We are a venture firm dedicated to advancing health equity
Can we afford health inequity?
The pandemic made us painfully aware that there are persistent health inequities in our nation.
Take for example, the black – white life expectancy gap.
Despite recent gains in closing this gap, the pandemic cruelly reversed these gains due to already-weak structural elements in the health care system, namely the social determinants of health:
Social economic factors
Health behaviors
Physical environment
Access to health care
Our approach to reaching health equity
We started Aligned Health Ventures to address the drivers of health inequities through venture capital investments in startups dedicated to improving health outcomes of underserved groups by addressing the determinants of health, namely access to quality health care.
Our core investment strategy
We target seed and early stage investments in high-growth health care services and technology startups that focus on addressing health disparities in heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and other conditions that are leading causes of premature deaths in underserved communities.
About us
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Over the course of decades of experience as clinicians, founders, executives, directors, and investors, we have developed deep networks throughout the healthcare, venture capital and private equity industries.
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These networks provide us broad market coverage that will allow us to identify emerging trends and allow us to build trusted relationships with founders and the communities they serve.
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This helps us capture an even broader opportunity set of high-quality companies with attractive impact and return profiles.
Investing in health equity is not only good business. It’s also vital to the health of our economy.
The cost of health disparities is simply unsustainable, and a direct result of an inequitable health system and its consequences borne upon the historically underserved and the economy at large.
Rather than sit on the sidelines and point fingers, we intend to empower entrepreneurs through the use of risk capital to solve the health system’s most difficult problems while generating compounding returns, both economically and socially, for the long term.
