Prakash Ramani

Prakash Ramani is a Managing Director in Loop Capital Markets' Investment Banking Division, where he serves as Head of Healthcare. He joined the firm in August 2006 to help build and lead its Healthcare Investment Banking Group, and has since overseen the growth of a healthcare platform that delivers capital markets, financial consulting, and equity research to the firm's clients. Loop Capital reports that he has helped bring more than 50 unique healthcare entities to market, representing over $40 billion in capital-raising activity, including non-traditional issuers such as proton therapy centers, osteopathic medical schools, behavioral-therapy providers, and micro-hospitals.

His background is unusually clinical for a banker. He holds an M.D. from Drexel University and an M.S. in Healthcare Administration from Rush University Medical Center, where his thesis examined the use of interest-rate derivatives by healthcare entities. Earlier in his career he did basic-science research at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Medical College of Pennsylvania, and he is a published author in outlets ranging from The Journal of Healthcare Finance and the Healthcare Financial Management Association to Clinical and Experimental Immunology and the Journal of Investigative Dermatology. In total he brings more than 20 years of combined healthcare and financial-services experience.

Ramani is a registered broker at Loop Capital Markets (FINRA CRD record) and is publicly listed as a Managing Director on the firm's leadership pages. He is based in Chicago and has spoken publicly on healthcare finance topics, including a 2019 presentation on bond financing at the National Association of Proton Therapy conference.

His angel-investing activity is separate from his Loop Capital role and is comparatively light: aggregators (Crunchbase, PitchBook, Tracxn) record his entry into startup investing in 2018 via a single disclosed deal, Slyngshot Health.

• Invests personally as an individual/angel rather than through a fund; classified as an "Individual/Angel" investor by Crunchbase and Tracxn.
• Focus tracks his professional expertise: healthcare and digital health, where his M.D. + healthcare-banking background gives him deep domain diligence ability.
• Comfortable at the seed stage — his one disclosed check was a seed round.
• Appears to back Chicago-area, founder-led healthcare startups, co-investing alongside other prominent local investors.
• Note: no publicly stated thesis or check-size range has been published; his investing footprint is small and specialized rather than programmatic.