iiCare was born in a hospital hallway, where co-founder Kiam Cook found himself navigating cancer treatment for both his mother and grandmother—two women fighting for their lives without equitable access to the care they deserved. Despite the compassion of medical teams, the harsh reality remained: access to lifesaving innovation was often dictated by ZIP code and income. That experience left Kiam with two life-defining questions—why should access to advanced care depend on wealth or geography, and could philanthropy work like an investment, recycling every dollar to help the next family?

Around the same time, Kiam’s close friend and future partner Nathan Harris faced a parallel crisis. While his father battled cancer, his mother was in the ICU with COVID pneumonia—again, a family fighting for survival while struggling to access critical resources. Nathan, too, walked away from the hospital with urgent questions: how can we give back through the very innovations we help bring to life, and how can we help the companies we serve keep their promises to the people who need them most?

Fueled by shared purpose, Kiam, Nathan, and a coalition of innovators, financiers, and community organizers created a dual-solution model. iiCare became a professionally managed philanthropic fund that treats generosity as catalytic capital—recycled, not just spent—while Immersion emerged as a venture studio that co-creates and scales community-driven solutions. Together, they are building a regenerative system where impact multiplies and no one has to settle for less.