to help shape the company’s next product in addition to driving growth for the current platform.
Our Approach:
Venture-6 sourced from a curated network of B2C healthtech operators, consumer health app leaders, and innovation teams within the health and wellness space concentrated in the East Coast market — prioritizing candidates with a track record across multiple startups and direct experience building go-to-market strategy in healthcare-adjacent products.
Outcome:
Venture-6 completed the search in 11 weeks, placing a candidate from a more mature startup that had already progressed through several funding rounds with an established, viable product — bringing experience building and leading teams at a more advanced stage of growth, and positioning the company to move quickly on both customer acquisition and its next product initiative ahead of its funding milestone.