
Healthcare hurts. Patients wait, providers burn out, and payers foot a bill that satisfies no one. VAARK is a healthtech syndicate of providers, operators, and investors who’ve lived that pain from the inside. We believe the system doesn’t need a patch, it needs a rebuild. We back the founders doing exactly that.
Healthcare hurts. Patients wait, providers burn out, and payers foot a bill that satisfies no one. VAARK is a healthtech syndicate of providers, operators, and investors who’ve lived that pain from the inside. We believe the system doesn’t need a patch, it needs a rebuild. We back the founders doing exactly that.
Healthcare hurts. Patients wait, providers burn out, and payers foot a bill that satisfies no one. VAARK is a healthtech syndicate of providers, operators, and investors who’ve lived that pain from the inside. We believe the system doesn’t need a patch, it needs a rebuild. We back the founders doing exactly that.
Want in? If you’re a provider, operator, or investor who wants to build and back the next generation of healthcare, DM us on LinkedIn or reach out here.
Want in? If you’re a provider, operator, or investor who wants to build and back the next generation of healthcare, DM us on LinkedIn or reach out here.
Want in? If you’re a provider, operator, or investor who wants to build and back the next generation of healthcare, DM us on LinkedIn or reach out here.
Why Vaark?
Conviction earned inside the system, discipline applied before the check.
Our partners have run the organizations that buy what our portfolio sells: a $3.3B capitated care-delivery organization, value-based contracts covering 200,000 lives, FDA-cleared diagnostic platforms, and frontline surgical care. We evaluate every company from the perspective of the health system, payer, or clinician who has to adopt it, pay for it, and live with it.
Our syndicate spans dozens of medical and surgical specialties, and its members are the end users of the products we evaluate. Before we invest, practicing clinicians and operators pressure-test whether a product actually removes work, changes decisions, and survives contact with real clinical practice, not just whether the demo looks elegant.
Every opportunity moves through our proprietary diligence tools, which separate evidence from inference from assumption while testing workflow ownership, clinical evidence, reimbursement, regulatory pathway, commercial adoption, and expansion potential. The same discipline is applied to every deal, in every thesis.
We do not chase categories. We underwrite a specific pattern: companies that solve one high-value problem, earn ownership of a critical workflow, accumulate differentiated data, and expand from that position. Our principle is simple: price the wedge, not the platform. It keeps us disciplined when the market is not.
Our value does not end at the wire. Syndicate members open doors to health systems, payers, and specialty practices; validate clinical utility in new markets; and help founders navigate the long sales cycles and entrenched incumbents that define healthcare. When we back a company, the network goes to work.
Why Vaark?
Conviction earned inside the system, discipline applied before the check.
Our partners have run the organizations that buy what our portfolio sells: a $3.3B capitated care-delivery organization, value-based contracts covering 200,000 lives, FDA-cleared diagnostic platforms, and frontline surgical care. We evaluate every company from the perspective of the health system, payer, or clinician who has to adopt it, pay for it, and live with it.
Our syndicate spans dozens of medical and surgical specialties, and its members are the end users of the products we evaluate. Before we invest, practicing clinicians and operators pressure-test whether a product actually removes work, changes decisions, and survives contact with real clinical practice, not just whether the demo looks elegant.
Every opportunity moves through our proprietary diligence tools, which separate evidence from inference from assumption while testing workflow ownership, clinical evidence, reimbursement, regulatory pathway, commercial adoption, and expansion potential. The same discipline is applied to every deal, in every thesis.
We do not chase categories. We underwrite a specific pattern: companies that solve one high-value problem, earn ownership of a critical workflow, accumulate differentiated data, and expand from that position. Our principle is simple: price the wedge, not the platform. It keeps us disciplined when the market is not.
Our value does not end at the wire. Syndicate members open doors to health systems, payers, and specialty practices; validate clinical utility in new markets; and help founders navigate the long sales cycles and entrenched incumbents that define healthcare. When we back a company, the network goes to work.
Featured Syndicate Members
Featured Syndicate Members
Our syndicate is where Vaark’s edge lives — practicing physicians, seasoned operators, and technical builders who view healthcare from every angle. Meet some of the members driving that work and re-imagining the future of care delivery.
Our syndicate is where Vaark’s edge lives — practicing physicians, seasoned operators, and technical builders who view healthcare from every angle. Meet some of the members driving that work and re-imagining the future of care delivery.
Our syndicate is where Vaark’s edge lives — practicing physicians, seasoned operators, and technical builders who view healthcare from every angle. Meet some of the members driving that work and re-imagining the future of care delivery.

