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Principal
F-Prime
Principal investing in early-stage B2B software, fintech, and vertical SaaS.
Bio
Professional summary
Carl Byers is a Partner at F-Prime Capital, based in Cambridge. His official profile emphasizes his operating background in healthcare IT, especially as a founding team member and CFO at athenahealth from 1997 to 2010. At athenahealth, he led finance, legal, and corporate technology teams, helped build financial systems, raised multiple financing rounds, and led the company’s 2007 IPO. Earlier, he was a Senior Consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton in financial services and health insurance. He teaches finance at Harvard’s Chan School of Public Health and has served on the Massachusetts Digital Health Council. He holds a BA from Wesleyan and a mid-career MPA from Harvard Kennedy School.
Investment focus
Stage, sector, and overall fit
Stage
Healthtech venture investments
Sector
Healthcare ITDigital healthHealthcare operationsHealthcare AI
Thesis
Healthcare ITDigital healthHealthcare services and technology-enabled care models
Notable companies
Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed
athenahealthCarrot FertilityCapital RxAmplifyMD
How to approach
Framing and angles for outreach
Pitch framing
Lead with a healthcare technology company that improves care delivery, workflow efficiency, payment integrity, or healthcare operations with a credible path to scale.
Personalization hooks
- 1Reference his athenahealth operator-to-investor background when discussing healthcare IT scale-up challenges.
- 2If relevant, connect to digital health infrastructure, AI-enabled healthcare workflows, or healthcare finance operations.
Recent signals
What the partner has said or done recently
Official profile lists recent featured impact content authored by him on digital health, AI agents in health, specialty care in the AI era, and Carrot Fertility.
Background
Career, education, and skills
Career history
- F-Prime Capital PartnersPartner
- athenahealth, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATHN)CFO (founding team)1997 - 2010
- Booz, Allen & HamiltonSenior ConsultantPre-athenahealth
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthAdjunct Lecturer
- Massachusetts Digital Health CouncilMember
Education
- Wesleyan UniversityBA
- Harvard Kennedy SchoolMid-Career MPA
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