Define Ventures

We are an early stage venture capital firm solely focused on investing in digital health companies. We partner with entrepreneurs with the digital health focus and expertise that they deserve to redefine healthcare that will change all of our lives.

Lynne Chou

Founder and Managing Partner

Kristi Ebong

Head of Partnerships and Market Development

Chuka Esiobu

Senior Associate

Chirag Shah

Principal

Past deals in Health Care

9am.health

Series A in 2022
9am.health redesigns all care elements into one digital service individualized around today’s reality of people’s life - always available and convenient, at prices anyone can afford even without insurance. 9am.health focuses on chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia for customers in the United States.

Soda Health

Seed Round in 2021
Soda Health is a healthcare technology company focused on building solutions that eliminate health inequities and create a healthier America.

Lightship

Series C in 2021
Lightship is a provider of enterprise-level, direct-to-patient clinical research solutions. The company engages patients at home from recruitment through completion and eliminates the hurdles and inefficiencies of traditional approaches. Founded in 2018, Lightship is based in El Segundo, California.

Verana Health

Series D in 2020
Innovation in healthcare is hindered by the time and cost of bringing new products to market. Verana Health is partnering with medical associations to build a regulatory-grade data platform for health care innovation that utilizes specialty clinical data sets. Verana Health’s platform enables physicians and industry to work together towards their shared goal of accelerating the availability of better treatments and cures for patients. Learn more at veranahealth.com.

DexCare

Series B in 2022
DexCare is a provider of Platform-as-a-Service offering to manage health system capacity and demand across all lines of care. The company enables health systems to evolve their traditional, one-to-one, patient-to-provider relationships and transform into a highly scalable digital experience for their patients— increasing revenue from new, digital-first patients while minimizing new patient acquisition costs. DexCare was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Cohere Health, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Cohere Health is a patient-journey-focused software-as-a-service company on a mission to significantly improve the experience of patients, providers and health plans; increase the quality of care delivered; lower total cost of care; and increase transparency across the patient care journey.

Intrinsic Brands

Venture Round in 2023
Intrinsic Brands is an eCommerce acquisition and growth platform uniquely focused on digital-first health and wellness brands.

Folx Health

Seed Round in 2020
Folx Health is a digital health services platform that builds a medical service marketplace tailored towards the queer community. It combines access to a specialized network of queer and trans clinicians with a tailored focus on clinical offerings that are typically marginalized in traditional health settings. The startup focuses on providing patients gender-affirming hormone therapy, sexual health, and family creation services. Other services include erectile dysfunction treatment, PrEP, and STI testing. The company was founded by Agneta Breitenstein in 2019 in Boston, Massachusets.

Concert Health, Inc.

Series B in 2022
Concert Health is building a better, integrated behavioral health system. We are starting by helping medical groups integrate behavioral health services into their practices. Concert provide the remote specialist clinicians (therapists & psychiatrists), know-how, and technology infrastructure to help physician practices deliver high-quality, evidence based behavioral health care and take advantage of Medicare's new Collaborative Care Management (CoCM) reimbursement opportunities. You are the conductor, we help fill out your symphony.

Tia

Seed Round in 2019
At Tia, we believe that the healthcare system was not built with women in mind. Today, considering that women control 80% of healthcare dollars in the U.S., Tia is seizing the opportunity to build a new, distinctly female model of care digitally and physically. Tia is backed by leading healthcare and consumer funds, including Torch Capital, Define Ventures, Homebrew, Threshold Ventures, and Acme Ventures.

Soda Health

Series A in 2022
Soda Health is a healthcare technology company focused on building solutions that eliminate health inequities and create a healthier America.

MedArrive

Series A in 2021
MedArrive, Inc. owns and operates a software-as-a-service technology health platform. It enables healthcare providers to extend care services through integrated care management platform. It also integrates clinical data into electronic medical records software and provides communication and billing capabilities. The company is based in New York, New York.

Unite Us

Series C in 2021
Unite Us is a veteran-led technology company that builds coordinated care networks connecting health and social service providers together. The company helps systems and communities efficiently deliver care and services by inter-connecting providers across communities, seamlessly integrating the social determinants of health into patient care. Providers across the continuum and community are able to externally refer and track every patient’s total health journey, while reporting on all tangible outcomes across a full range of services in a centralized, cohesive, and collaborative ecosystem. This social infrastructure helps communities move beyond legacy resource directories, and transform their ability to measure impact, improved health, and outcomes at scale.

Story Health Corporation

Series A in 2022
Story Health Corporation develops intelligent embedded virtualized clinical care software tools for healthcare specialists. The company offers software tools, virtual patient programs, and analytics for patients therapy. It serves specialty healthcare providers, including neurologists and primary care physicians. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Saratoga, California.

