Humana Ventures is the venture capital investing operation of Humana Inc. Through venture investments and strategic partnership arrangements, Humana Ventures seeks to create value for our customers, partners and shareholders by leveraging Humana's assets, including our expertise and relationships in the healthcare industry and financial markets.

What does this mean to the young, innovative company? Access to the expertise of Humana's 16,000 employees, and relationships with Humana's 6 million members, 330,000 physicians, 2,500 hospitals, 40,000 insurance brokers and 200,000 employer groups, not to mention the millions of transactions that result from these relationships.

Our goal is to bring Humana's assets, expertise, and relationships together with strong innovative management teams to form strategic alliances that result in operational benefits to Humana and significant equity appreciation.

Humana Ventures fosters innovation in the delivery of healthcare services and the development and use of healthcare information technology, while pursuing financial returns commensurate with the risks of early stage investing.

Humana Inc. (NYSE — HUM), headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the nation’s largest publicly traded managed health care companies with approximately 6 million medical members located primarily in 15 states and Puerto Rico. Humana offers coordinated health care through a variety of plans — health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations, point-of-service plans and administrative services products — to employer groups, government sponsored-plans and individuals.