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HealthTech Capital
Cristian Wedekind's Company Details
HealthTech Capital is a group of private investors dedicated to funding and mentoring new "HealthTech" start ups at the intersection of healthcare and the computer/consumer electronic world. We also organize the HealthTech Conference in the fall on how to build Healthtech and Digital Health companies.Our goal is to invest and mentor capital efficient companies that use new scalable business model to improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery from the hospital to the home.HealthTech is a new emerging healthcare market that leverages information technologies to decrease healthcare cost. Historically, venture funding has focused on "Efficacy" (therapeutics drugs and medical devices) and paid little attention to improving "Efficiencies" of healthcare delivery. Today, new paradigm shifting companies like Google, Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm, Cisco and others are turning their attention to HealthTech.HealthTech supports patient-centric healthcare and is distinct from Healthcare IT, enterprise backbone legacy information systems that are well served by existing major players. Our goal is to invest in capital efficient companies that use new business models to improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery. Our sweet spot has minimal or no government regulation oversight by the FDA and/or CMS.