Josh Blair spends much of his time outside Esplanade running and chairing organizations—he's CEO and co-founder of Impro.AI, Chair of Straive, HR&CC Chair at Calian Group, and a director at Extendicare, giving him direct experience with startups, enterprise data services, senior-care operations, and public-company boards. This operating background, combined with work across Canadian and Israeli healthtech ecosystems, gives him a hands-on view of care delivery, workforce issues, and organizational leadership that goes beyond typical deal-sourcing venture work.
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Esplanade Ventures
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Health, Medtech, AI, SaaS, Consumer
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Esplanade Ventures was formed by the founders of Medisys Health Group and Persistence Capital and has focused exclusively on digital health since launch, backing tools like AI medical scribing and medical interpretation that help clinicians with everyday care delivery. Led by people with backgrounds in healthcare operations, pharma, and consulting, the fund positions itself as a healthcare insider connecting founders with the doctors, hospitals, and health systems that actually buy their products.
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