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Jumpstart Health Investors

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Jumpstart focuses exclusively on health, healthcare, and wellness investments.

Opportunity across each stage of innovation.

At Jumpstart Health Investors, we understand that each stage of development brings different risks, returns, and liquidity characteristics. The Jumpstart platform has been assembled to create opportunities for investors by solving key factors such as access, risk-mitigation, diversification and portfolio management. Our investor partners access various funds and direct deals across all stages: Seed, Venture, Growth, Scale, and Maturity.

We deliver strong performance by removing risk factors and building strong companies at all stages of innovation.

Industry & Market Adoption

Our investment engine is fueled by a formal annual process of primary research with healthcare industry leaders, decision makers and influencer. We pair these insights with proprietary algo-driven portfolio selection tools to turn market trends into actionable investment opportunities.

Financial Growth

The Jumpstart family of funds directly invests in solutions shaping the future of health. Over the years, we’ve established a national network of strategic capital partners across all healthcare verticals and deal sizes to provide continued support to our international portfolio of 65+ companies.

Competitive Landscape

We track innovation from the idea-stage (think founders working from a coffee shop, a science lab or a co-working space) through each stage of development over time. Jumpstart has spent the past 5 years assembling and continuously updating the largest proprietary database of US health innovation.

Operations & Culture

Our extensive network of mentors and advisors across all verticals of healthcare, legal, finance & accounting consult and support portfolio companies. Jumpstart’s tailored curriculum & resource library supports each portfolio company’s unique customer & market needs.

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