January 29, 2020
McKesson Ventures’ Carrie Hurwitz Williams Recognized as GCV Rising Star
McKesson Ventures Principal Carrie Hurwitz Williams has been honored as one of 10 Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars. Williams joined McKesson Ventures in 2017, bringing with her more than 15 years of experience in health care from several vantage points within the industry. She was attracted...
June 4, 2019
Silicon Valley Boomer Venture Summit Announces Finalists for $10K Business Plan Competition and The Silicon Valley Innovation Competition 2019, Sponsored by AARP Innovation Labs
The finalists have been announced for this year’s Business Plan Competition and AARP Innovation Labs Pitch Competition. The business plan competition features companies pitching their ideas to a diverse panel of judges for feedback, funding, and a $10,000 prize. Judges for the business plan competition were...
September 10, 2018
Investors to Watch: Irem Mertol
McKesson Ventures Director Irem Mertol was featured as an investor to watch in the latest issue of Startup Health magazine. Mertol, whose work focuses on early to growth-stage investments across healthcare technology and services, has been with McKesson Ventures since 2017. Her most recent investment was...
May 21, 2018
GCV Powerlist 2018: Tom Rodgers
Tom Rodgers, senior vice president and managing director of McKesson Ventures, has been named to the Global Corporate Venturing 2018 Powerlist. Under Tom Rodgers’ leadership, McKesson Ventures (which launched in 2014) has made several investments, including a $1.2 billion series B round for GRAIL Inc. in...
May 11, 2018
Market Intel: Liquid Biopsies For Cancer Screening – Far From Reach Or Close At Hand?
Senior vice president and managing director of McKesson Ventures Tom Rodgers reported that the firm broke precedent with its investment in GRAIL Inc. The investment was unusual for the company in two ways; it was one of the firm’s larger spends, and it was also toward...
March 21, 2018
At SplashX—How VCs Define the Future of Clinics, and What Gets Them Excited About It?
Vator recently held the first of four events centered around the advances in healthcare. The first panel featured venture capitalists who are investing heavily in healthcare technologies, including McKesson Ventures’ Managing Director Dave Schulte. On the question of what the panelists see as driving the future...
March 20, 2018
Venture Investors: Theranos’s Fall Underscores Need for Transparency
Medical startups need to communicate their progress well, or they set themselves up for failure. Theranos Inc. is the most recent example of how negligence can carry big consequences. Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs attribute the company’s downfall to a failure to be transparent in dealings...
January 22, 2018
It’s California’s second richest company, but you probably haven’t heard of it
What’s the second richest company in California? If you can’t answer that question, you aren’t the only one. The answer? McKesson Corporation. According to Fortune, McKesson is “a massive corporation hiding in plain sight.” A distributor of pharmaceuticals and other medical supplies, McKesson is often overlooked...
September 12, 2017
The Next Step in Fighting Cancer: A Digital Management Platform?
While many are focused on finding a cure for cancer, making treatments more accessible to patients, and early detection or prevention—all critical elements of the cancer paradigm—one aspect of the fight against cancer needs more attention. Coordinating care across patients, physicians, payers, and specialty pharma can...