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Marcus Whitney

Managing Partner at Jumpstart Nova

Nashville Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Marcus Whitney is a healthcare venture capitalist with a background in technology leadership and entrepreneurship, having co-founded companies like Jumpstart Health Investors and Health:Further. He has been involved in the founding and strategic leadership of various successful ventures, including Nashville Soccer Club and Clariture Health, and has made investments in companies like Cellevolve Bio and Recoup Fitness. Marcus Whitney currently serves as a healthcare VC and board member, showcasing expertise in start-ups, product development, and digital marketing. He has co-founded multiple successful ventures, such as Health:Further, and has made impactful investments in companies like EyeGage and Recoup Fitness.

Work Experience 

  • Founder and Managing Partner

    2020 - Current

    We back incredible healthcare founders.

Jumpstart invests in seed and Series A healthcare companies.

  • Board Member

    2024

    Intus Care provides data-driven interventions for elderly and disabled patients within Long Term Care, Serving PACE Programs, Special Needs Plans, and Medicare-Medicaid Plans across the country

Intus Care develops healthcare analytics platform to improve care and reduce hospitalizations for patients.

Raised $43,654,197.00 from JumpStart, Deerfield and Collab Capital.

  • Board Member

    2023

    Health Cost IQ (HCIQ) enables its customers to mine their health plan data and uncover issues such as costly inefficiencies, waste, fraud, and abuse. Our customers save millions on their annual healthcare spend, with an average cost reduction of 20-30% after the first year.

  • Co-Founder and Board Member

    2014

    Jumpstart Health Investors manages early-stage, strategic healthcare venture funds tailored to each type of investor and risk profile. Current funds on the platform are Jumpstart Foundry, Jumpstart Capital and Jumpstart Nova.

Jumpstart Health Investors offers a family of funds with various opportunities for each type of investor and risk profile.

  • Co-Host

    2023

Health:Further is a health care company.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Celtic Bank provides financing for small businesses. We help business owners with working capital, expansion, acquisition, construction, equipment financing, real estate purchases, refinances, and more.

Celtic Bank provides residential mortgages, construction loans, SBA and USDA loans, SBA 7(a) loans, and secured business loans.

  • Co-Founder and Minority Owner

    2016

    Nashville's Major League Soccer team.

Nashville Soccer Club is a sports company that offers professional soccer sports club.

  • Health Innovators Fellow | Aspen Institute

    2022

    The Aspen Health Innovators Fellowship is a growing community of entrepreneurial, values-driven leaders committed to reimagining U.S. health care. The Fellowship brings together a diverse group of high-performing healthcare professionals from industry, government, startups, nonprofits, and health systems. These leaders learn from each other, reflect on their values and priorities, and reach across health care’s silos to develop and drive forward new solutions. http://aspeninstitute.org/hif

Aspen-HP Digital Equity Accelerator is an accelerator that fuels innovation by investing in not-for-profit organizations and NGOs.

  • Co-Founder and President

    2010 - 2020

    Pre-seed healthcare innovation fund with one simple mission: Make Something Better®.

  • Founder and CEO

    2015 - 2020

    Once Nashville’s largest healthcare innovation conference, today Health:Further is a weekly podcast from Jumpstart Health Investors offering conversations about the future of health that you won’t find anywhere else.

Health:Further is a health care company.

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