The MedStartr Venture Fund is dedicated to driving healthcare innovation forward faster by the strategic investment of capital in the most crowd-validated ideas that utilize the MedStartr platforms. We have found that when an early stage company wins a Pitch Contest, Crowd Challenge, or just does great in crowdfunding they are over 20 times more likely to succeed in later stages. We opened our first fund in 2016 and are growing our portfolio by running crowd challenges monthly through 2016 and 2017.