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Co-Founder on Demand · Digital Health & Healthcare

Your Co-Founder
on demand.

For healthcare companies that want to turn product, idea or market entry into real commercial traction.

I help digital health companies in Germany build commercially – partnerships, go-to-market, first revenues.

I help founders, scale-ups and international healthcare companies build partnerships, sharpen go-to-market structures, and turn revenue potential into concrete execution.

Not classic consulting. No glossy strategy papers that end up in a drawer. Someone who thinks, builds and takes responsibility for the duration of the engagement.

§ 01What I stand for

Not the next consultant.
Someone who builds with you.

Most healthcare companies don't have an insight problem. They usually know quite well that they need to grow, that partnerships are missing, that sales isn't clean yet, or that the German market is harder than they thought.

The real problem is usually a different one: nobody is actually taking the topics into their own hands.

That's where I come in.

I work with companies building something meaningful in healthcare – who need someone who doesn't just comment from the outside but becomes part of the team. For a clear phase. With a clear scope. With the ambition that what's left after is more than just a good concept.

I bring 15+ years of healthcare experience: pharma, digital health, telemedicine, pharmacies, startups, scale-ups and corporate structures. I've founded, led, scaled, sold, negotiated, made mistakes and learned from them.

In short: I help you turn strategy into execution – and execution into commercial traction.

Timm Witte – Fractional Co-Founder & Digital Health Advisor
Timm Witte
  • Founder, Book Your Co-Founder
  • Co-Founder: Health Club House
  • Founder: TherapyGuide
  • CEO: RetroBrain
§ 02About me

Biologist. Pharma. Founder. Healthcare operator.

I'm a biologist and spent a long time in the pharma industry. That's where digitalisation in healthcare grabbed me – and it hasn't let go since.

With TherapyGuide I then jumped straight from the safe harbour of pharma into cold water. Learned what it means to no longer have a corporate behind you – do everything yourself, learn many things from scratch, some the hard way.

Haven't stopped since. Founded more companies, led as CEO, built commercial structures at Shop Apotheke and LifeScan, developed telemedicine partnerships at Redcare. And on the side built a network of 1,300+ healthcare people with Health Club House.

Background
Biologe · Pharma · Digital Health
Rollen
Gründer · CEO · Commercial Lead · Interim Director
Fokus
Digital Health · Pharma · MedTech · Telemedizin · Versorgung

15 years. Always in healthcare. Always close to the build.

§ 03Background & track record

15+ years of healthcare. Built, led, scaled.

My background combines pharma, digital health, telemedicine, startups, scale-ups and corporate healthcare.

Redcare Pharmacy
What I did
Interim Director Telemedicine
Result
~€70M revenue responsibility · 2–3 new telemedicine partnerships in build · strategic advisor to the board
RetroBrain R&D
What I did
CEO & Managing Director
Result
€1.6M funding · recurring revenue +167% · EBIT +53% · sales +35%
Shop Apotheke Europe
What I did
Head of Medical Programs
Result
~€6M ARR · PKV cooperations · MedCoach & patient support launched
LifeScan
What I did
Digital Therapeutics Lead Germany
Result
National DiGA strategy · ecosystem partnerships built
TherapyGuide GmbH
What I did
Founder & CEO
Result
€250K funding · chronic-care platform founded and commercialised
Health Club House
What I did
Co-Founder
Result
1,300+ members · Healthcare Innovation Network in Germany
In numbers
15+
years healthcare
~€70M
revenue responsibility
€1.6M
funding (RetroBrain)
+167%
recurring revenue
+53%
EBIT improvement
+35%
sales growth
~€6M
ARR Medical Programs
€250K
funding (TherapyGuide)
1,300+
healthcare community
RolesFounderCEOCommercial LeadInterim Director
§ 04What I bring

Erfahrung, die man nicht lesen kann.

01
I've hired.

And I've let people go. Both are part of it.

02
I've led investor conversations.

On both sides of the table.

03
I've led companies through tough phases.

When things get tight, I know what to do.

04
I've restructured organisations.

Because markets change and companies have to keep up.

05
I've built teams.

And I know when you need whom – and when you don't yet.

You can only teach what you've lived through yourself.

§ 05Who I work with

I work with three kinds of organisations.

01

Healthcare startups in founding & growth stage

  • winning first revenues or pilot customers
  • building partnerships with pharma, payors, hospitals, telemedicine or care providers
  • too early for a full-time CCO or Managing Director
  • turning go-to-market into real execution
02

International healthcare companies entering the German market

  • understand and prioritise the German market
  • get access to the relevant stakeholders
  • navigate regulatory, cultural and commercial specifics
  • without immediately building a full Germany team
03

Small and mid-sized healthcare companies before the next growth phase

  • developing new revenue streams
  • professionalising the partner business
  • building sales, business development or pipeline structures
  • bringing in experienced commercial leadership on a temporary basis
§ 06Deliverables

What you get from working together.

01

First partnerships

Closed or concretely in the pipeline – with the right players in the German healthcare market.

02

Commercial process

A structure your team can carry forward. Sales, KPIs, pipeline – built and documented.

03

Clarity

After working together you know exactly what works, what doesn't, and what comes next.

§ 07How we work

Clear scope. Clear ownership. Clear next steps.

Engagement model
2–3 days / week

Typically 2–3 days per week or project-based with a clear scope and end date. No artificially inflated mandates.

Typical duration
3–6 months

A sensible start is usually 3 to 6 months. Short enough to stay focused. Long enough to create real impact.

Remote & on-site
Remote + on-site when it counts

Primarily remote. On-site when it matters: stakeholder meetings, partner conversations, workshops, negotiations or decisive internal moments.

§ 08How I work

Direct. Hands-on. With healthy pragmatism.

I like working with people who want to build something meaningful – but have no patience for endless strategy rounds.

I believe in clear priorities, real conversations with the market and fast learning loops. Not every idea needs a big concept right away. Sometimes it needs five good conversations, a clean offering and someone who follows through on the next steps.

Prinzipien
honest feedbackclear prioritisationcommercial thinkinghealthcare market accessoperational executionsparring at eye levelno artificial complexity

I'm not always comfortable. But I'm on your side.

§ 09Start

No engagement starts with a
standard package. First, clarity on the biggest lever.

That's why every collaboration starts with a joint kick-off workshop.

In that workshop we don't figure out how I can sell the most days. We figure out whether I can actually help.

What we figure out together
  • 01What does your organisation actually need right now – commercially, structurally, in partnerships?
  • 02Where is the biggest lever for the next 90 days?
  • 03Which topics need to be tackled immediately – and which are distraction?
  • 04What role should I take on: sparring partner, operator, partner builder, interim commercial lead, or Co-Founder on Demand?
  • 05How would we know after 3 months that the collaboration was successful?
§ 10Clarity

What I don't do.

I'm not the right partner for everything. And that's a good thing.

If you're looking for someone who only facilitates, documents or builds nice slides, I'm probably not the right person.

  • pure strategy projects without operational accountability
  • generic business coaching without a healthcare context
  • classic consulting with long concept papers and little execution
  • projects outside healthcare, digital health, pharma, MedTech, telemedicine or care
  • interim management without strategic and commercial leverage

If you're looking for someone who thinks along, builds with you and also asks uncomfortable questions, we should talk.

§ 11Contact

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