Flare Capital Partners

Flare Capital Partners We partner with creative and passionate entrepreneurs aspiring to transform the business of healthcare.

Flare Capital Partners was founded in 2013 with a simple but differentiated belief: that healthcare demands a different ...
04/22/2026

Flare Capital Partners was founded in 2013 with a simple but differentiated belief: that healthcare demands a different kind of investor — one with the sector fluency to navigate a complex landscape, and the ecosystem connectivity to drive real commercial outcomes for founders.

More than a decade later, that conviction has not changed. But the healthcare technology landscape has — and so has the platform behind it.

The companies being built today, the role of AI in healthcare, the bar for what founders need from their investors — it all looks different than it did even two years ago. We have been evolving with it. And today, we are sharing a refreshed website that reflects where we are and where we are going.

In recent years, we have been building the platform to match that moment.

1️⃣ An AI Advisory Council connecting founders with strategic partners and senior healthcare executives at the bleeding edge of healthcare AI — including Amgen, Anthropic, Banner Health, CVS Health, Microsoft, and more — to accelerate AI-driven innovation across our portfolio

2️⃣ An Industry Advisory Board representing $1.2T in annual revenue and ~15% of U.S. healthcare spend annually — a curated network helping founders see where the market is heading

3️⃣ A strategic engagement model accounting for nearly $1B+ in direct revenue contribution from our strategic partner network to portfolio companies

4️⃣ Flare Scholars, an annual program building the next generation of healthcare technology leaders — with 509 scholars and counting

We invest in exceptional founders transforming healthcare. This site tells that story.

🚀 Explore the new site here→ https://www.flarecapital.com

We had an amazing morning hosting our annual Galentine’s Day breakfast in Boston!  ❤️💖💘Special thanks to  for hosting us...
02/12/2026

We had an amazing morning hosting our annual Galentine’s Day breakfast in Boston! ❤️💖💘

Special thanks to for hosting us in their space and our investor cohosts .406 Ventures, CVS Health Ventures, Echo Health Ventures, F-Prime, Seae Ventures and Transformation Capital for teaming up.
 
Grateful for this incredible group of talented women in healthcare in Boston and can’t wait for next year!

Cancer care is too often fragmented, expensive, and overwhelming for patients and families.We’re excited to announce tha...
02/11/2026

Cancer care is too often fragmented, expensive, and overwhelming for patients and families.

We’re excited to announce that Flare Capital Partners has led the $28M Series A for Atlas Oncology Partners, a value-based oncology enablement platform embedding interdisciplinary care teams directly into community oncology practices.

Atlas is tackling one of the most complex and costly areas in healthcare by:
1️⃣ Embedding providers, nurses, patient navigators, and social workers into oncology practices
2️⃣ Delivering coordinated, patient-centered support during and beyond active treatment
3️⃣ Combining navigation, psychosocial care, proactive coordination, and expanded in-person + virtual access

By taking full medical cost risk and investing in partner practice operations, Atlas aligns patients, oncologists, and payers around what matters most: better outcomes, better experience, and lower avoidable costs.

As shared:

“Atlas Oncology Partners is addressing one of the most complex and costly areas of healthcare with a model that is deeply aligned with patients, oncologists, and payers at the forefront of value-based care. We are excited to lead their Series A and support Atlas as it scales the next-generation value-based oncology model — one that empowers community oncology groups to deliver coordinated, holistic care at scale and drives impactful clinical outcomes for patients and families impacted by cancer.”

Proud to partner with the Atlas and Rubicon Founders teams as they rethink how cancer care is delivered — and build a more coordinated, holistic future for patients navigating one of life’s hardest diagnoses.

📰 Read the news here: https://lnkd.in/eeGw3wR2

Ending the year on a very high note here at Flare Capital Partners! 🚀 We’re proud to celebrate four well-deserved promot...
12/22/2025

Ending the year on a very high note here at Flare Capital Partners! 🚀

We’re proud to celebrate four well-deserved promotions that reflect both the growth of our firm and the incredible impact of these leaders:

💫 Margaret Malone promotion to Partner
From Flare Scholar to Partner, Margaret has been a force since day one —leading FSV investments, serving on the board of Visana Health, advancing our company co-creation work with strategic LPs, and contributing across the venture ecosystem. A true rising star in healthcare VC.

💫 Uma Veerappan promotion to Vice President
A Booth grad and former Flare Scholar as well, Uma has played a leading role in early-stage investments, including in autonomous surgical robotics. Now based in Silicon Valley, she’s driving our ground game and helping shape our “hardware-delivers-AI” thesis.

