Today we are excited to introduce our latest initiative: the Flare Capital AI Advisory Council. This dynamic new Council convenes senior executives from our strategic partners and leading technology experts to accelerate innovation at the intersection of healthcare and AI.
We are thrilled to tackle this work with our incredible founding Council members, which include industry leaders from world-class healthcare and technology organizations — including, Advent Health, Amazon Web Services, Amgen, Cincinnati Children’s, CVS Health, GuideWell, Hartford HealthCare, Medical Mutual, MedStar Health, Memorial Hermann, and Microsoft.
Further, we have established a distinguished network of executives from leading technology companies — NVIDIA, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and Apple — who, together with leading AI researchers like Flare Capital Industry Advisory Board Member, Zak Kohane, MD, PhD, will collaborate with and complement the Council.
We dig into details of the Council and the roadmap below, but first a bit more on why now and how this Council fits into our proprietary Flare Capital strategic engagement model that powers a unique growth engine for the remarkable founders we have the pleasure of partnering with.
How the AI Advisory Council Is Unlocking and Accelerating a New Dimension of Strategic Engagement For Founders and Industry Partners
At Flare Capital, we have spent over a decade partnering with founders to transform the business of healthcare technology. Since 2013 we have backed healthcare technology companies at the earliest stages, supporting them across the entirety of the journey — from product-market fit to identifying initial customers to scaling sustainable growth models, through to successful exits.
Core to the success of our work has been our robust and highly engaged community of strategic industry partners that span the healthcare landscape — from leading health systems and payers to global pharma and enterprise technology organizations. These organizations account for nearly a quarter of healthcare spend annually, and do not just write checks. They go on to become early customers, co-creators, and early champions for the solutions our partner companies bring to market.
Collectively, they have contributed nearly $1 billion in revenue to Flare Capital backed companies — a clear signal that distribution and trusted relationships are often what separate the winners from the rest.
And in today’s rapidly evolving healthcare AI landscape, that edge will be decisive.
“There is a race in healthcare AI where distribution will become what differentiates the winners and losers. That is why we are looking for a strategic partner.”
We have heard this from countless founders that walk through our doors, and we agree: to win, you need to strike the right balance of strong technical talent, a robust product platform, and the right chorus of relationships to find breakout success amongst the competitive and rapidly evolving healthcare AI sector. That is why we are excited to announce the launch of the Flare Capital AI Advisory Council.
A Council for Collective Insight and Practical Action
While foundational technologies continue to rapidly advance, we believe the winners will be those who can integrate, scale, and deliver results across complex healthcare environments.
The AI Advisory Council is a cross-industry initiative designed to bring together senior executives from our strategic partners with leading thinkers and operators in healthcare AI. It is a Council for collaboration — not just conceptually, but operationally. The Council will help our investment team and founders answer key questions: What is working? What is not? Where are the gaps, and how can we close them together?
We officially launched the Council earlier this summer with an energizing kickoff at NVIDIA’s headquarters in Santa Clara, where we convened top healthcare leaders alongside NVIDIA’s senior healthcare AI executives. The discussion spanned real-world AI deployments, implementation bottlenecks, and shared priorities across payers, providers, pharma, and tech. The meeting set the tone for what’s to come: candid conversations, practical insight, and aligned effort to accelerate what is working and further shape the future of the industry.
What the AI Advisory Council Offers
The Council was designed with founders at the center. Its work is meant to accelerate company building while also sharpening our perspective as investors and strategic partners. Our approach is anchored in five value pillars:
Looking Ahead
We are grateful to our partners who join us in shaping the AI Advisory Council and to the founding members who have leaned in with energy and purpose. This initiative reflects a shared belief: that AI in healthcare won’t scale because of a single breakthrough, but through aligned effort, responsible experimentation, and collective insight.
By bringing the right people to the table — at the right time — we can move faster, smarter, and with more impact. We are actively expanding the Council, adding new members from leading healthcare and technology organizations.
Alongside our continued engagement with the Council, we are actively advancing our perspectives on the sector — most recently reflected in the publication of our updated healthcare AI outlook , Billions in Play: Healthcare AI’s Race for Market Dominance.
If you are interested in learning more about our investment work across healthcare AI, reach out to us at flare@www.flarecapital.com.
About Flare Capital Partners
Flare Capital Partners is the leading healthcare technology venture capital firm advancing innovation-driven companies to improve positive health outcomes, broaden care access, and lower healthcare costs. We partner with exceptional founders solving healthcare’s hardest challenges, supporting each with our deep sector expertise, unparalleled industry resources, and proven access to commercial opportunities. We are investors in several leading healthcare AI companies, including SmarterDx, Cohere Health, Suki AI, Layer Health and Axuall Health among others. Our team of established investors and senior operating executives has invested in 70+ companies and has nearly $1 billion in assets under management. To learn more about Flare Capital Partners, please visit www.flarecapital.com or follow us on LinkedIn, YouTube, or Spotify.
