Rigby Watts & Company

The firm's venture deal flow is substantially driven by Andrew Rigby's operating experience. Having founded and scaled Nursa Inc., an on-demand healthcare staffing marketplace that became one of the fastest-growing companies in the US and closed a large Series B, Rigby operates within a network of health-tech founders and operators. This gives the firm visibility into early-stage healthcare companies that might not appear in broad auction processes. The firm targets 'audacious entrepreneurs' building breakthrough solutions in healthcare technology and services.

Rigby Watts & Company is structured as a financial advisory and investment firm, not a dedicated single-family office. However, Andrew Rigby — before co-founding the firm — founded and managed a single-family office for an ultra-high-net-worth family in the region. The firm today manages public-market investment and retirement assets for multiple individuals and families, and runs a private-markets practice spanning real estate development and venture capital.

The firm describes itself as an early-stage investor with a focus on healthcare technology and healthcare services companies. It looks to invest at the seed and startup stages. The partners' own entrepreneurial background — including starting and scaling Nursa through a Series B — suggests they are comfortable entering at formation and early commercialization phases where operating input can materially shape trajectory.

The firm's stated model emphasizes direct investments. Its real estate practice directly develops and acquires healthcare facilities, while its venture capital arm makes direct early-stage equity investments in companies. There is no public indication that Rigby Watts operates as a fund-of-funds or allocates to external private equity or venture funds.

The firm's stated real estate philosophy is to 'amass a curated collection of boutique healthcare real estate assets for long-term prosperity.' Adam Watts leads this effort with a background that includes developing over sixteen medical and office facilities across the Wasatch Front. His prior experience handling joint venture structures, debt financing, and REIT roll-ups at Clifford Chance and Mintz Levin suggests an institutional approach to deal structuring applied to a tightly focused healthcare sub-strategy.

Co-Founder and Partner Andrew Rigby leads all investment management and venture capital activities. Co-Founder and Partner Adam Watts leads all real estate development, investment, and acquisition activities. The governance structure beyond this functional split is not disclosed publicly, though the firm appears to operate with the two partners retaining direct control over their respective domains.

The firm publicly commits to three areas: public-market stocks and bonds, healthcare real estate, and healthcare-focused venture capital. By concentrating exclusively on these segments, it implicitly avoids sectors such as consumer technology, industrial tech, and energy transition — none appear in its stated investment mandate or portfolio commentary.