Annie Lamont

Lamont graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. After graduating from college in 1979, she worked for six months as a paralegal at a small law firm, then quit and took a job at a small venture capital firm in Silicon Valley.⁠[1][2]

Early in her career, Lamont was a research associate at Hambrecht & Quist, an investment bank specializing in high-tech companies, where she took part in public offerings including those of Apple and Genentech; in 1980, she worked with Steve JobsSteve JobsSteve Jobs (1955–2011) was a technology entrepreneur, Apple co-founder, NeXT founder, and investor and former CEO of Pixar. His career spanned personal computing, digital music, smartphones and animated films, with an emphasis on product design, user experience and multidisciplinary teams.Open the full entry on Apple’s IPO roadshow.⁠[3][4][5]

In 1982, Lamont joined the venture capital firm Oak Investment Partners, where she was a general partner from 1986 to 2006 and later managing partner, leading its healthcare and fintech practices. She built Oak’s life sciences and healthcare business; as the internet gained traction, she had pivoted to investing in tech-based healthcare services by 2000.⁠[3][3][1][2]

Lamont recalls that in 1999 she took an interest in Flooz, a “virtual online currency” that was ahead of its time, which drew her to financial technology; she said that as a result Oak established a fintech practice before almost anyone else.⁠[3][3]

Around 2000, Lamont made her first investment in the healthcare software company athenahealth; about 20 years later, when the company was sold to two private equity firms, the investment returned roughly 20 times. Her investments during the Oak Investment Partners era also included Castlight Health, Benefitfocus, and the prepaid debit card company NetSpend (later acquired by Total System Services for $1.3 billion).⁠[5][2][6]

In 2002, Lamont hired Patricia Kemp, a former senior executive of the marketing firm Cendant, as a venture partner at Oak Investment Partners; Kemp later became a co-founder of Oak HC/FT.⁠[3][7]

In 2008, Lamont appeared for the first time on the Forbes Midas List of the world’s top tech investors; in 2014 she ranked No. 46 as an Oak Investment Partners investor, and in 2015 she ranked first among healthcare investors on the list.⁠[2][5][5][8]

In 2014, Lamont, Andrew Adams, and Patricia Kemp spun out of Oak Investment Partners to form Oak HC/FT, focused on healthcare and fintech, with Lamont as managing partner; its first fund of $500 million closed in June 2014. At the launch, she said global technology innovations, cost pressures, and regulatory changes were creating unprecedented opportunities in healthcare and fintech.⁠[1][7][9][7]

Lamont believes there is a great deal of crossover between healthcare and financial services: both are highly regulated industries in a massive convergence, and a growing share of healthcare involves consumer payments and price transparency.⁠[6][6][3]

In Oak HC/FT’s early years, Lamont joined the boards of the palliative care company Aspire HealthAspire HealthAspire Health is a community-based palliative care company headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. It was co-founded in 2013 by former U.S. Senate Majority Leader and physician Bill Frist and Brad Smith, and provides mainly home- and outpatient-based, non-hospice palliative care to patients with serious illnesses. It was acquired by the health insurer Anthem (now Elevance Health) in June 2018 and has operated under Anthem’s Carelon Health brand since 2024.Open the full entry and the primary care management services company VillageMD with financing rounds led by Oak HC/FT. She said U.S. healthcare costs were rising at unsustainable levels and that VillageMD helped primary care providers deliver better clinical results while working with health plans to build a financial model supporting that clinical model.⁠[8][10][11][11][10][10]

In March 2017, Lamont received the National Venture Capital Association’s Excellence in Healthcare Innovation award; in January 2018, she and Kemp were jointly ranked No. 25 on Institutional Investor’s Fintech Finance 40 list.⁠[3][3]

Among the companies Lamont invested in, Aspire Health was acquired by Anthem in 2018, VillageMD was acquired by WalgreensWalgreensWalgreens is an American retail pharmacy chain founded in 1901 that offers prescription filling, vaccinations, health services and everyday retail goods. Its operating company, Walgreen Co., was formerly part of Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) and became an independently operated private company after Sycamore Partners completed its acquisition in 2025.Open the full entry, and PayFlex Systems was acquired by Aetna.⁠[1][5][1][1]

Before the IPO of One Medical’s parent 1Life Healthcare, Oak Investment Partners XII held 11.4 percent, and Lamont was one of the four executive managing members of the fund’s general partner; on February 22, 2023, Amazon completed its all-cash acquisition of One Medical at $18 per share, valued at about $3.9 billion including net debt.⁠[12][12][13][14]

On December 10, 2024, Elevance HealthElevance HealthElevance Health is a health insurance and health services company headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, listed on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker ELV). An independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, it is one of the largest health insurers in the United States by medical membership. The company traces its roots to Blue Cross of Indiana, founded in 1944; it was named Anthem, Inc. when it demutualized and went public in 2001, was called WellPoint, Inc. from 2004 to 2014, then returned to the Anthem name before adopting its current name in June 2022.Open the full entry completed its acquisition of CareBridge, founded by Aspire Health founder Brad Smith, in a deal valued at about $2.7 billion.⁠[15][5][1]

In 2024, Lamont ranked No. 86 on the Midas List, her fifth appearance and her first since 2015. Devoted Health, a later venture of an athenahealth co-founder in which she invested, was valued at $12.9 billion, and the initial $20 million investment was worth about $1 billion to her and Oak HC/FT’s backers. She said the key to lasting success in venture capital is the ability to spot and embrace new tech cycles: “It is not about being a one-hit wonder in venture. It is about reinventing yourself across different cycles.”⁠[2][2][2][2]

In recent years she has backed healthcare companies focused on generative AI, such as Notable, which provides automation tools for patient check-ins and authorizations, and Trovo Health, which sells AI assistants for clinicians. She believes AI, deployed thoughtfully and responsibly, could reduce healthcare administrative costs, increase physician productivity, and improve patient outcomes.⁠[2][2]

On July 24, 2025, Oak HC/FT’s sixth fund, Oak HC/FT Partners VI, L.P., filed a Form D listing Lamont and Andrew Adams as executive officers. As of October 2026, she remains co-founder and managing partner of Oak HC/FT.⁠[16][16][1]

In addition to her portfolio company board seats, Lamont serves on the board of directors of Bloomberg Inc., has served on the Board of Trustees of Stanford University, and took part in the Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary’s Innovation and Investment Summit. She has been named to lists including Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare and CB Insights’ Top 100 Venture Capitalists, and has received multiple lifetime achievement awards for her role in transforming the healthcare industry.⁠[1][17][1][1][1][18]

Her husband is Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont.⁠[5][2]

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