Arnold Ventures

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Arnold Ventures is a philanthropy dedicated to tackling some of the most pressing problems in the United States. We invest in sustainable change, building it from the ground up based on research, deep thinking, and a strong foundation of evidence. We drive public conversation, craft policy, and inspire action through education and advocacy.

We are a team of more than 80 subject-matter experts headquartered in Houston with offices in New York and Washington, D.C. We work in four key issue areas: health, criminal justice, public finance, and education.

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2010

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Apr 21, 2026	The Casino Model: Why Medtech VCs Are Betting Billions on Unproven AI	Leeza Osipenko, PhD Founder and CEO of Consilium Scientific Last week I ended up at a fancy venue hired by a hopeful medtech company trying to impress potential investors with delicious food and an emotional story about their life-saving de...
Mar 27, 2026	Every Cure’s drug repurposing strategy isn’t what you think, and it could change rare disease treatment	Every Cure is using AI to seek new uses for the roughly 4,000 existing drugs, and cutting traditional preliminary research timelines from as much as 100 days to as little as 17 hours. Treatment for a specific disease is not the focus; inste...
Sep 15, 2025	Climate Action Learning Lab helps state and local leaders identify and impl...	This spring, J-PAL North America — a regional office of MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) — launched its first ever Learning Lab, centered on climate action. The Learning Lab convened a cohort of government leaders who are...
Aug 27, 2024	MDRC, Arnold Ventures Expand Groundbreaking Partnership that Supports Evidence and Data in Policymaking and Practice	New seven-year collaboration will significantly expand MDRC's work in evidence-based policy NEW YORK, Aug. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- MDRC is pleased to have received a new multiyear grant from Arnold Ventures building on a decade-long c...
Apr 25, 2024	Health \| Medicare’s push to improve chronic care attracts businesses, but not many doctors	Phil Galewitz, Holly K. Hacker \| (TNS) KFF Health News Carrie Lester looks forward to the phone call every Thursday from her doctors’ medical assistant, who asks how she’s doing and if she needs prescription refills. The assistant counsels ...
Mar 22, 2024	Years later, states' drug pricing boards have yet to bring down costs	Five years after the creation of the first state board empowered to cap prescription drug costs, patients still haven't seen any savings from these efforts. Why it matters: Even as more blue and purple states embrace public drug pricin...
Mar 7, 2024	Health \| Why even public health experts have limited insight into stopping gun violence in America	By Christine Spolar \| KFF Health News (TNS) Gun violence has exploded across the U.S. in recent years — from mass shootings at concerts and supermarkets to school fights settled with a bullet after the last bell. Nearly every day of 2024 so...
Feb 16, 2024	National Politics \| In fight over Medicare payments, the hospital lobby shows its strength	Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News, Colleen DeGuzman \| KFF Health News (TNS) In the battle to control health care costs, hospitals are deploying their political power to protect their bottom lines. The point of contention: For decades, Medicare...
Apr 12, 2023	A controversial hire at Arnold Ventures raises questions about the donor’s stance on addiction	A philanthropic giant’s recent hire of a researcher with controversial theories on naloxone access is raising alarms among public health advocates who worry the move marks a shift in major donors’ approach to addiction treatment. Arnold Ven...
Mar 23, 2023	Updated FAFSA Launch Officially Delayed Two Months To December	US First Lady Michelle Obama speaks about college affordability with students, parents and ... [+] counselors as they fill out the FAFSAAFP via Getty Images
Jan 17, 2023	‘Big Brothers’ Can Have a Lasting Impact on Kids, Study Finds	Timothy Witchet was just a kid in Houston when he saw a TV show that would, in a roundabout way, change his life. It was an episode of the sitcom “The King of Queens” wherein protagonist Doug Heffernan signs up to be a “big brother” to a bo...
Aug 17, 2022	Inflation Reduction Act could be "game-changing" for millions of U.S. seniors	The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that President Biden signed into law Tuesday represents the most important effort in decades to reform how drug prices are set in the U.S. — the nation that spends more per capita on medicine than any other...
May 3, 2022	Global health should not be determined by pharma investors and shareholders	What could go wrong when pharmaceutical company shareholders and investors shape the public health response to Covid-19? Everything, of course, including perpetuating the pandemic with immense avoidable suffering and death. And that’s exact...
Feb 4, 2022	Laura Arnold, Richard Kinder, and more pump $20M into Houston nonprofit news outlet	Houston will soon have a new source for independent and community-minded journalism, thanks to a $20 million infusion by a group of local nonprofits. Houston Endowment, the Kinder Foundation, and Arnold Ventures announced the launch of an i...
Feb 4, 2022	Houston group launches equitable fund of funds to increase impact at a lower barrier of entry	Early stage investing has always been a tried and true way for investors to get in on the ground floor of a tech company for a smaller financial commitment — but it's risky. Urban Capital Network has created an alternative. UCN was fou...
Apr 2, 2021	Reforming and improving organ transplant systems will save lives, taxpayer dollars	Every day, 33 people — disproportionately people of color — die in the U.S. as they wait for organ transplants. Most of these deaths, and the suffering that precedes it, are preventable. Given that Covid-19 causes organ failure, the problem...
Jan 17, 2021	HHS Regulations With Enduring Impact On Pricing And Reimbursement Of Medical Services And Technologies	Seema Verma, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks with an ... [+] attendee during an Operation Warp Speed vaccine summit at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. Photographer...
Aug 10, 2020	Baltimore's Aerial Surveillance Program Has Logged 700 Flight Hours, One (1) Arrest	The Baltimore PD's eye in the sky program continues. First (inadvertently) introduced to the public in 2016, the camera/Cessna system, made by a company called Persistent Surveillance Systems, flew above the city capturing up to 32-squ...
Aug 10, 2020	Baltimore's Aerial Surveillance Program Has Logged 700 Flight Hours, One (1) Arrest	The Baltimore PD’s eye in the sky program continues. First (inadvertently) introduced to the public in 2016, the camera/Cessna system, made by a company called Persistent Surveillance Systems, flew above the city capturing up to 32-square m...
Jul 24, 2019	A simple bureaucratic organ donation fix will save thousands of lives	The partisan debates raging across the U.S. are often framed as a battle for the nation’s soul. The battle for our nation’s organs, however, is a distinctly more bipartisan affair. Both President Trump — via executive order — and elected of...
	Republican lawmakers issues warnings about ‘far-left’ Facebook board billionaire John Arnold	Ahead of the election, Republican lawmakers are raising alarm bells about Texas billionaire John Arnold, who was appointed to Meta’s board earlier this year — warning he could undermine the efforts to keep speech free and open on Facebook a...
	Inflation Reduction Act could be "game-changing" for millions of U.S. seniors	The Inflation Reduction Act represents the most important effort in decades to reform how drug prices are set in the U.S., experts say. "This is going to be game-changing," Rena Conti, an associate professor at Boston University&#...

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FAQ about Arnold Ventures

When was Arnold Ventures founded?

Arnold Ventures was founded in 2010.

What has the press written about Arnold Ventures?

Parsers VC has collected 23 articles mentioning Arnold Ventures, among them “The Casino Model: Why Medtech VCs Are Betting Billions on Unproven AI” (Apr 21, 2026) and “Every Cure’s drug repurposing strategy isn’t what you think, and it could change rare disease treatment” (Mar 27, 2026).

Is Arnold Ventures still active?

Yes, Arnold Ventures is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 7, 2026.