Nardo Manaloto

Managing Partner, Qubits Ventures

Nardo is a computer scientist, deep tech executive and startup entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience in the full innovation life cycle, emerging technologies, startup ecosystems development, startup acceleration and scaling, digital transformation, business readiness, and enterprise system transition from legacy systems to modern architectures. Nardo Manaloto is the CEO of Catalaize, a deep tech and healthcare innovation ecosystem supporting investors in due diligence, startups in their readiness and acceleration journey, and companies strategic technology initiatives. Nardo is also the Managing Partner of Qubits Ventures, a VC firm and startup accelerator specializing in early stage quantum and photonics tech startups. Nardo is excited about quantum and photonic technologies and what it can bring to healthcare, life sciences, biotech, medical devices, and pharma industries.

Nardo has worked with many healthcare stakeholders including health plans, providers, patients, and community points of view. He previously headed up Kaiser Permanente’s Innovation, Solution Design, and System Transition groups and has applied a full innovation life cycle to scale new solutions and sunset legacy systems on an enterprise level.

He has also worked with technology startups including roles as Chief Product Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, and Chief Technology Officer with companies that utilize smart virtual data fabrics, artificial intelligence algorithms and capabilities. 

Nardo has won several healthcare innovation awards for solutions spanning the areas of artificial intelligence, secure messaging, communication and social collaboration, mobile applications, and virtual care.