💫 Amanda DiTrolio promotion to Vice President of Marketing & Platform
Amanda has sharpened our voice, scaled our community, and elevated how Flare shows up in the market — from our AI Advisory Council to Expert Roundtables to hosting our inaugural Compass Summit at Fenway Park. Amanda continues to bring order to our marketing and platform chaos.

💫 Caroline Glen promotion to Vice President of Investor Relations
Since joining, Caroline has brought gravitas, deep LP relationships, and a clear articulation of Flare’s opportunity at a transformative moment in healthcare — strengthening partnerships across our strategic and financial investor base.

These promotions are a hat tip to the talent, leadership, and collaboration that power Flare Capital. Please join us in congratulating Margaret, Uma, Amanda, and Caroline 👏

We’re thrilled to welcome Pamela Walser (Devaney), CPA as Controller at Flare Capital Partners — a pivotal role as our p...
11/24/2025

We’re thrilled to welcome Pamela Walser (Devaney), CPA as Controller at Flare Capital Partners — a pivotal role as our portfolio continues to grow in depth and complexity.

Pam brings an exceptional background, including eight years at KPMG, where she was recognized as a “Rising Star” and selected as a national instructor training new recruits across the country. She later served as Finance Manager at Summit Partners, one of the pre-eminent investment firms in the country, following an accomplished academic career at UMass Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management.

At Flare, Pam will help deepen our portfolio analytics and reporting, supporting meaningful engagement with our nearly three dozen strategic Limited Partners and numerous traditional financial LPs. Our strategic engagement model has already generated nearly $1B in revenue and $275M in co-investments for our portfolio companies — critical early traction as founders work toward product-market fit.

A lifelong Bostonian, Pam recently bought a home in Foxboro sight unseen (and, surprisingly, is not a Patriots superfan). She’s also an avid runner, having completed the NYC and Chicago marathons — Boston still to come.

Please join us in welcoming Pam to the Flare Capital team!

AI Advisory Council Member Spotlight: Svetlana Bender Ph.D.Svetlana (Lana) Bender, PhD serves as Vice President of AI & ...
10/21/2025

AI Advisory Council Member Spotlight: Svetlana Bender Ph.D.

Svetlana (Lana) Bender, PhD serves as Vice President of AI & Behavioral Science for GuideWell and Florida Blue, a GuideWell subsidiary and Florida’s largest health insurer. She is responsible for leading generative AI strategy, vision, and responsible adoption throughout the organization in partnership with the business areas. She is also accountable for the behavioral science, IT communications, and technology solutions functions that enable the business to leverage innovative solutions, and behavioral science techniques aimed at improving the well-being and health-related decisions of our customers.

Prior to joining the company in 2018, Bender was the head of behavioral finance at UBS and worked at Allianz Global Investors Center for Behavioral Finance. She has authored papers in academic journals and is a frequent presenter on behavioral economics and generative AI.

💡 What excites you about being a founding member of the AI Advisory Council?

“I’m honored to join the Flare Capital AI Advisory Council. With responsible AI at the center, I am excited about the opportunity to bring my expertise to the table and help shape the future of AI in healthcare - making healthcare more accessible, affordable, and delivering meaningful impact for patients and providers.” – Svetlana Bender, PhD, Vice President, Artificial Intelligence & Behavioral Science, GuideWell

🚀 AI Advisory Council Member Spotlight: William SheahanWilliam Sheahan is the chief innovation officer and a senior vice...
10/09/2025

🚀 AI Advisory Council Member Spotlight: William Sheahan

William Sheahan is the chief innovation officer and a senior vice president of MedStar Health. He is also the executive director of the MedStar Institute for Innovation, a multidisciplinary team of associates who explore, build, and scale new ideas that shape the future success of MedStar Health.

Bill joined MedStar Health in 2013 as the executive director of the MedStar Health Simulation Training & Education Lab (SiTEL), which creates, deploys, and commercializes education products used at MedStar Health and across the country. In 2017, he became the founding executive director of the MedStar Telehealth Innovation Center to support digital care activities systemwide, which grew exponentially in response to COVID-19.

Bill has long been a champion for innovation across the system. He has most recently built and operated enterprise-wide automation, AI, and wellbeing infrastructure, and has extensive experience negotiating external strategic relationships. Bill has served as an advisor or board member to numerous companies, entrepreneurs, and executive teams, finding passion in refining product strategies and growing businesses.

💡 What excites you about being a founding member of the AI Advisory Council?

