KAYO'S 3RD ANNUAL

healthcare investing summit

June 23-24, 2027 | Washington, D.C.

#1 Event for Women in Healthcare Investing

Healthcare investing is evolving fast. Kayo brings the people shaping that evolution into one room for the conversations that matter.

Two days of sharp insights, fresh perspectives, and meaningful connections with leaders across the healthcare investment ecosystem. If you’re doing deals in this space, Kayo's Healthcare Investing Summit is where you want to be.

About the Summit

The Kayo Healthcare Summit brings together women investors, dealmakers, operators, and advisors for smart capital introductions, strategic networking, and content that connects investment and operating perspectives. Over two days, you’ll engage in candid conversations on deal flow, market trends, regulatory shifts, and innovative deal structures with leading women shaping the future of healthcare investing.

What to Expect

50+

speakers across fireside chats and panels, sharing insights on regulatory shifts, market trends, and innovative deal structures shaping healthcare investing. 

250+

attendees that form a thoughtfully-designed, warm, and inclusive setting where meaningful conversations happen naturally. Meet the people you want to connect with most, organically.

2 days

of networking through thoughtfully designed experiences such as the Meeting Hall, Wind-Up Walk and Meet the Speakers. Kayo's secret sauce is intentional introductions that create opportunities.

Why it's the #1 event for women in

healthcare investing

"Bringing together accomplished leaders is one thing; creating an environment where meaningful conversations, authentic relationships, and future collaborations naturally develop is something entirely different. KAYO has built a remarkable community, and I’m grateful to have been part of it."

Managing Director, Wingspire Capital

2026 Speakers

View the full line up of speakers for 2026 here.

This was my first Kayo event and it was over too quickly. So much talent in one room - just didn’t want it to end!

Anita Watkins, Rex Health Ventures

 

Attendees

Get the introductions to the people you want to connect with most. View the past attendee list here.

Professionals at private equity firms, venture capital firms, and REITs actively investing in healthcare companies.

Past participating firms:

  • Bain Capital

  • Frazier Healthcare Partners

  • GI Partners

  • HarbourVest Partners

  • Iron Path Capital

  • OMERS Private Equity

  • Palladium Equity Partners

  • Shore Capital Partners

  • Vistria Group

  • Webster Equity Partners

Debt providers financing healthcare private equity transactions through private credit and commercial lending.

Past participating firms:

  • AB Private Credit Investors

  • Bank of America

  • Blackstone Credit

  • Capital One

  • Citigroup (Citi)

  • CRG

  • MidCap Financial

  • MUFG

Advisors and intermediaries executing healthcare M&A and capital markets transactions.

Past participating firms:

  • Baird

  • Bank of America

  • Cain Brothers

  • Citigroup (Citi)

  • Goldman Sachs

  • Houlihan Lokey

  • Harris Williams

  • J.P. Morgan

  • MUFG

  • Piper Sandler

Institutional investors including endowments, foundations, pensions, OCIOs, and family offices allocating capital to healthcare and private markets.

Past participating firms:

  • Karabel Family Office

  • Marquette Associates

  • MPowered Capital

  • Municipal Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago

  • Tufts University Investment Office

  • Vanderbilt University

  • Wilshire Advisors

Leaders from healthcare services, provider platforms, and innovative operating companies.

Past participating firms:

  • Advanced Medaesthetic Partners
  • ATI PT
  • Celmatix
  • Lexitas
  • SimpliFed
  • Wellvana Health

Service providers supporting healthcare investors and operators with legal, accounting, consulting, and risk management expertise.

Past participating firms:

  • Alvarez & Marsal
  • Bass, Berry & Sims
  • CAC Specialty
  • Forvis Mazars
  • FTI Consulting
  • Holland & Knight LLP
  • LBMC
  • Marwood Group
  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • RSM US LLP

The connections I made were meaningful, not just transactional. I'm already looking forward to future events and would encourage any woman in healthcare to make this a priority.

Catharine (C.J.) Rambler, Honor Health Network