Morgan DeBaun, founder and CEO of Blavity Inc, is stepping into a louder chapter of her investment journey. This spring, she is committing $100,000 across four early-stage health startups and making it public on purpose.
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“I’ve been a quiet angel investor for years. One, maybe two deals a year. Small checks. No announcements,” she wrote in a recent Substack post. “But I’m done being quiet about it.”
For DeBaun, the shift is personal. She recently turned 36 and is raising two children under three while building companies alongside her husband. “That’s me sitting in a doctor’s office last year, realizing I didn’t have a primary care doctor because I didn’t have time. That’s embarrassing. And it’s also extremely common.”
She believes technology is finally catching up to what people actually need.
“The health system we have right now is not designed for how we actually live,” she wrote, pointing to a system built around acute crises instead of prevention and long-term understanding. She sees opportunity in artificial intelligence tools that help patients interpret lab results, connect food to clinical outcomes, and reduce administrative overload for clinicians.
Through AfroTech, which she founded and grew from 650 attendees to 40,000 over the past decade, DeBaun has met a wave of founders building in health tech. Many struggle to secure early capital due to regulatory hurdles and long development timelines.
“At AfroTech, we’ve seen less and less partners and firms be interested in early-stage founders who don’t have a profitable business or big traction,” she shared. “I don’t want to just watch these founders pitch anymore for the sake of pitching. I want to fund them.”
In her Instagram post announcing the move, she made her focus clear.
“I’m investing $100,000 over the next 90 days into health startups building: Digital health apps, AI-powered health tools, Telehealth and access platforms, Nutrition and food as medicine, Health data and analytics, Consumer health innovation. Technology should close gaps, not widen them.”
This time, she is not moving in silence.
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