Investment Partners


Ascension Health Ventures

Ascension Health Ventures (AHV) is a strategic healthcare venture fund focused on the medical device, technology and service sectors with $325 million under management. As a strategic investor, AHV adds value to its portfolio companies by sharing solutions across a network of more than 200 acute care hospitals within its limited partners.


CHV Capital

CHV Capital (CHV) is an early-stage investor focused on building value in business opportunities that serve a business or clinical need in the market. CHV invests in opportunities where the value of such an opportunity is immediately enhanced by the presence and resources of Indiana University Health and where Indiana University Health resources can provide an analytical advantage to its investment analysis.


Core Capital Partners

Core Capital manages $350 million in private equity across two funds. Core Capital works with early-stage ventures and small to mid-sized growth companies developing or incorporating disruptive, core technologies in high-growth technology sectors.


Excel Venture Management

Excel Venture Management builds companies that apply transformative life science technologies to solve problems in healthcare and beyond. Excel’s investment portfolio is balanced across healthcare IT and services, diagnostics, and medical devices, plus life science platforms that address adjacent markets including energy, chemicals, defense and agriculture. The majority of the team’s prior investments, which include some of the world’s premier healthcare and life science companies, are thriving and more than half have achieved successful exits generating billions in value.


HLM Venture Partners

HLM Venture Partners provides venture capital to emerging companies focused in the healthcare services, healthcare information technology, and medical technology sectors. HLM Venture Partners supports entrepreneurs as they turn innovative ideas into market-leading businesses, offering guidance on financial structuring and mergers, resource allocation and deployment, strategic planning, strategic introductions, and recruitment.


Long River Ventures

Long River Ventures invests in seed and early stage companies in technology, healthcare, and other related sectors. Formed by a group of experienced entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, Long River is designed and structured to invest smaller amounts of capital, usually as the first institutional investor in rounds of less than $5 million. Long River’s primary geographic focus is on the smaller cities and research centers of New England.


National Healthcare Services

National Healthcare Services (NHS) is a venture capital firm affiliated with MemorialCare Health System in California. NHS provides strategic investment funding to companies offering innovative, products, services and technologies.