A huge welcome to our team's new paralegal, Dava Reynolds! ✨ Our legal work is such an integral part of our partnerships, contracting, and investments in the DaVita Venture Group. We are thrilled to partner with you and work with you, Dava! Allison Donovan
DaVita Venture Group
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Denver, Colorado 1,087 followers
Investing in and developing businesses that improve care for patients with kidney disease and related conditions.
About us
Driving innovation for DaVita through venture investments, partnerships, M&A, and pharma contracting.
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- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Denver, Colorado
- Type
- Public Company
- Founded
- 2019
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2000 16th St
Denver, Colorado 80202, US
Employees at DaVita Venture Group
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Our team does what it does with the support and partnership of our DaVita Kidney Care leaders. We're thrilled to continue to partner with our new Chief Information Officer, Madhu Narasimhan, who has already made her mark at DaVita. Madhu brings incredible depth and passion from her roles leading IT at Wells Fargo and Kaiser Permanente. We can't wait to partner with you!
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We are thrilled to welcome our newest DaVita Kidney Care Executive partner, Joel Haugen, who joined a few weeks ago. DaVita is increasingly become a tech-enabled, product-focused organization. And we couldn't imagine a better leader to lead this function for DaVita, blending his experience from Signify Health, Crossover Health, Optum, and Accenture to deepen our strategic approach and product roadmap. DVG is excited to partner with you and learn from you, Joel!
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Our team is hiring! We are looking for someone who is passionate about innovation and startups to help DaVita Kidney Care identify opportunities to better serve our patients, providers, and teammates. Please apply at the link below if you're interested or reach out to Jane Rho with any questions! #job #healthcare #hiring #denver https://lnkd.in/gk_its6x
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A couple of weeks ago, we got to attend Celebrate & Grow, DaVita Kidney Care's annual product/tech celebration with leaders. The past year has brought a lot of reason to celebrate, including the massive growth of our teams, product development success, and increased collaboration across DaVita's team. Each product team gave awesome presentations, leaving the room energized about how integral technology will continue to be in DaVita's model of care for both CKD and ESKD patients. The keynote speaker was Conor Grennan, who shared a fantastic talk on how to develop an "AI mindset," which will allow everyone to utilize AI to increase efficiency, whether we're a clinician, product lead, or serve a business role. I was left energized to think about how AI will allow us to spend more time on critical thinking, and less time on administrative, redundant tasks. Thank you to the product leadership team, including Adam Weinstein, Derek Schoonover, Matt Brill, Melinda Zupinski, Hillary Jeffries, August Jaenke, MBA, PMP, and many more! This was such a fun event to attend and participate in. Can't wait for the next one.
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Congratulations to Heartbeat Health on its Series C investment led by Cressey & Company. We are excited to be doubling down alongside Echo Health Ventures, Kindred Ventures, Optum Ventures, and DaVita Venture Group in this game-changing company! .406 Ventures led Heartbeat’s Series A in February 2020 (just before Covid and the proliferation of virtual care). Even then, we saw the potential for HBH to leverage world-class clinical expertise to become the largest virtual cardiovascular care provider in the US. This new funding will solidify that position and allow the company to expand access to even more patients who will benefit from this level of care. Heartfelt congrats to Jeffrey Wessler, David Dempsey, Jana M. Goldberg, MD, FACC, Brian Greer, Saiba Sabherwal, Andrew MacGill, Anthony Castillo, and the whole team! ❤️ Payal Agrawal Divakaran, Liam Donohue, Rebecca Redfield, Trip Hofer https://lnkd.in/eqStFFip
Heartbeat Health Announces Growth Investment by Cressey & Company
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Congratulations to Heartbeat Health on its Series C investment led by Cressey & Company. We are excited to be doubling down alongside Echo Health Ventures, Kindred Ventures, Optum Ventures, and DaVita Venture Group in this game-changing company! .406 Ventures led Heartbeat’s Series A in February 2020 (just before Covid and the proliferation of virtual care). Even then, we saw the potential for HBH to leverage world-class clinical expertise to become the largest virtual cardiovascular care provider in the US. This new funding will solidify that position and allow the company to expand access to even more patients who will benefit from this level of care. Heartfelt congrats to Jeffrey Wessler, David Dempsey, Jana M. Goldberg, MD, FACC, Brian Greer, Saiba Sabherwal, Andrew MacGill, Anthony Castillo, and the whole team! ❤️ Payal Agrawal Divakaran, Liam Donohue, Rebecca Redfield, Trip Hofer https://lnkd.in/eqStFFip
Heartbeat Health Announces Growth Investment by Cressey & Company
