What a relief to hear last week that Elon thinks that the new AI models will be superior to human intelligence by the end of next year as many of us are struggling to make sense of the current economic … Continue reading →

The American Gaming Association (AGA) estimated that $2.7 billion was legally wagered on the March Madness tournament this past weekend, which does not account for office pools and private bets among friends. While this is a small fraction of the … Continue reading →

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration there were just over 6.1 million traffic accidents in the U.S. in 2022, of which 42.8k were fatal. These accidents led to 2.1 million emergency room visits. Globally, the World Health Organization … Continue reading →

Right on top of the debate about the age of our Presidential candidates dropped the Congressional Budget Offices (CBO) latest projections forecasting the countrys budget deficits through 2034, highlighting the impact of the extraordinary costs of healthcare on an aging … Continue reading →

Late last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a blow-out jobs report showing that 353k new jobs were created last month, nearly doubling expectations. The year ended with 157.2 million employed Americans with an unemployment rate of 3.7%, continuing … Continue reading →

What is going on? The stock market just hit an all-time high and yet nearly everywhere one looks, there are flashing warning signs. A review of the 2023 investment activity suggests there will be continued challenges in the capital markets. … Continue reading →

As Flare Capital Partners embarks on a new year and enters the firms second decade, we are excited to announce an evolution of our brand. In addition to modifying the overall logo, the original Flare device has been transformed by adding … Continue reading →

It is estimated that this year 60.8 million people will die globally. While a staggering figure, this is a marked improvement from the 69.3 million in 2021, according to data from Database.earth, which determined that as of this past weekend … Continue reading →

Contributions from Dr. Gary Gottlieb, former CEO of Partners HealthCare (now Mass General Brigham), a current Flare Capital Executive Partner, and close friend Each year there are over 34 million admissions across the more than 6,100 hospitals in the United … Continue reading →

Globally, our collective net worth is estimated to be $454 trillion according to the 2023 UBS Global Private Wealth report, of which approximately $110 trillion is the aggregate value of all stock markets around the world. The battle over how … Continue reading →

Compounding the autoworkers labor strife, 75k employees of Kaiser Permanente went on strike last week, punctuating a turbulent 3Q23. Rising interest rates, political chaos, a merciless and tragic war in Europe, and now a horrific attack in Israel, only add … Continue reading →

How can it get any better? And yet it does as we continue to build out the investment team at Flare Capital Please welcome Tara Sullivan to our team, who joined this month from Redesign Health, a terrific company based … Continue reading →

Notwithstanding recent employment data announced on Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicating that 187k new jobs were added in August and that the healthcare sector employment increased by 71k, the U.S. unemployment rate increased to 3.8% from 3.5% … Continue reading →

A staggering 57.8 million Americans are thought to live with some form of mental illness, according to a 2021 study from the National Institute of Mental Health more than 20% of the adult population. Even more troubling is the … Continue reading →

Remarkably, Apple hit $3.0 trillion market value on the last day of 2Q23, a quarter that saw the NASDAQ increase 12.8%, the S&P 500 Information Technology Index rocket 16.9%, the revision of 1Q23 GDP growth upwards to 2.0%, and yet … Continue reading →

On a recent trip to Italy, it was surprising to learn that millions were engaged in revenge tourism in response to prolonged Covid lockdowns. While most everyone seemed perfectly pleasant, it was nonetheless still jarring to be about 1,000 miles … Continue reading →

We waited months and now the wait is over! Please welcome Jonathon George to the investment team at Flare Capital Partners.  To his family, friends, colleagues, well, everyone, he is known as JG. As we invest our most recent fund, … Continue reading →

It has been and will continue to be a grind. Notwithstanding the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ambitious goal that 100% of all healthcare spending for traditional Medicare beneficiaries must be in value-based payment models by 2030, up … Continue reading →

How can it get any better? And yet it does Please welcome Erinn Bisping to the investment team at Flare Capital Partners as Director of Marketing and Investor Relations. As we start to invest our most recent fund, we recently … Continue reading →

Has there ever been a more complicated time in the capital markets? The pressures on Chief Financial Officers have never been more acute, the job more challenging, and yet many early-stage companies still struggle to properly staff this critical function. … Continue reading →

Now in an environment when capital is relatively scarce and expensive, one should expect a dramatic bifurcation between high- and low-quality companies the latter will quickly experience a bout of significant consolidation and company closures. The hidden cost of … Continue reading →

What an enormously complicated time to have been in India, and to have been there alongside the recent G20 Summit made for an even more precarious environment. With a general election a year away, Prime Minister Modi assumed the role … Continue reading →

Go to the end of the earth, and when you get there, turn left and go another few hundred miles and you will be at the Maldives, an independent Muslim country of ~550k people nearly 500 miles off the southern … Continue reading →

Yesterday just over 25k people died of starvation. The causes that contribute to that tragedy are numerous, and while the problems are often intractable, possible solutions to address this calamity are being developed in disparate settings such as the laboratory, … Continue reading →

Just over three months ago, along with our terrific partners at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), we announced the formation of a new company called RightMove Health, which has as its goal to make high quality, patient-focused virtual musculoskeletal … Continue reading →

