These investments come at a time when large technology companies are increasingly committed to transforming healthcare. Without a doubt, Alphabet has raised its stake in the healthcare industry exponentially over the past decade, whether through its cloud platform, overall commitment to healthcare solutions, or through specific niches, such as the CareStudio platform.

In those situations, it's usually, we meet the team, we have to do the stuff that we'd like to do over a longer period of time in building a thesis after we meet the company, to validate what they're thinking about, validate who's on the team, validate business models, and then we will make an investment from there.”Ĭertainly, GV will continue to shine in the healthcare space in the years to come, especially if Alphabet’s increasing investments in healthcare is any indicator of interest. It's not part of a super deep thesis, and we have to kind of scramble. There's folks that we know from our network that will send over companies that are raising capital. Certainly-as much as we try to avoid these, it's hard to avoid-there's just opportunistic investing. and venture partner at GV, further explains how companies are evaluated and regarding the investment process: “The process that we like to follow is that we spend pretty much all of our time building up a thesis or our thoughts on a given space before we start looking at companies in that space the world of venture capital has a lot of fast-moving, competitive deals that happen as well.

In an interview for the American Journal of Managed Care, Benjamin Robbins, M.D.

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