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VALIDARE CAPITAL

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

Upend Today for a Better Tomorrow

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.

Founding General Partner

Gopal K. Chopra

Leads Vision, Mission and Strategy

Gopal K. Chopra

Dr. Chopra, MD, Dip. Anat ASANZ, 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.

Partners

Our partners embody success, expertise, and leadership.

James Bergin

Venture Partner

Johnson & Johnson

James Bergin

Venture Partner

Longtime Johnson & Johnson legal and life sciences leader with experience across global partnerships, complex transactions, corporate strategy, and healthcare innovation.

Matt Greenfield

Venture Partner

Rethink Education Capital

Matt Greenfield

Venture Partner

Co founder of Rethink Education, with a background in education technology, venture investing, company building, and board leadership across learning focused companies.

Wil Bolivar

General Partner

SoftBank Vision Fund

Wil Bolivar

General Partner

Technology leader who has led global technology strategy for SoftBank Vision Fund, with more than 20 years of innovation experience across Google, LinkedIn, and enterprise automation.

Geoffrey Smith

Advisory Partner

Digitalis Ventures

Geoffrey Smith

Advisory Partner

Founder of Digitalis Group, with deep experience backing health technology companies and building organizations focused on health, research, and public interest technology.

Tera Kull

Principal

LabCentral

Tera Kull

Principal

People strategy and culture leader with experience across biotech, life sciences, HR, talent, and technology companies including LabCentral, Microsoft, Redfin, and AssuranceIQ.

Advisors

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

Rohit Chandra

Chief Digital Officer at Cleveland Clinic, with deep expertise in AI, machine learning, engineering, and digital health innovation across healthcare and technology.

Riju Khetarpal

Riju is a startup investor and fractional executive advising life sciences and health tech companies on strategic growth. 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 healthcare. He served as VP 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.

Rick Smith

Managing Partner at The Chopra Group, with leadership experience across healthcare services, operations, and growth focused business development.

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

Strategic Limited 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.

Representative Member:

Martin Geiger

COO of FPT Americas

Leads multiple corporate functions as well as M&A and investments. Prior strategic and operational experience at start-ups and multinationals in the USA & Asia.