Our Approach

Investments as Catalysts for Change

Our goal is to level the health access playing field. Using our unique blend of rigorous analysis and battle-tested intuition, we invest in people who want to change the way health care is delivered to our most difficult-to-get-to patients and families. This requires industry, business, and ecosystem savvy as well as an intimate knowledge of the challenges that many patients face when confronted with a difficult health challenge.

  • We identify and support founders with unique vision and the tenacity to transform healthcare for underserved populations

  • We focus on low-cost, innovative technologies that benefit marginalized communities 

  • We prioritize solutions providing novel, continuous health data for prevention 

  • We support founders from ALL backgrounds, prioritizing those with lived experience who understand the challenges firsthand 

  • We look beyond traditional metrics to find innovations that can scale to serve those most in need 

Advisors as Partners

 We do not rely on templates and standard playbooks. Many consulting firms will tell you exactly how they will solve your unique and complex problem after a one-hour first meeting. This is NOT the HEV approach.

We always start with an assessment of the environment and the challenge at hand, unearthing the unidentified goals, issues, needs, resource constraints, and organizational complexities that are critical to the ultimate success of any initiative. We work to quickly establish trust and function as essential members of your team, bringing insights and an under-recognized and immeasurable value that traditional consulting firms simply cannot offer. 

  • We combine innovation expertise with deep health equity understanding 

  • We bring operational experience with a commercial lens 

  • We navigate organizational politics and human dynamics 

  • We help clients analyze challenges at multiple levels—technical, political, and cultural 

Traditional consulting firms deliver frameworks and often leave implementation, and the ultimate success of the project, to teams that may or may not have the resources and/or experience to get the project done. HEV is committed to helping you socialize ideas throughout your organization, create alignment across departments, and develop the plan needed for real-world execution, within your organization and beyond.

 

Building a Strong Ecosystem, One Client at a Time

Over the course of our combined 50-year careers, we have learned and lived the most common causes of project design and execution breakdown within organizations large and small. We bring this wisdom to you, not as an afterthought, but as a front-and-center piece of any recommendation or execution plan we devise. We understand that it is critical to construct bridges between siloed departments, disparate stakeholders, and disconnected communities if we are to be successful in create functioning ecosystems for change. 

  • We connect departments that don't typically work together using common language 

  • We leverage our extensive network in the Bay Area innovation ecosystem to recommend partnerships and collaborations that lead to a successful strategy implementation

  • We recognize that healthcare transformations require collaboration across multiple entities and we build that into everything we do

  • We stand on the principle that nobody can solve complex health access challenges alone 

Co-Founders, Co-Creators

Beyond traditional consulting relationships, we function as true partners with skin in the game, approaching your initiatives with the dedication of a co-founder. 

  • We can structure strategic relationships that bring the right partners to the table 

  • We help identify and broker meaningful connections 

  • We work as a team member to create new and creative pathways for meaningful impact in the real world for real people

  • We bring critical deal-making expertise to complex multi-stakeholder initiatives