8VC

8VC, established in 1969 and headquartered in San Francisco, is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies across various sectors, with a focus on enabling industry transformation. The firm, which is a Registered Investment Adviser, partners with founders to develop transformational technologies, targeting sectors such as healthcare, logistics, biology, IT infrastructure, and government & defense. 8VC aims to create long-term economic and societal value through its investments, promoting innovation and global prosperity.

Serena Ge

Campus Associate

Bhaskar Ghosh

Partner and CTO

Francisco Gimenez

Partner

Jin-Young Kim

Partner

Alex Kolicich

Founding Partner

Seth Lieblich

Principal

Jake Medwell

Co-Founder and Partner

Alex Moore

Partner

David Moskowitz

Principal

Allison Pavlick

Principal

Justin Rose

Associate

Kimmy Scotti

Founding Partner

Past deals in Health Insurance

Arlo Health

Seed Round in 2025
Developer of a health insurance platform designed to provide affordable and employee-centric healthcare coverage. The company offers AI-powered plan management, concierge support, and predictable renewal rates, enabling businesses to control costs, enhance employee satisfaction, and simplify benefits administration.

Even

Series A in 2024
Even is a health tech company that collaborates with leading hospitals to provide comprehensive healthcare services through a subscription model. Its offerings include unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and hospitalization coverage valued at up to 50 lakh. The company simplifies the reimbursement process by directly transferring funds to partner hospitals, ensuring a seamless experience for members. By charging a recurring monthly fee, Even aims to address critical long-term health needs for individuals, making healthcare more accessible and manageable.

Candid Health

Series B in 2024
Candid Health is a platform that automates revenue cycle management for healthcare providers, facilitating efficient tracking of claims and management of billing processes. Utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence, the platform streamlines medical billing, coding, and claims processing, thereby reducing administrative burdens and enhancing operational efficiency. By offering end-to-end automation, Candid Health optimizes financial operations for clinics and hospitals, allowing healthcare providers to concentrate on delivering quality, affordable, and accessible care while ensuring faster service reimbursement. The platform seamlessly integrates with existing systems, providing modern tools that simplify the complexities of medical billing and improve overall patient experiences.

Even

Venture Round in 2024
Even is a health tech company that collaborates with leading hospitals to provide comprehensive healthcare services through a subscription model. Its offerings include unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and hospitalization coverage valued at up to 50 lakh. The company simplifies the reimbursement process by directly transferring funds to partner hospitals, ensuring a seamless experience for members. By charging a recurring monthly fee, Even aims to address critical long-term health needs for individuals, making healthcare more accessible and manageable.

Harbor Health

Series A in 2024
Harbor Health is a multi-specialty clinic group based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2022. The organization focuses on delivering personalized, patient-centered healthcare by utilizing technology to enhance the patient experience. Harbor Health offers a collaborative approach to healthcare, working closely with individuals to understand their health goals and providing access to specialists when necessary. The clinic provides a variety of services, including primary care, chronic disease management, behavioral health, and overall wellness. Patients benefit from same-day and virtual appointment options, as well as conveniently located clinics, ensuring that healthcare is accessible and responsive to their needs.

Endear Health

Series A in 2023
Endear Health is a technology company focused on addressing the needs of an aging population. It has developed an online healthcare platform that serves as a single access point for Medicare-eligible individuals, enabling them to efficiently manage their health and benefits. The platform offers user-friendly tools that help seniors collect and organize important health information, allowing them to navigate healthcare challenges and take control of their well-being. Through its innovative approach, Endear Health aims to empower older adults in their healthcare journeys.

Nest Health

Venture Round in 2023
Nest Health is a family healthcare platform that provides a range of medical services aimed at reducing the stress associated with traditional healthcare arrangements. The company specializes in delivering in-home and virtual visits for patients of all ages, including newborns, children, teens, and adults. Their offerings encompass preventive care, sick visits, behavioral health support, nutrition guidance, and chronic disease management. By enabling patients to receive care in the comfort of their homes, Nest Health seeks to enhance accessibility and convenience in healthcare delivery.

Harbor Health

Series A in 2022
Harbor Health is a multi-specialty clinic group based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2022. The organization focuses on delivering personalized, patient-centered healthcare by utilizing technology to enhance the patient experience. Harbor Health offers a collaborative approach to healthcare, working closely with individuals to understand their health goals and providing access to specialists when necessary. The clinic provides a variety of services, including primary care, chronic disease management, behavioral health, and overall wellness. Patients benefit from same-day and virtual appointment options, as well as conveniently located clinics, ensuring that healthcare is accessible and responsive to their needs.

