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Rubicon Founders

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Rubicon seeks to both invest and partner to build meaningful businesses that create enduring value by transforming the way people receive healthcare.

Rubicon’s approach to investing is guided by a deliberative analytic process building ground-up businesses from scratch, as well as empowering large platform and special opportunity companies.

GROUND UP

  • We partner to create transformational companies because we believe there are better ways to solve today’s healthcare challenges.
  • Our ground up business concepts apply data-driven processes to identify value edge, a form of competitive advantage, and combine with mission driven teams.

PLATFORM & SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES

  • We partner with exceptional companies that create value by transforming lives.
  • We focus on unique healthcare assets that pioneer healthcare solutions.

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