Lane Lowenstein
Founder, Lowenstein Advisors
Lane Lowenstein is an executive coach and strategic thought partner to founders and senior executives. Before founding Lowenstein Advisors, he held finance leadership roles at Gilead Sciences and Roche, including leading Research Finance at Gilead. He helps leaders navigate complex decisions, uncover the assumptions shaping their thinking, and gain clarity on what matters most. Lane is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), ICF-credentialed coach, and CPA.

Scott Segell
Healthcare Operator & Advisor
Scott Segell has spent two decades building and scaling healthcare companies across technology, venture capital, and value-based care. He helped grow Dragon Medical into healthcare's dominant voice platform and scale Vocada (acquired by Nuance), with earlier VC wins in Softricity (Microsoft) and Antenna Software (Pegasystems). More recently he held senior roles at Aledade, VillageMD, and Vytalize Health. Today he advises health and value-based companies and takes on fractional leadership roles.

Lara Zibners
Co-Founder & Chairman, Calla Lily Clinical Care
Physician, educator, published author, angel investor and "accidental entrepreneur." My experience with infertility led me to co-found Calla Lily Clinical Care, a novel leak-free platform for vaginal drug delivery. Having practiced and taught in the US and UK, I bring a global perspective to women's health. My inner comedienne lets loose on the podcast Unstable Vitals, co-hosted with Dr. Adam Brown, and I am a regular contributor to Women's Health Horizons on LinkedIn and Substack.

Lane Lowenstein
Founder, Lowenstein Advisors
Lane Lowenstein is an executive coach and strategic thought partner to founders and senior executives. Before founding Lowenstein Advisors, he held finance leadership roles at Gilead Sciences and Roche, including leading Research Finance at Gilead. He helps leaders navigate complex decisions, uncover the assumptions shaping their thinking, and gain clarity on what matters most. Lane is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), ICF-credentialed coach, and CPA.

Scott Segell
Healthcare Operator & Advisor
Scott Segell has spent two decades building and scaling healthcare companies across technology, venture capital, and value-based care. He helped grow Dragon Medical into healthcare's dominant voice platform and scale Vocada (acquired by Nuance), with earlier VC wins in Softricity (Microsoft) and Antenna Software (Pegasystems). More recently he held senior roles at Aledade, VillageMD, and Vytalize Health. Today he advises health and value-based companies and takes on fractional leadership roles.

Lara Zibners
Co-Founder & Chairman, Calla Lily Clinical Care
Physician, educator, published author, angel investor and "accidental entrepreneur." My experience with infertility led me to co-found Calla Lily Clinical Care, a novel leak-free platform for vaginal drug delivery. Having practiced and taught in the US and UK, I bring a global perspective to women's health. My inner comedienne lets loose on the podcast Unstable Vitals, co-hosted with Dr. Adam Brown, and I am a regular contributor to Women's Health Horizons on LinkedIn and Substack.

Lane Lowenstein
Founder, Lowenstein Advisors
Lane Lowenstein is an executive coach and strategic thought partner to founders and senior executives. Before founding Lowenstein Advisors, he held finance leadership roles at Gilead Sciences and Roche, including leading Research Finance at Gilead. He helps leaders navigate complex decisions, uncover the assumptions shaping their thinking, and gain clarity on what matters most. Lane is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), ICF-credentialed coach, and CPA.

Scott Segell
Healthcare Operator & Advisor
Scott Segell has spent two decades building and scaling healthcare companies across technology, venture capital, and value-based care. He helped grow Dragon Medical into healthcare's dominant voice platform and scale Vocada (acquired by Nuance), with earlier VC wins in Softricity (Microsoft) and Antenna Software (Pegasystems). More recently he held senior roles at Aledade, VillageMD, and Vytalize Health. Today he advises health and value-based companies and takes on fractional leadership roles.

Lara Zibners
Co-Founder & Chairman, Calla Lily Clinical Care
Physician, educator, published author, angel investor and "accidental entrepreneur." My experience with infertility led me to co-found Calla Lily Clinical Care, a novel leak-free platform for vaginal drug delivery. Having practiced and taught in the US and UK, I bring a global perspective to women's health. My inner comedienne lets loose on the podcast Unstable Vitals, co-hosted with Dr. Adam Brown, and I am a regular contributor to Women's Health Horizons on LinkedIn and Substack.
FAQs
What does Vaark invest in?
What stage and check size do you focus on?
How does Vaark evaluate companies?
What do founders get beyond capital?
Who is in the syndicate, and how do I join?
Why do you focus on workflow ownership?
FAQs
What does Vaark invest in?
What stage and check size do you focus on?
How does Vaark evaluate companies?
What do founders get beyond capital?
Who is in the syndicate, and how do I join?
Why do you focus on workflow ownership?
FAQs
What does Vaark invest in?
What stage and check size do you focus on?
How does Vaark evaluate companies?
What do founders get beyond capital?
Who is in the syndicate, and how do I join?
Why do you focus on workflow ownership?









