Optum Ventures
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Optum Ventures is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2017 in partnership with UnitedHealth Group. It invests stage-agnostically from seed to growth equity in companies at the intersection of technology and healthcare, with over $2 billion in assets under management and more than 75 portfolio companies.
Optum Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Boston, United States, founded in 2017. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in healthcare, technology, value-based care and enterprise software. Over $2 billion under management and 75 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Investing in extraordinary entrepreneurs to transform healthcare together.”
— Optum Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Boston, United States
- Invests in
- US, UK, global
- Sectors
- healthcare, technology, value-based care, enterprise software, fintech
- Founded
- 2017
- Assets under management
- over $2 billion
- Portfolio
- 75 companies
Team, as Optum Ventures publishes it
- Larry Renfro Managing Partner
- Laura Veroneau Managing Partner
- Stephen Renfro Partner and Chief Operations Officer
- Vijay Barathan Partner, Global
- Dean McCausland Chief Financial Officer
- Kate Leonard General Counsel
- Mike Cunningham Partner
- George Pantazopoulos Partner
- Juliet Domb Executive in Residence
- Jon Sklaroff Principal
- Nicole Chen Principal and Chief of Staff
- Tom Capon Principal, Global
Names and roles exactly as listed on optumventures.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Optum Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.optumventures.com/name, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://www.optumventures.com/aboutis_investor, layer, type, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, description, founded, aum, portfolio_count, status
- https://www.optumventures.com/our-teampeople
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Record 1183 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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