Sander Duncan

CEO and Founder

2022

Sespe Health Holdings is a permanent capital vehicle purpose-built for healthcare. sespehealth.com

Venture Partner, Investment Committee Advisor

2025

Endurance Companies is a family office backing managers and select direct investments in venture, private equity and real estate; and partnering with founders on building new companies across sectors.

Board Member

2023

Havarti helps the next generation of risk-bearing entities understand, control and administer risk.

Board Member

2021

Positive Development is the leading clinically-validated, nationally-scaled alternative to ABA therapy for children with ASD and their families. Led the Series A and sit on the Board and the Finance and Audit Committee.

Advisor, Investments

2024

Carefirst BCBS serves 3.5 million members in the Mid-Atlantic region across all insurance products. CareFirst’s investment arm, Healthworx, oversees direct investments, a fund of funds, and a venture studio.

General Partner

2018 - 2022

Lifeforce Capital is an early-stage healthcare venture capital firm. Lifeforce invests in software-driven companies enabling next-generation care delivery and drug discovery. Care Delivery: One Medical, Included, Aspire, CityBlock, Galileo, Zing, Cylinder, Clover, Cricket, DrConsulta, Positive Development, Topography, HeartFlow, Sempre, Synapticure, Fathom, AkidoLabs Drug Discovery: Enveda, Mythic, Fauna, 64x, Aspen, Sonoma, Syntensor, Verge, TARA, Character, Ochre

Vice President, Business and Corporate Development

2016 - 2018

Led the go-to-market side of Pager’s evolution from a local consumer care company to a national enterprise-facing platform selling to leading payers and health systems. Through this growth period I oversaw sales, account management, strategic partnerships, and corporate development.

Vice President, Business Development

2015 - 2016

Northwell Holdings

2013 - 2015

Co-founded Northwell's corporate development and venture capital arm in partnership with Cleveland Clinic Ventures. Our work spanned all non-clinical monetization across Northwell’s $18B footprint, including divestitures and spin-outs, balance sheet investments, new company development, and large-scale enterprise joint ventures.

Cleveland Clinic Ventures

2012 - 2015

Cleveland Clinic Ventures makes investments in emerging healthcare companies that deliver financial returns to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation while advancing the health system's mission, vision and values.

Associate

2010 - 2012

HealthpointCapital is a middle-market healthcare private equity firm. We focus on growth equity investments and buy-outs in medical device and care services companies.