Start with impossible problems
W Health Ventures is a healthcare company creation fund. The firm creates companies from pre-idea to category leadership, in India and the US-India corridor. The firm's fifty-person in-house team of physicians, operators, and technologists identifies structural gaps in healthcare delivery, spends 12 to 18 months pressure-testing the opportunity, then recruits an exceptional founding team to build and scale. The firm's purpose is to solve what stands between a billion people and better health.
Dr. Pankaj Jethwani
Managing Partner
Dr. Pankaj Jethwani is Managing Partner of W Health Ventures and CEO of 2070 Health, India's first healthcare venture studio. He holds an MBBS from Maharashtra University of Health Sciences and an MBA from The Wharton School. His career spans clinical medicine, Boston Consulting Group (government healthcare initiatives), and founding The Breakfast Revolution (nutrition social enterprise). He serves on the boards of Wysa, Mylo, BeatO, Nivaan, Everhope Oncology, Careforce, and 2070 Health.
Gaurav Porwal
Partner and COO
Gaurav Porwal is Partner and COO at W Health Ventures and COO at 2070 Health. An IIT-B and ISB alumnus, he has two decades of founder and senior leadership experience including a successful exit from Sparsh NephroCare (acquired by Fresenius Medical Care in 2016). He has previously served as COO of Global Mobility at Ola and SVP of Service Commerce at Tata Digital (Tata Neu), building healthcare, food delivery, and mobility businesses.
Bhavesh Hemani
Partner and CFO
Bhavesh Hemani is CFO of W Health Ventures and a Designated Partner of W Health Ventures GP LLP (the investment manager for Fund II). He is the SEBI-registered contact person for W Health Ventures Trust II.
Yashwant Kumar
Chief Growth Officer
Dr. Nikhil Hegde
VP, Research and Investments
Tushar Sadhu
VP, Research and Investments
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Dan Judd
VP, Research and Investments and Head of US Ventures
Shirish Sharma
AVP, Research and Investments
Ashish Sharma
AVP, Research and Investments
Pooja Dave
AVP, Research and Investments
Dr. Siddharth Bhatia
Sr. Associate, Research and Investments
Sandhya Sathiamoorthy
Head of Talent
Ashwin Krishnan
VP, Product
Vinit Nalavadi
VP, Legal
Ashish Singh
AdvisorOperating Partner
Ashish Singh is an Operating Partner at W Health Ventures, supporting portfolio companies with operational and strategic priorities.
Ajay Sondhi
AdvisorOperating Partner
Ajay Sondhi is an Operating Partner at W Health Ventures, contributing expertise in healthcare operations and growth.
Dr. Prakash Patel
AdvisorOperating Partner
Dr. Prakash Patel is an Operating Partner at W Health Ventures. He focuses on investing in therapeutics and medical device companies and has served on the boards of multiple NASDAQ-listed and private biotech/med-tech companies. He holds an MD and MBA from Tufts University School of Medicine and completed his undergraduate studies in biology and economics at Rutgers University.
Tejasvi Ravi
AdvisorOperating Partner
Mahadevan Narayanamoni
AdvisorSenior Advisor
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