Sander Duncan
Founder of Sespe Health Holdings
New York City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and CEO
2023 - Current
Sespe is a permanent capital platform purpose-built for growing healthcare services and technology companies. We have an owner-operator mentality, take early-stage risk, and prioritize fundamentals before scale.
Board Member
2021
Positive Development is the leading clinically-validated, nationally-scaled alternative to ABA therapy for children with ASD and their families.
Positive Development is improving lives by helping develop the skills to connect with one’s self, family, and community.
Raised $50,191,355.00 from Difference Partners and Operator Partners.
Advisor, Growth
2023
Flock Health is building the urgent care layer for SMI.
Advisor, Growth
2023
Flume Health builds tools to help payers efficiently exchange data.
Flume Health is a digital insurance platform that provides health insurance plans for self-insured employers.
Raised $40,150,000.00 from Optum Ventures, Remarkable Ventures, Wormhole Capital, Primary Venture Partners, Founder Collective, Crosslink Capital, Cigna Ventures, Route 66 Ventures and Accomplice.
Board Member
2023 - 2024
Havarti helps the next generation of risk-bearing entities understand, control and administer risk.
General Partner
2018 - 2022
Lifeforce Capital is an early-stage healthcare venture capital firm. We invest in software-driven companies enabling next-generation care delivery and drug discovery. https://www.lifeforcecap.com/portfolio
Lifeforce Capital invests in digital health companies enabling new care delivery models or more efficient therapeutic development.
Vice President, Business and Corporate Development
2016 - 2018
Led the go-to-market side of Pager’s evolution from a local consumer care company to a national enterprise-facing platform selling to leading payers and health systems. Through this growth period I oversaw sales, account management, strategic partnerships, and corporate development.
Vice President, Business Development
2015 - 2016
Northwell Holdings
2013 - 2015
Co-founded Northwell's corporate development and venture capital arm in partnership with Cleveland Clinic Ventures. Our work spanned all non-clinical monetization across Northwell’s $18B footprint, including divestitures and spin-outs, balance sheet investments, new company development, and large-scale enterprise joint ventures.
Northwell Health is a healthcare provider that serves over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond.
Cleveland Clinic Ventures
2012 - 2015
Cleveland Clinic Ventures makes investments in emerging healthcare companies that deliver financial returns to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation while advancing the health system's mission, vision and values.
Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit medical center that combines clinical and hospital care with research and education.
Raised $362,540,000.00 from National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, The Clorox Company, Charles L. Shor Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Health, LORD Corporation and Robert J. Fogarty.
Associate
2010 - 2012
HealthpointCapital is a middle-market healthcare private equity firm. We focus on growth equity investments and buy-outs in medical device and care services companies.
HealthpointCapital is a values-based, research-driven private equity firm exclusively focused on the musculoskeletal industry.
Education
B.A.
2005 - 2009