Intellectual Frontiers Portfolio

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FundCapitalIn formation2026

Care Delivery Fund II

Back the clinicians rebuilding care delivery. An intelligence engine built on CMS and claims data decides whether the firm invests in a founder already in motion, takes selective control of an operator worth re-platforming, or builds the company itself.

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FundCapitalActive now2025

Care Delivery Fund I

A small, working fund that incubates the foundational ventures and shared services the rest of the portfolio will run on: demand intelligence, revenue operations, an execution layer for providers, and ambient measurement.

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What counts as a work

Patent family

A family of USPTO filings around one invention, granted or pending, with its real status.

Venture

An operating company chartered by Studios, with an entity, an operator, and a closure path.

Shared service

A capability built for the whole portfolio and designed to be spun out on its own.

Company

A company funded, built, or spun out. (Lapsed filings remain in the patent register.)

Fund

A pool of capital with a written thesis and a stated deployment model.

Book

Long-form publishing that makes the case for an invention or an operating model.

Research

Standing research programs and publication series, including peer-reviewed work.

Research paper

Trademark

Landscape study

A landscape read that changed a filing or funding decision.

Defensive disclosure

A defensive publication that puts prior art in the open so a bad patent cannot be filed later.

Dataset

A structured intelligence asset that decides where capital, filings, or ventures go next.

Method

A reusable operating method that the rest of the portfolio is built on.

Founder writing

A piece the founder published on his own site, tagged by type, that argues a finding in the open before it becomes a filing or a fund.

Online publication

An owned online publication that makes the case for our work to a standing audience.