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Equity · Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Investor Rook Abassi Discusses Venture Investing in Healthcare Renaissance

Venture investor Rook Abassi, founder and general partner of Preface Ventures, has been investing in healthcare and wellness for approximately 20 years. He notes that healthcare, wellness, and AI are experiencing a renaissance and revolution, attracting significant capital.

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“So, yeah, I've been venture investing for about 20 years. And by the way, healthcare and like wellness and artificial intelligence is really having a renaissance and revolution, and for a lot of different reasons, we'll get into.”
“Preface was founded in 2016, we're investing out of our fourth fund. We'll invest at seed, and then we'll continue to invest further and further and further into the company, up to the tunes of, you know, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions over time.”
Heard on Equity — “The investor behind Neko Health's $700M bet on scanning your whole body”, published Wednesday, September 30, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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