Echo Health Ventures

Echo Health Ventures invests in and helps grow health care companies. It describes its work as venture capital and growth equity that takes a hands-on, purpose-driven role. Its stated aim is to change how the health care system works.

What Echo Health Ventures offers

• Venture capital — invests in young health care companies.
• Growth equity — backs more established companies looking to scale.
• Strategic support — helps portfolio companies grow and bring their products to national scale.
• Innovation Alliance — groups four health insurers, among them Cambia and the Tennessee Blue Cross plan, to speed up change.

Who it works with

It partners with health care companies that meet the needs of future consumers in a financially sustainable way. It favours long-term partnerships. Recent examples on its site include Medix Infusion, which provides infusion therapy in underserved areas, and Heartbeat Health.

Key facts

• Focus: Health care
• Investor group: Echo Innovation Alliance
• Content: News and commentary from the firm and its portfolio