Create Health Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage digital health startups, has officially launched with the closing of its inaugural fund of $21 million. The firm, co-founded by healthcare industry veterans Emma Cartmell and Amit Aysola, aims to invest in technologies that improve access to care, enhance the patient experience, and facilitate better health outcomes. The fund’s focus is on…
LEAD Sports and Health Tech Partners (LEAD), a globally recognized venture corporation in the sports and health tech sectors, has announced the launch of LEAD ONE, a new direct investment vehicle focused on pre-seed companies. This initiative marks a strategic evolution from LEAD’s previous accelerator model, tailored to meet the dynamic needs of the global early-stage venture market. With an annual allocation…
Tower Capital Group, a Generational Health platform and fund, has taken a bold step towards advancing women’s health on a global scale. In a recent announcement, the company revealed its expanded partnership with The World Economic Forum’s Centre for Health and Healthcare to sponsor a new initiative: the Global Women’s Health Responsible Investment Consortium. Tower Capital Group operates at the intersection of…
Aegis Ventures, a New York-based venture studio, welcomed nine leading health systems as founding members of the Digital Consortium. These health systems will innovate directly with Aegis to co-develop, invest in, and deploy healthtech solutions that address healthcare’s most pressing quality, equity, and cost problems, and enable them to better care for the communities they serve, while generating diversified sources of revenue. The health systems…
Kidron Capital, headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, has announced the first close of its venture capital fund dedicated to women’s health. The fund is led by Founding and Managing Partner Maria Gajda Horowitz and Co-founding and Managing Partner Dr. Anula Jayasuriya. Both Gajda Horowitz and Jayasuriya possess extensive academic and industry expertise in the healthtech sector. Already, the fund has made investments…
Most of you will likely be aware of the significant commitment made by the Biden administration toward women’s health research, with First Lady Jill Biden recently announcing a pivotal investment of $100 million during an ARPA-H forum in Cambridge. However, what you may not have known is the active involvement of women’s health-focused VC fund SteelSky Ventures in this groundbreaking initiative. In…
Beta Boom has recently closed its $14.5 million Fund II, with investments from Ally Bank, Pivotal Ventures (A Melinda French Gates Company), Bank of America, and Atento Capital, among others. This new fund will focus on supporting early-stage startups that address the needs of rapidly growing but underserved populations, particularly in fintech, digital health, and the future of work sectors. The venture…
Cross-Border Impact Ventures (CBIV) has recently announced the successful closing of its Women’s and Children’s Health Technology Fund, raising over $90 million in investor commitments. The fund is dedicated to investing in technology companies that address the health needs of women, children, and adolescents, and also aims to enhance the resilience of health systems. Based in North America and Europe, CBIV targets…
