elemental is a venture studio founded by a surgeon with two exits to Fortune 500 acquirers. We originate and co-found AI-native healthcare companies from scratch, starting inside the problem before the company exists.
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Two exits to Fortune 500 acquirers. One in healthtech, one in medtech. Payer dynamics, health system sales, FDA strategy. Done before. Ready to do it again.
We start from -1. Before the company has a name, before the idea is fully formed. We find the right co-founder and build alongside them from day one, with capital, infrastructure, and healthcare relationships already in place.
conviction
Every company starts with a specific structural failure. Not a market opportunity.
AI is the building material, not a feature. We only build what couldn't exist before.
We co-found. We are inside the problem before the company has a name.
thesis
Healthcare profits from sickness, complexity, and volume. Not from health. Every structural failure in the system traces back to this. It is not an accident. It is the model.
Every encounter is episodic. Every incentive is local. No one is responsible for what happens between visits, across conditions, or over a lifetime. Patients navigate alone inside a system never designed around them.
We know more about human biology than at any point in history. Most patients receive care filtered through whoever was available, constrained by what their insurance allows. The knowledge exists. The system fails to translate it.
companies in formation
Rebuilding health insurance from the infrastructure up. Dynamic adjudication, real-time learning, and benefit design that actually responds to the people it covers.
One agent that knows you, navigates the system for you, and handles the mess of healthcare when the system doesn't. Built for the whole patient, not the next appointment.
Durable medical equipment is a $50B market running on fax machines and manual prior auth. An AI-native operating layer changes every workflow in the stack.
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Who can build AI that works in production, not demos. Healthcare constraints are the interesting part.
With domain depth that can't be faked. They've lived inside the problem.
Who've navigated payer sales, health system procurement, or employer benefits before.