# @balleralert on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-02-18T18:53:39.000+00:00
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Ballerific Women: Blavity Founder Morgan DeBaun Commits $100K to Early-Stage Health Startups⁠
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Blogged by: Thinktank⁠
🎥: morgandebaun⁠
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#MorganDeBaun, 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.”⁠
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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.”⁠
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She believes technology is finally catching up to what people actually need.⁠
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“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.⁠
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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.⁠
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“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.”⁠
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In her Instagram post announcing the move, she made her focus clear.

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