121 Healthcare Investors — 83 Currently Deploying

Elevate Capital invests in underserved entrepreneurs—women, minorities, veterans, and those with limited regional access to capital—by providing venture capital and mentorship to h…

Offer founders pursuing their life's work an alternative to the hype cycle by providing long-term thinking and supporting category-defining companies across all sectors that will l…

Thematic-driven investors backing ambitious founders building for big outcomes across critical domains (AI, Consumer, Defense Tech) from seed to pre-IPO, bringing deep sector insig…

Empowering historically excluded founders with capital, mentorship, and networks to build scalable companies in Fintech, SaaS, AI, Logistics, and Healthcare, leveraging 25+ years o…

Early-stage VC for entrepreneurs building the next generation of European icons, partnering with founding teams at pre-seed and seed stages across thematic areas including fintech,…

Back European founders with strong qualities (not CV/pedigree) building businesses for a better human future, assessed on characteristics like productivity, grit, and commercial ac…

Champion inspired and obsessive builders across seed stage, from enterprise SaaS to sustainability, health, hard tech, AI, infrastructure, consumer, and crypto. Provide guidance fr…

NFX identifies and backs founders building companies with network effects. The fund emphasizes software development, founder support through content/tools, and emerging technologie…

Calibrate partners with elite technical founders to turn deep tech breakthroughs (AI, computer vision, autonomy, robotics) into scalable commercial advantages across transportation…

Support audacious entrepreneurs building consumer technology that transforms how billions experience the world through connectivity, convenience, entertainment and empowerment, inv…

Investing in a future where people of color experience true agency and participation in the American economy through supporting entrepreneurs from overlooked communities.

Experienced founders (particularly serial/exit founders) win 22x more often. Zero-equity retreats attract elite repeat founders who avoid traditional accelerators, enabling first-m…

SignalFire is a VC firm built like a tech company that combines AI tools, data infrastructure, and deep sector expertise with portfolio support to help founders scale faster. The f…

Seed-stage generalist investor supporting ambitious founders building enduring businesses across the United States, with focus on Software, Healthcare, Financial Services, Marketpl…

Specialists in pre-seed and seed investing, founded by operators who have built and scaled companies. Provide hands-on support through recruiting, GTM coaching, fundraising assista…

Techstars helps founders scale startups into world-changing businesses through a 3-month mentorship-driven accelerator program, capital investment, and access to a global network o…

Partnering with ambitious early-stage founders building category-defining companies across enterprise and consumer sectors.

Data-driven, systematic approach to partnering with the world's most promising companies. AI and data science engine for underwriting enables quantitative decision-making across ve…

Back the best student founders early with first capital ($90K-$250K checks) while simultaneously training the next generation of VCs through student-run investing. Built by student…

Early-stage VC investing in disruptive AI and Blockchain startups outside Silicon Valley, anchored in Texas and Central U.S., leading Seed and Series A rounds in capital-efficient …

Panache Ventures backs visionary founders from day one with conviction and courage, providing hands-on support from pre-seed through Series A with operator-level insight and a nati…

Help entrepreneurs find product-market fit at seed stage, then scale. Leverage a council of 100+ top product leaders to build winning products loved by customers.

Back the world's best AI native founders at pre-seed and seed stages with product and go-to-market expertise from OpenAI, Meta, Twitter, and a16z to help them reshape the world.

Partner with brilliant founders to bring things of real wonder into the world by backing innovative companies that upend the status quo across software, sustainability, and consume…

Investing in transformative early-stage cybersecurity startups with deep domain expertise, extensive partner networks, and a platform approach to accelerate customer acquisition an…

Back founders who rewrite the rules and imagine what's next, with focus on early-stage companies demonstrating conviction-driven vision across multiple sectors and geographies.

Seed-stage fund that helps founders build generational companies by providing connections, experience, hands-on support, and human-centered partnership from pre-seed through scale.

Generalist fund backing fearless founders solving the hardest challenges facing humanity across AI transformation, fintech, healthcare, industrial digitization, labor & education, …

Equitable venture capital model where every founder backed becomes a co-owner of the fund. Early-stage investments in mission-driven, pre-seed and seed founders who are outliers, o…

Human-first approach to venture capital investing in founders at earliest stages across human needs economy (health, wellness, workplace, community, experience). Back founders with…

Back the world's most ambitious entrepreneurs capable of building transformative businesses over 20+ years that solve fundamental problems across all sectors and geographies using …

Seed and early-stage venture capital firm investing in digital solutions that transform essential, broad-impact industries like healthcare and energy by bringing emerging technolog…

Lundbeckfonden creates powerful ripple effects by actively investing in business and science at the frontiers of their fields, with focus on bringing discoveries to lives through b…

Our three main thesis areas are future of income, complicated consumer and decentralized enterprise

We identify and support visionaries transforming industries with the potential to better billions of lives. Bow identifies platform companies in industries being transformed by tec…

Invest in people first, companies second. Focus on seed-stage technology startups led by entrepreneurs uniquely positioned to transform their industry, with emphasis on atypical fo…

Invests in companies using technology to solve important problems in healthcare, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, agriculture, transportation, and other sectors

Invests in early-stage technology companies operating in highly regulated markets, offering regulatory risk expertise and execution support that differentiates from other VC firms.

