Rock Health is a full-service seed fund that supports startups working in

digital health Digital health is a discipline that includes digital care programs, technologies with health, healthcare, living, and society to enhance the efficiency of healthcare delivery and to make medicine more personalized and precise. It uses informatio ...

, also called

health technology Health technology is defined by the World Health Organization as the "application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures, and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of liv ...

. Rock Health offers funding, access to medical, venture, legal and corporate partners, and office space to its portfolio companies.

History

Rock Health was founded in 2010 by

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

classmates

Halle Tecco Halle Tecco is the founder of Natalist, adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, founder and former CEO at Rock Health, and an angel investor and philanthropist. Education Tecco earned a BS from Case Western and an MBA from Harvard Busine ...

and Nate Gross. Rock Health's inaugural portfolio class began in June 2011. Gross went on to co-found

Doximity Doximity is an online networking service for medical professionals. Launched in 2010, the platform offers its members curated medical news, telehealth tools, and case collaboration. History The company was launched in March 2011 by co-founders ...

with Jeff Tangney, previously co-founder of

Epocrates Epocrates is a mobile medical reference app, owned by athenahealth, that provides clinical reference information on drugs, diseases, diagnostics and patient management. History Founded in 1998 by three Stanford Business School students, early ...

. In October 2016, Rock Health named pharma veteran Bill Evans as managing director.

Partners

Rock Health partners include

Fenwick & West Fenwick & West LLP is a law firm of nearly 430 attorneys with offices in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Seattle, New York City, Santa Monica, Washington, DC and Shanghai. The firm's practice focuses on technology companies, life sciences companie ...

, GE,

Genentech Genentech, Inc., is an American biotechnology corporation headquartered in South San Francisco, California. It became an independent subsidiary of Roche in 2009. Genentech Research and Early Development operates as an independent center within R ...

, Harvard Medical School,

Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente (; KP), commonly known simply as Kaiser, is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. Kaiser P ...

, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,

Mayo Clinic The Mayo Clinic () is a nonprofit American academic medical center focused on integrated health care, education, and research. It employs over 4,500 physicians and scientists, along with another 58,400 administrative and allied health staff, ...

, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Montreux Equity Partners, Qualcomm Life,

UnitedHealth Group UnitedHealth Group Incorporated is an American multinational managed healthcare and insurance company based in Minnetonka, Minnesota. It offers health care products and insurance services. UnitedHealth Group is the world's seventh largest c ...

, and UCSF.

References

{{reflist Medical and health organizations based in California