01
Route to the buyer first
Good products stall between pilot and purchase. We look first at who pays, how they buy, and whether the founders can get a decision made.
Fund I in formation
Pre-seed capital for companies building health and care.
Larkbeare Ventures is a UK pre-seed fund being set up to back founders whose market is health and care, including social care. We will invest where a company can show a credible route to the people who buy, and stay with it on the road to adoption.
- Status
- In formation
- Stage
- Pre-seed
- Market
- Health and care
- Geography
- United Kingdom
Thesis
In health and care, the hard part is getting bought.
02
Built to travel
We back companies that can scale beyond their first buyer and their first market, including internationally, without rebuilding the product.
03
Support that shortens adoption
Instead of an accelerator-style programme, portfolio companies get practical route-to-market tools for evidence, procurement and the business case.
What we mean by health and care
Defined by the market, not the technology.
A company is in scope when health and care is the market it sells into. That covers the NHS, independent providers and social care, and software-led companies across them.
- ADiagnostics and clinical decision tools
- BCare and social care for providers, commissioners and the care workforce
- CHealthcare productivity non-clinical tools that free up time and money
- DSoftware and AI-led life sciences where the core asset is the software
Get in touch
Building in health and care, or working with people who are?
We are glad to hear from founders, programme teams, university technology transfer offices and others in the sector.