The goal of the Corporate Venture Transformers in Health Care Report was to dig deep into the strategic priorities, investment patterns, and organization structure of each in order to paint a vivid picture of the increasingly important role CVC plays in advancing health care today. This report was created in collaboration with Cambia, HCA and Humana.
Health Evolution surveyed many of the most prominent and active Corporate Venture Capital groups in health care in Q1 2017. We then convened the leaders of more than thirty-five of these companies for whom engagement with startups has become a mainstream professional activity and who are playing an increasingly influential role in financing groundbreaking innovators, particularly in the digital health space.
To understand the key shifts unfolding in health care Corporate Venture Capital today.
Health Evolution CVG Survey & Meeting Participants (Partial List*):
- Ascension Ventures
- BCBSMA (Zaffre Investments)
- Comcast Ventures
- Dignity Health
- Echo Health Ventures (Cambia Health Solutions, Mosaic)
- GE Ventures
- HCA – Health Insights Capital
- Heritage Group
- Hewlett Packard Ventures
- Highmark Health
- Humana
- Johnson & Johnson Innovation | JJDC
- Kaiser Permanente Ventures
- McKesson Ventures
- Providence St. Joseph Health
- Qualcomm Ventures
- Samsung NEXT Ventures
- Sandbox Industries (Blue Venture Fund)
*The 24 participating HE-CVG members are primarily direct minority investors in external companies run by unaffiliated entrepreneurs, although a few also are involved in founding/incubating new initiatives. Some survey participants asked that their company names not be included in any report.
