Mayor of London’s
TECHINVEST
Backing the capital’s innovators
Mayor of London’s
Backing the capital’s innovators
Supported by
Mayor of London
James Somauroo
Founding Partner – HS.
James is a Founding Partner at HS. – an accelerator and fund that builds, scales and invests in the best healthtech startups to tackle global health problems. James is an anaesthetist by background and previously directed the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator, a £3.4m project that provided healthtech startups with market access to the NHS. He oversaw 61 startups raise £30m, achieve 50 pilots and contracts and save an estimated £48m to the health service.
Prior to running healthtech accelerators, James worked at Health Education England, NHS England and the BMJ in innovation roles. James also has a postgraduate diploma in education, has advised on numerous Quality Improvement Projects, presented internationally and won the Merit Award for Outstanding Leadership during his clinical training. He also contributes to Forbes.com on UK healthtech and innovation.