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Austin Walters

Founder and Managing Partner, SpringTide Ventures

About

Austin Walters brings a distinctive combination of healthcare founder experience and family LP investing background to SpringTide Ventures, having previously helped commercialize handheld ultrasound technology at EchoNous while investing alongside his family in ventures like Coupang for over a decade. He focuses on democratizing medicine through healthcare infrastructure and picks-and-shovels investments, while actively working to close the VC gender gap by building a 50/50 gender-balanced team and cultivating women LPs to support female founders in healthtech. Austin Walters brings a distinctive combination of healthcare founder experience and family LP investing background to SpringTide Ventures, having previously helped commercialize handheld ultrasound technology at EchoNous while investing alongside his family in ventures like Coupang for over a decade. He focuses on democratizing medicine through healthcare infrastructure and picks-and-shovels investments, while actively working to close the VC gender gap by building a 50/50 gender-balanced team and cultivating women LPs to support female founders in healthtech.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Sectors
Health
MedTech
BioTech
AI
Data

Investment details

Avg check size$500K-$5M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
USA