upend today for a better tomorrow

VALIDARE CAPITAL

Capital focused on execution and valuation BOOST, backing early-stage entrepreneurs to take BOLD steps and make BOLD impact. FUTURE FORWARD.

Our founders, partners, mentors and advisors have led, grown and made strategic investments from some of the world’s most successful businesses.

Our Team

Industry entrepreneurs and executives with deep operating and investment experience. United by conviction to drive BOLD, real-world impact.

Gopal K. Chopra

Leads Vision, Mission and Strategy

Gopal K. Chopra

General Managing Partner Validare Capital

Dr. Chopra, MD, FRACS, MBA is a neurosurgeon and healthcare entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience spanning clinical practice, investment banking, and global healthcare innovation across medical devices, digital health, and personalized medicine.

Advisors

Our advisors bring decades of specialized expertise and networks to help our portfolio companies scale faster.

James Bergin

James is a former VP of Law with 20+ years of global experience in M&A, VC/PE, and strategic risk. Trusted advisor to senior leadership with life sciences expertise, having served as VP, Innovative Medicines at J&J.

Riju Khetarpal

Riju is a startup investor and fractional executive advising life sciences and health tech companies on strategic growth, partnerships, and commercialization. Was Google’s Global Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences.

Joseph Smith

Joseph is a visionary Cardiologist-Engineer, CEO, CSO, CMO, Investor, Independent Board Member focused on patient centered, data driven healthcare. He served as Vice President of Emerging Technologies at Johnson & Johnson.

Harsh Maheshwari

Harsh is a Senior AI Architect at super{set} and former Principal Engineer and Director at Optum, with deep experience leading enterprise search, GenAI, and healthcare platforms at scale.

Bold Horizon

Entrepreneurs often experience what we at Validare call The Traction Gap, getting the customer need articulated in the product and then a business model that is scalable. At Validare, we work collaboratively to create Bold Proofs to bridge the gap and build success with our innovative leaders.

Backing Digital Health

Backing Education Tech

Backing Software Meets Machine Tech

Portfolio

Validare Capital is a venture capital firm dedicated to backing early-stage startups that develop critical technologies

Trevi

AI for structured topic research with referenceable ontological frameworks for school/college students, that enables exploratory learning for grade level based or open curriculum.

Trevi

AI for structured topic research with referenceable ontological frameworks for school/college students, that enables exploratory learning for grade level based or open curriculum.

Portfolio

Mesh

AI for prior authorization payments by payers to providers, enabled by market unlocking ability to extract and align clinical data to billing tasks and care accountability.

Mesh

AI for prior authorization payments by payers to providers, enabled by market unlocking ability to extract and align clinical data to billing tasks and care accountability.

Portfolio

PARTNERSHIP

Collaborating with organizations, funds and family offices that share our vision for transformative technology

FPT SOFTWARE

Partner

FPT Software is a global IT services provider specializing in AI-driven digital solutions and cloud modernization, empowering businesses to move faster, scale smarter, and execute with confidence.