What does tomorrow look like to us?

Healthcare teams are working harder than ever with little improvement in outcomes, access or cost savings – far from the promise that digital health should deliver.

It’s time to reset healthcare’s relationship with technology to serve those who use it, not the other way around.

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Our Thesis: Resetting Healthcare’s Relationship with Technology

This next era of technology in healthcare will no longer be focused on maximizing billing in a fee-for-service model at the expense of the patients and providers that use it. It’s time to build technology that creates measurable clinical value, removes administrative waste, and delights patients and providers alike. It’s time to reset Healthcare’s Human-Technology […]

New Ways to Create and Preserve Trust in Healthcare

We are looking for solutions that go beyond “blockchain for healthcare” — we want to see how these solutions are truly providing safe, trusted, and transparent sharing of medical data, and particularly how those solutions respect patient rights and patient privacy.

Personal Health Monitoring Becomes Outcome-Driven

Combining more granular monitoring of physiology with home diagnostics means that healthcare may finally have the data that can drive meaningful analytics and interventions to prevent illness, the ultimate goal of any population health-centric system.

Diagnostics Move into the Community and Home

We are looking for platforms that seek to reimagine the diagnostic pipeline from lab order to action following a test result.

Telehealth Forces a Reimagining of Care Coordination

Patients will have the ability to build their own virtual care teams, complete with the providers that they choose, from any region or facility.

Provider “Haves” and “Have-Nots”

This space could evolve in two directions — tech platforms could “rent expertise” from top health systems to deliver care, or top health systems could “rent innovation” from platforms in order to project expertise.

Bridging the Digital-Physical Divide for Safety & Quality

We are looking for platforms that are able to provide more meaningful, just-in-time integrated alerts, as well as, and equally importantly, intelligently filter through and present only the most important information as it is needed.

Automating Population Health

Along every step of the way, the industry will identify opportunities – from wellness promotion, to prevention, to detection, to cure, to rehabilitation – where we can take burdens from already-overburdened staff and leverage automation to improve the care of our populations.

HealthFinTech

LionBird is looking for “HealthFinTech” innovators who are successful within our current fee-for-service model, but who are also bridging the gap into value-based care through cost transparency, innovative payment/financing models, and thoughtful approaches that help providers get paid fairly and help patients pay fair prices.

Wellness

The wellness industry is having its moment. And we as digital health investors are paying close attention. In studying this market together with our friends at Facebook we put together this eBook featuring our discussions on this space. Specifically, it offers insights and best-in-class case studies to help investors succeed with the next great wellness solution.

Our Thesis: Resetting Healthcare’s Relationship with Technology

Whitepaper: LionBird’s 8 Drivers of Digital Health

We believe that 2020 represents an unprecedented inflection point in digital health, and aim to lay out the trends that we believe will define the coming decade, as well as the implications of these trends for our investment strategy.

Our Blog

News, insights and theses from the team at LionBird

LionBird’s Internal Scoring Template

There is still a major disconnect between how entrepreneurs present their plans vs. how VCs actually analyze them. In order to close the gap, here you’ll find a link to the scoring template used at LionBird to contextualize startups we are getting serious about.

Our Investment Process

Learn more by reviewing our real investment data, how our process is structured, and what you can expect when meeting us.

References: Ask Our Founders

We invite you to hear from the founders we’ve backed first-hand about what it’s like to work with us.

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