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CU Healthcare Innovation Fund
Venture capital · Aurora, CO, United States · North America
The CU Healthcare Innovation Fund is a strategic healthcare-focused venture capital firm affiliated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. It invests in CU Anschutz spinouts and external companies, leveraging the campus ecosystem including UCHealth, Children's Hospital Colorado, CU Medicine and the CU School of Medicine to support portfolio companies.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsdigital healthtech-enabled servicesmedical devicesdiagnosticstherapeuticshealthcare
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Or find every investor that fitsCU Healthcare Innovation Fund lists 30 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 40% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (94%), AI & Machine Learning (3%) and Education (3%). 81% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside MemorialCare Innovation Fund, First Trust Capital Partners and Hatteras Venture Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name CU Healthcare Innovation Fund, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not CU Healthcare Innovation Fund's whole history. Rounds on record name 6 companies; its own site lists 30. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundCU Healthcare Innovation Fund does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 40% |
| Series B | 20% |
| Growth | 40% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 6 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 68th | 30 companies |
| Recent activity | 89th | 6 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 89th | 17% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 96th | 94% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| MemorialCare Innovation Fund | 4 |
| First Trust Capital Partners | 3 |
| Hatteras Venture Partners | 3 |
| OSF Ventures | 3 |
| Waterline Ventures | 3 |
| Agent Capital | 2 |
| Buff Gold Ventures | 2 |
| Civilization Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers30100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 94% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 3% | 18% |
| Education | 3% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with MemorialCare Innovation Fund
Compare CU Healthcare Innovation Fund head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with CU Healthcare Innovation Fund| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 14 Jul 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 18 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 19 Mar 2026 | Round | |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 1 May 2025 | Series B |
Round details for CU Healthcare Innovation Fund
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in CU Healthcare Innovation Fund's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
30 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company develops and sells a hand-operated rapid infuser for delivering blood or fluids to critically ill patients | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2026Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Amplifire is the AI-powered workforce learning platform built on decades of brain science | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Arbutus Medical Inc. develops and manufactures orthopedic power tools and sterile kits for surgical use. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| AristaMD provides access to specialty care services, including virtual consultations and telehealth specialist panels, to help primary care physicians improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Arrive Health works to make care decisions better for patients and providers, improving affordability, access, and outcomes | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Babyscripts provides a maternity care solution that uses early risk detection to improve maternal health outcomes | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| BioIntelliSense develops and provides continuous patient monitoring solutions, including wearable devices and software for analyzing vital signs and biometric measurements. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Carta Healthcare develops and provides an AI platform for managing and analyzing clinical data for healthcare organizations. | Healthcare & Biotech | May 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| Clarapath develops and provides laboratory automation systems for histopathology | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| CodaMetrix develops and provides autonomous medical coding solutions for health systems | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cured provides AI-powered healthcare marketing solutions to drive better outcomes and revenue growth | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Foresight Diagnostics develops and delivers innovative diagnostic tests that combine precision genomics and cutting-edge bioinformatics to advance cancer drug development and patient care. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| GoCheck develops and provides a pediatric vision and hearing screening device for healthcare professionals. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
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| Hummingbird helps healthcare systems improve patient access by optimizing and integrating technology and processes | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Icarus Medical provides braces for a wide range of use cases and applications | Healthcare & Biotech | Jun 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Monteris Medical develops and provides a minimally invasive laser ablation system for treating brain tumors, radiation necrosis, and drug-resistant epilepsy. | Healthcare & Biotech | Mar 2026Series C+ | Page + round | |
| The company applies computational tools to clinical and biologic data to advance therapies for cancer patients. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Oui Therapeutics develops prescription digital therapeutics to save lives | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a platform to mitigate supply chain disruptions in healthcare. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- cuvcfund.com
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 May 2025
- Companies checked
- 30
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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