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Matt Rice

Healthcare Growth Equity Investor

Tampa, Florida

Overview 

Matt Rice is a Healthcare Growth Equity Investor at Ballast Point Ventures in Tampa, Florida, with a focus on investing in emerging growth companies in the healthcare sector. He has successfully invested in companies like Uplift, Careviso, PaceMate, BioTissue, and holds board positions in several healthcare startups, showcasing his expertise in venture capital and supporting the growth of innovative healthcare companies.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2008 - Current

Ballast Point Ventures, a private equity firm, invests in established privately owned companies.

  • Board Member

    2022

Careviso is a technology healthcare company helping to simplify and streamline patient access for molecular diagnostics.

Raised $36,361,176.00 from Ballast Point Ventures, Lytical Ventures and Mercury.

  • Board Member

    2013

Y Prime offers software solutions for clinical trial processes, enabling clients to stay on time and within budgets.

Raised $12,519,068.00 from Flexpoint Ford.

  • Board Member

    2013

BioTissue offers regenerative amniotic tissue-based products for ophthalmology, optometry, musculoskeletal, and wound care markets.

Raised $110,040,001.00 from Essex Woodlands Healthcare Partners and Ballast Point Ventures.

  • Board Observer

    2019

Carterra provides biotechnology solutions that develop and commercialize novel micro-array deposition technologies.

Raised $38,072,769.00 from Ballast Point Ventures, PerkinElmer, Telegraph Hill Partners, Telegraph Hill Partners, Ballast Point Ventures, Telegraph Hill Partners, PC Squared, LLC, Kirk Ririe and PC Squared, LLC.

  • Board Member

    2017

IRIS preventative screening for Diabetic Retinopathy is as simple and quick as taking a patient's blood pressure or stepping on a scale.

Raised $13,322,946.00 from CoxHealth, Ballast Point Ventures and Providence Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2016

Medical device company committed to effective and safe therapeutic energy technologies applied to the body for healing and pain relief.

  • Senior Associate

    2004 - 2006

Ballast Point Ventures, a private equity firm, invests in established privately owned companies.

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