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Kent Marquardt

Partner at Cardinal Partners

📍 Kirkland, Washington, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2025
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
Aug 2020
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC) is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and a not-for-profit health insurance provider serving more than one million members in 32 counties in greater Kansas City and northwest Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. Blue KC's mission is to provide affordable access to healthcare and to improve the health of our members. Blue KC was named one of the “Best Companies to Work For” in 2012 and 2019 in the large company category by Ingram’s Magazine.
Board Member
Oct 2018
Seattle-based Brook, Inc. is committed to helping people own their health on their terms. Its initial product, Brook Health Companion, is a personal health service that pushes beyond artificial intelligence to augmented intelligence, combining intelligent data collection and analysis with live, compassionate support from skilled nutritionists, certified experts in conditions such as diabetes and hypertension, and other highly qualified specialists. Brook Health Companion has been embraced by healthcare plans and practitioners nationwide to help people manage their health more proactively and deliver more personalized service while reducing costs. Brook was founded in 2015 with the aim of making the lives of people living with chronic conditions like diabetes be as healthy as they can be. For more information, visit www.brook.health or get in touch anytime on support@brook.health
Board Member
Jul 2017
Prealize connects tomorrow’s predictive insights to today’s most effective actions. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., the company is committed to transforming healthcare from reactive to proactive, so that more people can live healthier lives. Prealize partners with health plans, employers and providers across the nation to power proactive healthcare.
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2025
Board Member
Aug 2025
Columbia REA is dedicated to providing reliable, innovative, environmentally sound, cost effective utility services and support to its members. The cooperative values honesty, loyalty, responsibility, positive attitude and behavior, and professional image. Moreover, the Cooperative supports educational, governmental, charitable and social activities that are beneficial to the communities that it serves.
2020
Board Member
Aug 2020
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC) is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and a not-for-profit health insurance provider serving more than one million members in 32 counties in greater Kansas City and northwest Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. Blue KC's mission is to provide affordable access to healthcare and to improve the health of our members. Blue KC was named one of the “Best Companies to Work For” in 2012 and 2019 in the large company category by Ingram’s Magazine.
2018
Board Member
Oct 2018
Seattle-based Brook, Inc. is committed to helping people own their health on their terms. Its initial product, Brook Health Companion, is a personal health service that pushes beyond artificial intelligence to augmented intelligence, combining intelligent data collection and analysis with live, compassionate support from skilled nutritionists, certified experts in conditions such as diabetes and hypertension, and other highly qualified specialists. Brook Health Companion has been embraced by healthcare plans and practitioners nationwide to help people manage their health more proactively and deliver more personalized service while reducing costs. Brook was founded in 2015 with the aim of making the lives of people living with chronic conditions like diabetes be as healthy as they can be. For more information, visit www.brook.health or get in touch anytime on support@brook.health
Cardinal Partners (CP)
General Partner
Jun 2018
2017
Strategic Advisor
Oct 2017
Health Velocity Capital invests in growth-stage healthcare software and services companies. Spanning three decades as investors, entrepreneurs, and operators, our principals have invested in and helped build some of healthcares most impactful innovators -- companies that became industry leaders and that created entirely new markets, a few of which include Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC), Tivity Health (NASDAQ: TVTY), Change Healthcare (NASDAQ: CHNG), Aspire Healthcare, and Livongo (NASDAQ: LVGO). In addition to investing on behalf of institutional investors, we are proud to invest on behalf of a number of our nation’s largest and most influential healthcare organizations and a number of current and former healthcare senior executives and leaders. Collectively, our investors represent organizations that provide health insurance to more than 140 million Americans, operate more than 500 hospitals, provide pharmacy and PBM services to almost every American, and provide software and services to every major hospital in the United States. For more information, please visit www.healthvelocitycapital.com.
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