About Us
Finding Inspiration at Every Turn.
SWL Ventures is led by industry veteran Shelly Lanning. Shelly has had numerous successful exits throughout her tenured career and has served on more than a dozen company boards across the healthcare spectrum and as the chair of the audit, compensation, and clinical committees.
Mission.
Vision.
To provide high-quality healthcare that is attainable and accessible to everyone by identifying and accelerating companies that engineer a new future designed for individuals from all walks of life.
Our Differentiator
To exponentially improve healthcare outcomes requires more than investment capital. It also requires human capital.
SWL Healthcare Venture approaches transforming healthcare through the infusion of human capital to collaboratively impart knowledge while acting in a management capacity. Your business is supported by strategic counsel across all operational functions to accelerate growth and maximize returns.
What We Do
Together we build leading companies by assisting with strategy and operations, recruiting, product market fit, early customer validation and go-to-market strategy.
Accelerate market adoption by tapping into our robust network of talented advisors. With deep experience from multiple successful exits, the firm focuses on:
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Funding early stage healthcare companies.
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Assisting with commercializing pioneering ideas that are transforming delivery care models.
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Women’s health.
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Increased adoption of digital technologies.
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Human capital development.
Portfolio
Founder
Shelly Lanning
Shelly has over twenty years of healthcare experience with a focus on early and commercial stage medical technology, healthcare service and health/wellness companies. Shelly entered the private equity world as a Kauffman Fellow with Tullis-Dickerson & Co, an early- and mid-stage focused healthcare venture capital firm. She spent the next seven years in various senior positions on the healthcare teams within Morgan Stanley Venture Partners and Healthcore Partners. Shelly has a degree in Physiology and Chemistry from the University of Minnesota and spent the start of her career in the medical devices including design, manufacture and quality.
