At USV, we are big believers in being public about our investment thesis and the work we do to arrive at them. We are also big believers in working with like minded VCs on our investments. A few years we decided to merge the two. My partners Albert and Andy started collaborating with Boris Wertz at Version Ventures on developing investment theses in the digital healthcare sector. They roped in two analysts, Zander and Angela and off they went. When Zander’s two year stint at USV ended, Jonathan replaced him on the effort.
For several years, this group has shared investment opportunities, research, and insights with each other. They have a shared database of startup companies and a shared market map. They have collaborated on one investment, Figure1, and thought seriously about a bunch more.
Yesterday, they started to share their learnings and, more importantly, their questions and concerns. It is called OnDigitalHealthCare and as it is currently conceived, it is a six part series on what they have learned and where they are going with all of those learnings. They are two parts into it right now.
I hope they don’t limit this to six parts and would love to see them continue to update this blog from time to time with additional learnings, questions, concerns, and insights. I think most everyone realizes that a computer in everyone’s pocket (and possibly elsewhere on their bodies) is going to massively impact healthcare over time. But how, when, and why is a lot less obvious to us, and I suspect everyone else. So we are trying to figure it out and sharing that process publicly in the belief that the more eyes and ears on our process the better outcomes for us and everyone else.
