A2z Venture

A2z Venture is a seed-stage venture capital firm with a healthcare focus. It works alongside founders, entrepreneurs and management teams to build healthcare service businesses, and it now puts particular weight on startups that apply artificial intelligence to medicine. Its website notes that the site is still under construction.

What A2z Venture does

• Seed-stage investment: backs early healthcare companies together with their founders and management teams.
• Value creation planning: agrees a tailored plan with each leadership team, usually starting with infrastructure spending and followed by organic growth and acquisitions.
• Hands-on partnering: partners and principals give senior-level attention so each business can move quickly.
• AI in healthcare: named interests include machine learning for diagnosis and prognosis from medical imaging, and how people and AI systems work together in radiology.

Who it works with

Founders and management teams building healthcare businesses, especially those using AI, data analytics and imaging informatics.

Key facts

• Stage: Seed
• Focus areas: AI in medicine, digital pathology, data analytics and AI adoption