Explore our perspective on key HealthTech topics, and discover the approach and strategy that guide our work.

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The Agentic Hospital: What China Is Actually Building

Most of the West is teaching AI to write clinic letters. A hospital in China is asking what a care facility looks like when intelligence sits in the operating system itself.

Prof. Shafi Ahmed

$500 Billion Paper War

Why America's most promising HealthTech companies solve problems Europe doesn't have and what that tells us about investing on the right side of the Atlantic.

The NHS, National Security, and the £500 Million Question of Sovereign AI

Discover why building sovereign AI for the NHS is less about competing with Silicon Valley and more about ensuring that the UK retains control.

Prof. Shafi Ahmed

December 18, 2025

Prof. Shafi Ahmed, Renowned Health Futurist and Nobel Prize Nominee, Joins PurposeTech’s Second Fund as a Senior Partner

PurposeTech has announced that Professor Shafi Ahmed is joining the firm as a Senior Partner, ahead of the launch of its second HealthTech-focused fund in January 2026.

OTHER ARTICLES

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Five HealthTech takeaways from Anthropic's Founder's Playbook

Why Anthropic’s AI startup playbook matters for HealthTech: AI will increasingly favor focused, expertise-driven companies over traditional venture-scale models.

The Philosopher's Diagnosis: What Aristotle Would Prescribe for AI in Medicine

Explore how Aristotle’s ideas still illuminate AI in medicine, and why the real question is not what AI can do, but what healthcare is for.

Innovation Didn't Wait: The State of Healthcare AI Regulation in 2026

Explore where global healthcare AI regulation actually stands in 2026 - and why the technology is still outrunning the rulebook.

More Convinced. More Cautious: What the Evidence on Medical AI Now Tells Us

Discover how frontier LLMs already deliver real clinical value when deployed as carefully supervised tools that augment, not replace, clinicians.

December 16, 2025

Why Early-Stage HealthTech Needs a Different Investment Playbook

Learn how niche-focused, clinically grounded capital can drive paced, profitable innovation.

December 4, 2025

Podcast: Rethinking Early-stage HealthTech

In this podcast, Fred Fous and Prof. Shafi Ahmed, Partners at PT Capital, unpack the real lessons from building the first fund and how those experiences shaped their view of what actually works in early-stage HealthTech.

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Five HealthTech takeaways from Anthropic's Founder's Playbook

Why Anthropic’s AI startup playbook matters for HealthTech: AI will increasingly favor focused, expertise-driven companies over traditional venture-scale models.

The Philosopher's Diagnosis: What Aristotle Would Prescribe for AI in Medicine

Explore how Aristotle’s ideas still illuminate AI in medicine, and why the real question is not what AI can do, but what healthcare is for.

Innovation Didn't Wait: The State of Healthcare AI Regulation in 2026

Explore where global healthcare AI regulation actually stands in 2026 - and why the technology is still outrunning the rulebook.

More Convinced. More Cautious: What the Evidence on Medical AI Now Tells Us

Discover how frontier LLMs already deliver real clinical value when deployed as carefully supervised tools that augment, not replace, clinicians.

December 16, 2025

Why Early-Stage HealthTech Needs a Different Investment Playbook

Learn how niche-focused, clinically grounded capital can drive paced, profitable innovation.

December 4, 2025

Podcast: Rethinking Early-stage HealthTech

In this podcast, Fred Fous and Prof. Shafi Ahmed, Partners at PT Capital, unpack the real lessons from building the first fund and how those experiences shaped their view of what actually works in early-stage HealthTech.