Anastasiya Markvarde
Sr Innovation Manager
Expertise:
Anastasiya has extensive international background in open innovation and startup ecosystem development, having worked as COO of a big European startup hub with the offices in Spain and Baltics.
As part of legacy Healthware Group, Anastasiya has been managing digital health & innovation strategy projects for pharma and life science companies. She led startup due diligence activities for startups coming from diverse therapeutic areas. She also curated some of the innovation activities at Frontiers Health editions in Finland / Spain / Italy. With the acquisition of Healthware Group, Anastasiya’s role falls into EVERSANA’s Health Innovation unit.
Currently, Anastasiya is taking care of the program and partner activities at VITA Accelerator, an acceleration program for digital health startups based in Italy. In addition, she helps to drive open innovation activities in the pharma space.
Articles by Anastasiya Markvarde
Championing Women’s Health and Equity
At Radical Health Festival Helsinki, Sr Innovation Manager, Anastasiya Markvarde, moderated a women-led panel on Closing the Funding Gaps. In this piece, we’re sharing Anastasiya’s takeaways from the session, steering the conversation toward twocritical gaps: the funding of women entrepreneurs and the state of women’s health. What’s the current state funding for women-led startups? Let’s start with some numbers. Women-founded startups accounted for 2% or less of venture capital (VC) funding invested in Europe and the United States in 2023.1 Women make up approximately 11% of investing partners at VC firms in the US and 9% in Europe. The gap is huge, despite the fact that women-led companies yield better […]