“I’m thrilled to join so many respected leaders on the Flare Capital AI Advisory Council as we strive to elevate health and healthcare delivery through the power of artificial intelligence. The potential of AI is extraordinary, yet its impact will be driven by our desire and ability to leverage the benefits of AI to transform the way we operate while also protecting against its limitations and risks. I look forward to deep conversations with this group that will undoubtedly further this important work.” – William Sheahan, SVP & Chief Innovation Officer, MedStar Health

📰 To learn more about the Flare Capital AI Advisory Council, you can read more here: https://flarecapitalpartners.medium.com/introducing-the-flare-capital-ai-advisory-council-transforming-the-future-of-healthcare-ai-873fe4efc595

At Flare Capital Partners, we are thrilled to announce our lead investment in the latest financing round for Peer AI, a ...
10/07/2025

At Flare Capital Partners, we are thrilled to announce our lead investment in the latest financing round for Peer AI, a pioneering agentic AI platform transforming life sciences regulatory documentation. Today, Peer AI announced $12.1 million in total funding, led by Flare Capital Partners and . We are also excited to be joined by our friends at Greycroft.

Documentation is a mission-critical workflow in drug development. Each new drug candidate generates 100,000 to 200,000 pages of regulatory documentation, yet the process remains manual, slow, and error-prone. Nearly one-third of FDA submissions contain data issues, and over 70% of applications are initially rejected due to incomplete or inaccurate data — leading to costly delays and risks.

Peer AI delivers the easiest path to AI-driven regulatory documentation. The company provides an agentic SaaS platform for comprehensive, connected document authoring, enabling life sciences companies to accelerate cycle times in drug development.

Read more on “Why We Invested” here: https://flarecapitalpartners.medium.com/investing-in-peer-ai-f03439689ffe

Flare Capital takes the field at Fenway Park! ⚾ On Monday, we brought together 250 founders, operators, and industry lea...
10/01/2025

Flare Capital takes the field at Fenway Park! ⚾

On Monday, we brought together 250 founders, operators, and industry leaders at Fenway Park for the inaugural Flare Capital Compass Summit, our newest strategic platform initiative — and it was nothing short of electric.

From Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman🥇reminding us how to effectively perform under pressure, to Adam Grossman sharing how Fenway Sports Management (FSM) thinks about scaling their iconic sports platform, to candid stories from the trenches of seasoned GTM leaders who’ve sold across every healthcare stakeholder imaginable, to tactical deep dives on winning with payers and health systems. Dorothy Gemmell, Kevin Kumler, Michael Sturmer, Liz Kwo MD, MBA, MPH.

We heard from executives and innovators shaping the future of healthcare technology — including Wayne Grodsky (SmarterDx) on selling into health systems, Amy Fahrenkopf, MD, MPH (Carelon) and Mark Nave (Highmark Health) on how health plan buyers really think before they sign, and John Brownstein (Boston Children’s Hospital) on navigating the founder to health system innovator journey.

And our breakout sessions on building world-class teams and earning buyer trust pulled back the curtain on what it takes to scale generational companies. Deepesh Chandra (Montefiore Health System), Mike Matteo, Karl Laskowski, MD, MBA (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts), Erika Pabo, MD, MBA (CenterWell), Margo Hendrickson (Cohere Health) & Sarah Firman.

Of course, no Fenway day would be complete without a little magic — we stepped up to the plate for batting practice, ventured around for a behind-the-scenes tour of the Green Monster, Hall of Fame, and press box, and wrapped the day with a buzzing reception with our broader healthcare tech ecosystem.

A huge thank you to all of our speakers, attendees, and the Flare Capital community for making this such a memorable day. The conversations and connections will carry far beyond Fenway’s iconic walls.

Introducing the Flare Capital AI Advisory Council: Transforming the Future of Healthcare AIToday we are excited to intro...
09/04/2025

Introducing the Flare Capital AI Advisory Council: Transforming the Future of Healthcare AI

Today we are excited to introduce our latest initiative: the Flare Capital AI Advisory Council. This dynamic new Council convenes senior executives from our strategic partners and leading technology experts to accelerate innovation at the intersection of healthcare and AI.

We are thrilled to tackle this work with our incredible founding Council members, which include industry leaders from world-class healthcare and technology organizations — including, .blue

Flare Capital has spent over a decade partnering with founders to transform healthcare technology, backing companies from the earliest stages to successful exits. Central to this success is our engaged network of strategic partners — health systems, payers, pharma, and enterprise tech — who not only invest but also become early customers, co-creators, and champions. Collectively, these partners represent nearly a quarter of U.S. healthcare spend and have driven nearly $1 billion in revenue to Flare Capital-backed companies, proving that distribution and trusted relationships often determine the winners.

In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare AI landscape, that edge is decisive.

📰 Read the full announcement via link in bio.

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