
Why We're Different
Our Principals have been investing in and building innovative healthcare software and services companies since the mid-1990s, creating market leaders and important new healthcare sectors in all types of market and healthcare cycles.
We Drive Revenue and Build Teams
We have leveraged our unique networks to tangibly and directly drive revenue (and the resulting value creation) at almost every company with whom we have ever partnered. We also believe nothing is more important in fast-growing, successful businesses than getting the right people on the bus – and quickly. Our Principals have introduced more than 85+ executives, team members, board members, and key contributors (well-known to us and longstanding in our networks) to the companies that have chosen to partner with us.
Limited Partners That Matter
We work closely with a number of strategic investors (in addition to an outstanding group of global institutional investors) and enjoy longstanding friendships with executives of many of the largest and most influential healthcare organizations in the country. Collectively, our strategic investors and more than 100 senior level healthcare executives who have invested personally in our fund represent organizations that insure 175 million Americans, operate more than 700 hospitals, provide pharmacy and PBM services to more than 75% of the nation, and sell software to every major health system in the country. Our broader relationships put us a phone call away from almost any healthcare organization in the country.
These Are Truly Symbiotic Relationships
We have partnered with strategic investors for longer than almost anyone in the industry. We interact with a broad group of their senior executives and emerging leaders to understand their strategies, priorities, and challenges as organizations and across functional areas. They look to us to help them identify the right innovative themes and companies to adopt at the right time – and to avoid mistakes. In turn, they help us identify some of the key themes in which we invest, they assist with diligence, they help our portfolio companies with product development, they drive revenue to our portfolio companies, they take part in distribution relationships, and much more.
We facilitate this knowledge sharing through:
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We Have Pattern Recognition
Working with management, we are constantly assessing market size, the competitive environment, and the company’s ability to executive against the opportunity. We know these are not static variables and evaluate them on an ongoing basis in partnership with management to help determine when to increase or decrease spend; when to tweak a product, invest heavily in product development, or switch gears completely; and when to continue building a company, sell, or go public. All these decisions directly impact the capital intensity of a business and can have a huge impact on an entrepreneur’s personal wealth creation. We make two clear promises while doing this: we work FOR our entrepreneur partners, and, accordingly, we will lean in hard to help.
We Are an Investment Firm with a Mission and Values
Our mission at Health Velocity Capital is to generate outstanding financial returns while being the preferred innovation partner of entrepreneurs and investors working toward a more affordable, sustainable, consumer-friendly healthcare system.
We strive to accomplish our mission through a culture that is defined by the following characteristics:
We Are Committed to Expanding Opportunities
We believe in contributing to a more equitable landscape for innovation. We strive to create opportunities for underrepresented individuals to access the experiences, networks, and resources necessary to break into healthcare venture capital and innovation. We operate the following programs to help open doors:
- Through proprietary materials and processes developed for our Fall internship program for underrepresented groups in venture capital, we have hosted students from Meharry Medical College, Tennessee State, San Jose State, and San Francisco State, among others. We have also expanded this program to include other healthcare venture firms as well. If you represent a firm that would like to join us, please reach out!
- Weekly, we protect time on our calendars for students or entrepreneurs from underrepresented groups interested in help or advice.
- We mentor founders and CEOs affiliated with the California Health Care Foundation Innovation Fund working toward a more equitable healthcare delivery system.