Activate Venture Partners

Four decades of early conviction

Since 1985, our partners and affiliated funds have invested through changing technologies, markets, and cycles—building judgment about what matters early, what can be repaired, and what it takes to build something enduring.

successful IPOs

$10B+

in enterprise market value upon exit

100+

portfolio investments

healthcare companies

45+

exits to strategic and financial buyers

Early conviction. Enduring outcomes.

Our companies power essential infrastructure across healthcare, clinical research, insurance, data, aviation, manufacturing, financial services, and other critical markets.

$29B+ of health insurance premiums processed for 279,000 small businesses

Provides affordable access to healthcare products for 60 million consumers

Medical devices used in over 9 million procedures each year

Music rights management software distributing $1.5B of annual royalties

Medication management safety solutions for 540,000+ patients

Delivers 75,000+ trips for non-emergency medical appointments monthly

Used by 100+ million people to identify high quality, affordable healthcare

Accelerated drug development for 18 of the world’s top 25 pharma companies

Contributes to operations of 350,000 flights with 85 million passengers per year

Fitness community reaching 20 million people with 700,000 daily users

Manages monthly payments for 2.3+ million properties

What we see before the market does.

We invest when four conditions come together.

Visionary founders with domain knowledge and the ability to scale a business operationally

Markets that are at an inflection point in demand where new approaches can create significant value and upset the status quo

Seed and early-stage companies where our decades-long track record of experience as a lead investor adds value in a company’s first institutional equity financing

Capital efficient businesses where first round financing of $5 million or less can create significant progress toward achieving business objectives

testimonials

founders and ceos

Like most businesses, we had to overcome more than a few challenges. Activate supported us with the capital and strategic advice we needed to achieve a remarkable exit.

Kyle Raffaniello

Sapphire Digital

Activate is founder-focused in a way most venture firms are not; they understand the importance of vision and culture. That is why we have joined forces twice.

Eric Rosow

Diameter Health

Activate is unique because of their investment approach. You let them know when you want their help and they will make themselves available, versus trying to micro-manage their investment.

Sam Golan

HighQA

Activate’s experience with early-stage companies has enabled them to be an effective partner. We created a trusting relationship, something that is rare in the venture capital business.

Jeremy Miller

FSA Store

Activate has been of enormous help in building our company and making introductions that enabled us to raise follow on financing from other like-minded investors. They are supportive and fair – a real class act.

Steve Hafif

Cypris

I could not imagine a better partner for our early-stage healthcare company than Activate. They bring us a rare combination of deep industry connections, market insight and entrepreneurial zeal.

Kevin Agatstein

KAID Health

Activate helped us grow from a startup to a $1 billion public company. We could never have done it without them.

Brian Adams

Tabula Rasa HealthCare

Activate isn’t just our lead VC, they are our partner. From the beginning, the amazing thing was, unlike the other firms we met with, the Activate team totally got our vision.

Matt Ranauro

Benefax

Activate’s partners led our first round of financing and were essential partners through to our successful IPO. We could not have found a better early stage investor.

Tarek Sherif

Medidata

When I started my first company, Visual Networks, Activate recognized the opportunity when others didn’t. Our IPO was a huge success. They were my first call to lead our seed round for scaleMatters.

Scott Stouffer

scaleMatters

I really valued Activate’s contribution to our board based on their decades of experience, their patience, their enthusiasm, extensive network and straightforward approach.

Ray Bixler

Skill Survey

Activate is different than other venture firms. They have been constructive, responsive and most important, supportive. They are invaluable to have available but unobtrusive. Truly a first-class investor.