Healthy Ventures - Venture capital firm
Healthy Ventures
Horizontal playbook of what's worked before, better in other markets
We think of it as 'Learning Curve Arbitrage'
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Healthy Ventures partners with founders seeking hybrid ears to hear
Firm understanding of the idiosyncratic healthcare vertical
Horizontal playbook of what's worked before, better in other markets
We think of it as 'Learning Curve Arbitrage'
Enmi has invested in early-stage ventures for over 20 years Prior to starting Healthy Ventures, she invested with early-stage venture firms IDG Ventures and Boston Millennia Partners and as an angel in digital health ventures with investments including Omada, Elation, and Modern Meadow
Little known, but high-leverage, fact: so much of success in health tech is driven by unlocking distribution Unlocking a product's path to scale distribution is a key priority and differentiator for Healthy's approach to health tech investing
Besides investing, Enmi has worked with operating companies of varying sizes anchored around marketing At NYTimes com, Enmi focused on the revenue strategy of new digital products Thereafter, Enmi founded a consumer email startup called replyforall that served both users and brand marketers That chapter proved a non-stop lesson in the paramount importance of a founder’s surgical focus and ability to let go of preconceived notions and roadmaps Enmi also tinkered as a vendor of e-books to get versed in affiliate marketing, a powerful channel of highly repeatable and cost-controllable customer acquisition
Enmi graduated from Harvard University with an AB cum laude in Government and Wharton with an MBA with a concentration in Marketing
Madi loves meeting passionate founders, learning about their evolving business models, and helping them work towards the shared goal of reimagining healthcare
At Healthy Ventures, Madi splits her time between identifying new investments, mapping market ecosystems, and providing operational support to portfolio companies
Prior to joining Healthy Ventures, Madi worked in investment banking with Cascadia Capital, a boutique advisory firm where she worked closely with healthcare and technology companies on M&A and capital raise
Madi graduated from Harvard University with an AB in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology
Darren drives the critical, early GTM work of Healthy's portfolio companies
After starting his health tech career in sales, he led marketing for a seed-stage health tech company (Able Health) that was acquired by a big, publicly-traded health tech company (Health Catalyst) where he led GTM and Growth initiatives This journey informs Darren's genuine empathy for the daily realities of early-stage founders, as well as the best practices and market context gleaned from bigger orgs
Ros brings more than a decade of collaborating with entrepreneurs and operators Her strong background in business ops, critical path analysis, and communications lends itself so well to powering our own infrastructure
Steve knows how to create value in healthcare: leading clinically proven solutions to market, navigating payer distribution CEO of AbleTo, an Optum / United Health company
MaryJo has circled several aspects of the pharma industry, as CIO of Parexel and previously CIO of R&D for Merck and Janssen A sherpa for all things biopharma data related
Hill is the OG of telemedicine, having the vision to found Doctors-on-Demand well before the pandemic made it mainstream Strong sense of user-empathetic product and adept at navigating payer reimbursement
Bing has stayed in the HV family - as founder & CEO of HealthCrowd which we backed and successfully exited Regulated payer markets (Medicaid/Medicare), and 0->1 founder playbook
Hari fires on all cylinders all the time, especially about insuretech and predictive things data-informed Founder of Predilytics, Verikai, Radion Health
Chris is the founder of the iconic early-stage venture firm Lowercase Capital and now of Lowercarbon Capital Sees trends before they're trends
Liam is the co-founder of 406 Ventures, a venture firm focused on health tech and cybersecurity Rife with market insights, sage of team-building
Broadly speaking, our investment criteria maps to the intersection among: Management + Market size + Market readiness + Business model Every company's early strengths are distributed differently among these buckets, but we like to see each one at least represented. Another thing we look for is tight near-term focus and extensibility. This is when entrepreneurs have a tight plan for a clear solution to a painful problem AND know how executing against that will position it as a deeper platform with even more tentacles of value creation. There's great potential in healthcare for many trojan horses: plentiful pain points allow for several entry points and the system's tight ecoystem offer natural adjacencies. We support our partner founders by serving as management-extenders. There are only so many hours in a day and only so many days of the year. We've built a platform to help cheat the clock and boost both their day-to-day capacity and also the company's overall runway. We invest in infrastructural solutions that enable technologies to scale healthcare These are often enterprise- and developer-facing products
Broadly speaking, our investment criteria maps to the intersection among: Management + Market size + Market readiness + Business model Every company's early strengths are distributed differently among these buckets, but we like to see each one at least represented
Another thing we look for is tight near-term focus and extensibility This is when entrepreneurs have a tight plan for a clear solution to a painful problem AND know how executing against that will position it as a deeper platform with even more tentacles of value creation There's great potential in healthcare for many trojan horses: plentiful pain points allow for several entry points and the system's tight ecoystem offer natural adjacencies
We support our partner founders by serving as management-extenders There are only so many hours in a day and only so many days of the year We've built a platform to help cheat the clock and boost both their day-to-day capacity and also the company's overall runway
For example, a team with strong product and design sensibilities, more typically found among former consumer tech entrepreneurs, will often lack an adequately deep healthcare perspective Vice versa, often with clinician founded teams, they would be well-served by augmenting with product-centric and marketing talent Human-centered design in an enterprise software for doctors would turn serious heads We use our networks which inherently straddle both worlds to help identify those key first hires that will round out a team's inevitably weaker functional areas
