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LionBird

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LionBird provides pre-scale capital and assistance exclusively to digital health startups in the pre-scale phase—defined as 'everything that comes before a ready to execute plan for marketing, selling and servicing customers in a repeatable way.' They focus on teams on a mission to fix healthcare through technology-enabled solutions.

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Investment Thesis

LionBird believes in resetting healthcare’s relationship with technology by investing in pre-scale digital health startups that are engineered from unique insights to generate unnatural advantages. The firm aspires to be ‘the best pre-scale digital health investors out there’ by helping founders lay the best foundations for their companies to scale and succeed. Their approach is rooted in deep healthcare expertise, combining experience from Fortune 100 executives with veteran entrepreneurs who have founded, scaled, and taken companies public.

What Sets Them Apart

  • 80%+ of initial investments attract significant institutional-led follow-on financing (compared to 20% industry average), demonstrating strong downstream investor support
  • Reserve follow-on capital to support portfolio companies through the pre-scale phase and invest in future capital requirements
  • Built warm relationships with strategic healthcare partners that founders can leverage
  • LionBird Rings community of proven healthcare executives and entrepreneurs available as resources to portfolio companies
  • Unique ability to define KPIs and market dynamics through deep digital health focus and network
  • Transparent, founder-friendly investment process with published data on real investment history, decision criteria, and scoring templates

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+ 32 more companies in their portfolio

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