Colin Anawaty
Colin Anawaty is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and lifelong technologist who has pursued startups in advertising, entertainment, finance, and healthcare industries across the coastlines.
About Colin
Colin is the former co-founder and chief product officer at First Dollar, a technology company that builds healthcare benefits infrastructure before its acquisition by Inspira Financial in 2024.
Before First Dollar, Colin co-founded and led the product efforts of the care coordination platform Patient IO from inception to acquisition by athenahealth in 2016. At athenahealth, Colin served as executive director for 3 years overseeing value-based care initiatives until its private-equity merger with GE Healthcare.
In his community, Colin gives back as a startup advisor and mentor, a policy advocate on the Hill for important issues like patent reform, healthcare interoperability, & health care affordability, and has given guest lecturers at the University of Texas on entrepreneurship. He is a proud donor to the Friends of ACL, the longest running live music broadcast in the world presented on PBS, and is a bedroom musician comfortable on the guitar, piano, and drums.
At home, he is a husband, father to two boys, and a pet to two dogs from neighborhood in Austin, Texas.