The world needs healthcare innovation, yet most healthcare companies never make it to market. We specialize in helping the best companies find their way.
Why MMV
We believe that healthcare innovation is a team sport. We identify promising technologies early in their life cycle and invest much more than capital to help our teams become world-class enterprises. We field a diverse crew so we can be valuable to a diverse set of founders.
As Founders
Our team has been in the founder seats just like you. We have considerable expertise in operations, development, and strategy.
As Physicians
We are physician founded and led. We understand healthcare intimately and care about what you are building and why.
As Collaborators
We have a deep network of strategic partners, technical experts, potential hires, and investors that becomes your network. We're not afraid to roll up our sleeves and help.
As Venture Capitalists
We invest early. While others question, we commit. We collaborate generously with leading funds.
Our Team: Your Partners
Saumitra Thakur, MD, MBA
Saumitra Thakur is a Managing Partner at MedMountain Ventures. He has experience in machine learning start-ups and research, politics, and medicine. Saumitra believes in mentoring technical founders into becoming well-rounded CEOs. He plays an active role as a board member in his companies.
Saumitra is a board-certified internal medicine physician and practicing hospitalist. He is also an active mentor at various innovation programs spanning from government agencies to elite research universities. Saumitra earned a B.A. from Amherst College, a M.D. from NYU, an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and completed his residency in internal medicine at UCLA. He enjoys reading in his spare time and is always up for a good debate. Saumitra resides in San Francisco with his wife and dog.
Saumitra Thakur, MD, MBA
Managing Director
Branden Rosenhan, MD
Branden Rosenhan is the founder and Managing Partner of MedMountain Ventures and board-certified critical care physician leader with over a dozen years of clinical experience in internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, pulmonary and critical care medicine. He is an entrepreneur, bioengineer, and inventor with more than a dozen applications and issued patents listing him as an inventor. After his pulmonary/critical care fellowship at University of Utah, Branden worked a year at Intermountain, and then for more than five years as an ICU facility and regional medical director for HCA Healthcare. He was HCA’s premier intermountain and far west region ICU leader working in California, Nevada, and Utah and managing over 50 ICU physicians.
In addition to his medical expertise Branden is a successful entrepreneur, and inventor who started PenBlade Inc., a venture backed medtech device that successfully sold to Tidi Products. Branden has also co-founded many other companies that have found venture funding and success. He is also an angel investor with SLC Angels.
As a bioengineer, physician and entrepreneur Branden brings a unique insight and loves helping founders work through challenges, tell their story and raise capital from day zero. Branden earned a B.S. from Arizona State University (mega cum laude) and M.D from University of Utah. In his spare time he enjoys playing tennis or watching his eldest daughter compete on the tennis court. He resides in Salt Lake City with his wife and four daughters.
Branden Rosenhan, MD
Founding Partner
Katelin Roberts
As general partner, Katelin Roberts brings operations and investing experience and is responsible for sourcing and executing new investment opportunities and leading the firm’s day-to-day operations. She loves working with visionary founders early in their journey and supporting Salt Lake City’s healthcare innovation ecosystem and founders.
Before joining MedMountain, Katelin had a variety of operating and entrepreneurial experiences across multiple industries including; managing a large manufacturing business unit of 130+ people and $400M+ in revenue annually, restructuring a small technology business, and building and launching a start-up. Katelin is also an active angel investor through Gaingels and Park City Angels.
Additionally, Katelin serves on the board of BioHive, a non-profit helping Utah’s life-sciences and healthcare innovation community thrive. She received a B.A. from the University of Washington (cum laude). Katelin is an avid women’s basketball fan and loves cycling, fly fishing and reading. She resides in Salt Lake City with her wife and two boys.
Katelin Roberts
Investment Partner
Companies
Superconductive
FluidX Medical Technology
OptionsMD
HealthPals
Inherent Biosciences
PeerCollective
ReddyPort
LineLogic
Boka Sciences
Emergency Scientific
