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Join us for a happy hour during TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together healthcare decision‑makers, digital health founders, investors, and media.Hosted by <a href="https://vitalaudio.io/Home" target="_blank">Vital Audio</a> and Morrison Foerster, and sponsored by <a href="https://www.scopefund.vc/" target="_blank">ScopeFund</a>, the program will highlight healthtech innovation with live demos and founder spotlights, while creating opportunities to build valuable connections with the investors, operators, and leaders shaping the future of care.We look forward to welcoming you on Tuesday, October 28, 2025 (6:00 – 9:00 p.m. PT), at Morrison Foerster’s offices—just steps from the Moscone Center—for a chance to connect and be part of the next wave of digital health.<hr class="divider">About Vital Audio<a href="https://vitalaudio.io/Home" target="_blank">Vital Audio</a> develops FDA safety approved vocal biomarker software that uses human voice to capture heart rate, heart rate variability, rhythm, and blood pressure to empower cardiologists and pulmonologists to deliver scalable and cost-effective care. <hr>

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Chris represents emerging companies, venture capital investors, and private equity firms in corporate and securities matters, including venture capital, growth equity and private equity investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, restructurings, investment fund transactions, and startup counseling.Chris specializes in transactions involving high-profile, venture-backed companies in the technology industry (AI, Fintech, AR/VR, semiconductors, software). For private equity sponsors and strategic clients, he advises on complex investments for minority and controlling positions, buyouts, and portfolio company management. For entrepreneurs, he advises fast-growing, emerging companies throughout their life cycle, ranging from formation, capital raising, and corporate structuring and governance through exit.Before rejoining Morrison Foerster, Chris advised a leading global investment firm, as associate general counsel and legal director, on domestic and cross-border investment and M&A transactions in the technology industry. Leveraging that experience, Chris provides clients with creative, business-forward, and solutions-oriented advice.As a distinguished advisor, Chris has been recognized as a Rising Star by leading industry publications, including Venture Capital Journal. He is an active member of the ABA’s Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee and frequent author and speaker on investment- and M&A-related topics and trends. While at New York University School of Law, Chris was a Lederman Fellow in Law & Economics and on the executive board of the NYU Journal of Law & Business. He received his undergraduate degree in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Frank Paz is a partner in the Emerging Companies + Venture Capital practice. His clients include first-time and veteran founders, venture capital firms, and startup, venture-backed, and growth companies across a variety of industries.Frank has extensive experience helping venture capital firms and companies with financing transactions, general corporate representation and counseling, and corporate governance. He advises companies through every stage of the corporate lifecycle, from pre-incorporation planning and formation issues through acquisition.Frank is fluent in Spanish.

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Founders, Funders & Future of Care Mixer

28 Oct 2025 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT