Our Impact
We believe the rapid pace of technology-enabled innovation in healthcare creates attractive investment opportunities for those with the vision and experience to see them.
Focusing on the individual is the key to making healthcare effective and affordable for everyone. Innovation is critical to this transition across the industry, but it’s not an easy path. Inadequate and antiquated systems impede the adoption of new technologies. How healthcare is accessed and paid for is changing faster than consumers and providers can adapt. Life- and cost-saving solutions get lost navigating the winding paths to commercialization.
With a specialist’s grasp of healthcare’s inner workings, we anticipate industry trends and identify companies and technologies that power change. We seek growth stage companies with commercial-ready innovations that drive precision health, providing the capital and the experience to guide companies to reach their full potential.
By catalyzing the adoption of innovation, Blue Ox helps to deliver the promise of better healthcare focused on the individual.
Active Investments
Sera prognostics
Proteomic diagnostic platform with an initial emphasis on determining an individual woman’s risk of premature birth
EPIC SCIENCES
Liquid biopsy platform using big data techniques to individualize cancer drug selection
Gemelli Biotech
Precision diagnostics to definitively detect scientifically validated biomarkers and optimally treat GI diseases
Our Focus
Healthcare historically has been a generic system that tends to treat all patients the same, with wasteful, expensive, and often ineffective care resulting in poor outcomes and excessive costs.
Healthcare that addresses patients as individuals improves outcomes and value for all. Tech-enabled innovation drives the promise of both.
Precision Health
Advancements in science and technology enable each person's health to be understood and treated according to their unique biology.
Innovations in diagnostics and treatments disrupt both clinical protocols and quality- and cost-management strategies.
Healthcare Delivery
Technologies, methods, and locations to deliver care are gearing towards efficiency, convenience, and individuality.
Medical technologies, data systems, and new modalities translate into better outcomes and a more efficient and convenient healthcare system.
Affordability
Consumers are more involved in their own care, demanding better choice and value.
New financial systems and consumer tools provide choice, access, and affordability for expanding self-pay expenses and superior but costly treatments.
Blue Ox focuses entirely on commercial-ready companies bringing technology enabled innovation to healthcare. We look for companies involved in precision health, healthcare delivery, and affordability.
As healthcare moves ever more towards individuality and value, the need for tools and processes that enable precision health will grow far beyond the system’s current capability to identify and adopt new technologies.
The Blue Ox team seeks to invest in companies addressing these issues and guides management teams through the difficult process of bringing their products and solutions to market. With our insight and extensive relationships and experience, we can identify the right path to commercialization, straightening the often twisted routes to get innovation into the hands of consumers, providers, and payers.
Our Name
In the great American folklore, Babe the Blue Ox was the trusted partner enabling Paul Bunyan to accomplish legendary feats.
Whether carving lakes, moving mountains, or straightening roads,
Babe made the impossible happen.
“Babe the Blue Ox was a great help around Paul Bunyan's logging camp. He could pull anything that had two ends, so Paul often used him to straighten out the pesky, twisted logging roads. By the time Babe had pulled the twists and kinks out of all the roads leading to the lumber camp, there was twenty miles of extra road left.” - S. E. Schlosser
