Aegis Ventures

Aegis Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in technology companies, particularly those leading innovations in healthcare and blockchain. The firm partners with entrepreneurs and industry leaders to originate, launch, and scale transformative companies that address major societal challenges. Aegis Ventures aims to build companies with the capacity for vast impact, focusing on sectors such as data and automation, health and wellness, and digital health and health technologies. Within these verticals, the firm seeks to create companies that leverage technology to optimize trade-offs between quality, access, and cost, promoting seamless continuity of care, patient empowerment, and better-informed clinical decision-making.

The firm's investment strategy is characterized by a combination of deep insights, aligned capital, and proprietary access to customers, substantially increasing the velocity and success rate of the new companies they build. Aegis Ventures operates with a craftsman-like model, focusing on higher returns with smaller amounts of capital, emphasizing quality over quantity, and fostering closer founder relationships. This approach allows for flexibility in exit options and a disciplined strategy with low entry prices for high ownership. The firm's core values include leading with humility, building trust to move fast, innovating responsibly, taking big swings, being nimble and scrappy, and executing relentlessly.

Aegis Ventures has a growing portfolio of companies that tackle hard problems in healthcare. Since its inception, the firm has launched multiple companies that reimagine how healthcare is delivered, including Ascertain, Avandra, Caregentic, Hume, and Optain. These companies focus on areas such as automating workflows, unlocking real-world data, reimagining consumer experiences, creating new biomarkers, and advancing AI in healthcare. The firm's partnerships with leading health systems, such as Northwell Health, have been instrumental in expanding their data network and forging partnerships with leading health systems, providing strategic guidance on business models, and helping scale initiatives with biopharma and medical researchers to improve and enhance life-saving treatments. Aegis Ventures' mission is to drive innovative healthcare transformation forward by collaborating with health systems to develop new solutions that address common problems and create new businesses that will transform healthcare.