Scott Barclay

IVF is a challenging process from start to finish. Embryologists must make pivotal decisions at each step in the process – sperm, egg, and embryo selection, incubation timing, when and for how long to freeze embryos, and many more. Each of these steps represents a potential point of failure in the process, and those choices, combined with other uncontrollable human and external factors, result in an estimated aggregate failure rate for each IVF cycle of about 70%. Then there are the families.

Hundreds of millions of EKGs are performed worldwide each year, and they all have the same purpose: detecting abnormalities in a patient’s heart rhythm that, if caught early, can be life- saving. Despite the importance and effectiveness of EKGs, many patients face many barriers to access – long wait times, sporadic testing, and the need for a cardiologist to make the diagnosis, which is time-consuming and often repetitive.

Insight Partners had a banner year, with more than $50 billion in capital commitments and over 200 investments in 2021. While we invest in founders across a wide spectrum of businesses, this series focuses on outlining our theses on four verticals that we’re particularly excited about in 2022: artificial intelligence; fintech/crypto; cybersecurity; and healthtech. Insight has long fostered innovation in healthcare by investing in and scaling growth stage healthcare software companies.