In Conversation: Clare Purvis
Founder, WELL for Digital Health - on helping female scientists move from academia into digital health leadership
Some of the clearest thinking in digital health today comes from Clare Purvis, Founder, WELL for Digital Health. In a wide-ranging conversation conducted by Digital Health Insights, Clare laid out a view of the industry that is both candid and immediately useful to the executives, clinicians, and builders who read HealthTech Cube.
The conversation
Helping female scientists move from academia into digital health leadership - and reconciling scientific rigor with startup product timelines and evidence-building.
“Product development IS science!”
- Clare Purvis, in conversation with Digital Health Insights
Conversation highlights
Helping female scientists move from academia into digital health leadership
And reconciling scientific rigor with startup product timelines and evidence-building
The bigger picture
The capital context matters here. US digital health raised $7.4 billion in H1 2026 with 45% of it concentrated in $100M+ megadeals, and 115 acquisitions made it the busiest M&A run since 2021 (our analysis). In a market this concentrated, the strategies described in this conversation - defensible data, measurable outcomes, disciplined growth - are precisely what separates the funded from the folded.
The exchange offers a rare unvarnished look at how these decisions actually get made. At WELL for Digital Health, that thinking translates into daily decisions about where technology genuinely earns its place in care delivery, and where discipline matters more than novelty.
The HTC take
As the reimbursement and regulatory ground shifts through 2026 and 2027, this is exactly the kind of leadership thinking worth revisiting.