Jonathan Bush

Jonathan Bush is the co-founder and former CEO of athenahealth, currently CEO of Zus Health, the patient-data API and infrastructure company. His angel pattern is digital health, healthcare software, and women’s and reproductive health, with an obvious preference for companies operating at the unsexy seam of clinical workflow, EHR data, and provider operations. AI focus not flagged as primary. $100k-$250k at pre-seed and seed. Boston-based. Best fit: founders with athena-shaped instincts about provider workflow, billing, and the messy reality of EHR data; clinical infrastructure plays; women’s health companies that respect the regulatory and clinical operations side. He is unusually candid and brings real operator scar tissue; expect strong opinions about why most digital health pitches fail. Entry path is LinkedIn or, better, a warm intro through Zus partners, athena alumni, or the Boston health tech ecosystem. Not a great fit for biotech, devices, consumer wellness brands, or anything with a vague provider go-to-market. Bush will ask exactly how a small practice or a large health system buys, integrates, and renews you; he has been in the room more than almost anyone. If your sales motion is hand-wavy, do more work before you reach out.