KBL Healthcare Ventures | About

Dr. Marlene Krauss is founder, principal, and Senior Managing Director of KBL Healthcare Ventures, a $100 million healthcare venture capital fund investing in early stage and commercial stage healthcare ventures.

KBL brings a team of investment professionals with prior experiences as senior executives, clinical practitioners and venture capitalists. While we are capable of bringing managerial and technical expertise to an emerging company, we are also able to draw upon a rich network of contacts across multiple disciplines to foster the growth and development of our portfolio companies. We pride ourselves on developing lasting relationships with our entrepreneurs and look to cultivate a professionally and personally rewarding experience for all involved.

KBL is a highly experienced team whose employees have in excess of 65 cumulative years of experience as clinicians, operators, investment bankers and venture capital investors in the healthcare industry. KBL’s Managing Directors, Dr. Krauss and Dr. Berk, have a combined 30 years of medical training and practice in general medicine, surgery, ophthalmology and optometry, giving them an extensive clinical and scientific understanding of medical technologies and markets. KBL has also assembled an Advisory Board of healthcare luminaries who have agreed to assist us in our efforts.