We help international healthcare companies, investors, and innovation hubs navigate US expansion with confidence.
Let’s talkWe’re a small team with deep international experience, having lived and worked in healthcare across Europe and South America before launching Venture Atlas Labs. Our experience spans innovation development, sales and marketing leadership, executive roles, non-dilutive funding, and growth and acquisition capital.
Our early careers took us through innovation development in academia, sales and marketing leadership within both Fortune 100 companies and startups, executive roles at publicly-traded companies, non-dilutive funding efforts from federal institutions, and high-growth positions in growth and acquisition capital.
The following ten years growing Venture Atlas Labs taught us how to refine the nuances between investment and innovation as companies scale internationally.
We witnessed supporting organizations commit to a template of innovation theater that didn’t particularly help international healthtech companies navigate the US and certainly didn’t leverage their strengths. Wearing our investment hats and leveraging our experience from all sides of innovation, we found this inefficiency frustrating and unnecessary—so we set out to change that.
We work with organizations across Europe, Australia, and New Zealand to illuminate the US—and with US and Canadian firms on the opportunities in Europe.
Everything you need to enter the US, speed up time-to-market, and navigate this complex market efficiently.
You can get direct insights with easy consulting credits or get us to create or validate your roadmap via a custom project.
Or, if you’re just looking at the US market, we recommend applying for the Healthtech Bridge program.
From commercial support to FDI, we drive measurable progress across borders.
We uplift new ideas and leaders with real-world frameworks, action-driven workshops, and investment planning.
We partner with new business units focused on market expansion to develop critical competitive edges
VC, PE, CVC, and family offices all benefit from niche expertise, deep industry insights, and proprietary frameworks
If you have your eye on FDA approval, it’s time to get serious about commercialization and market access planning.
Assisting corporations and PE, we bring relevant insight to make decisions faster and with stronger context.
Expert opinions, assessments, and ad-hoc advice for cases or white-label consulting across healthcare.
Depending on the project, we leverage our extensive Rolodex of trusted advisors from across healthcare and investment.
Austin, TexasTallinn, Estonia
Elizabeth has worked at the intersection of international investment and commercialization within healthcare for the last 15 years, spanning 28 countries and all classes of complexity, building a reputation for strategic risk management for both investors and companies.
She is also the Executive Director of the Life Science Diplomacy Alliance, an industry-led coalition focused on cross-border scientific diplomacy, and Managing Partner of the HealthTech Bridge, an international accelerator.
She is retained by various investment funds, governments, and international agencies; is an advisor on health economic and security policy to multiple allied countries; and is a frequent speaker at workshops and conferences on new health and biotech innovations. She has authored multiple studies and guidebooks commissioned by foreign trade agencies on the subjects of health economics, investment, and different models of care delivery.
She has worked on each side of the health innovation ecosystem in the US, as well as Australasia, Latin America, Canada, and Europe; and across startups, large public companies, academia, government, and investment. She served on the Board of Directors of SWAN Impact, one of the fastest-growing impact-driven business angel networks in the US.
NYCCopenhagen, Denmark
As an experienced management consultant and trusted life science advisor, Christina provides high‐value direction on international business development, market-entry, and brand-building programs focused on strategic partnership development.
Residing in NYC, Christina spent 20 years in Houston, Texas, where she managed global brand initiatives for industry leaders in energy (ExxonMobil), technology (HPE), healthcare (MD Anderson Cancer Center), and life science (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark).
Christina specializes in healthcare and life science and built a network and experience with hospital leaders and the life science industry across the US and the Nordics. As advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, she co-founded and chaired the Texas Medical Center | Denmark BioBridge – an international MoU signed by TMC and the Kingdom of Denmark.
She holds a Master’s in International Business Communication from Copenhagen Business School and studied Corporate Innovation at Rice University – Jones Graduate School of Business.
Austin, Texas
Sean is a versatile product and operations leader with over 33 years of experience driving successful projects and teams across industries and international markets. He has a strong track record of guiding new product development and operational execution, from Fortune 500 companies to startups, with a history of successful innovation exits and market adoption.
His expertise spans early-stage investment due diligence, where he evaluates technical and operational quality, execution risk, and market opportunity.
With a foundation in mechanical and process engineering, Sean brings extensive experience in project engineering, covering scope development, cost estimation, scheduling, contractor management, and cross-functional leadership. His ability to develop critical processes in support of operations and business intelligence has made him a key asset in translating R&D innovations into commercially viable products and services.
We’re never going to drop a stack of superfluous reports in your inbox that don’t inform decisions. Instead, we just give you the best, straightforward information possible.
We’re as exhausted by fly-by-night consultants as you are, because we’ve been on your side of the table. Instead, we aim to be actually useful because we want you to succeed.
We stay in the deep end, not in the side lines. We don’t just give out armchair advice. We put to practice what we preach.
We don’t play games with our partners (that’s you!) because we treat our partners like, well, partners. If we know the answer or can point you in the right direction right then and there, we will.
See how consulting worksWe’re geographically agnostic. While headquartered in Austin, Texas, we work across the US and EU. Our network of healthcare providers and partners is diversified across the US, Nordics, DACH, and ANZ.
We take confidentiality very seriously. We’re often privy to privileged information which sometimes prohibits us from taking on competitors. We proactively recuse ourselves from these conflicting situations.
We’re not in this to be extractive. We know the investment world, from early-stage investing through private equity, and we know what both working on a runway is like–and what it means to be responsible stewards of LPs’ capital. We strive to provide top tier services that provide truly impactful value.
We show up for diplomacy. We believe the best path forward to building a more peaceful planet is through international collaboration with companies that improve the health and well being of citizens everywhere.
See the diplomatic allianceWe take confidentiality seriously, avoid conflicts of interest, and treat our partners like partners. Headquartered in Austin, Texas and Tallinn, Estonia, we work with healthcare providers and partners across the US and EU.
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