INITIATE Ventures | Building AI-Native Healthcare

who we are

As founders and investors, we’ve spent decades building companies from idea to multibillion-dollar success. We are committed to transforming early-stage startups into businesses with lasting impact.

who you are

Whether you’re a serial or first-time founder, you are resourceful, resilient, and inspired to build your bold vision into a successful business. You may have an invention, an idea, or an important problem you’re determined to solve.

You're not adding AI to a healthcare business. You're building a company that couldn't exist without it: the product, the business model, and the moat all run on it. That's what we mean by AI-native.

READ Our Thesis LinkedIn

"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

Founder, 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

"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 Bio

BOLDLY MAKING HEADLINES

CORNERSTONE AI

boldly backing the founders of ai-native healthcare

From inception, INITIATE funds and co-founds the companies defining healthcare's AI-native era.