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Healthtech Investors & VC Firms

Browse OpenVC's database of investors funding startups in healthtech, telemedicine, and digital health innovations.

Last update: August 20, 2025

List author: Lucas Roquilly

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Healthtech Investors Guide for Startups

Raising in healthtech is a whole different ballgame.

Long timelines, strict compliance, slow customer adoption, and regulatory minefields keep most generalist VCs out. Capital gets more picky. Deals take longer to close. The upside? The right healthtech investors do exist, but you have to know how to find (and impress) them.

This guide walks through what leading healthtech VC firms, angels, and funds look for, trends they’re chasing, critical pitch strategies, and how to shortcut your investor search with OpenVC’s healthtech lists and filters. Sound like what you need? Keep scrolling.

What Healthtech Investors Want in a Startup

Most investors are done entertaining pitches that treat healthtech like SaaS with a stethoscope. Here’s what stops them scrolling:

  • Clear regulatory strategy: If you don’t have an FDA, CE, or relevant pathway mapped out, you’re already behind.
  • Defined clinical impact: You must go beyond “improved outcomes”—show real data or a credible plan for measurement.
  • Strategic reimbursement plan: Who pays, how much, and why? Be ready with a timeline and payer insights (not just a wish).
  • Strong go-to-market game: Whether you’re selling B2B2C, direct to provider, or negotiating with payers, show you understand the trenches you’ll be fighting in.

Sectors Healthtech VC Firms Are Backing

Venture capital is shifting away from legacy models and toward these healthtech trends:

  • AI in diagnostics
  • Remote patient monitoring
  • Women’s health
  • Behavioral and mental health
  • Digital therapeutics
  • Value-based care platforms
  • Home healthcare tech

If you’re building in any of these, you’ll get a read from specialist funds faster. Still, every healthtech investor is different, so tailor your pitch deck.

Who Actually Backs Healthtech Startups

Not all VCs wear the same badge. Here’s how the investor mix typically looks:

  • Dedicated healthtech VC funds: They live and breathe FDA, HIPAA, and reimbursement.
  • Crossover funds: Growth funds that invest at Series A+ when the risk-profile fits their biotech/health thesis.
  • Corporate VC arms: Names like Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser, and UHG back startups relevant to their core business or pipeline.
  • Clinical angels: Doctors, former operators, and pharma execs who get the science and the market.

Timeline reality: Raising pre-seed or seed in healthtech often takes twice as long as SaaS. Series A? Be prepared for even slower cycles as diligence around trials, IP, and clinical partners ramps up.

Top Healthtech Investors

Here's an updated list of largest healthtech investors actively investing in startups this year:

  1. Cigna Ventures
  2. Kaiser Permanente Ventures
  3. Ally Bridge Group
  4. SignalFire
  5. Sofinnova Partners

Pitching Healthtech VC Funds and Angels

Turning a bunch of emails into real funding? It starts with your deck. Healthtech startup investors zero in on these slides:

  • Clinical problem and patient impact: Show the pain, population, and unmet need.
  • Regulatory plan and timelines: Spell out your FDA/CE/other pathway and critical milestones.
  • Market access and pricing: Who pays, how you get paid, target pricing, and GTM steps.
  • Team: Highlight founders with deep healthcare chops (MD, PhD, regulatory, payer, etc).

Deal-breakers:

  • No solid clinical validation plan
  • Missing or vague path to reimbursement
  • Overlooking timing and cost of regulatory milestones

Want more pitch deck details? Check out our Healthtech Pitch Deck Checklist to avoid the classic missteps.

How to Actually Find Healthtech Investors

Startups burn months scraping old healthtech investor lists, blasting “warm intros,” or submitting forms that never get read. Targeting is everything.

With OpenVC, you filter live investor data by healthtech focus, stage, check size, geography, and more. See who’s actively writing checks in remote care vs. diagnostics, for example. Log your outreach, track responses, and manage materials with the built-in fundraising CRM.

No more spreadsheets. Seriously.

Related Industries for Crossing Paths

Healthtech overlaps with a lot of other hot sectors. You might also scan these OpenVC investor lists:

(Each list is unique, so use filters to narrow your search.)

Take the Headache out of Healthtech Fundraising

Your time is too valuable to waste on outdated VC databases or shot-in-the-dark emails. Fundraising in healthtech has enough hurdles already. Make investor discovery and pitching seamless.

Create a free OpenVC account today, build your investor shortlist, and start pitching healthtech investors who actually care about your market.

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Frequently Asked Questions

OpenVC is a free fundraising platform where startup founders can search verified investors,  submit their pitch decks, and manage their entire raise. Users can search 20,000+ verified investors, shortlist the right ones, and submit your pitch deck directly. Our CRM, deck analytics, and warm intro tools help you run a smarter, more organized raise.

Founders raise with OpenVC because it is designed to cut through the noise and get founders in front of the right investors, fast. With built-in tools for CRM, analytics, and warm intros, it helps you stay organized and improve your chances of getting a reply.

OpenVC is for early-stage startup founders who want to raise capital efficiently. Find investors from dozens of industries including SaaS, AI, fintech, biotech, and more. Whether you’re pre-seed, seed, or Series A, OpenVC helps you find and pitch aligned investors without paying intro fees, aimlessly cold-emailing, or scraping databases.

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You create a free OpenVC account, build your investor shortlist, and submit your pitch deck directly through the platform. Investors receive a unique link to view your deck, and you get analytics on who opens it and how long they spend on it. No cold emails, no guesswork. For more info, check out our complete guide to fundraising on OpenVC.

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