Wisdom Ventures

Established in 2021 and headquartered in Los Gatos, California, Wisdom Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investing globally in compassionate wellness startups within the healthcare sector.

Diego Perez Lacera

General Partner

27 past transactions

Seven Starling

Series A in 2024
Seven Starling is a digital clinic dedicated to addressing perinatal mental health conditions, including postpartum depression and anxiety. The clinic employs an evidence-based care model that combines individualized therapy, peer support, and medication to effectively treat these conditions. Research indicates that approximately 90% of patients experience improvement within three months of receiving care. In addition to its mental health services, Seven Starling offers an online healthcare platform featuring live, expert-led classes tailored for expecting and new parents. This platform provides essential education on childbirth and quality prenatal and postpartum care, fostering a supportive community that aids parents throughout their pregnancy and child development journey.

Light

Venture Round in 2024
Light Phone, Inc. is a company that specializes in designing, manufacturing, and selling mobile phones, along with offering service plans and SIM cards. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, the company aims to provide a more focused mobile experience through its product, the Light Phone II. This phone is designed to deliver essential communication features while minimizing distractions from social media, news, and email. By prioritizing utility and peace of mind, Light Phone seeks to redefine mobile technology for users who want to reduce digital clutter in their lives.

ShareWell

Seed Round in 2024
Founded in 2021, ShareWell offers a peer assistance platform facilitating small group video sessions focused on mental health, relationships, and personal growth. It provides immersive, non-clinical support at a lower cost than traditional therapy.

Overture Life

Series B in 2024
Overture Life, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in New York, established in 2017, that specializes in developing robotic solutions for in vitro fertilization (IVF) applications. The company focuses on automating the IVF process through innovative medical devices and embryo testing methodologies, which enhance the efficiency and success rates of fertility treatments. By optimizing resource use and lowering costs, Overture Life aims to make IVF more accessible to a broader audience. Its technology includes automated cryopreservation and embryo testing services, enabling fertility clinics to identify viable embryos prior to implantation, thereby improving patient outcomes and supporting individuals in their journey to parenthood.

Oben Health

Seed Round in 2024
Oben Health is a digital health company that focuses on providing a comprehensive treatment platform aimed at addressing heart disease through lifestyle modification rather than medication or surgery. The platform supports users by tracking their daily activities and optimizing key lifestyle areas, including nutrition, exercise, stress management, and social support. By integrating behavioral health, mindfulness, and somatic therapy, Oben Health seeks to promote overall well-being and health equity, enabling individuals to reverse the effects of heart disease based on clinical research. The company's holistic approach encompasses various aspects of health, including cardiovascular wellness, mental health, and nutrition services.

SnoutID

Seed Round in 2024
SnoutID is a digital platform that pays veterinary practices in real time. In 48 hours, they can have automated records retrieval processes, touch-free checkins, payment processing, and loan options for their veterinary practice. SnoutID also provides a complete medical history for their patient as well as customized, digitally signed forms. Its mission is to ensure that no pet parent ever has to make a health decision based on the amount of money in their bank account. Snout enables veterinarians to provide high-quality care to all pets.

Function Health

Seed Round in 2023
Function Health is a health platform focused on providing individuals with lab tests to monitor their health effectively. The company has developed a comprehensive health data platform designed to assess personal disease risk through routine whole-body lab testing. Function Health also offers personalized guidance from leading medical professionals, empowering patients to take proactive steps in managing their health and well-being. By combining advanced testing capabilities with expert insights, Function Health aims to enhance individual health outcomes and promote preventive care.

Options MD

Seed Round in 2023
Options MD is a telemedicine platform that employs AI-driven algorithms to match individuals with severe or treatment-resistant mental illnesses to personalized care options. It then connects these patients with in-house psychiatric experts for appropriate medical assistance.

Wayfinder

Series A in 2023
Wayfinder, founded at Stanford University's d.school, provides a comprehensive K-12 curriculum focused on developing essential future-ready skills beyond traditional social-emotional learning. The program emphasizes Self-Awareness, Adaptability, Empathy, Collaboration, Agency, and Purpose, aiming to connect classroom learning with real-world applications. Wayfinder includes the Waypoints assessment suite for real-time insights into student growth, supporting targeted instruction and timely interventions. Since 2015, it has been positively received by students and teachers alike, showing improvements in engagement, social awareness, and sense of purpose. The program serves students globally, including major US school districts, and has earned high ratings from the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and Common Sense Education.

YourPath

Seed Round in 2023
YourPath is a healthcare company focused on improving access to care for individuals dealing with substance use disorders. The company specializes in medication-assisted treatment, particularly for those recovering from opioid addiction, including substances like heroin and painkillers. Through its online platform, YourPath offers a combination of effective, evidence-based medical and behavioral healthcare solutions. The platform emphasizes the importance of genuine human connections in the recovery process, facilitating a more comfortable and supportive journey to de-addiction for its users.

Clayful

Seed Round in 2023
Clayful is a mental wellness platform that provides preventative mental health support for youth, offering real-time access to trained human coaches. The service connects students aged eight to fourteen with mental health professionals and provides chat-based coaching, enabling students, educators, and families to manage emotions, strengthen relationships, and improve school engagement.

Sunnyside

Series A in 2023
Sunnyside develops an alcohol tracking app that helps individuals build healthier drinking habits. It creates personalized plans based on users' current habits and goals, setting daily reminders via text messages to limit alcohol intake.

