Sam Toole, Principal at Primary Venture Partners, talks about opportunities for building healthcare solutions, and how building a healthcare business is different from other businesses. Sam also highlights common mistakes that founders make when engaging with pre-partner level investors.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

[6:02] Regulatory and infrastructure changes that are accelerating opportunities for tech-focused founders focused on healthcare

[10:53] What does your impatience to solve the problem mean to investors?

[15:22] How to ensure that your relationships with pre-partner level venture capital investors result in good outcomes for your startup.

Non-profit organization that Sam is passionate about: Surfrider Foundation

About Guest Speaker

Sam Toole is a Principal at Primary Venture Partners, where he spearheads new enterprise and healthcare investments. Before making the shift to investing, Sam was an operator and entrepreneur for 10 years. Most recently, Sam was General Manager at Nomad Health, a healthcare labor marketplace. He started at Nomad Health as their sixth employee on the sales side, helping the company build relationships with hundreds of healthcare organizations. In college, Sam launched two businesses: a surf school and an e-commerce company.

About Primary Venture Partners

Primary Venture Partners is a New York-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on investing in NYC founders creating transformational startups in the healthcare, e-commerce and fintech sectors. Primary’s portfolio includes ARK, Balanced, Bedrock, Bravely, Black Crow, Bravely, Dandy, Flock, Fly Machine, Jukebox Health, K Health, Lili, Marker, Olive, Perry, ROUND, Spark, Upfront, Zenlytic, Jet, Chief, Mirror, Noom, Latch, Alloy and many more.

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