Venture: Equalize Health
Equalize Health designs and delivers affordable medical technologies to the global poor.
Expert: Heather Meeker
Technology Transactions Partner
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Equalize Health partnered with a legal expert to create a strategy for structuring IP partnerships
Equalize Health closes the quality healthcare gap for underserved populations by designing and delivering medical technologies. Equalize Health identifies existing medical product technologies and redesigns them to be used in resource limited environments at the fraction of the price. Equalize Health has designed and distributed products that have directly impacted over 141,000 lives for people living under $4 a day.
As Equalize Health was launching their R&D Labs, their top priority was developing a methodology for identifying and structuring partnerships and investments. Equalize Health partnered with Rippleworks to develop an actionable framework for acquiring and licensing intellectual property.
Rippleworks transformed our ability to assess potential partners allowing us to be more efficient and nimble in how we do our work.
They provided highly specialized expertise and, even better, customized it for our specific needs. Talk about user-centered! We’re now much better positioned as we develop our strategy for growth.
—Equalize Health CEO Krista Donaldson
Equalize Health teamed with Rippleworks Expert Heather Meeker, who has been a leading intellectual property expert as the Founding Portfolio Partner of OSS Capital and the Technology Transactions Partner of O’Melveny & Myers. Together, they:
• Developed end-to-end business process for IP acquisition that prioritizes risks and simplifies partnerships
• Designed the business process for IP acquisition with industry best practices (and shortcuts) to value IP early and consistently
• Defined IP protocol aligned to business goals to protect brands and technology
• Aligned recommend structures and IP protocol with business priorities and current evaluation matrix for partners
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