The art of the trade
How the sausage gets made
We just assume that it happens
But no one else is in
The room where it happens.*
Here’s our view from the room where Oak HC/FT II happens:
A couple months ago, we began raising our second fund to further our efforts around partnering with promising tech-enabled Healthcare and FinTech companies. Today, we’re announcing the launch of this $600 million fund to continue supporting leading entrepreneurs with their attack on quality issues, inefficiencies, and poor customer experiences that persist across the multi-trillion-dollar Healthcare and Financial Services markets.
Instead of waiting for elected leaders in Washington to advance legislation around these two important sectors, we’re working with the most promising private enterprises to tackle the biggest issues head on –high drug costs, treating patients with complex medical conditions, modernizing payment systems and insurance frameworks, and reducing financial fraud/waste/abuse. Complexity is an understatement in Healthcare and FinTech, but challenge ignites the spark of so many opportunities. We’re confident our approach and the strategies of our companies will prevail regardless of political agenda or regulation.
When we founded Oak HC/FT three years ago, our mission was to build on our 15 years of experience and partner with world-class entrepreneurs using technology and data to tackle complex problems in Healthcare and Financial Services. That’s exactly what we achieved with our first fund, having backed leading companies like Aspire Health, Hometeam, and VillageMD that are improving medical care and reducing spending; Quartet Health, US HealthVest, and Axial that are better managing high-cost populations; Limeade, LDI, and Maestro Health that are improving health and spending for employers; Feedzai that uses machine-learning to reduce financial fraud; Poynt, Urjanet, and FastPay that are streamlining payment data and processing; and Trov and Insureon that are modernizing insurance delivery. With our second fund, we will continue searching across the United States and Europe to identify attractive opportunities that advance our mission in these sectors.
In addition to working with great entrepreneurs, we’ve also been fortunate to partner with talented colleagues. Since closing our first fund in 2014, we’ve assembled an amazing team of professionals to provide unparalleled support to our companies. In Healthcare, we added Dr. Zeke Emanuel, Nancy Brown, and Chris Price who all bring peerless industry expertise. That talent has been matched on our FinTech team with Anil Aggarwal, Jonathan Weiner, and Michael Heller. Add-in our long-time Technology Partner, David Black, and our next generation of professionals in Matt, Vig, Oivind, Jack, and Andy, and it’s tough for any entrepreneur to find a team better equipped to scale Healthcare and FinTech businesses and solve problems.
We are also fortunate to have assembled an exceptional group of investors — many long-time supporters of our strategy and a few new relationships that offer fresh perspectives and strategic insights.
In short, we’re bent on building strong teams and great companies. It is especially rewarding to see the businesses we’ve worked with in the past continue their growth — either as public companies or as innovation engines for larger companies, as evidenced by our recent exit, Core Informatics.
Creating Oak HC/FT and growing the firm has been an absolute blast. There is nothing better than waking up every morning to work with our unmatched team and exceptional entrepreneurs — all passionate about improving Healthcare and Financial Services. Building a portfolio and helping our companies and investors succeed will always be an adventure. We are excited to continue this journey, and we are grateful to our investors for their support with today’s Oak HC/FT II fund launch.
*Lyrics from “The Room Where It Happens” by Lin-Manuel Miranda © 2015.