Taha Jangda
Managing Director at Ascension Ventures
Taha Jangda
Managing Director at Ascension Ventures
Houston, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2022 - Current
Managing Director - Technology Investments Ascension Ventures (AV) helps accelerate innovation through strategic investment in early to late-stage companies across three healthcare sectors: services, technology, and medtech/devices. With five funds and over $1B under management, AV invests on behalf of 450+ leading hospitals nationwide. AV’s 13 health system limited partners (LPs) represent over 580,000 employees and generate $96B in annual revenue. Launched in 2001 by Ascension, AV pioneered an ecosystem investment model that brings a strategic lens to purposeful investing. This unique perspective empowers AV to partner in a differentiated way: identifying and investing in solutions that transform healthcare. We bring an in-depth understanding of our partner organizations and seek to make connections among our team with a singular goal: smart investments that improve healthcare. We’ve invested in nearly 80 companies and facilitated thousands of conversations between idea generators and health system executives. AV is passionate about finding real solutions to problems in healthcare. To learn more, please visit www.ascensionventures.org.
Investment Committee, TMC Venture Fund
2019
Investments are made with the goal of assisting technologies and companies through R&D, operational, and clinical milestones, so that they can be successful in obtaining later rounds of investment. Investment decisions are made on a quarterly basis, and portfolio companies will have access to TMC’s resources and network of advisors. http://www.tmcventurefund.com/
Digital Health and Technology Council
2022
Working with the CIO, Board Members, and external advisors to map out digital transformation strategies for one of the premier pediatric institutions in the Midwest.
Cardiac Rehab Advisory Board
2021
Working with AHA to create a strategy for home/digital based cardiac rehab, with the intention of getting more people into rehab, and creating a sustainable business model that leads to better health outcomes.
General Partner
2016 - 2022
HealthX Ventures is a digital healthcare-focused early stage fund based in Madison, Wisconsin. We invest in solutions that can help make healthcare safer, more affordable and provide better results.
Founding Investor/ Board Observer
2021 - 2022
KeyCare is a virtual-first care platform built with the Epic EHR. KeyCare offers health systems the ability to augment their care teams, optimize capacity, and widen their digital front doors by partnering with a nationwide network of virtual care groups. Patients can schedule appointments with a variety of virtualists via their own health system's MyChart portal or call center. Virtualists then complete the encounter on KeyCare's Epic platform, thus ensuring a seamless experience and interoperable data.
Board Member
2021 - 2022
Healthcare providers no longer have to go to multiple portals or chase down the appropriate paperwork to complete the enrollment process. RxLightning serves as a single destination for healthcare providers to enroll patients for any specialty medication, brand or generic, at any specialty pharmacy. We strive to improve the speed of access for patients to specialty medications, accelerating the delivery of your specialty products and maximizing your revenue stream. Our platform is a single solution that simplifies, streamlines, and automates the complex manual process of specialty medication enrollment across manufacturers, hubs, and specialty pharmacies. Specialty prescribing is complex. We make it simple. Digitized forms for 900+ specialty medications to get your patients started on the therapies they need with RxLightning speed.
Board Member
2019 - 2022
Veda saves healthcare companies millions annually by automating complex data processes. Our systems enable customers and partners to harness the power of their own data—process, validate and generate meaningful answers that make healthcare more efficient and accessible. Veda enables organizations to dramatically reduce overhead costs by automating complex business rules for data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL); creating a simplified and streamlined experience for everyone—from the data entry specialist to the end customer.
Board Member
2017 - 2022
Medable's mission is to get effective therapies to patients faster. We provide an end-to-end, global cloud platform with a flexible suite of tools that allows sponsors, patients, providers & CRO's to work together as a team in clinical trials. Our solutions enable more efficient clinical research, more effective healthcare delivery, and more accurate precision and predictive medicine.
Board Member
2020 - 2022
CancerIQ is the only cancer-focused precision health platform that empowers healthcare providers to detect cancer earlier and prevent it altogether across all patient populations. Integrated directly into real-time EHR workflows, CancerIQ makes it easy to gather comprehensive patient data, automatically map it to the latest evidence-based guidelines, and expand access to personalized care plans, cutting-edge clinical solutions, and genomic innovations.