Capital and Funding for Healthcare and Mission-Driven Work (Part 1 of 2): Beyond VCs
By: Ilya Ilienko, MBA, CMA, CPA
This two-part series explores capital literacy in healthcare and mission-driven organizations — across startups, non-profits, for-profits, and hybrid structures. In Part 1, we’ll focus on the capital landscape: venture capital, grants, corporate funding, tax and government programs, and the ecosystems that sit between them. In part 2, we’ll shift to organizational choices — when non-profit structures outperform for-profit startups, how hybrids function in practice, the governance tradeoffs they introduce, and real-world ...