Blue Heron Capital

Blue Heron Capital invests in small-cap growth equity companies in healthcare and tech-enabled business services. The company believes in acting as committed partners to build value for companies and returns for their investors. Their firm brings strategic capital, industry expertise and a powerful network to support companies. Blue Heron Capital is an operationally focused investment firm based in Richmond, Virginia. The company firmly believes that people make the difference in building great companies. Therefore, Blue Heron Capital only invests in companies where they have deep, relevant experience and can play an active role in the oversight of the business.

Tom Benedetti

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Crenshaw, Gordon R.

Principal

Andrew Tichenor

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

28 past transactions

ShiftMed

Venture Round in 2023
ShiftMed is a nursing jobs app that delivers an on-demand workforce marketplace for credentialed nursing professionals. It offers access to a local marketplace with over 350,000 credentialed W-2 healthcare workers and an automated workforce management platform that allows acute, post-acute, and in-home providers to manage their resources dynamically. Health systems can offer a modern, unified solution to their workforce by utilizing mobile and cloud-based software that provides workforce optimization. This increases retention creates part-time work opportunities and reduces reliance on travel agencies. ShiftMed also provides access to additional local staff, lowering operating costs by 30-40% when compared to alternative travel staffing options.

AnswersNow

Series A in 2023
AnswersNow is an app that revolutionized autism support by utilizing the use of technology. All of their clinicians are board-certified behavioral analysts. With thousands of hours of training, ongoing certifications, and master's level education requirements.

Proof Technology

Series A in 2022
Proof is a legal technology company that instantly connects law firms with independent process servers nationwide. Law firms can create electronic serve requests 24/7, receive live updates, see mapped verification of all attempts, and connect directly to servers in real time. Proof also provides eFiling, skip tracing, notarization and other legal support services. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States.

ShiftMed

Venture Round in 2021
ShiftMed is a nursing jobs app that delivers an on-demand workforce marketplace for credentialed nursing professionals. It offers access to a local marketplace with over 350,000 credentialed W-2 healthcare workers and an automated workforce management platform that allows acute, post-acute, and in-home providers to manage their resources dynamically. Health systems can offer a modern, unified solution to their workforce by utilizing mobile and cloud-based software that provides workforce optimization. This increases retention creates part-time work opportunities and reduces reliance on travel agencies. ShiftMed also provides access to additional local staff, lowering operating costs by 30-40% when compared to alternative travel staffing options.

Aware

Series C in 2021
Aware is a cloud intelligence platform that adopts the latest advancements in cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, and behavioral analytics to amplify enterprise value by monitoring the social graph. They harness the power of their platform’s insights into human behavior and interactivity to create great value for the enterprise.

Kion

Series A in 2021
Kion is a cloud enablement solution designed to help organizations simplify management and governance activities to realize the full benefits of the cloud. Wherever you are on your cloud journey, Kion empowers organizations to go farther, faster.

Insightin Health

Series A in 2021
Insightin Health is a provider of data-driven decision-making technology for healthcare member acquisition, retention, and engagement. The core platform inGAGE™ combines medical, clinical, cognitive, and social determinants of health to recommend the Next Best Action (NBA) for each person. Health plans can improve quality measurements, gain higher member satisfaction, and increase member retention. The simple integration and easy to use inGAGE™ creates an effective shift towards a healthier population for health plans. The company was founded in 2016 and based in Baltimore, Maryland.

Aware

Series B in 2020
Aware is a cloud intelligence platform that adopts the latest advancements in cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, and behavioral analytics to amplify enterprise value by monitoring the social graph. They harness the power of their platform’s insights into human behavior and interactivity to create great value for the enterprise.

VIDA

Series C in 2020
VIDA modernizes lung and respiratory care, empowering healthcare organizations and physicians to improve patient outcomes, streamline care coordination and drive efficiencies through a comprehensive approach, proven quality, and clinical leadership. Through quantitative data intelligence and impactful visualizations, VIDA helps physicians manage patients with or at risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), interstitial lung disease (ILD), lung cancer, and now, COVID-19. VIDA’s software is FDA cleared, CE-marked, Health Canada licensed and TGA registered for clinical use in the US, European Economic Area, Canada, and Australia. Learn more at vidalung.ai.

