Marcus Whitney

Marcus Whitney is the Founding Partner at Jumpstart Health Investors and the Founder and Managing Partner of Jumpstart Nova, based in Nashville, Tennessee. Through Jumpstart Health Investors, he oversees a venture capital portfolio of more than 150 early-stage healthcare companies and has managed over 10 successful corporate exits. He launched the $55 million Jumpstart Nova Fund I in 2020 to invest exclusively in Black-founded healthcare startups, and he recently introduced Fund II in 2024. Prior to his venture capital career, Whitney worked as a software developer at HealthStream before co-founding Clariture Health, which was later acquired by Trilliant, and becoming a minority owner of the Nashville SC Major League Soccer franchise. Selected for the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship, his current focus remains on financing and scaling pre-seed and seed-stage healthcare technology enterprises.