OUR MISSION STATEMENT
Have Audacious Goals, Build Great Teams, Learn From Others, Become A Resilient Leader, Be Ready to Adapt … Grow … And Adapt Again
Endeavor Venture Funds & Venture Studio is dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship, and we believe that for great technology and innovation to have real world impact and a long term sustainable strategy that works, our founder scientists, engineers and physician innovators must also possess a strong entrepreneurial spirit, hone their leadership skills, and fortify real life business acumen, alongside an unrelenting determination and resilience to overcome challenges they will face along the path to commercializing their technologies.
At Endeavor we believe this commercialization path critically requires CEO/Entrepreneur leaders who drive new collaborations and partnerships with large corporations in Big Tech, HealthTech, Big Pharma, MedTech, and Biotech.
Misconceptions abound about what corporations and start-ups should expect from their partnerships on innovation projects. Yet these collaborations are growing in importance as companies of all sizes try to rapidly respond to shifts in the marketplace driven by macro-economics, scientific breakthroughs like AI and Machine Learning that are likely to be long standing sea changes.
We believe it’s easy to define and clarify why corporate partnerships with start-ups makes sense: start-ups can benefit from corporate funding, resources, and customer access, while corporations need to innovate to stay ahead of competitors and disruption, and also access new technology. We have seen a steady increase in corporate–start-up engagements.
Over the past 10 years there was 32 percent year-on-year growth in corporate venture capital investments, and three-quarters of Fortune 100 companies have active venture units.
Google Ventures is now 55% healthcare, partnering and investing in over 250 early stage healthcare and life science investments in AI and digital health, wearable sensors, diagnostic apps, specialty medicine, precision medicine, drug discovery, and personalized medicine.
For our team at Endeavor Venture Funds it’s all about discovering world class entrepreneurs with groundbreaking, disruptive innovation in healthcare. Not for the sake of innovation in the abstract. Not because innovation has a cool wow factor, But because innovation in healthcare and life sciences when directed at solving real life human problems empowers patients, provides decision making tools for doctors, advances the effectiveness of medicine and helps people live more fulfilled, healthier, happier, and longer lives.
Innovation in healthcare is about improving the human condition.
If there’s one thing that Covid has taught us, we are all connected, susceptible, fragile, and we need science and medicine and innovation just as much as we need water and oxygen.
Entrepreneurs in healthcare and life sciences are likely to be the next great wave of innovators as scientific discoveries, medicine, and technology are coming together in a tsunami of breakthroughs that have the potential to significantly change all our lives, improving quality of life and life expectancy.
The ripple effects from this tsunami are global and mulit-decade creating a momentum for a better world.
I am all in!
Come join us and be part of our outstanding entrepreneurial team, and we will reimagine a healthier world together.
Martin Gershon, MD, JD, MPH
Managing Partner and CIO, Endeavor Venture Funds & Venture Studio
martin@gershoncapital.com
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