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Michael B. Laskoff

Board Member at wayForward

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Oct 2020
Who we are: Project Healthy Minds is a new millennial/Gen Z-driven non-profit startup focused on tackling one of the defining issues of our generation: the growing mental health crisis. The problem were solving: 615 million people worldwide and 65 million Americans are diagnosed with a mental health condition, and yet 60% never get mental health support. There are three drivers of this "treatment gap": (1) the stigmatization of the health topic, (2) people don’t know where/how to access care, and (3) insurance constraints and a workforce shortage preclude too many people from being able to afford care. What we do: Were building a digital discovery marketplace (think Kayak.com or Expedia for discovering mental health services) -- to make it easier to find mental health care. Were building an unprecedented national anti-stigma and education campaign featuring celebrities -- to destigmatize mental health and meet millennials/Gen Z where they actually are. Were creating the first national standards for what businesses should do to better serve the mental health needs of their employees -- to expand availability of care.
Board Member
Jul 2020
wayForward (Psyinnovations Inc.) a digital behavioral health company is now part of DarioHealth Corp. DarioHealth Corp. (NASDAQ: DRIO) is a leading global digital therapeutics company revolutionizing how people with chronic conditions manage their health. Dario's next-generation, AI-powered, digital therapeutic solutions support more than just an individual's disease. Dario provides adaptive, personalized experiences that drive behavior change through evidence-based interventions, intuitive, clinically proven digital tools, high-quality software, and coaching to help individuals improve health and sustain meaningful outcomes. Dario offers one of the highest-rated diabetes, hypertension, musculoskeletal and behavioral health solutions on the market. The company's cross-functional team operates at the intersection of life sciences, behavioral science, and software technology and is rapidly expanding into new chronic conditions and geographic markets, using a performance-based approach to improve its users' health. Dario makes the right thing to do the easy thing to do. The world leading Dario Blood Glucose Monitoring System has US FDA clearance and approval from the European CE, Health Canada, and Australia’s TGA. Dario products are approved to sell in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Australia, The Netherlands, and New Zealand. DarioHealth is rapidly moving into new geographic markets and chronic conditions. Company Mission: Empowering people to achieve healthier lives by engaging them with clinically proven digital tools that make the right thing to do, the easy thing to do.
Board Member
Apr 2019
We drive improvement to your Stars performance with our Behavioral AI Stars Platform. As you feed your data into our behavioral insights engine, it uses a combination of behavioral science, quality expertise and AI-assisted prioritization to create a dynamic working record of your membership. We use this information to create individualized member outreach at scale, automatically prioritizing the right measure, the right intervention and the right message to ensure the most effective action is taken with quality improvements in mind. With expertise and full orchestration across all interventions, we can also integrate other outreach vendors or in-house solutions to give you one clear picture of what is happening with each member. And, we continuously adjust and improve these capabilities to maximize value, revenue and Star Ratings.
Board Member
Apr 2016
Wellth is the daily member relationship platform, proven across millions of members. Healthcare assumes people act in their own best interest. But everyday stress gets in the way, and for members managing chronic conditions, good habits are hard to build and harder to keep. Wellth changes that. We partner with Medicare Advantage, D-SNP, Medicaid, and commercial plans to build a daily relationship with every member, grounded in behavioral science and validated in a Penn Medicine randomized controlled trial. We handle the full journey, from onboarding and activation to bringing members back day after day. Instead of one more vendor pinging members out of context, Wellth becomes the one positive, consistent touchpoint that helps people build the daily behaviors that drive clinical, cost, and quality outcomes: taking blood pressure readings, testing blood sugar, using connected devices, eating healthy meals, managing their care plans, and more. Proven across diverse populations: • 90% average care plan adherence • 45% reduction in post-ACS hospital readmissions (Penn Medicine RCT) • 43% average reduction in high-cost utilization • 51% lower inpatient admissions • 2-4x ROI on cost-of-care reduction • 4+ Star Ratings across Part C and D measures 70 million daily check-ins and counting. Learn more at www.wellthapp.com.
