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The largest overlooked market in venture capital.

We invest in next-generation companies building disability, neurodivergence, and health technology to maximize human independence and potential for the 2 billion people whose bodies and minds work differently.

Pencil sketch of a diverse group of people - a woman in a wheelchair, a man with a white cane, a person with a prosthetic leg, an older man walking with a child, and a pregnant woman - connected by a web of fine lines, with two hands signing above them.

The Thesis.

Products built for the disability market have the potential to serve everyone. Curb cuts. Subtitles. Voice assistants. Audiobooks. It begins with necessity and ends with universal appeal. We invest in next-generation companies across four verticals to maximize human independence and potential:

  1. 01

    Disability

  2. 02

    Neurodivergence

  3. 03

    Caregiving

  4. 04

    Diagnostics

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Essay

Nine Years

You can't outspend your body. Longevity spending on its own is a position with no hedge.

Imagine this: You are on a stationary bike, deep into interval training, doing the kind of workout doctors and influencers tell you to do. Then you get dizzy, the worst headache of your life starts happening, your vision goes, your hearing dulls, and you begin to slur your speech - losing consciousness as an unexpected brain aneurysm ruptures, mid-pedal, while you are actively trying to add years to your life. You're young, so the initial diagnosis is a migraine and the paramedics drive without their lights on to the regional hospital. The CT scan tells the real story and you are rushed, with everyone around you apologizing, to a different hospital. You remember scribbling to consent to open brain surgery. You don't remember most of what came next. You remember relearning how to walk. Relearning how to talk, how to read, how to string a sentence together in the right order. You had LASIK, but the bleed damaged your occipital lobe causing blurred vision which is disorienting. Despite that, you remember lying in a hospital bed on the Fourth of July, able to see the colors of fireworks through a window, feeling something close to hope for the first time since it all happened...

September 7, 2026Read more →

Essay

Compound Interest

Closing the $1 trillion women's health gap

It is 5:22 PM on a Tuesday. Judith is 44. Her mother is three weeks out from a hip replacement and staying in the guest room because the stairs at her mother's house are still too much. Judith's son, Matthew, who is 11 and autistic, needs the same dinner he had last night, plated the same way, or the evening falls apart. At 6:30PM, her husband arrives home after a long day, exhausted. Last night, like many nights before, they took turns tending to a sleepless Matthew. There is a migraine building behind her right eye, the kind she has learned to work through because there is no version of the night where she gets to lie down – her and her husband need to discuss modifications to Matthew's individualized education plan (IEP) before tomorrow's meeting with the school, which they will both need to attend during work hours. She has a pelvic floor referral she has not scheduled, a mammogram she has rescheduled twice, and a note on her phone: "ask doctor about brain fog." At 9:15 PM she opens her laptop to finish a deck for a client and her mother calls out from the guest room, needing help to get to the bathroom...

July 28, 2026Read more →

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September 2026 Newsletter

Exoskeleton clears the FDA, Talkspace acquired for $835M, Meta donates enough glasses to cover Ireland's entire blind population

September 1, 2026Read more →