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The Health Company Hiding in Your Kitchen, Your Lab and Under Your Skin
Abbott built a $44.3 billion business by showing up everywhere health becomes measurable - from a breakfast shake to a glucose curve to a repaired heart valve. Its breadth is the strategy, and the complication.
Karoo Health
Karoo Health is an Albuquerque, New Mexico company building tech-enabled, value-based cardiovascular care. It pairs wraparound care teams - nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, health coaches and advanced-practice providers - with Kohere.ai, a proprietary platform that aggregates patient data, flags risk and coordinates communication. The model helps cardiology networks, health systems and health plans move from fee-for-service to value-based arrangements, aiming to improve heart-patient outcomes while lowering the cost of care.
Ian Koons
Ian Koons is the co-founder and CEO of Karoo Health, an Albuquerque-based startup building tech-enabled, value-based cardiovascular care. A former college tennis player who once did post-game radio for an NFL team, Koons turned a personal loss - a best friend's fatal heart attack in 2014 - into a company that pairs on-site and virtual care teams with software to help cardiologists move from volume to value. Since founding Karoo in 2021, he has grown it to dozens of employees, raised seed funding, partnered with cardiology networks across roughly a dozen states, and teamed with Heartbeat Health to assemble a national end-to-end cardiac care solution.
Jefferson Health
Jefferson Health is a Philadelphia-based nonprofit academic health system that traces its roots to 1825. After absorbing Einstein Healthcare Network (2021) and Lehigh Valley Health Network (2024), it operates more than 30 hospitals and 700-plus care sites across eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, paired with Thomas Jefferson University and a roughly 400,000-member health plan. It is now one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the United States, with about $15 billion in annual revenue and roughly 65,000 employees.
El Camino Health
El Camino Health is a not-for-profit healthcare system that has served Silicon Valley and the South Bay for more than 60 years. Born from a 1950s community vote and a tax that residents levied on themselves, it runs two acute care hospitals in Mountain View and Los Gatos plus roughly two dozen care locations across Santa Clara County. With 471 beds, about 4,480 employees and 1,585 physicians, it blends a community-rooted mission with the technology-forward instincts of the valley it sits in.