Who We Are
KIC Ventures is a physician-founded private equity healthtech firm with the world’s largest portfolio of majority-owned spine companies. Since 2000, we’ve pioneered Less Exposure Spine Surgery (LESS™) and the REP™ philosophy (Restore function • Early treatment • Preserve anatomy) to shift spine care from rigid fusions to motion-preserving outpatient procedures.
Building on this legacy, we have founded a new specialty—Interventional Spine Surgery. By merging the precision of minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) with the percutaneous nature of interventional pain management, we are creating a new standard of care that delivers LESS risk, LESS surgery time, LESS blood loss, LESS tissue disruption, LESS recovery time, LESS cost, LESS complications, LESS pain, and LESS need for opioids—for more patients worldwide.
Our Value Creation Strategy
KIC Ventures specializes in full acquisitions and the long-term operation of our own technology firms. We take a sustainable, hands-on approach to building value over a 5–10 year horizon, ensuring our portfolio companies are not just managed, but engineered for lasting clinical impact and investor growth.
Our Story
From Harvard Medical School to Global HealthTech Innovation
In 2000, orthopedic spine surgeon Dr. Kingsley R. Chin filed his first patent while at Harvard. Five years later, he sold the MANTIS™ percutaneous screw system to Stryker, validating his vision of building a private equity platform that predicts and creates trends in spine surgery.
Today, KIC Ventures stands as the private equity firm with the largest portfolio of revenue-generating spine companies, anchored by acquisitions such as AxioMed (viscoelastic disc) and NanoFuse Biologics (FDA-cleared synthetic bone graft).
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Empowering Future Leaders
Since 2005, the KIC Ventures Mentorship Program has trained high school to graduate students in clinical surgery, innovation, and commercialization — in partnership with MIT, Northeastern, and University of the West Indies.
Many alumni now lead in spine surgery and healthtech — proof of our commitment to “give back while giving forward.
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