Jehangir Appoo

Founding Partner, AIoT Health

Jehangir has a unique background in both Finance as a Venture Capitalist and in Healthcare as a Cardiovascular Surgeon.

On the VC side, Jehangir is the Founding Partner at AioT Health, a syndicate Fund he started in 2020 to invest in companies using AI to reimagine the future of healthcare. AioT Health is focused on early stage companies that have potential for a massive impact on human health, built by determined founders who have non-consensus ideas about the future of their domain and a GTM strategy that involves network effects which make the company investable from a venture point of view. He’s also led the University of Calgary Health VC Fund where he helped launch a dedicated Neuro Fund, trained a team of people and expanded the pipeline on a dedicated Pediatric Fund. As a Venture Capitalists he meets with hundreds of early stage entrepreneurs building companies to improve healthcare outcomes.

On the clinical side of healthcare, Jehangir trained as a cardiovascular surgeon in Canada with fellowship training in the UK and the US. As a heart surgeon in Calgary, he helped build new programs in artificial heart surgery and thoracic aortic surgery and did the first artificial heart implant in Southern Alberta. He stopped operating in 2019, transitioning from clinical medicine to the innovation ecosystem. Academically, he continues as an Adjunct Associate Research Professor at the University of Calgary where he currently co-leads several multicenter randomized clinical trials in cardiac sciences and serves on editorial boards.

Jehangir has been an Associate in CDL since 2019, participating in streams in CDL Seattle, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal and Oxford.