What’s New at Company Ventures: A Growing Investment Team and A Summer Full of Events

🚀 Welcome Mark Rosenblum to Company Ventures

American healthcare spend makes up 20% of the US GDP, and our system still leaves nearly everyone who engages deeply dissatisfied if not with the outcome then at least with the process. Ever since our first investment as a firm into Maven Clinic in 2016, Company Ventures has been keenly aware of the scale of opportunity to disrupt and improve the way healthcare is executed and experienced in the US. We’ve since invested across:

• New insurance models (Centivo)

• Mental health (Octave)

• Drug adherence (Hero)

• Data interoperability (Particle)

• Food-as-medicine (Season)

• Infant nutrition (Nara)

• Fertility (Oova; Juniper)

• New employer healthcare models (Eden)

• Family care clinics (Juno)

• Flexible medical staffing enablement (Nomad)

...and more.

As thrilled as we are by the performance of our healthcare portfolio, we think we’ve only scratched the surface of the potential embedded in working with exceptional founder talent to reinvent US healthcare. And it’s for this reason that we couldn’t be more excited to welcome Mark Rosenblum to our team as Company Ventures’ newest investment partner to lead our healthcare investing going forward.

Mark is an operator and investor with experience spanning early stage incubation, public market investing, and investment banking. Prior to joining Company Ventures, Mark was a Managing Director at Redesign Health, where he helped incubate early stage companies including digital oncology platform Jasper Health and mental healthcare company Uplift. He also worked as a public market investor at Epoch Investment Partners, and in equity research and investment banking roles at Morgan Stanley and Jefferies.

Mark earned his MBA at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and a BS in Finance at University of Maryland. We’re thrilled to welcome Mark to the Company Ventures team and to expand our investment team.

🎪 Upcoming events at 22 Vanderbilt

We have a great series of events coming this month at Company Ventures HQ—join us for the following:

• May 25 and June 20: DEI event series. We’re excited to work with our incredible, thoughtful partners J.P. Morgan, Goodie Nation, Tech:NYC, Gaingels, FounderFamilia and Diversity VC on this two-part event series to bring candid conversations for investors and early stage founders about diversity, equity and inclusion to the NYC tech ecosystem. RSVP: https://buildingwithdei.splashthat.com/ and https://founderdiversity.splashthat.com/ 

• June 6: Boost Demo Day. Join us in-person for the inaugural Boost Founder Fellowship Demo Day. This cohort of founders comprises 20 startups that have spent the past four months preparing their companies to become venture-ready. On Demo Day, they’ll take the stage and pitch their pioneering businesses. RSVP: https://boost-demoday.splashthat.com/ 

• June 8: Founder Friends: A Fireside Chat with Hustle Fund. ​Join the NYC founder community to connect with other founders and hear war stories from a founder who went through the wringer and came out the other side, featuring Hinge founder Justin McLeod. RSVP: https://lu.ma/dws48xei 

• June 28: Company Ventures Business Development/Sales Talent Mixer. Business development and sales folks: Join us for an evening of meeting and mingling with exceptional founders in our community who are hiring. Stop by to eat, drink, make some connections, and maybe even win some prizes. RSVP: https://talentmixer.splashthat.com/

...And many more! Make sure you're following us on LinkedIn and Twitter to keep up with the latest Company Ventures events.

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