In his role as senior VP and managing director of Safeguard Scientifics, a venture capital firm based just outside Philadelphia, Gary Kurtzman leads the firm’s healthcare investments. So he’s perhaps a bit biased when he says that Philadelphia is the “center of the healthcare universe,” as he did in a 2016 interview.
“I really hate the ‘Silicon Valley of’ characterization because we have our own character,” Kurtzman said during an interview at MedCity’s recent CONVERGE conference. “But we should be a destination for healthcare innovation.”
