#57 Dick Sietses, Health Innovations

Published: March 17, 2022, 6 a.m.

b"Today we\\u2019re happy to introduce you to Dick Sietses, founding and managing partner of Health Innovations, an early stage fund for Dutch healthcare innovations.

Dick has been in VC since 2000 and founded **Health Innovations** with a strong eye to the market rather than the technology and thereby brings a different vantage point to the VC-world of healthcare than most funds in the space. We hope you'll enjoy this episode as much as we did making it.

In this episode you\\u2019ll learn:

- Why having a market-driven thesis rather than a tech-driven thesis is a differentiator for Health Innovations and how it unlocks new opportunities
- How Health Innovations have made the notoriously heavy regulatory space a strength rather than an obstacle and how they work with founders to scale out of their homemarket
- Dick\\u2019s learnings from going from Fund I to Fund IV, what they\\u2019ve changed in their initial thesis and what they\\u2019ve doubled down on."