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We are excited to announce the launch of Terrarium, a venture studio building the next wave of transformational healthtech companies! Company Ventures has always been a talent first venture platform. We seek to work with the?most exceptional early stage talent in the market, investing first check capital in traditional pre-seed and seed rounds. Now we are able to partner with founders even earlier at the idea stage. Increasingly, entrepreneurs are seeking out the?accelerated and de-risked pathway to build new companies that Terrarium represents by combining best-in-class research, talent, capital, and deep industry relationships. In this way, we see Terrarium as a natural and exciting complement to our core market investing strategy. Thank you to everyone who has supported Terrarium in reaching this milestone and to our incredible team including Mark Rosenblum, Margaret Davidson, Matthew Harrigan, Nelson Boone Schubart, Hunter Hillenmeyer, John Ciccio, Tony Ferullo, Troy Bannister, Austin Dirks, and Stephen R. Saine. A special shout out and thank you to our partners and advisers including Noah Waxman and Lucas Werthein at Cactus, Hank Capps, MD FAAFP, John D. Cooper, CFA, and Jaimie Clark at Wellstar Health System as well as Ken Moelis, Marc Wolpow, and Eric Felder. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ek_ijkWA #venturestudio #incubator #artificialintelligence #healthtech #digitalhealth #healthcareAI #digitaltransformation #venturecapital #startupfunding #investing

New company announcement ?? Terrarium, a new venture studio from Company Ventures and Cactus, is designed to accelerate and de-risk the journey for healthcare founders. In partnership with Cactus and Wellstar Health System, we’re shaping the future of health tech by incubating and launching ten companies over the next three years—starting with Rota Health. Rota Health is tackling one of the industry’s biggest challenges: healthcare data interoperability. Using AI-driven solutions, they’re transforming how data flows across systems to improve efficiency and patient outcomes. ?? Learn more about Terrarium and its first startup: https://spr.ly/6041INTkH #HealthTech #Innovation #AI #StartupEcosystem

Today, we are thrilled to celebrate the launch of?Terrarium, a new venture studio focused on incubating and launching new healthcare businesses. Launched in partnership with?Company Ventures?and?Wellstar Health System, this marks a pivotal moment for Cactus as we expand beyond our strategic consulting and design work to also drive industry transformation through venture innovation. Cactus brings to Terrarium our deep knowledge of U.S. health systems’ innovation agendas, strong relationships inside those organizations, and a clear understanding of which opportunities should be pursued in-house vs. those best served by new, venture-backed businesses. Wellstar’s clinical excellence and deep understanding of health system opportunities and pain-points allows us to bridge the gap between groundbreaking technology and real-world impact, empowering founders to tackle healthcare’s most pressing challenges. We’ve also announced Terrarium’s first incubation,?Rota Health, which is tackling the critical issue of healthcare data interoperability. This is just the beginning of what’s possible when visionary founders, health systems, and innovation leaders come together. Many thanks to our many collaborators including Mark Rosenblum, Matthew Harrigan, Nelson Boone Schubart, Margaret Davidson, Hunter Hillenmeyer, John Ciccio, Troy Bannister, Austin Dirks, Tony Ferullo, Stephen R. Saine as well as Hank Capps, MD FAAFP, Jaimie Clark and John D. Cooper, CFA at Wellstar Health System and Catalyst by Wellstar. Read more about Terrarium here:?https://lnkd.in/eSJsKBUq

Cactus is making its way to ViVE 2025 next week! If you’re heading to Nashville, let’s connect. We’re looking forward to meeting digital health leaders, reconnecting with past collaborators, and exchanging insights that drive innovation across the industry ???

?? From reimagining access to fostering human connection, design has the power to transform how we deliver care?? Check out what is top of mind for the Cactus team in this piece with Healthcare Design!

Congratulations to the Hevolution Foundation team on an incredible Global Healthspan Summit!?We're proud to see the event’s experience design and visual identity come to life. Here’s to advancing the future of Healthspan innovation together! ??

?? What a year! In 2024, Catalyst continued our journey of reshaping healthcare, conducting pilots with Sounding Board, Enrichly and CalmWave, to name a few, within one of the largest health systems in the southeast. We also announced investments in Betty's Co., VoLo Earth Ventures, Gabbi, alvee, Moth+Flame, Ferrum Health, Starling (YC W22), VECKTA, and CalmWave, among others. And did we mention opening the Catalyst Innovation Center, launching WellFarm AND hosting events like the Venture Atlanta Conference Startup Showcase with incredible pitches from nearly 50 startups? ? We can't wait to see what incredible collaborations 2025 has in store between our team, investors, partners - and you! #YearInReview #Startups #Innovation

Cactus Head of Design, Eric Harvey, shares how gamification and immersive environments are transforming fitness! Check out his discussion with HCM Magazine ????

We're grateful for our collaborators at Catalyst by Wellstar, who champion innovation at every turn ???????

1st Licensed Healthy Longevity Center in the world! We did it, Institute for Healthier Living Abu Dhabi! Thanks to everyone who helped get us here…Department of Health Abu Dhabi Healthy Longevity Medicine Society Dr. Mariam Mohamed Fatima Matar MD Phd Andrea B. Maier Evelyne Bischof, MD, PhD Eric Verdin Scott Stoll MD David L. Katz, MD, MPH Beth Frates, MD Eran Segal Andy Galpin Simon Matthews Dr. Mike Roizen Rebecca Robbins, PhD Matthew Walker, PhD Brad Shoenfeld, PhD Tzipi Strauss Charles Brewer