Team
We’re investors, founders, engineers, marketers and researchers with one common goal – to MAKE SOMETHING BETTER® in health
Meet Our People
Vic Gatto
CEO
Jessica Goodwin
Chief of Staff
Meet Our Partner & Advisor
Marcus Whitney
Founder & Managing Partner, Jumpstart Nova
Marcus Whitney is a Founding Partner of Jumpstart Health Investors (JHI), America’s most active early-stage healthcare venture capital firm. Marcus is also a Founder and Managing Partner at Jumpstart Nova, JHI’s institutional, strategic seed fund.
Marcus is also co-founder and minority owner of Major League Soccer team, Nashville Soccer Club.
Marcus is the author of the Amazon #1 best-selling book “Create and Orchestrate“, about claiming your Creative Power through entrepreneurship. His work has been featured by Entrepreneur, CNBC, Inc., NPR, Fast Company, and The Atlantic.
Marcus is an Aspen Health Innovators Fellow, and a member of the board of the Healthcare Finance Management Association, Celtic Bank, the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum, the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corporation, OZ Arts, and Scott Hamilton CARES.
Our Philosophy
We believe in leveraging a systematic approach to successfully empower founders to launch scale and monetize impactful innovations
Repeatable. Proven. Effective.
Vic Gatto
CEO
Vic co-founded Jumpstart Foundry in 2014 to create a new type of healthcare investment platform. Vic has been an investor in healthcare and technology since 2001 and has made over 200 investments in early-stage innovation companies in the areas of healthcare services, medical devices, diagnostic tools, technology, and data analytics.
He has a MBA from Vanderbilt University and a BA from Amherst College, and currently lives in Nashville with his wife and two sons.
Jessica Goodwin
Chief of Staff
Jessica is Jumpstart’s Chief of Staff. She earned her undergraduate in Business Management with a concentration in Entrepreneurship as well as her MBA at Lipscomb University.