Built in Philly · Healthcare-first venture studio

Where ambitious healthcare founders build what's next.

HIKE is a Philadelphia venture studio. We embed senior engineers, install fractional C-suite, and put aligned capital behind founders solving the hardest problems in care delivery, interoperability, and compliance.

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Portfolio companies

Building

Incubating

Studio est.

2023

In the portfolio

FlowEHR◆Gameplan Performance◆The Memory Layer◆AngleDME◆GetSelva◆AuthX◆FlowEHR◆Gameplan Performance◆The Memory Layer◆AngleDME◆GetSelva◆AuthX◆

01The studio

Built for healthcare. Built in Philly.

We co-build healthcare startups with founders who need product, interoperability, compliance, and go-to-market execution from day one.

01Pillar

We build your team — not just your product

Our advisors step in as fractional leadership across the functions that decide whether healthcare companies ship or stall.

Fractional CISO
Fractional CTO
Fractional CPO
Fractional CIO

02Pillar

We get you to compliant

Security and compliance are first-class workstreams from day one. You partner with a studio that already lives at HITRUST-grade — and pull you up with us.

3rd-party security testing
Policies & processes
Security & privacy training
HITRUST-ready (and HITRUST-certified) partner

03Pillar

We share signal across the portfolio

A studio is only useful if it compounds. We share resources, playbooks, and cross-portfolio insights so each company moves faster than the last.

Shared engineering & GTM resources
Cross-company learnings
Regulatory & compliance radar
Vendor whitespace & pain-point intel

Included with every company

Space, advisors, and a network that opens doors.

Downtown Philadelphia office

Shared workspace on Market Street with board room access and a professional mailbox — so you look established from day one.

Deep advisor bench

Fractional leaders and operators from health systems, payers, legal, HIEs, and health tech companies who step in when you need them.

The HIKE Health network

Relationships across providers, payers, government, HIEs, and international healthcare leaders — plus formalized partnerships with 15+ major healthcare IT vendors.

02The model

Senior capacity. No lock-in.

A flexible engagement built for healthcare founders who need senior talent without a full-time hire — or the rigid structure of a typical studio.

Standard engagement

$12,000/ month

A senior advisor and team lead plus a pod of two engineers drawn from our shared resource pool. You decide the mix of skills.

Senior advisor & team lead

2 embedded engineers

Shared resource pool access

Monthly capacity swap allowed

Standard resource

$3,500/mo

Infrastructure engineer, security engineer, or full-stack developer.

Specialized resource

$5,000/mo

Data modeler, AI/ML engineer, IoT engineer, or healthcare interoperability architect.

Equity

We only take equity if it makes sense.

Our equity is proportionate to the discount we apply. We discount up to 80% in return for a minority share — we meet you where you are, not where a term sheet says you should be.

Commitment