Ziegler Link•Age Fund II

Overview

Ziegler Link•Age Fund II is a venture capital fund focused on investing in companies that enhance aging and post-acute services. The fund targets early to mid-stage, emerging-growth companies operating in or developing businesses for the aging or post-acute care markets. It seeks to invest in growth companies capable of significantly improving the healthcare IT or healthcare services landscape for the aging population. The fund's limited partners include innovative and progressive senior living providers, healthcare systems, and strategic service providers in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The fund's key investment themes include innovative home and community-based care, coordination of care and patient engagement, technologies for aging services, business intelligence and data analytics, chronic care management, disease prevention and wellness strategies, and risk-based models and managed care-driven opportunities. The fund aims to positively impact the lives of seniors and improve the healthcare experience by fostering collaboration and innovation among its limited partner investors and portfolio companies. It also provides opportunities for its limited partner investors to network and collaborate through its annual fund meeting and the First Annual Ziegler Link•Age Fund Symposium. The fund has a total capital commitment of $37,000,000 and has made initial investments in companies such as Chronic Care Management, Inc., a solution-oriented technology and services care management provider, and Socially Determined, a company constructing the science around the Social Determinants of Health to enable community interventions that improve measurable healthcare outcomes. The fund is managed by Ziegler Link•Age Management II, LLC, a joint venture between Ziegler Longevity II, LLC, an affiliate of The Ziegler Companies, Inc., and Link•Age Ventures Holdings, LLC, an affiliate of Link•Age Ventures, Inc. The fund's general partner believes that the aging population of the United States presents an attractive investment opportunity, given the size, growth, and complexity of needs of this population within a continually evolving healthcare system. By empowering its portfolio companies with the financial resources needed to realize the technology solutions being developed, the fund aims to advance solutions for older adults through the development, evaluation, and adoption of emerging technologies and services.

Investment Focus

• Companies improving aging and post-acute services
• Early to mid-stage, emerging-growth companies
• Focus on healthcare IT or healthcare services for the aging population

Portfolio Companies