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Tom Hawes

Investor and Builder of Healthcare Companies | Physician | Harvard Business School and Kauffman Fellow

Austin, Texas

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $20,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $10,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2008

    Sandbox Industries invests in emerging companies in Healthcare and Insurance. We leverage an innovative venture capital platform to facilitate collaborations and business relationships with our strategic partners, investors, and innovative companies.

  • Managing Director

    2008

    The Blue Venture Fund is a unique collaboration between BCBS companies, BCBSA, and Sandbox. Sandbox is an independent company that provides healthcare-related investment management exclusively for the Blue Venture Fund. 36 BCBS entities have committed nearly $1.3 billion across five Blue Venture Funds.

  • Co-Founding Team and Board Member

    2017

    Caring for the physical, behavioral and social wellbeing of the neediest members of health plan clients by providing care in the home and leveraging telemedicine.

  • Board Member

    2025

  • Board Member

    2024

    Solving Prior Authorization on Both Sides of the Fax Machine: Humata is revolutionizing Prior Authorization and Utilization Management with cutting-edge AI and automation. Our commitment is to deliver a seamless, efficient, and automated workflow for healthcare providers and payers.

  • Board Member

    2018

    Octave Bioscience enables better care for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) via its proprietary biomarker testing, advanced imaging, and population health platform to drive informed decisions about therapy which leads to more predictable outcomes and costs.

2020

  • Board Advisor / Investor

    2020

    Onc.AI is developing a precision oncology care management solution.

2011 - 2025

  • Board Member / Investor

    2011 - 2025

    Non-invasive FFRct delivered through a web-based service. Listed on NASDAQ: HTFL

2023 - 2024

  • Board Member

    2023 - 2024

    First Dollar builds flexible infrastructure for health spending benefits. Innovative organizations — from TPAs to banks — use First Dollar's software and APIs to launch new offerings and manage their health spending benefits. Acquired by Inspira December 2024

2020 - 2024

  • Board Member

    2020 - 2024

    Precision guided behavioral health. A better way to measure, track and improve behavioral health progress. Acquired by NeuroFlow in June 2024