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Healthcare Shares

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We’re a team of entrepreneurs and venturers building a community of healthcare professionals invested in healthcare innovation. We know what it takes to build successful companies, and we use that knowledge to supercharge a portfolio of clinician and practitioner founders tackling the biggest challenges and taking advantage of the biggest opportunities in healthcare.

We are exclusively focused on healthcare.

The majority of our investors are healthcare professionals and clinicians and all of our startups are focused on healthcare. We know how hard healthcare is and we are here to help.

Physicians have backed us from the start.

Our CEO & Founder, Laurence Girard, successfully raised over $24M in capital from more than 500 physician investors who invested in Fruit Street Health, his telemedicine startup. Many of these physicians were the founding investors in Healthcare Shares. We know what it is like to raise capital from healthcare professionals at scale.

We are focused on social impact.

By listing your company on Healthcare Shares, you are working with a company this is not just focused on profit, but one that is actually having a social impact in healthcare.

We’ve created a network of investors who advise entrepreneurs.

By investing in campaigns on Healthcare Shares, you can be an evangelist for your investment and provide advice to the entrepreneurs innovating the products that you believe in.

We market campaigns through our network of thousands of clinicians.

Many crowdfunding platforms expect entrepreneurs to do all the marketing work, but we actively advertise their campaigns on platforms like LinkedIn and throughout our clinician network.

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