I caught up with Hamish Grierson, CEO and co-founder of Thriva, an award-winning startup which has so far raised £1.5m in funding.
Thriva also won ‘Best in HealthTech’ at UKTN’s Elevator Pitch last year.
Here’s what Grierson had to say.
Q: What were you doing before Thriva and where did the idea for the company come from?
Before Thriva, I was head of innovation at Travelex and was responsible for launching Supercard which secured 86,000 registrations in 36 hours.
I worked with Eliot (we are two of three co-founders) at Travelex. Eliot inherited a high cholesterol disease and as a consequence, had to frequently ask me (his manager) for time off work to go and get blood tests done.
I had become a passionate advocate for all things bio hacking and started challenging Eliot as to why he’d never tried to reduce his reliance on Statins. When we began to look into the system more broadly it became immediately clear that the current model of healthcare simply isn’t designed to empower people to take control of their health proactively. So, we set out to build Thriva....