Obviously, the problems addressed by healthcare technology did not just get cut in half. So, what accounts for the rather dramatic decline in venture investment in digital health from $29.3 billion in 2021 to $15.3 billion in 2022, according to … Continue reading →

Me: Describe the most powerful, potentially disruptive technology to transform the business of healthcare. ChatGPT: Me. What to many may look like a typo, ChatGPT is one of the most rapidly adopted technologies to capture the imaginations of the Technorati. … Continue reading →

Having spent three energizing yet exhausting days in Israel this past week, one struggles to neatly put the experience in a simple elegant context. Like many countries today, there is extraordinary and somewhat confounding political confusion. There are significant anxieties … Continue reading →

In 2019, before the pandemic, the U.S. Census Department estimated that 611k people were treated at hospitals every day. In mid-January 2022, at the absolute height of the Omicron surge, there were ~150k daily hospital in-patient admissions recorded due to … Continue reading →

Upon the conclusion of a very tough week for U.S. consumer internet and technology stocks that saw over $550 billion of market value evaporated at Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft (combined market value now sits at $6.64 trillion), coupled … Continue reading →

Obviously, 3Q22 was a very difficult quarter in the capital markets. Of the 115 global stock, bond ETFs, currencies, and commodity indices tracked by the Wall Street Journal, only 13 of them showed gains, paced by the not surprising 24.7% … Continue reading →

A critical dimension to the staffing model at Flare Capital is our deep bench of Executive Partners. These people are notable operating executives who have a record a tremendous success in scaling businesses in times of industry transformation. Our Executive … Continue reading →

While over $142 billion is spent annually on dental care in the U.S., many only really think of dentistry when in the exam chair and yet there are many exciting developments to chew on. The last 20 years witnessed a … Continue reading →

It is remarkable how chill the Italians can be I was reminded of that yet again a few weeks ago when I was over there. Amidst continued and extraordinary political turmoil and a looming national election on September 25, … Continue reading →

The numbers are staggering. An estimated twelve million Americans suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) according to data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, approximately 37% of whom are considered to have severe symptoms. At some point in our … Continue reading →

It is always nice to ring the bell when a great person joins our investment team this time we get to ring the bell twice. Venture capital firms simply do not need to hire a lot of people. While … Continue reading →

Last weeks $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical (NASDAQ: ONEM) by Amazon triggered significant hyperventilating about the transformative and immediate impact of this transaction on the healthcare industry. Interestingly, Amazon's market capitalization increased 1.4% or $18.3 billion on the day … Continue reading →

You know it is bad out there when the best performing financial asset in 2Q22 was the Russian ruble which appreciated 48.6% – the next closest investment was orange juice which was up 18.2%. Even the Kazakhstani tenge far outpaced … Continue reading →

Nationally there are 2,632 landfills and 72 incinerators which handle much of the 250 million tons of trash produced in the United States each year. It is estimated that each of us generate nearly 4.4 pounds of garbage every day. … Continue reading →

Istanbul literally is both in Europe and Asia which underscores just how complicated the neighborhood around Turkey is. To its south is Syria and Iraq; to the east is Iran; to the north across the Black Sea is Russia and … Continue reading →

This is going to be huge, right? CB Insights says that the metaverse will be a $1 trillion market by 2030, just over a mere seven years from now. It is the buzzword of the day, right up there with … Continue reading →

Today we announced the closing of Flare Capitals third fund with a total of $350 million of committed capital. Typically, when our portfolio companies raise their Series C rounds, they have established product / market fit which feels quite relevant … Continue reading →

It is quite easy to see that general economic conditions are deteriorating; it is considerably harder to know what to do given the many confounding signals. The employment data are nothing short of extraordinary. Over 431k jobs were added last … Continue reading →

By literally any measure the healthcare technology sector had an exceptional 2021. According to Rock Health, $29.1 billion was invested in 729 companies with an average round size of $39.9 million – all were highwater marks for the sector. There … Continue reading →

Are we staring at a correction? According to U.S. Census Bureau data, over 5.4 million Americans filed applications to start companies in 2021, which was 53% greater than the pre-pandemic level of 2019. While Covid has been devastating for so … Continue reading →

Gallup estimated that 118 million Americans went to church last weekend. The Hartford Institute identified 350k religious congregations across the United States. Notwithstanding that level of activity, the country has clearly turned more secular; 2020 was the first year when … Continue reading →

Having recently returned from Germany, I was quite surprised to learn that record Covid-19 daily case counts (37.1k) were set twice there last week. Notwithstanding the current political turbulence with three political parties attempting to build a governing coalition after … Continue reading →

A whirling dervisha ball rolling downhill. The investment activity in the digital health sector is extraordinary and arguably overdue given the enormity of the market opportunity and the urgency created by the pandemic to re-architect such an important sector. … Continue reading →

Obviously, the venture market is on fire, likely to shatter all records this year. So far nearly $239 billion (yes, with a 2 and a b) has been invested in 12,837 venture-backed companies in 2021. Against a backdrop which saw … Continue reading →

Setting compensation and incentive plans may be one of the trickiest, most nuanced aspects of the CEO and boards responsibilities made even more complicated by the pandemic and the move to remote and/or hybrid staffing models. The dramatic workforce … Continue reading →