Introducing the Flare Scholar Class of 2025
We are thrilled to introduce you to the Flare Scholar Class of 2025! This year, we welcome 67 new Flare Scholars to the program coming from backgrounds across business, medicine, engineering, and more. With the addition of these rising stars, we surpassed a big milestone: bringing us to a total of 446 Flare Scholars across current and alumni. The Class of 2025 joins us from a diverse breadth of academic institutions and industry organizations. Below are a few quick stats on the Class of 2025:
For those less familiar with the program, the Flare Scholar initiative is an annual professional development program designed for aspiring healthcare leaders, technologists, and mid-career executives to gain firsthand knowledge of healthcare technology and venture capital. The foundational tenets of the program are three-fold:
We receive several hundred applications each year, making it a highly competitive and differentiated program. In fact, we saw a 50%+ increase in applications received, which excites us as we look to continue to broaden and diversify the backgrounds of our Flare Scholars class.
Notably, 2025 is a particularly special moment as we enter our tenth year of the program. To celebrate this milestone, we take a brief look back at the evolution of the Flare Scholars program — unpacking the outcomes (with data) and providing a glimpse into where our Flare Scholar Alumni are working to transform the business of healthcare today.
A Decade in the Making
Since our inception in 2014, Flare Capital has been purpose-built to transform the business of healthcare. The Flare Scholar Program continues to be a cornerstone to executing that mission and has served as a key differentiator to our firm’s platform.
In our industry, where talent is so foundational to our collective success, we know the importance of investing in the top innovators of today and tomorrow. As investors, our time today is spent partnering with exceptional founders transforming the business of healthcare, but also dedicating resources to identifying the rising stars across our industry as our bet on emerging leaders.
When we launched the Flare Scholar Program in 2016, we had high hopes for our inaugural class which consisted of just 17 people. Little did we know what the program would grow into over the next decade. Today, the program consists of 445 Flare Scholars, current and alumni, that join us from the world’s leading graduate programs, and healthcare institutions. We are proud to see them go on to join founding, operating, and investing roles at top-tier organizations. Below is a brief snapshot of the network built to date.
Each year we look at the newly recruited class with optimism for where innovation in healthcare technology is headed. As anyone investing or operating in this sector long enough will tell you is that change does not happen overnight. With over a decade of experience since Flare Capitals’s founding in 2014, we have witnessed the ups and downs of the market, acknowledge the nascency of this sector, and view the emerging startup winners as a key indicator for continued success and growth in this sector. Considering this trajectory, investing in this brilliant group of rising stars is a no-brainer for us to continue to build a durable and dynamic firm that leads the transformation of healthcare innovation.
Of course, don’t just take our word on the impressive growth of the program, we will let the data speak for itself…
Since launching the program, the Flare Scholar Alumni continue to disrupt and innovate the healthcare technology industry — whether as a founder, investor, operator, clinician, and beyond. Below are a few key stats on our 379 Flare Scholar Alumni.
Once a Flare Scholar, always a Flare Scholar
As we like to say, “Once a Flare Scholar, always a Flare Scholar”.
Each year we are lucky to spend a full year with our Flare Scholar class through formal programming, but the journey really only starts there. Beyond tracking their success, we prioritize ongoing engagement with our Alumni network across various annual touchpoints. Below are a few highlights of our Flare Scholar Alumni engagement throughout 2024.
From year one to year ten, we are consistently impressed by the caliber of the Flare Scholars and look forward to continuing to innovate and evolve the program for the future. We cannot wait to kick off our official programming with this stellar group and welcome them to the Flare Capital family.
Congratulations to the Class of 2025! We’re excited to see all that you accomplish this year, and beyond.
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