Homecare.com

Venture Round in 2019
Homecare.com provides expert information, practical action steps, guides, resources, and personalized plans to help caregivers make sound decisions and successfully navigate the complex world of eldercare. It offers a whole new world for caregivers: one where they can do the very best for their parents, older family members, or friends who need care. Its platform helps the families and caregivers to connect with each other, enabling families and health care providers to interview, hire, and manage fully credentialed, insured, and bonded caregivers. Homecare.com was founded in 2014 and is based in Mclean, Virginia.
ChartSpan provides turn-key, managed care coordination and compliance programs for doctors, clinics and health systems. We manage patient care coordination programs for more than 100 of the most successful practices and health systems in the United States. ChartSpan's trained clinicians telephonicaly engage each doctors sickest patients, monthly, checking to make sure they are adhering to care plans, taking their medications, and addressing care issues they experience. Bi-directional clinical and billing data is managed and automated by integrating directly with each client's EHR system. ChartSpan delivers new revenue for practices, dramatically improves patient outcomes and drives MIPS compliance. ChartSpan is proud to have been named one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in America.

Stratasan

Venture Round in 2019
Stratasan’s software and services provide market intelligence to hospitals and healthcare systems, equipping them to make better decisions and maximize strategic growth. Their proprietary software platform and reality-driven data analysis provide a foundation for strategic growth including: strategic planning, marketing, physician relations, and mergers and acquisitions. This intelligence is delivered via their proprietary platform and their team of seasoned healthcare strategic growth professionals, they call Spark Services.
ChartSpan provides turn-key, managed care coordination and compliance programs for doctors, clinics and health systems. We manage patient care coordination programs for more than 100 of the most successful practices and health systems in the United States. ChartSpan's trained clinicians telephonicaly engage each doctors sickest patients, monthly, checking to make sure they are adhering to care plans, taking their medications, and addressing care issues they experience. Bi-directional clinical and billing data is managed and automated by integrating directly with each client's EHR system. ChartSpan delivers new revenue for practices, dramatically improves patient outcomes and drives MIPS compliance. ChartSpan is proud to have been named one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in America.

Verato

Series C in 2019
Verato is a cloud-based patient matching technology that is better, faster, and cheaper than today's standard matching technologies. We use a highly-curated, continuously-updated, self-learning database of identities and identity attributes spanning the entire U.S. adult population. This database acts as an “answer key” for identity data. We call this "referential matching." Verato uses this database as an answer key during matching to make matches no other approach can ever make—even if two records have out-of-date, errored, incomplete, and inconsistent identity data. Because of this approach, our match rates are the highest in the industry. We deliver sub-second performance and can securely handle hundreds of millions of transactions to support the largest organizations. Since, Verato is cloud-based, there is no software to deploy, support, and maintain. We deliver quick time-to-value (weeks, not months or years) and a lower total cost of ownership than any of the on-premises solutions being used today. Better, cheaper, faster.

Homecare.com

Venture Round in 2018
Homecare.com provides expert information, practical action steps, guides, resources, and personalized plans to help caregivers make sound decisions and successfully navigate the complex world of eldercare. It offers a whole new world for caregivers: one where they can do the very best for their parents, older family members, or friends who need care. Its platform helps the families and caregivers to connect with each other, enabling families and health care providers to interview, hire, and manage fully credentialed, insured, and bonded caregivers. Homecare.com was founded in 2014 and is based in Mclean, Virginia.

STARC Systems

Venture Round in 2017
STARC Systems is a manufacturer of a plastic alternative or drywall barriers for construction, restoration, and environmental isolation. Its modular, telescopic panel system is reusable, clean, and quiet and it offers a complete solution for any interior isolation situation. The temporary containment walls is uses in a variety of verticals including healthcare settings when there’s a need to protect sensitive occupied areas from the disruption of renovation. Timothy Hebert founded the Brunswick, Maine-based manufacturing company in 2014.

Avizia

Series A in 2016
Avizia is a provider of telehealth and remote conferencing platform to deploy and power system-wide telehealth programs. It is delivering on the vision of collaborative care for patients by connecting medical experts across distance through innovative, leading-edge telemedicine solutions. Supported by Cisco technology, Avizia delivers telemedicine that is as powerful as it is easy to use. Its end-to-end solution includes telemedicine devices, workflow management software, store-and-forward capabilities with EHR integration, and a line of peripherals, such as digital stethoscopes and examination cameras. Whether medical professionals are performing remote medical consultations or teaching a new procedure, Avizia makes the experience feel as if everyone is present. Avizia uses Cisco TelePresence technology to enable HD, real-time video collaboration in hospitals amongst patients and professionals.

