Healthwell Acquisition Corp. I (Nasdaq: HWELU) is a blank check company that focuses on effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses, with a strategic emphasis on technology-enabled companies in the healthcare industry; it offers no current products or services beyond its special purpose acquisition structure, including units comprising common stock and warrants held in trust for deployment in a target combination. Incorporated in 2021 and headquartered in Winnetka, Illinois, the company operates as a subsidiary of Healthwell Acquisition Corp. I Sponsor LLC and maintains its primary activities in the United States without specified international geographic operations or additional segments beyond its pre-combination phase. In April 2023, it entered a definitive business combination agreement with Starton Therapeutics, Inc., targeting a post-transaction enterprise value of $339 million to advance proprietary continuous delivery technologies for cancer treatments including multiple myeloma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia; the transaction terminated in November 2023 as closing conditions were unmet by the outside date, prompting Healthwell to pursue alternative combinations, followed by a redemption of public shares in late 2023 with no further merger announcements as of late 2025.