MedArrive

Seed Round in 2020
MedArrive, Inc. owns and operates a software-as-a-service technology health platform. It enables healthcare providers to extend care services through integrated care management platform. It also integrates clinical data into electronic medical records software and provides communication and billing capabilities. The company is based in New York, New York.

Centivo

Venture Round in 2021
Centivo Corporation provides health insurance plans for employers, employees, and clinicians. It also offers member experience, claims administration, and employer support. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut with additional offices in New York and Buffalo, New York.

Tia

Series B in 2021
At Tia, we believe that the healthcare system was not built with women in mind. Today, considering that women control 80% of healthcare dollars in the U.S., Tia is seizing the opportunity to build a new, distinctly female model of care digitally and physically. Tia is backed by leading healthcare and consumer funds, including Torch Capital, Define Ventures, Homebrew, Threshold Ventures, and Acme Ventures.

Centivo

Series B in 2020
Centivo Corporation provides health insurance plans for employers, employees, and clinicians. It also offers member experience, claims administration, and employer support. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut with additional offices in New York and Buffalo, New York.

9am.health

Seed Round in 2021
9am.health redesigns all care elements into one digital service individualized around today’s reality of people’s life - always available and convenient, at prices anyone can afford even without insurance. 9am.health focuses on chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia for customers in the United States.

DexCare

Series A in 2021
DexCare is a provider of Platform-as-a-Service offering to manage health system capacity and demand across all lines of care. The company enables health systems to evolve their traditional, one-to-one, patient-to-provider relationships and transform into a highly scalable digital experience for their patients— increasing revenue from new, digital-first patients while minimizing new patient acquisition costs. DexCare was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Intrinsic Brands

Series A in 2021
Intrinsic Brands is an eCommerce acquisition and growth platform uniquely focused on digital-first health and wellness brands.

Cohere Health, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Cohere Health is a patient-journey-focused software-as-a-service company on a mission to significantly improve the experience of patients, providers and health plans; increase the quality of care delivered; lower total cost of care; and increase transparency across the patient care journey.

Unite Us

Series B in 2019
Unite Us is a veteran-led technology company that builds coordinated care networks connecting health and social service providers together. The company helps systems and communities efficiently deliver care and services by inter-connecting providers across communities, seamlessly integrating the social determinants of health into patient care. Providers across the continuum and community are able to externally refer and track every patient’s total health journey, while reporting on all tangible outcomes across a full range of services in a centralized, cohesive, and collaborative ecosystem. This social infrastructure helps communities move beyond legacy resource directories, and transform their ability to measure impact, improved health, and outcomes at scale.

Tia

Series A in 2020
At Tia, we believe that the healthcare system was not built with women in mind. Today, considering that women control 80% of healthcare dollars in the U.S., Tia is seizing the opportunity to build a new, distinctly female model of care digitally and physically. Tia is backed by leading healthcare and consumer funds, including Torch Capital, Define Ventures, Homebrew, Threshold Ventures, and Acme Ventures.

Folx Health

Seed Round in 2020
Folx Health is a digital health services platform that builds a medical service marketplace tailored towards the queer community. It combines access to a specialized network of queer and trans clinicians with a tailored focus on clinical offerings that are typically marginalized in traditional health settings. The startup focuses on providing patients gender-affirming hormone therapy, sexual health, and family creation services. Other services include erectile dysfunction treatment, PrEP, and STI testing. The company was founded by Agneta Breitenstein in 2019 in Boston, Massachusets.

Folx Health

Venture Round in 2020
Folx Health is a digital health services platform that builds a medical service marketplace tailored towards the queer community. It combines access to a specialized network of queer and trans clinicians with a tailored focus on clinical offerings that are typically marginalized in traditional health settings. The startup focuses on providing patients gender-affirming hormone therapy, sexual health, and family creation services. Other services include erectile dysfunction treatment, PrEP, and STI testing. The company was founded by Agneta Breitenstein in 2019 in Boston, Massachusets.

Story Health Corporation

Seed Round in 2020
Story Health Corporation develops intelligent embedded virtualized clinical care software tools for healthcare specialists. The company offers software tools, virtual patient programs, and analytics for patients therapy. It serves specialty healthcare providers, including neurologists and primary care physicians. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Saratoga, California.

Lightship

Series B in 2020
Lightship is a provider of enterprise-level, direct-to-patient clinical research solutions. The company engages patients at home from recruitment through completion and eliminates the hurdles and inefficiencies of traditional approaches. Founded in 2018, Lightship is based in El Segundo, California.

Folx Health

Series A in 2021
Folx Health is a digital health services platform that builds a medical service marketplace tailored towards the queer community. It combines access to a specialized network of queer and trans clinicians with a tailored focus on clinical offerings that are typically marginalized in traditional health settings. The startup focuses on providing patients gender-affirming hormone therapy, sexual health, and family creation services. Other services include erectile dysfunction treatment, PrEP, and STI testing. The company was founded by Agneta Breitenstein in 2019 in Boston, Massachusets.