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2021
Board Member
Apr 2021
VNS Health is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit home and community-based health care organizations. Innovating in health care for more than 125 years, our commitment to health and well-being is what drives us—we help people live, age and heal where they feel most comfortable, in their own homes, connected to their family and community. On any given day, more than 10,000 VNS Health team members deliver compassionate care, unparalleled expertise and 24/7 solutions and resources to the more than 43,000 “neighbors” who look to us for care. Powered and informed by data analytics that are unmatched in the home and community-health industry, VNS Health offers a full range of health care services, solutions and health plans designed to simplify the health care experience and meet the diverse and complex needs of those we serve in New York and beyond. VNS Health does not ask prospective employees for any form of payment or money transfer as part of its job application or onboarding process. VNS Health does not ask prospective employees for information relating to individual financial assets, credit cards, personal passwords and VNS Health does not require prospective employees to purchase equipment or software.
2020
Board Member
Oct 2020
Who we are: Project Healthy Minds is a new millennial/Gen Z-driven non-profit startup focused on tackling one of the defining issues of our generation: the growing mental health crisis. The problem were solving: 615 million people worldwide and 65 million Americans are diagnosed with a mental health condition, and yet 60% never get mental health support. There are three drivers of this "treatment gap": (1) the stigmatization of the health topic, (2) people don’t know where/how to access care, and (3) insurance constraints and a workforce shortage preclude too many people from being able to afford care. What we do: Were building a digital discovery marketplace (think Kayak.com or Expedia for discovering mental health services) -- to make it easier to find mental health care. Were building an unprecedented national anti-stigma and education campaign featuring celebrities -- to destigmatize mental health and meet millennials/Gen Z where they actually are. Were creating the first national standards for what businesses should do to better serve the mental health needs of their employees -- to expand availability of care.
Board Member
Jul 2020
wayForward (Psyinnovations Inc.) a digital behavioral health company is now part of DarioHealth Corp. DarioHealth Corp. (NASDAQ: DRIO) is a leading global digital therapeutics company revolutionizing how people with chronic conditions manage their health. Dario's next-generation, AI-powered, digital therapeutic solutions support more than just an individual's disease. Dario provides adaptive, personalized experiences that drive behavior change through evidence-based interventions, intuitive, clinically proven digital tools, high-quality software, and coaching to help individuals improve health and sustain meaningful outcomes. Dario offers one of the highest-rated diabetes, hypertension, musculoskeletal and behavioral health solutions on the market. The company's cross-functional team operates at the intersection of life sciences, behavioral science, and software technology and is rapidly expanding into new chronic conditions and geographic markets, using a performance-based approach to improve its users' health. Dario makes the right thing to do the easy thing to do. The world leading Dario Blood Glucose Monitoring System has US FDA clearance and approval from the European CE, Health Canada, and Australia’s TGA. Dario products are approved to sell in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Australia, The Netherlands, and New Zealand. DarioHealth is rapidly moving into new geographic markets and chronic conditions. Company Mission: Empowering people to achieve healthier lives by engaging them with clinically proven digital tools that make the right thing to do, the easy thing to do.
2019
Entrepreneur In Residence
Nov 2019
BioVenture eLab, a part of Enterprise Innovation, was formed to foster an entrepreneurial ecosystem for researchers, clinicians and staff at Weill Cornell Medicine. We provide access to resources, training and mentorship in biomedical entrepreneurship. Our goal is to position members of the WCM community for success and to build the next generation of leaders in life science industries and new ventures.
Board Member
Apr 2019
We drive improvement to your Stars performance with our Behavioral AI Stars Platform. As you feed your data into our behavioral insights engine, it uses a combination of behavioral science, quality expertise and AI-assisted prioritization to create a dynamic working record of your membership. We use this information to create individualized member outreach at scale, automatically prioritizing the right measure, the right intervention and the right message to ensure the most effective action is taken with quality improvements in mind. With expertise and full orchestration across all interventions, we can also integrate other outreach vendors or in-house solutions to give you one clear picture of what is happening with each member. And, we continuously adjust and improve these capabilities to maximize value, revenue and Star Ratings.
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