Why Your Healthcare & Life Sciences Deals Stall - AM Time

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Fri, May 22, 2026

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Healthcare-Market Fit Lab (PMF for Healthcare & Life Sciences)
Arvita Tripati
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What you'll learn

Diagnose why your healthcare deal broke

Whether your pilot stalled after a successful run or never got real traction with the right buyer, identify the gaps.

Tell a real pilot from a free trial

Learn the signals that your pilot is on a path to a contract vs. a polite way for the buyer to keep evaluating you

Build pilot criteria that close healthcare deals

Structure success metrics that produce the exact evidence your buyer's champion needs to get sign-off from procurement.

Why this topic matters

Most healthtech startups don't lose enterprise deals because of their product. They lose them in one of two places: before the pilot gets real traction, or after a successful pilot that somehow doesn't convert. This session gives you a framework to diagnose exactly where your deal broke down and what to do about

You'll learn from

Arvita Tripati

VP operator. EIR. 30+ regulated products shipped. AliveCor, LabCorp, Vineti

Arvita Tripati spent 18 years as an operator at AliveCor, Vineti, Korio Clinical, Clip Health, and Endpoint Clinical, launching 30+ FDA-regulated products. She's been on the inside of the enterprise sales cycles, procurement negotiations, and pilot conversions this course covers, across wearables, health AI, cell therapy logistics, clinical trials, and diagnostics. 


The course content comes from regulated environments, not SaaS playbooks. Today she runs Vahana Labs, helping healthtech startups move from pilot to enterprise contract, and conducts technical diligence for PE/VC firms evaluating healthtech investments. She mentors at Alchemist Accelerator & PlugNPlay and is co-authoring a book on trust debt in enterprise (fall 2026).

Clients include

Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Johnson & Johnson
AbbVie Inc.
American Red Cross
Bristol Myers Squibb
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