Digital Diagnostics

Series B in 2022
Digital Diagnostics Inc. is an artificial intelligence diagnostics company focused on enhancing healthcare through technology. Founded in 2010 by Michael Abramoff, MD, PhD, the company has developed a suite of autonomous algorithms that analyze medical images to detect various diseases. Its flagship products include IDx-DR, which identifies diabetic retinopathy; IDx-G, which monitors glaucoma indicators; and IDx-AMD, designed to detect age-related macular degeneration. The company also offers algorithms for diagnosing conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular disease, and stroke risk. By providing these innovative solutions, Digital Diagnostics aims to improve the quality, accessibility, equity, and affordability of healthcare worldwide. Operating from Coralville, Iowa, the company distributes its products both domestically and internationally, striving to integrate autonomous AI into standard clinical practices and enhance patient outcomes.

Candid Health

Series A in 2022
Candid Health is a platform that automates revenue cycle management for healthcare providers, facilitating efficient tracking of claims and management of billing processes. Utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence, the platform streamlines medical billing, coding, and claims processing, thereby reducing administrative burdens and enhancing operational efficiency. By offering end-to-end automation, Candid Health optimizes financial operations for clinics and hospitals, allowing healthcare providers to concentrate on delivering quality, affordable, and accessible care while ensuring faster service reimbursement. The platform seamlessly integrates with existing systems, providing modern tools that simplify the complexities of medical billing and improve overall patient experiences.

Endear Health

Seed Round in 2022
Endear Health is a technology company focused on addressing the needs of an aging population. It has developed an online healthcare platform that serves as a single access point for Medicare-eligible individuals, enabling them to efficiently manage their health and benefits. The platform offers user-friendly tools that help seniors collect and organize important health information, allowing them to navigate healthcare challenges and take control of their well-being. Through its innovative approach, Endear Health aims to empower older adults in their healthcare journeys.

Better Health

Series A in 2021
Better Health is a support and supplies platform designed to improve the management of chronic conditions such as ostomy, chronic wounds, diabetes, chronic retention, and incontinence through peer-to-peer connections. The platform offers expert guidance to help patients select and use the appropriate medical supplies while providing education and support to enhance engagement and adherence to treatment. This approach is endorsed by healthcare payers and providers, leading to better health outcomes, reduced overutilization of services, and improved mental health for users. Better Health operates across 48 states and collaborates with major payers, including Medicare, Medicaid, and several private insurers. The platform boasts a high customer satisfaction rating of 98%, reflecting its effectiveness in modernizing the medical supplies industry and lowering healthcare costs for insurers and patients alike.

DocStation

Seed Round in 2021
DocStation, Inc. is a cloud-based patient care platform designed for pharmacists, incorporated in 2017 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. The platform connects payers and pharmacists to facilitate value-based programs, aiming to reduce healthcare costs while enhancing patient outcomes. With over 500 providers collaborating with innovative health plans, DocStation equips pharmacists with tools that streamline patient management. Its comprehensive dashboard allows for the maintenance of current diagnoses, medications, immunizations, and allergies, while also facilitating the creation of care plans, monitoring adherence, and scheduling follow-ups. By enabling real-time connections between pharmacists and patients, DocStation supports a shift towards value-based care in the pharmacy sector.

Cityblock

Series C in 2021
Cityblock Health, established in 2017 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, operates a personalized health system tailored to meet the unmet health and social needs of Medicaid and Medicare populations. The company's online platform offers integrated primary care, behavioral health, and virtual care services, along with a communication and task management tool called Commons. Cityblock's model focuses on prevention-oriented care and collaboration with community-based organizations to deliver personalized care to low-income urban residents. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company developed a risk assessment model to identify high-risk members within its network.

Better Health

Seed Round in 2021
Better Health is a support and supplies platform designed to improve the management of chronic conditions such as ostomy, chronic wounds, diabetes, chronic retention, and incontinence through peer-to-peer connections. The platform offers expert guidance to help patients select and use the appropriate medical supplies while providing education and support to enhance engagement and adherence to treatment. This approach is endorsed by healthcare payers and providers, leading to better health outcomes, reduced overutilization of services, and improved mental health for users. Better Health operates across 48 states and collaborates with major payers, including Medicare, Medicaid, and several private insurers. The platform boasts a high customer satisfaction rating of 98%, reflecting its effectiveness in modernizing the medical supplies industry and lowering healthcare costs for insurers and patients alike.