Cherubic invests in the most ambitious founders from angel to pre-IPO stage, acting as a long-term partner and friend first, investor second.

The Helm invests in game-changing companies founded by women, operating as an early-stage venture firm with offices in NYC and London.

First Round partners with unreasonable founders at the earliest stages to help them imagine and build transformative companies. The fund focuses on being the world's best partner f…

Correlation Ventures backs groundbreaking technology and data science companies that solve industry problems through rapid decision-making and industry-leading networks.

Invest in people over product at the earliest stages of entrepreneurial journey, focusing on long-term relationships with founders at pre-seed and seed stages.

Portfolia builds venture funds designed by and for women, open to all to back the companies shaping the future we want to see. Focus on high-growth sectors like women's health, gre…

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures is Brooklyn's first early-stage venture fund that fosters an online and offline community open to founders and innovative professionals of all backgrounds.

We invest in under-resourced entrepreneurs including women of color led businesses seeking pre-seed, seed level or series A financing. Our mission is to bridge the gap in venture c…

We back bold companies across sectors. What unites them isn't industry — it's a clear thesis for technological transformation, and founders we believe in.

We believe perspective and proximity are power. We seek out entrepreneurs who are uniquely equipped to lead in the spaces where innovation is most needed. From expanding access to …

Empowering diverse entrepreneurs to create impactful solutions addressing systemic inequities

Seasoned operators and investors backing founders who tackle messy, mission-critical problems that reshape systems we rely on. Go deep in sectors where complexity is the norm and l…

Capria Ventures is a Global South specialist VC investing in Applied AI, helping tech founders with limitless aspirations disrupt traditional sectors and propel economic growth acr…

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm investing in companies with differentiated technologies in compelling target markets, focusing on Technology (SaaS, FinTech, PropTech) and He…

Invest in teams building AI and intelligent machines that unlock human potential by transforming foundational industries. AI and robotics will allow humanity to rethink and rebuild…

Back exceptional founders building a better future by investing early with outlier founders with potential to build something meaningful and enduring. The fund looks for the weird,…

Leading European private asset manager committed to profitable impact-driven companies across private equity, private debt, and real assets, focusing on mid-market and growth segme…

Since 2010, Detroit Venture Partners backs early-stage tech companies that move the world forward, leveraging the 90+ companies in the Rock Family of Companies ecosystem to help po…

Early stage, global investors backing ambitious founders from inception through seed with high-conviction investments in foundational technology, offering strategic guidance and go…

Investing in exceptional founders transforming healthcare by rebuilding healthcare's operating system with software, data, and AI. Focus on technology infrastructure across the $5.…

We invest in founders creating positive system change, focusing on three consumer-led mega trends: Life (access and affordability in essential products/services), Health (preventat…

How many healthcare investors are actively deploying right now?

DryPowder tracks 121 healthcare funds. Of these, 83 are currently deploying capital based on recent fund closes, portfolio activity, and partner signals. Use DryPowder's fund matching to see which ones fit your specific startup.

What check size do healthcare VCs write?

Among 121 healthcare funds on DryPowder, check sizes run from $1K–$100M. Ranges vary by fund size, vintage, and whether the fund leads rounds. Each fund profile shows check size detail and lead preference.

How do I get a meeting with a healthcare VC?

A warm intro is still the fastest path. Most healthcare VCs on DryPowder do accept cold outreach or direct applications, but response rates vary widely by fund. Before reaching out, use DryPowder's AI matching to get a fit score and specific talking points. Founders who lead with thesis-aligned framing get significantly better response rates than those sending the same deck to every fund on a list.

What do healthcare VCs look for beyond a good deck?

Most healthcare investors evaluate three things before reading your deck in detail: your background in the space, whether they have seen the problem from multiple portfolio companies, and whether anyone they trust vouches for you. After that, the deck needs to show market size, a clear problem-solution fit specific to healthcare, and early evidence of customer demand. Thesis alignment matters more in healthcare than in generalist investing because these funds see a high volume of pitches in the same space.

How many healthcare investors should I be talking to at once?

Most fundraisers recommend a parallel process: identify 20-40 target investors but approach your highest-fit funds first. Of the 83 healthcare funds currently deploying, not all will match your specific stage and sector. Use fund matching to find your top 10-15, approach those first, collect feedback, then go wider. Going to every fund simultaneously without qualifying first burns bridges and dilutes the urgency that helps close a round.

How is DryPowder different from building a VC list on LinkedIn or Crunchbase?

The fund list you build on LinkedIn or Crunchbase is roughly the same list every other founder is building. DryPowder adds three things a manual search cannot: deployment signals (which funds have recently closed new vehicles and are actively writing checks), AI thesis matching (which of the 121 healthcare funds actually fits your specific startup, ranked by fit), and verified partner contact details. The goal is 15 targeted, thesis-aligned pitches instead of 150 generic ones.