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Every once in a while a team comes together in such a way that you can tell something special is happening. That's Heartbeat Health right now -- that rare combination of people working on something so important, and performing in such a spectacular way that you just feel tremendous pride being part of it. ❤️ Today we memorialize this team and our work by announcing our Series C financing -- led by Cressey & Company, with participation by .406 Ventures, Echo Health Ventures, Kindred Ventures, Optum Ventures, DaVita Venture Group 🔥 Heartbeat Health has stepped up in a big way this year, and this feels like just the beginning. We're here making cardiovascular care accessible from anywhere. Every single day. 🚀 Thank you to our team, our partners, our investors, but most importantly, our patients. 🙏 David Dempsey Jana M. Goldberg, MD, FACC Saiba Sabherwal Brian Greer Andrew MacGill Anthony Castillo Lauren Taylor Pei-Chun (Cheri) McGregor Artemus Anderkay Monica Poling, SPHR Tyler Darby Hoby Albright Steve Dildine Payal Agrawal Divakaran Liam Donohue Jessica Zeaske Kanyi Maqubela Kaylan Alderson Jane Rho https://lnkd.in/eUt49Ryk
Heartbeat Health Announces Growth Investment by Cressey & Company
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Last week, DaVita’s value based care team (aka our IKC team) held its annual leadership offsite. The energy was real, loud, and forever focused on doing what’s right for our patients. Some key takeaways included: 1️⃣ managing value based care for our kidney patients requires coordination across the spectrum of care, including early stage CKD, dialysis, transplant, and end of life care. A holistic model of care is needed to serve our patients’ comprehensive needs. 2️⃣ the landscape of value based care is changing quickly. Our IKC team has grown and adapted quickly in response to a myriad of these changes. Change is expected to continue, but the team remains focused on delivering exceptional patient care and physician engagement. 3️⃣ collaboration is key. Our IKC team has driven tons of great collaboration efforts- across our value based care and dialysis care teams, between our care teams and our patients, as well as between our DaVita teams and our physician practice partners. DVG feels fortunate to partner with our DaVita IKC team and can’t wait for continued impact with our patients and providers! (Feat our Chief Transformation Officer Misha Palecek) #valuebasedcare #healthcare #innovation
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Meet 14 of the most active investors in the kidney space from idea to IPO across care delivery, devices & diagnostics. It's time for an updated and expanded look at who, when, and what gets funded across kidney care.💰 https://lnkd.in/eNwEnehS IN THE TABLE: • 𝐖𝐡𝐨 & 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧: The left-most columns in this table contain 14 of the most active investors in kidney care across the company lifecycle. This group broadly represents four investor types from idea to IPO: (a) accelerators; (b) early stage venture capital; (c) growth equity; and (d) strategic capital. • 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭: There are 4 segments (colors) highlighted in this table: Care delivery (yellow), devices (purple), diagnostics (blue), and other (green). For what it’s worth, I track 9 segments across the Kidneyverse. (see link in comments) • 𝐖𝐡𝐲: Investments happen because founders and investors share a unique point of view about what the future looks like. It’s as much about timing (why now?) as it is about fit (why you?). First, I’ve separated investments (solid border lines) from mergers & acquisitions (dotted lines). Second, I’ve included a crown (“👑”) for companies with an exit, either through M&A or IPO. WHAT'S NEW? 1️⃣ First, you'll notice we've added three new investors to the mix. My goal here is to highlight three different strategies within the venture landscape in (a) growth (SoftBank Group Corp.); (b) early stage (New Enterprise Associates (NEA), and (c) venture studio (Redesign Health). 2️⃣ I've also added updated a few of the selected portfolio companies within the existing investor categories. Many of you called out these companies after I published v1.0 in December, especially in light of recent headlines (breakthroughs, M&A, etc.). These include eGenesis, Inc., Thyme Care, Heartbeat Health, SameSky Health, and 34 Lives to name a few. TAKEAWAYS: • I realized by making the above changes and re-sorting the investor list by stage (descending by stage / check size), we start to see some of what I set out to understand in the first place. That is, where money flows based on the investor type (left side) and company segment (right side). For e.g., take a look at the yellow vs. purple / blue groupings, where growth dollars fund services and early stage money gets put to work in breakthrough devices and diagnostics. • We've continued to see consolidation in care delivery, and are starting to see it among specialty value-based care delivery (though, outside of kidney for now). A big question on my mind is how / when some of these late stage investors who see the full picture (say polychronic, in-home, or tech-enabled care) decide to start selling, buying, or merging their bets. With many billions at work in this the yellow bubbles alone, and continued "resets" in areas like virtual, primary, and VB care, I think it's fair to expect some moves in this space over the next 6 to 12 months. What do you think? 👇🏼 #funding #venturecapital #startups #medtech