We ideate and invest in solutions tackling the health struggles impacting our families and communities.
Health is the new category. And we’re seeing it better than everyone else.
People want to be healthy and the healthcare system is rushing to catch-up.
We’re witnessing a fundamental shift — from reactive sick-care to proactive, preventative health. Demand is surging from both consumers and healthcare stakeholders, and it’s not slowing down. Healthcare and wellness are colliding to form one of the biggest investment categories of our time: Health.
Healthy is the new category.
People want to be healthy and the healthcare system is rushing to catch-up.
We’re witnessing a fundamental shift — from reactive sick-care to proactive, preventative health. Demand is surging from both consumers and healthcare stakeholders, and it’s not slowing down.
$5T+ U.S. healthcare spend
$6.8T global wellness market
Healthcare and wellness are colliding to form one of the biggest investment categories of our time: Health.
Health is the new category.
People want to be healthy and the healthcare system is rushing to catch-up.
We’re witnessing a fundamental shift — from reactive sick-care to proactive, preventative health. Demand is surging from both consumers and healthcare stakeholders, and it’s not slowing down.
$5T+ U.S. healthcare spend
$6.8T global wellness market
Healthcare and wellness are colliding to form one of the biggest investment categories of our time: Health.
We invest in health. We invest early.
We partner with visionary founders - even at the ideation stage - who are rethinking how we solve the biggest challenges in health. Our portfolio spans products, technology, and tech-enabled services. We see value in diversification in the changing ecosystem.
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The chronic disease epidemic isn’t just biological — it’s systemic.
We back companies attacking the lifestyle and environmental drivers of poor health: Poor nutrition, Disrupted sleep, Mental overload, Toxic food systems, Overprescribed pharmaceuticals, Air pollution, forever chemicals, microplastics, and more -
We don’t settle for disease management. We invest in solutions that aim to improve health outcomes - not just maintain them.
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This is one of the most overlooked but high-leverage areas in health innovation. Even before AI, we saw massive opportunity here — from system redesign to tools that cut cost, improve experience, and drive efficiency from first principles.
Where We Invest
We invest in health. We invest early. Starting as early as “ideation”, we partner with perseverant founders who are solving health’s biggest challenges. Our interest span products, technology, and tech-enabled services as we look for diversification in the changing ecosystem.
Root Cause of Illness
We back companies attacking the lifestyle and environmental drivers of poor health: Poor nutrition, disrupted sleep, mental overload, toxic food systems, overprescribed pharmaceuticals, air pollution, and more!
Chronic Condition (Improvement)
We don’t settle for disease maintenance. We invest in solutions to help providers, patients and there families work towards improving health outcomes.
Healthcare Infrastructure Optimization
AI is unlocking massive opportunities to cut costs, improve patient experience, and rebuild systems from first principles — making this one of the fastest-growing and most overlooked areas in health innovation.
Our Team
Pave Health Ventures is led by a cross-disciplinary team of investors, operators, and healthcare veterans who bring deep expertise across private equity, digital health, provider systems, and startup ecosystems. Our core leadership is backed by a trusted network of strategic partners and advisors from some of the most respected names in healthcare, including Cedars-Sinai, UCLA Health, University of Miami Health System, and Kaiser Permanente.
Together, we bring decades of experience building, scaling, and advising companies at the intersection of healthcare, wellness, and innovation. With relationships spanning leading hospitals, provider groups, venture firms, and payor networks, our team is uniquely positioned to identify and support the next generation of category-defining healthcare companies. This extensive reach enhances every stage of the investment process—from diligence to execution to exit.
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Jacob’s 15+ year healthcare-focused career spans private equity, venture capital, entrepreneurship, and C-suite leadership. He brings deep domain experience and a robust healthcare network to support companies navigating the complex startup landscape.
Jacob has a proven ability to source investment opportunities, evaluate founders and concepts, and activate strategic partners to drive value across the portfolio.
Select Experience:
Vytalize – Chief Innovation Officer
Risk-bearing provider enablement platform driving personalized medicine and lowering costs.
2024: $1.5B in revenue, Inc. Magazine’s Fastest Growing Company AwardMedpilot – CEO & Founder
AI-driven patient engagement platform supporting over 1M users. Acquired in 2021Movement Fund – Venture Partner
Early-stage consumer-focused fund investing in healthcare, wellness, F&B, and technology.
Founded in 2022
Our Edge
Leveraging our domain expertise and trusted partner network, our pre and post investment strategy provides essential competitive advantages:
Our ecosystem drives:
High-intent deal flow within ideation to pre-seed stages
Customer-led diligence from real operators
Post-investment value add partners that create customers, capital and acquisitions
To cover all aspects of health, our partners are within the healthcare and wellness industries, from:
Health systems to Concierge Medicine
Health Insurers to Preventative Care Clinics
EHRs to Digital Wellness Platforms
Medication Management to Nutrition/Supplement Companies
Medical Devices to Consumer Wearables
We believe impacting health means starting earlier, thinking holistically, and working alongside the founders who are willing to challenge the norm. Pave Health Ventures - we don’t just invest, we help pave the way to a healthier tomorrow.
The demand trajectory shows no signs of slowing.
As our healthcare system undergoes a transformation, stakeholders—including insurers, governmental organizations, employers, and value-based care companies —are pivoting towards preventive care and lifestyle-based tools, unlocking trillions of dollars in growth potential within the healthcare landscape.
The demand trajectory shows no signs of slowing.
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Helping to reshape the healthcare landscape.
Pave sits at an opportune moment to invest in healthcare’s evolution and growth, targeting solutions that address root causes of illness, improving health outcomes, and driving efficiency across the healthcare system.
As we leverage our extensive healthcare network and deep industry expertise, Pave’s advantage lies in our ability to access opportunities, validate concepts, and provide post- investment value to our portfolio companies. Behind our strategic investments, we are paving the way to a healthier tomorrow.
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We face a national health crisis as out-of-control spending meets unacceptable health outcomes.
Healthcare in the U.S. is our largest sector at nearly $5 trillion (~20% of GDP) and chronic conditions, account for 95% of the focus and spending.
Factors like a toxic food system, overprescribed pharmaceuticals, air pollution, forever chemicals, microplastics and technology are all contributing to our country's declining health and Chronic Disease Epidemic.
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The US healthcare system is transitioning from ‘sick care’ to value-based care — a preventative, proactive, and whole-health approach.
Key players are financially incentivized when you are healthy, but are penalized when you are sick. This is driving healthcare stakeholders to redirect $ trillions in spending to cover more health-focused solutions to their member-base. -
Healthcare + Wellness are colliding to make “HEALTH” a massive investment category. US Healthcare spend has hit $5T and Global Wellness sits at $6.8T.