Global healthcare is a $12 trillion market carrying a 34-million worker shortage, yet healthtech captured just 5% of the $712 billion in global venture capital deployed in the first half of 2026. That gap, a trillion-dollar industry still treated as a rounding error by the venture industry, is the starting point for everything else here. We at Verge HealthTech Fund have always talked about how healthcare should transform from “sick-care” to “health + care.”