Honor

Series D in 2020
Honor is a leading senior care network and technology platform that focuses on enhancing the quality of life for older adults and their families. Founded in 2014 by Cameron Ring, Monica Lo, Sandy Jen, and Seth Sternberg in San Francisco, California, Honor has established itself as a pioneer in the home care industry. The company offers expert in-home care services for seniors, leveraging an integrated system of third-party care providers. By combining scalable workforce management with personalized care, Honor enables older adults to live safely and comfortably in their own homes. In 2021, Honor expanded its reach by acquiring Home Instead, enhancing its capabilities through a global network and a relationship-based care model. This strategic move positions Honor to address the evolving needs of aging adults and professional caregivers worldwide.

Cityblock

Series B in 2020
Cityblock Health, established in 2017 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, operates a personalized health system tailored to meet the unmet health and social needs of Medicaid and Medicare populations. The company's online platform offers integrated primary care, behavioral health, and virtual care services, along with a communication and task management tool called Commons. Cityblock's model focuses on prevention-oriented care and collaboration with community-based organizations to deliver personalized care to low-income urban residents. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company developed a risk assessment model to identify high-risk members within its network.

WellPay

Seed Round in 2020
WellPay, Corp. is a healthcare financial technology company that specializes in developing applications to assist independent medical practices and their patients. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, with additional offices in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Columbia, Maryland, WellPay's platform enables healthcare providers to manage and send bills digitally. It streamlines the billing process by offering real-time reporting and management tools for billers, while also presenting patients with clear, comprehensible medical bills and convenient payment options. The company serves a variety of medical sectors, including urgent care, primary care, anesthesiology, dermatology, radiology, obstetrics, psychiatry, sports rehabilitation, and chiropractic care, aiming to enhance the billing experience for both providers and patients.

Candid Health

Seed Round in 2020
Candid Health is a platform that automates revenue cycle management for healthcare providers, facilitating efficient tracking of claims and management of billing processes. Utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence, the platform streamlines medical billing, coding, and claims processing, thereby reducing administrative burdens and enhancing operational efficiency. By offering end-to-end automation, Candid Health optimizes financial operations for clinics and hospitals, allowing healthcare providers to concentrate on delivering quality, affordable, and accessible care while ensuring faster service reimbursement. The platform seamlessly integrates with existing systems, providing modern tools that simplify the complexities of medical billing and improve overall patient experiences.

Cityblock

Series B in 2019
Cityblock Health, established in 2017 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, operates a personalized health system tailored to meet the unmet health and social needs of Medicaid and Medicare populations. The company's online platform offers integrated primary care, behavioral health, and virtual care services, along with a communication and task management tool called Commons. Cityblock's model focuses on prevention-oriented care and collaboration with community-based organizations to deliver personalized care to low-income urban residents. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company developed a risk assessment model to identify high-risk members within its network.

Digital Diagnostics

Series A in 2018
Digital Diagnostics Inc. is an artificial intelligence diagnostics company focused on enhancing healthcare through technology. Founded in 2010 by Michael Abramoff, MD, PhD, the company has developed a suite of autonomous algorithms that analyze medical images to detect various diseases. Its flagship products include IDx-DR, which identifies diabetic retinopathy; IDx-G, which monitors glaucoma indicators; and IDx-AMD, designed to detect age-related macular degeneration. The company also offers algorithms for diagnosing conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular disease, and stroke risk. By providing these innovative solutions, Digital Diagnostics aims to improve the quality, accessibility, equity, and affordability of healthcare worldwide. Operating from Coralville, Iowa, the company distributes its products both domestically and internationally, striving to integrate autonomous AI into standard clinical practices and enhance patient outcomes.

Honor

Series C in 2018
Honor is a leading senior care network and technology platform that focuses on enhancing the quality of life for older adults and their families. Founded in 2014 by Cameron Ring, Monica Lo, Sandy Jen, and Seth Sternberg in San Francisco, California, Honor has established itself as a pioneer in the home care industry. The company offers expert in-home care services for seniors, leveraging an integrated system of third-party care providers. By combining scalable workforce management with personalized care, Honor enables older adults to live safely and comfortably in their own homes. In 2021, Honor expanded its reach by acquiring Home Instead, enhancing its capabilities through a global network and a relationship-based care model. This strategic move positions Honor to address the evolving needs of aging adults and professional caregivers worldwide.

