The past year has provided an extraordinary opportunity for founders, investors, and healthcare experts to partner together to develop solutions that sit at the intersection of healthcare and digital technology. That partnership has propelled the industry forward with innovative, urgently needed solutions to remediate the vulnerabilities exposed by the global pandemic. It also has accelerated the evolution from a “sick care” system to a resilient, proactive Health Assurance system designed to help people stay well, bend the cost curve, and make quality care more affordable and more accessible to all.

Today, we announce the launch of General Catalyst’s $600M Health Assurance Fund. This new fund is a key component of a comprehensive Health Assurance offering that includes our Stakeholder Aligned Initial Listings (SAIL) — Health Assurance Acquisition Corporation (HAAC) and Revolution Healthcare Acquisition Corporation. Dedicated to empowering founders and companies in both the private and public markets, this offering will  accelerate the transformation of the healthcare industry into an equitable system of Health Assurance in service of a healthier society.

Through the Health Assurance Fund, General Catalyst will continue to create and invest in high impact, high return companies committed to delivering the promise of Health Assurance. That includes favoring partnerships over pure disruption, and empowering consumers with technology and experiences that both inform and delight, while honoring privacy and protecting data. These companies have critical work ahead that impacts us all: modernizing the healthcare ecosystem to create efficiencies and cost savings and improve clinical outcomes; alleviating the burdensome administrative and technological roadblocks that prevent doctors and nurses from doing what they do best; and aligning performance and the interests of patients, providers, and greater society.

Specifically, as investors and company creators, we have seen tremendous opportunity to address these challenges through digital health focused on: home hospital care; software infrastructure workforce transformation tools for care providers; payments and insurance; pharma software; women’s health; and diagnostics. Our Health Assurance Fund enables us to continue to create and proactively support stand-out companies in these areas from seed to growth stage and beyond, while managing our concentration in Health Assurance companies across our current set of active funds.

While the transformation to a system of Health Assurance is underway, it will not happen overnight, nor will it happen without working through the existing healthcare infrastructure. We fundamentally believe that the greatest change will come from a partnership between new companies that embrace a software-driven, change-the-world, maker’s mentality and the experience, empathy, and vision of health system leaders. In fact, our Health Assurance platform is built on this model of radical collaboration: our new fund is supported by Limited Partners representing some of the most-respected healthcare organizations in the industry. And, our extended healthcare team is comprised of experienced tech, investment, and healthcare experts both in the U.S. and abroad, including our new Endurance Partners-in-Residence. This team will work together to identify and create the enduring companies that will transform the industry into a more proactive, resilient, and equitable system of care. That is the potential and promise of Health Assurance. The opportunity is now.

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