AI, Biotech, and Billion-Dollar Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur

About this episode

Tareq Risheq discusses his entrepreneurial journey and the future of AI in healthcare.

In this episode of INNOV-8 Presents: Entrepreneurs in Tech , host Bob Shami sits down with inventor and entrepreneur Tareq Risheq, founder of Biovera, for an in-depth conversation on entrepreneurship, resilience, and the future of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Tareq shares his extraordinary journey—from building a globally successful vacuum cleaner business in the Middle East to pivoting into health technology and AI-driven innovation. He opens up about the failures that shaped him, the lessons learned from early ventures, and how personal health challenges inspired the creation of Biovera’s sleep apnea technology. The conversation explores how Biovera is developing cutting-edge solutions using AI and micro-vibration systems to address sleep disorders, alongside the challenges of funding, FDA trials, and market adoption in a highly competitive health tech space. This episode is a deep dive into what it really takes to build, fail, and rebuild in the world of high-impact innovation—offering practical wisdom for founders, engineers, and anyone interested in the future of health and AI. Tareq Risheq: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tareq-risheq-111a352/ | tr@biovera.ai |…

People in this episode

Host: Bob Shami

Guest: Tareq Risheq

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• artificial intelligence
• health technology
• biotech
• innovation
• resilience

Keywords

• AI
• biotech
• entrepreneurship
• health technology
• sleep disorders
• innovation
• funding
• FDA

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Biovera

Products: sleep apnea technology