Unlike traditional venture capital funds that back pre-existing, high-growth startups for an equity stake, W Health’s company creation model builds ventures from the ground up—identifying critical industry gaps, ideating solutions, and partnering with entrepreneurs to launch and scale them. “We go to the parts of the healthcare system where the structural mismatch is the highest, and we stay with that problem for a year, sometimes longer, chipping away at it before we build anything,” said Jethwani.