Rapport

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Rapport is a technology company that specializes in enhancing team dynamics and employee well-being. It offers an AI-powered platform designed to facilitate quick, regular check-ins, tracking energy levels, workload, and mindset. The platform provides real-time AI-driven support, suggesting relevant resources, and offers managers actionable insights through trend analysis and AI-assisted messaging. It enables leaders to maintain continuous visibility into team morale and emerging issues, helping organizations foster trust, enhance communication, and proactively address challenges in hybrid and remote work environments.

Betterleave

Seed Round in 2023
Betterleave is a digital health platform dedicated to providing personalized care for individuals navigating grief and loss. It offers a comprehensive bereavement benefits service that supports employees coping with the death of a loved one, including family members, friends, colleagues, pets, or pregnancy loss. The platform combines human guidance with advanced software to engage users effectively, connecting them to essential resources and ongoing support. Betterleave’s services include individual grief counseling, group support, and navigation assistance through the complexities of bereavement. By integrating with insurers and partnering with employers, Betterleave coordinates value-driven care that enhances outcomes, reduces costs, and improves the overall member experience throughout the bereavement process.

Substack

Equity Crowdfunding in 2023
Substack operates a subscription-based publishing platform that enables writers to create, publish, and monetize newsletters. The platform supports both free and paid subscriptions and allows content to be published to a reader email list and a website. It includes editing tools and templates to design newsletters and handles subscriber payments, aiming to simplify monetization and direct engagement between writers and readers. Substack focuses on selling subscriptions without advertisements, helping independent writers build audience relationships and revenue streams. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

OpenAI

Venture Round in 2023
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops general-purpose artificial intelligence technologies and applies them to real-world problems. It conducts machine learning research and builds systems such as large-scale language models, multimodal input handling, and code generation to support automation, data analysis, content generation, and interactive problem solving across industries including technology, healthcare, and education. The organization offers platforms and APIs that enable enterprises, developers, and researchers to build, test, and deploy intelligent systems, with plug-in extensibility and ongoing model updates to improve performance and safety.

Vitalize Care

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Vitalize Care builds software for healthcare organizations to optimize clinical operations, beginning with staffing and scheduling to reduce labor costs and improve efficiency, while easing administrative burdens on clinical leaders. The company also offers a wellness platform designed to support staff mental and emotional well-being, incorporating cognitive behavioral therapy tools and evidence-based digital mental health resources. The solution provides real-time data on staff well-being and performance and includes a dashboard that tracks mental health trends, app engagement, and drivers of burnout. This combination enables employers to understand needs, target interventions, and sustain a healthier, more productive workforce, ultimately supporting better patient care.

Seven Starling

Seed Round in 2023
Seven Starling is a digital clinic dedicated to addressing perinatal mental health conditions, including postpartum depression and anxiety. The clinic employs an evidence-based care model that combines individualized therapy, peer support, and medication to effectively treat these conditions. Research indicates that approximately 90% of patients experience improvement within three months of receiving care. In addition to its mental health services, Seven Starling offers an online healthcare platform featuring live, expert-led classes tailored for expecting and new parents. This platform provides essential education on childbirth and quality prenatal and postpartum care, fostering a supportive community that aids parents throughout their pregnancy and child development journey.

Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies

Funding Round in 2023
MAPS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research and educational organization that develops medical, legal, and cultural contexts for people to benefit from the careful uses of psychedelics and marijuana. The organization is focused on developing psychedelics and marijuana into prescription medicines, training therapists and working to establish a network of treatment centers, supporting scientific research into spirituality, creativity, and neuroscience, and educating the public honestly about the risks and benefits of psychedelics and marijuana. MAPS was founded in 1986 by Rick Doblin and is headquartered in Santa Cruz, California.

Hume AI

Series A in 2023
Hume AI, established in 2021, specializes in developing AI models that enable technology to understand and respond to human emotions. Headquartered in New York and San Jose, the company offers a range of products, including expression measurement models, text-to-speech models, and speech-language models, all grounded in advanced research from psychology and machine learning. Hume AI's technology analyzes facial expressions, voice inflections, text, and other data sources to gain insights into human feelings and engagement. By prioritizing scientific rigor and ethical AI practices, Hume AI serves diverse industries, enhancing human-technology interactions with empathy and authenticity.

Arbor

Seed Round in 2023
Arbor is a carbon accounting platform that enables businesses to calculate and reduce emissions efficiently. It offers automated Product Carbon Footprinting (PCF) to compute emissions across product lifecycles, identify emission hotspots, and optimize product designs for reduced emissions.

OYE

Seed Round in 2022
OYE is a wellness app focused on enhancing emotional well-being through mind-body practices and community engagement. The platform offers daily emotional check-ins, personalized goal setting, and mindful notifications to help users transform their emotions into creative actions. Available in both Spanish and English, OYE provides guided reflections and expressive movement practices aimed at shifting moods and improving interpersonal relationships. By fostering a supportive environment, OYE enables members of the Latino community to enhance their mental health, experience personal growth, and build connections regardless of their location.

Momentu

Seed Round in 2022
Momentu supports employee mental health by offering a platform that assesses emotional needs and provides personalized digital content, therapy, and coaching sessions. This helps reduce absenteeism and boost team productivity.

Peoplehood

Seed Round in 2022
Peoplehood operates an online community platform focused on fostering relationships through guided group conversations. The platform encourages peer-to-peer interaction, collaboration, and personal growth, helping users establish new connections and improve their interpersonal skills.

Walking on Earth

Seed Round in 2021
Walking on Earth (WONE) is a precision health platform for workplace stress. The WONE Method blends the latest advances in AI technology and science to measure stress and provide targeted micro moments of recovery, when employees need it the most.
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