Notable

Seed Round in 2018
Notable is an AI-driven platform designed to enhance healthcare operations and improve physician-patient interactions. Deployed at over 10,000 care sites, it automates more than a million repetitive workflows daily, including processes related to registration, scheduling, authorizations, and chart reviews. The platform features a voice-powered application that organizes physician-patient conversations and dictations while securely recommending appropriate billing codes. By streamlining these tasks, Notable reduces manual workload for caregivers and fosters personalized care for patients, ultimately contributing to better financial health for healthcare providers.

Oscar Health

Venture Round in 2018
Oscar Health is a health insurance company based in New York, founded in 2012 by Joshua Kushner, Kevin Nazemi, and Mario Schlosser. It specializes in offering individual and family health insurance plans, Medicare Advantage programs for seniors, and small group products. Oscar Health aims to enhance the healthcare experience by leveraging technology, design, and data to make services more accessible and user-friendly. The company primarily serves individuals, couples, and families who do not receive employer-sponsored health insurance in select states, including New York, New Jersey, California, and Texas. In addition to traditional insurance offerings, Oscar provides virtual care, doctor support, and appointment scheduling, emphasizing a comprehensive approach to healthcare management.

BenRevo

Convertible Note in 2017
BenRevo Inc. is a company that specializes in developing online platforms tailored for large group health insurance carriers. Founded in 2015 and based in San Diego, California, BenRevo aims to modernize the process of purchasing health insurance, which is traditionally cumbersome and error-prone. Its platform facilitates a digital marketplace that connects employers, brokers, and insurance carriers, streamlining the shopping experience. By automating manual tasks and enabling users to shop, compare, and finalize insurance policies online, BenRevo enhances price transparency and reduces errors associated with the paper-heavy installation process. The company's innovative approach addresses the needs of the $185 billion mid-market insurance sector, promoting operational efficiency and improved analytics for its clients.

Color

Series B in 2016
Color is a healthcare technology company that offers a comprehensive platform for population health management, facilitating equitable and accessible healthcare delivery. The company specializes in large-scale health initiatives, providing solutions that include population genomics programs and high-throughput testing services, such as those for COVID-19. By centralizing essential healthcare capabilities, Color enables businesses, schools, and state public health departments to implement effective preventive health programs, regardless of the geographical distribution of their populations. Its innovative approach addresses various healthcare logistics challenges, streamlining processes related to testing, screening, treatment, and referrals, while creating diverse market opportunities and revenue streams for clinical teams.

Honor

Series B in 2016
Honor is a leading senior care network and technology platform that focuses on enhancing the quality of life for older adults and their families. Founded in 2014 by Cameron Ring, Monica Lo, Sandy Jen, and Seth Sternberg in San Francisco, California, Honor has established itself as a pioneer in the home care industry. The company offers expert in-home care services for seniors, leveraging an integrated system of third-party care providers. By combining scalable workforce management with personalized care, Honor enables older adults to live safely and comfortably in their own homes. In 2021, Honor expanded its reach by acquiring Home Instead, enhancing its capabilities through a global network and a relationship-based care model. This strategic move positions Honor to address the evolving needs of aging adults and professional caregivers worldwide.

Medal

Seed Round in 2016
Medal, Inc. is a healthcare company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in the extraction, transportation, translation, and sharing of medical information. Founded in 2015, the company focuses on facilitating the review, coordination, referral, analysis, billing, and auditing of medical data to enhance efficiency in healthcare administration. As of July 2020, Medal operates as a subsidiary of CIOX Health, further strengthening its capabilities in the healthcare industry.

Call9

Series A in 2016
Call9, Inc. operates a mobile technology platform designed to connect nursing home patients with emergency physicians for immediate care. Established in 2015 and based in Brooklyn, New York, Call9 offers a tele-EM platform that allows skilled nursing facility (SNF) nurses to activate clinical care specialists when a patient experiences an acute medical event. This platform enables rapid access to board-certified emergency medicine physicians, who provide bedside care and perform necessary point-of-care tests, such as labs and ultrasounds. By facilitating timely interventions, Call9 effectively keeps over 80% of patients in their nursing home beds during emergencies, thereby reducing the need for costly hospital transfers and significantly saving healthcare costs. The company aims to redefine telemedicine standards by ensuring 24/7 access to specialized medical care without the constraints of traditional healthcare facilities.
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