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.”

How policy, urban design and prevention are reshaping the way a nation ages. When National Geographic Fellow Dan Buettner described Singapore as an "Engineered Blue Zone" in 2023, it challenged the long-held belief that exceptional health and longevity are largely the product of culture, geography or genetics. Singapore offers a different model. Its success has been shaped through deliberate policy, long-term planning and sustained investment in population