More nurses are interested in entrepreneurship. Here’s how to get started

Beth KutscherEditor at Large at LinkedIn NewsJune 18, 2025 For more tips on bringing your business idea to reality, check out our CEU eligible webinar next week in partnership with Nurses Feed Their Young. Click the image above to register Over the course of her career, Toni Land, MBA, BSN, CPXP, LCC has applied […]
Nurse Capital Launches New Network to Connect Nurse Entrepreneurs to Funders, Advisors and Industry Experts

CHICAGO, Jan. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Nurse Capital, a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage healthcare startups founded and led by nurses, is proud to announce the launch of the Nurse Capital Network (NCN), an exclusive, invitation-only community designed to connect and empower nurse entrepreneurs and inventors. NCN will foster information sharing, networking with funders and industry experts, […]
Growing to Support You

Good Morning, Readers! We’re excited to share a significant milestone for The Nursing Beat. This past week, we secured funding from the nation’s only nurse-led investment fund, Nurse Capital, a partnership that underscores our commitment to amplifying voices within the nursing community. Over the past two years, our dedicated team of nurses has built this […]
Nurse Capital Announces Inaugural Investments In Nurse-Led Startups Focused On Patient Care And Digital News For Nurses

CHICAGO, Nov. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Nurse Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in nurse-led enterprises providing innovative solutions in healthcare, is pleased to announce its first seed-round investments in two startup businesses that serve both patients and nurses with innovative, first-of-their-kind products in the medical device and digital media platform spaces. “As we make our first […]
Investing in Nurse Entrepreneurs

Founded by Marla Weston and Beth Brooks, venture capital firm Nurse Capital closed its inaugural $1M Fund to support nurse-led startups. It’s investing in RN-led companies creating innovative healthcare products and services. Weston and Brooks, who hold doctorates in nursing science, aim to fill a funding gap for nurse entrepreneurs, focusing on healthcare devices, technology platforms, software, patient […]
VC firm run by nurses invests only in nurse-run startups

A new Chicago-based venture capital firm seeks to harness nurses’ experience and creativity to create products and services that will transform healthcare. Nurse Capital will invest only in nurse-founded, nurse-led startups to take advantage of a “groundswell of nursing coming in with an entrepreneurial spirit” and digital know-how, said co-founder Beth A. Brooks. Related: New nurses have more […]
Nurse Capital Closes Debut, First-of-Its-Kind Venture Fund

Nurse Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in nurse-led enterprises providing innovative solutions in healthcare, announced today the close of its inaugural $1M Fund. The Nurse Founders Fund will invest in Late Seed and Series A rounds of startups founded and led by Registered Nurses (RNs) who are launching innovative products and services that […]