Marc Lore

Marc Lore is the serial commerce founder behind Diapers.com (sold to Amazon) and Jet.com (sold to Walmart for $3.3B), now building Wonder, the food delivery and meal-kit aggregator. His angel checks reflect that lineage: consumer-facing, brand-led, operationally complex businesses where logistics or distribution is the moat. On the healthcare side, his interest skews toward digital health and wellness/consumer-health plays that look more like DTC commerce than clinical infrastructure, with a stated openness to AI-enabled angles. Check sizes start around $250k and go up from there at Seed and Series A, often rolling alongside institutional leads rather than pricing rounds himself. New York-based, with national reach. Founders most likely to land him: consumer health, longevity, food-as-medicine, or wellness brands with a sharp customer acquisition story, ideally with a former Walmart, Jet, or Quidsi operator on the cap table or as a warm intro. Telehealth-light, pure-clinical workflow, biotech, and life sciences tools founders will get less traction here; this is not a pharma or diagnostics check. Entry path is LinkedIn (the profile is active) or a warm intro through Wonder, Walmart eCommerce alumni, or his Vroom and Archer board networks. Lore writes from conviction about the founder more than the sector, so the cold note should be about why you, not why now in healthcare.