ARTICLE SUMMARY:
Founded a decade ago by executives who came out of the provider community, Austin, TX-based Santé Ventures invests with a deep understanding of the dynamics and imperatives of today’s hard-pressed healthcare systems. Does a background in healthcare systems make Santé Ventures a smarter medtech investor?
For much of the last two decades, though they differed in most other respects, large, multinational medical device firms and small medtech start-ups shared one trait: an almost obsessive focus on the value of technology and its role in improving patient care, even if only marginally.