Presence

Series C in 2015
PresenceLearning makes live, online special education related services available to K-12 students around the United States. As the leader in the delivery of clinical services via the web, PresenceLearning has provided over 2.5 million teletherapy sessions. Services include speech-language therapy, occupational therapy, behavioral interventions and mental health services, assessments, and early childhood services.

Verisma Systems

Venture Round in 2015
Verisma is a Release of Information (ROI) Technology and Services Company. Our patented, cloud-based platform is the industry’s first ROI Automation System. Built on over 10 years of experience, we manage the release workflow from start to finish better than anybody else. With our extensive HIPAA privacy and security tools and industry leading QA process, rest assured your organization will be fully compliant.

TRICAST

Venture Round in 2015
TRICAST is a pharmacy data analytics company utilizing industry expertise and powerful software tools to empower their clients. The company is navigating the complexities of today’s healthcare environment requires innovative solutions. To address these needs in a rapidly changing market, TRICAST has leveraged more than 25 years of technology and claims processing expertise, extensive client insight, and a team of industry experts. TRICAST specializes in providing pharmacy benefit management (PBM) consulting and services to customers throughout the United States, including Medicare eligibility audits, pricing audits, rejected claims analysis, Medicare eligibility audits, prescription drug event audits, rebate audits, request for proposal (RFP) services for PBM selection, and contract renegotiation services.

WiserTogether

Series B in 2014
WiserTogether’s personalized healthcare treatment comparison software enables consumers to choose the right treatment – most effective in the outcome, most personally suitable, and most cost-effective and affordable. The result is improved health and improved costs for consumers, their employers, payers, and providers. The company serves over 3 million people through their employers and health plans. It was founded in 2008 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

Apogee IT Services

Venture Round in 2014
IT terms like network support, security, data backup, and infrastructure are scary for many businesses. You may want to get rid of these burdens and have a provider you can trust to handle them (or to work seamlessly with your IT manager in-house). Apogee IT Services is a LOCAL managed services provider headquartered in Pittsburgh (Sewickley), with another office in Boston, MA. (They also have many clients in other states as well thanks to their ability to resolve many issues remotely.) When you choose us, you'll feel like they're an extension of your company - an advocate helping to provide the IT service and support that is critical for your daily operations.

CSA Medical

Series C in 2013
CSA Medical provides cryotherapy systems. It offers CryoSpray Ablation system, which enables the physicians to freeze, destroy, and remove unwanted tissues, as well as transports liquid nitrogen that is passed through a standard endoscope. CSA Medical was formerly known as Crymed Technologies and changed its name to CSA Medical in April 2006. The company was incorporated in 1993 and is based in Lutherville Timonium, Maryland.

Local Voice Media

Series B in 2013
Our mission is to re-establish a sense of local community through trustworthy information and compelling entertainment for our audience; creating an effective marketing tool for our advertisers.

Presence

Series B in 2013
PresenceLearning makes live, online special education related services available to K-12 students around the United States. As the leader in the delivery of clinical services via the web, PresenceLearning has provided over 2.5 million teletherapy sessions. Services include speech-language therapy, occupational therapy, behavioral interventions and mental health services, assessments, and early childhood services.

innRoad

Series B in 2012
innRoad is the only Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) hotel software solution that seamlessly integrates property management, global distribution, bookings and marketing–all on a single, easy-to-use platform designed exclusively for independent hoteliers, small hotel chains and hotel management companies.

CSA Medical

Series B in 2011
CSA Medical provides cryotherapy systems. It offers CryoSpray Ablation system, which enables the physicians to freeze, destroy, and remove unwanted tissues, as well as transports liquid nitrogen that is passed through a standard endoscope. CSA Medical was formerly known as Crymed Technologies and changed its name to CSA Medical in April 2006. The company was incorporated in 1993 and is based in Lutherville Timonium, Maryland.

CipherOptics

Venture Round in 2011
CipherOptics, Inc. provides data security and network encryption, and compliance grade data protection solutions to security enterprises, financial institutions, health care, and government agencies. The company offers CipherEngine, which delivers network-wide encryption to customers by providing an approach to security policy and encryption key management; CipherView, which is a security gateway management application that provides security administrators with a device management tool; SoftRemoteLT, which offers features to remote access users connecting to the corporate VPN; and CipherEngine Enforcement Point family of encryptors that are encryption appliances designed for the carrier Ethernet and MPLS markets. The company also offers MPLS security, metro Ethernet security, disaster recovery and data replication security, and network application security services. The company has strategic partnerships with EMC Corporation, IBM, Intel, and Raza Microelectronics, Inc. CipherOptics, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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