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Flare Capital Partners
Flare Capital Partners, a healthcare technology venture capital firm, has added healthcare technology investor and policy professional Parth Desai as a senior associate.

Desai has been an advocate for profound healthcare innovation throughout his career. He joins Flare Capital from the investment team at New York-Presbyterian Ventures, where he identified innovations with potential to improve the quality and experience of care. Desai also spent several years at Deloitte Consulting. He began his career as a health policy analyst for the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he led development of legislation reforming oversight of the pharmaceutical industry in Massachusetts, and was an appointee to the Health and Human Services Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures.