Healthcare is a $4.5 Trillion Broken System
Mark Pavlyukovskyy and Hendrik Remigereau host TechMates, the NZVC podcast. The guest on this episode is Ari Tulla, Co-Founder and CEO of Elo Health, and it went out on 31 August 2025. It covers the NZVC portfolio company Elo.
- Guest
- Ari Tulla, Co-Founder and CEO of Elo Health
- Date
- 31 August 2025
- Companies
- Elo
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- YouTube
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Ari Tulla, a Finnish-born, San Francisco-based entrepreneur, started in gaming and Nokia's early app ecosystem, founded BetterDoctor, later rolled into a 500-person private equity platform, and now leads Elo Health, a nutrition company turning biometrics and AI into health outcomes. He describes the consumer-to-API pivot and exit, then the jump from software to physical products. The conversation covers why prevention needs business-model innovation, where AI beats human pattern recognition, and data rights in health.
- Startup pivots: BetterDoctor from consumer to API and SaaS to a PE roll-up.
- Elo's thesis: AI plus biomarkers plus nutrition as preventative medicine.
- AI vs. doctors: pattern recognition, triage, and the quarterback model.
- Team dynamics: remote reality vs. one-room excellence.
Companies in this episode
Elo Health, healthtech, preventive medicine, nutrition, wearables, AI, BetterDoctor