SUNCOAST VENTURES is the result of TRUE PASSION and an unwavering belief in a better future.
Suncoast was created by a passionate group of talented engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs who envisioned a new possibility for a true Next Generation VC Firm specifically designed for the next generation healthcare startup. By creating our own model, Suncoast is an entirely fresh approach to early stage healthcare ventures.
We believe in high performance and high impact. Creating a better world by leveraging our expertise, our networks, and our unwavering belief in a better future. We wrote the original manifesto that eventually became Suncoast on a napkin in a park back in July 2021.
The rest is history in the making.
Genevieve LeMarchal
Managing partner
Genevieve LeMarchal is the Managing Partner of Suncoast Ventures. She launched and ran Expert Dojo’s healthcare program and ran 3 full cohorts of health tech and medtech companies, becoming one of the most prolific early stage vc investors in Southern California (Crunchbase, 2022) and winner of the 2022 Biocom Lifescience Catalyst Award. She loves to innovate financial models and find better ways to structure and fund companies and deals. She previously served as Partner at a science focused advisory and fund in formation, was a General Partner at Oregon-based FoundersPad VC Fund II and she is co-founder of the XXcelerate Fund. She is the host of the AdVentureous Podcast. Genevieve writes and delivers talks, keynotes and training programs to groups all over the world about venture capital and entrepreneurship, impact and equity investing and more.
She is a Pacific Northwest native and now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
education
MBA, Finance. Foster School of Business, University of Washington.
B.A. Communication, Journalism. Washington State University
Charla Triplett
ADVISOR
Charla Triplett has over 20 years of experience bridging the gap between academia, business, startups and non-profit and venture capital. She has been educated as a biomedical engineer and field trained as a bioprocess chemical engineer with a breadth of experience in digital health, biosensors, medtech and life sciences and is a sought out mentor, advisor and connector in the industry for decades. She is a Senior Venture Partner at Expert Dojo and CEO of Spine by Design. Prior to Suncoast, Charla was a Partner at a venture fund in formation and advisory focusing on science, the founder of a non-profit in the biomedical engineering space, led product development for a medical device engineering firm, ran strategic partnerships for Oregon State University’s College of Business, and was Director of Industrial and Clinical Relations at Arizona State University.
education
M.S., Bioengineering. Oregon State University
B.S. Microbiology. Washington State University
hal walbrink
venture partner
Hal Walbrink is a recognized leader in the medical device space. In his current role as Founder/CEO of Xinetix Medical Product Development and Venture Partner at Suncoast Ventures Hal assists early-stage companies in formation, product realization, and commercial launch of healthcare related product offerings. Xinetix has served 90+ companies in its 27- year history, resulting in combined annual product sales of over $1 billion and greater than $4 billion in strategic acquisition and IPO valuation. Hal has served 40+ years in roles ranging from Board Chairman to CXO, advisor, investor, and technical expert to over 100 companies. Hal is a recognized technical expert in ultrasonics, microfluidics, fluid dynamics, thermal tissue modification, tissue cutting/coagulation/ablation, endoscopy, digital signal processing and operating room communication, and control systems. His clinical experience includes ophthalmology, electrosurgery, critical care respiratory ventilation, minimally invasive surgery, and general surgery. Hal and Teresa are parents to five children and live in Laguna Niguel, California.
education
BASc - Electrical Engineering, Cal State Fullerton
Microprocessor Systems Engineering, UC Irvine
Ray Costantini
venture partner
Ray has more than 20 years experience as an executive physician leader turned entrepreneur who is passionately committed to improving healthcare. As the Founder and CEO of Bright.MD, Ray built and led Bright.MD to become an industry leading, award winning health tech company which resulted in a 10x improvement in physician efficiency, improved patient satisfaction, improving clinical outcomes, dramatically lowering healthcare costs, and providing opportunities for new revenues. While at Bright.MD Ray raised more than $30M of venture capital, maintained a >100% CAGR, Contracted with leading health system clients, grew and led a high performing team of more than 70. Recognized as one of CB Insights top 150 most innovative digital health companies.
Prior to Bright.MD Ray was the Regional Medical Director for Providence, and was a practicing internist at OHSU.
education
MD, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucscon
MBA, Thunderbird School of Global Management
BS, Psychology, Biochemistry
Tammy Mahaney
Tammy Mahaney is a former Army Captain, Doctor of Nurse Practice, Family Nurse Practitioner. Tammy served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corp leading national forces in healthcare settings. She has received certification in the Advance Course with the American Board of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (ABAIM) and has 20 years of nursing experience ranging from Medical/Surgical, Pediatric, Cardiology, Telemetry, Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), and worked In Los Angeles as a Gamma Knife Nurse collaborating with a specialized team of world-renowned Neurosurgeons, Anesthesiologists, Physicists, and Radiation Oncologist in helping patients with brain tumors.
She is passionate about holistic-integrative health and volunteers in global health missions where she has served in clinical settings in Nicaragua, Tanzania, Vanuatu, El Salvador, and Ecuador. She has travelled to six continents and over fifty countries around the world on medical missions. Tammy is an active community builder and volunteers as a nurse consultant and sonographer at a busy pregnancy center in Las Vegas, NV and in downtown Oakland, CA with a focus on empowering and educating underserved minority women.
She and her husband are active in the community as volunteers and philanthropists. Tammy currently lives with her husband and 4 of their 10 children in the Bay Area in California along with their Golden Doodle and 3lb Yorkie.
venture partner
Education
DNP-FNP, Medical University of South Carolina
BSN, Syracuse. ROTC.
russ nash
venture partner
Russ is an investor, Board Director, and Advisor to several emerging, innovative companies in the health and technology segments. Previously, he served as Global Managing Director of Accenture's Health Industry Group and Managing Director of the U.S. Health Payer Client Group. Prior to Accenture, he served as a Partner and Core Leader in the Health and Insurance Practices at McKinsey & Company.
Russ has a wealth of experience working with the world's leading health companies to deliver more effective care and higher quality and sustainable health outcomes.Russ started his career as a Pricing Actuary and Director of Underwriting at Travelers Insurance Company. He is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS).
Russ is also also co-founder the Center for Acupuncture & Anti-Aging Medicine. He has a strong passion for integrating Western and Eastern medicine with different therapies and health improvement practices to motivate behavior change and significantly enhance individuals' health and longevity.
education
B.S. - Applied Mathematics and Information Technology, University of Connecticut.
Dr. Joe Geraci
Scientific advisory - Artificial intelligence, machine learning, quantum
Joe Geraci is a mathematician, technologist and quantum computations with a love of medicine. He has a postdoc in oncology, neuropsychiatry, and medical ML and is the CEO of Quantum Intelligence company Netramark Corp which has created a machine intelligence democratization tool, called NetraAI designed for physicians and medical scientists to simply and effectively interact with complex models which were extracted from real patient data. Joe builds systems systems extract novel insights and greatly accelerate research thereby enabling timely access to innovative medicine and patient care.
Prior to Netramark, Joe was Head of Data Science and Machine Leaning for Equifax, a Scientist at CAMH which used Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to analyze electronic health records. He served as Machine Learning lead of CAN-BIND, a cross Canada depression study funded by the Ontario Brain Institute and was Chief Science Officer of Open Source Health. Joe holds professorships at Queen's University in the Department of Molecular Medicine in Canada, and the Centre for Biotechnology and Genomics Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia, USA.
education
Ph.D Mathematical Physics - University of Southern California
Ph.D. Applied Mathematics - University of Toronto
M.S. Pure Mathematics - University of Toronto
B.S. - Mathematics, Physics, Neuroscience, Philosophy