boldly transforming healthcare

We back leaders who dare to INITIATE the future.

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what we do

INITIATE funds and co-founds early-stage companies driving tomorrow’s breakthroughs and transforming the future of healthcare.

who we are

As serial founders and experienced investors, we’ve spent decades building companies from ideas to multibillion-dollar successes. We back visionary founders who share our passion, integrity, and commitment to transform early-stage startups into businesses with lasting impact.
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what we fund

"The INITIATE team puts in significant time and resources to help build companies right from the beginning. Together, we developed the idea for how to fix the pervasive industry problem of poor quality medical data. The ideas became a product, and the product became a company."

Mike Elashoff

Founding CEO of cornerstone ai

"INITIATE is the founding partner startups need. My entire career has been devoted to medicine, and I’ve connected with incredible innovators to create solutions to pressing needs, but company-building is something else entirely. The INITIATE team understands exactly how to take a novel solution and turn it into something that can benefit others at massive scale."

Babak Azizzadeh, MD, FACS.

Founder, Macro Trials, Inc.

"From the start, INITIATE understood what we were trying to build and why it mattered. They asked hard questions, pushed us, and connected us with people and opportunities we just wouldn’t have access to without them. That belief, plus the advice and the hands-on help, has shaped where we are and accelerated the company’s progress tremendously."

Leila Sidow

Founder, Tensor BioSciences

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