Dr. William Polkinghorn

Based in San Francisco and Shanghai, Driver is a technology platform that connects cancer patients to treatments and knowledge, all over the world, to get more life. With an app for the patient and an app for the doctor, Driver’s platform enables any cancer patient, regardless of their location, to access treatment options across Driver’s globalnetwork of cancer centers without leaving home. Driver’s network includes over 30 of the world’s leading cancer centers, including its founding members the US National Cancer Institute and the Chinese National Cancer Center. Other members of Driver’s network include the Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, University of California Los Angeles, Duke, University of North Carolina, and Emory. Driver was founded in 2015 by two physicians, Dr. William R. Polkinghorn and Dr. Petros Giannikopoulos, and is the first technology platform to co-launch in the United States and China. Driver’s lead investor is Horizons Ventures (Li Ka Shing).