Healthcare and healthtech venture building
Healthcare ventures
built for outcomes,
not dashboards.
Innovation, incubation and venture building across digital health, clinical AI, care delivery and life sciences. The approach pairs clinical conviction with venture-grade operating speed.
Healthcare is the category most resistant to the venture playbook - and the one that needs it most. The teams that move outcomes pair clinical credibility with venture discipline: a real wedge, a clinician co-founder, a tight evidence loop, and a payer or provider already at the table. Dipesh has built and exited health businesses, advised systems on innovation, and shipped clinical AI into care pathways—with respect for patients and impatience with the status quo.
Expertise in
practice
Concrete engagements drawn from two decades of building, scaling and exiting ventures - and from operating playbooks refined across McKinsey, exited founders and the Digit Two network.
Discuss an engagementStructured discovery inside health systems, insurers and pharma - ending in one venture worth backing with a clinician co-founder identified.
Embedded build pods incubating new digital health propositions - care delivery, patient experience, clinical workflow.
Building AI-native ventures across diagnostics, decision support and ops - with the evidence, regulatory and clinical pathway in mind from day one.
Designing and launching new models of care - virtual-first, hybrid, condition-specific - tested in real pathways, not slide decks.
Aligning incentives so a digital health venture survives the buying motion, not just the pilot.
Clinical evidence design, regulatory pathway and reimbursement strategy - baked into product from kickoff.
Approach
Thesis
Clinical, regulatory and commercial pressure-test. Outcome: one venture, one cohort, one care pathway.
Incubate
Embedded pod with clinician co-founder. Product, evidence design and pathway build in parallel.
Pilot
Live pilot inside a real care setting. Outcome data, clinician feedback and patient experience captured in 90 days.
Scale or Stop
Scale into more pathways and payers, or stop on evidence. No zombie pilots.
Gold standard,
not guesswork.
Healthcare punishes hand-waving. The play that compounds: clinical co-founder, narrow pathway, evidence designed in, real outcomes - then expand to more sites, more payers, more conditions.
Across digital health, clinical AI, diagnostics and care delivery in the UK, GCC and Africa.
Median time from signed thesis to a venture running in a real care pathway.
No health venture without a real clinician at its centre.
The right moment
You want startup speed and a venture-grade team, not another committee or consultancy deck.
You see the problem in your pathway every day - you want a studio to help you build the venture around it.
You have a model that works in the lab and need a partner to take it into pathways, payers and patients.
Founder & Senior Advisor
Dipesh Savani
Dipesh Savani founded Digit Two after more than two decades building, scaling and advising ventures across SaaS, fintech, healthtech and B2B services. An exited founder and ex-McKinsey advisor, he works with founders on the decisions that compound: distribution, capital strategy and the operating discipline behind enduring companies.
His work spans venture creation, corporate innovation and guidance for founders preparing to scale or exit. Through Digit Two, he leads thesis development, founding-team formation and a network of senior advisors.
Building something
in healthcare?
Dipesh supports a small number of health ventures each year. Clinicians, health systems and operators with a real opportunity can start a conversation.