Why I Invested in Carecubes

When my friend and longtime colleague Betsy Cohen first told me about Carecubes, it immediately caught my attention. Betsy and I have worked together for years—she served on my board at Aetna and has launched some of the most innovative businesses in finance and health. So when she said, “I’ve got this guy, Alex Laskey, and he’s building something really special,” I listened.

We took a closer look at the idea, and what I saw was exactly the kind of solution the healthcare system needs more of: practical, timely, and built to solve a real-world problem.

Carecubes takes any standard hospital bed and turns it into an isolation bed—instantly, affordably, and effectively. In the middle of a pandemic, when we were running out of ICU space, bringing in hospital ships, and converting nursing homes into triage centers, this felt like common sense innovation.

It still does.

I’ve spent enough time in hospitals to know the stakes. In early 2020, following complications from spinal surgery, I spent weeks in an ICU—waking up to a world I didn’t recognize. Providers were walking around in hazmat suits. People were dying of COVID all around me. I had no idea what had happened. It was like waking up in the middle of a dystopian movie.

That experience crystallized something for me: we are not prepared. And we can’t go through that again.

Carecubes is the kind of tool that can make the next crisis less devastating. It meets three of the core criteria I look for in any healthcare investment:

• • Cost: Traditional negative pressure isolation rooms are expensive and scarce. Carecubes reduce the cost dramatically.
  • Quality: They allow for bedside care, frequent monitoring, and family access—without compromising safety.
  • Scalability: In a pandemic or outbreak, the ability to instantly expand isolation capacity is invaluable.

When I met Alex, I was struck by his clarity and discipline. He wasn’t trying to build some hype-fueled company in search of a problem. He had a focused vision and a mission-driven mindset to solve a very specific problem – with some of the leading experts in the world working on the team.

Innovation doesn’t always start in the most glamorous corners of the market. The first transistor radios didn’t sound great—but they changed everything. Same with the earliest Japanese cars. Big shifts often start with quiet solutions to unsexy problems. I believe Carecubes is one of those solutions.

It’s a beachhead. And I suspect it’s just the beginning of something much bigger.

I’m proud to be part of this team and to support a company that’s doing the hard, essential work of protecting patients, empowering providers, and making our healthcare system more resilient.

We won’t avoid the next pandemic by hoping it doesn’t come.

But with tools like Carecubes, we’ll be ready for it.