Mary Minno, a tech investor, has launched Treehub, an early-stage startup accelerator program for healthcare and AI. The six-month residency aims to help founders find product-market fit before guiding them towards company direction.

Minno was inspired by personal experiences with the healthcare system's inefficiencies. She teamed up with Esther Wojcicki and Anne Wojcicki, both from Stanford University, to fund academic-focused startups through the AI Health Fund.

The program is experimental and aims to work with founders at the earliest stages, even before a company is formed. The fund will support at least 60 companies in this iteration and has already backed several, including Clair Health and Dennis Walls' pediatric autism research.

Minno believes that Treehub's true value lies in its co-founding approach, strategic problem-solving and the early-stage support it provides to founders. The goal is to see which parts of the program can be scaled up after multiple iterations.