The Nurse Is Health Care’s Most Underpriced Founder
They see the problem first, build the fix, and decide whether it is ever adopted. The market has trained them to hide the one credential that de-risks the deal.
Beth A. Brooks and Dan Weberg
Beth A. Brooks, PhD, RN, FACHE, is co-founder and general partner of Nurse Capital, a venture fund investing exclusively in nurse-founded companies. A nurse executive and start-up advisor, she has mentored early-stage companies at MATTER, Chicago's health care technology incubator, for more than a decade and teaches Finance for Innovation at Arizona State University's College of Nursing and Health Innovation. She writes the career coaching column for Nurse Leader.
Dan Weberg, PhD, RN, FAAN is general partner of Nurse Capital, a venture fund investing exclusively in nurse-founded companies. A registered nurse with clinical experience in emergency departments and acute inpatient settings, he has led technology adoption and change initiatives across large integrated health systems and advises health tech start-ups, venture teams, and start-up boards. He was the first graduate of the PhD in Health Care Innovation Leadership program at Arizona State University.