SemperVirens Venture Capital

SemperVirens is a venture capital investment firm based in San Mateo, California, founded in 2018. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in workforce technology, healthcare technology, and financial technology sectors, aiming to address various employer needs. With a team that possesses extensive industry experience and strong relationships, SemperVirens seeks to identify and support innovative companies that are poised for growth in these critical areas. As a Registered Investment Adviser, the firm is committed to making informed investment decisions that align with its strategic objectives.

Allison Gates

General Partner

Caribou Honig

General Partner

Colin Tobias

Partner

32 past transactions

Laguna Health

Series A in 2023
Laguna Health is a digital health insurance company that helps people realize their recovery potential. It was founded by Yoni Shtein and Yael Peled Adam in 2020 in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel.

ianacare

Series A in 2022
Ianacare, Inc. is a health care company focused on supporting family caregivers through its ianacare platform, which offers products and services via mobile applications. Founded in 2017 and based in Newton Center, Massachusetts, the company provides care management for individuals with chronic illnesses and other challenges. The platform facilitates connections among caregivers, care recipients, and care supporters, ensuring that users receive the encouragement and resources they need. Ianacare aims to empower caregivers by drawing on the experiences of caregivers, patients, and medical professionals, thereby addressing the complexities of caregiving in a comprehensive manner.

Fountain

Series C in 2022
Fountain, Inc. is a hiring platform focused on streamlining the recruitment process for companies with hourly workers across various industries, including retail, hospitality, and manufacturing. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, the company provides a mobile-first solution that enhances engagement and reduces candidate drop-off through automated scheduling and reminders via text and email. Fountain's software simplifies workforce management by integrating background checks and document signing, allowing employers to quickly screen and hire independent contractors. Serving a diverse clientele, including major companies like Uber and Safeway, Fountain operates in over 50 countries and 700 cities, helping organizations scale their hiring operations efficiently.

Finch

Series A in 2022
Finch is a developer of an application programming interface (API) that facilitates access to payroll and human resources systems. Founded in 2020 and based in Mountain View, California, the company's software allows administrators to connect their organizations to various applications in a compliant and secure manner. Finch's API integrates across multiple providers, enabling developers to access previously closed systems and serve as the source of truth for employee data and financial transactions. The platform supports a range of use cases, including lending, insurance, benefits, financial planning and analysis, and HR applications. Additionally, Finch's technology streamlines processes such as income verification, direct deposit transitions, and background checks for prospective employees.

CoverGo

Series A in 2022
CoverGo is an insurance technology company that offers a no-code, fully configurable platform designed for insurers, banks, and brokers, primarily in Asia. Its modular system provides an end-to-end solution encompassing policy administration, claims management, dynamic pricing, and underwriting, all facilitated through a robust set of open insurance APIs. This allows insurance companies to integrate with distribution partners effectively, create a comprehensive insurance ecosystem, and deliver products in a timely manner. CoverGo's platform supports various insurance lines, including property-and-casualty, health, and life insurance, enabling rapid product development and deployment. The company has received multiple accolades for its innovative solutions, including prestigious awards from the Hong Kong government and recognition as a market leader in both fintech and insurtech sectors. CoverGo is also backed by several prominent accelerators and incubators, reinforcing its position in the insurance technology landscape.

Mathison

Series A in 2022
Mathison is the first all-inclusive diversity hiring platform. We centralize hundreds of diverse talent networks and uses AI to help employers source diverse candidates for their most important roles. Mathison’s platform offers a robust candidate marketplace, tools for diversity measurement, detecting job description bias and diversity raining courses for employees.

Cylinder

Series A in 2022
Vivante Health, Inc. is a digital health company focused on addressing digestive health and chronic conditions. Founded in 2016, it has developed GIThrive, a technology platform designed to provide actionable insights for managing digestive issues. GIThrive offers a comprehensive digital gut health program that includes expert guidance, 24/7 support, and personalized care plans. The company also provides GIMate, an innovative portable breathalyzer that identifies trigger foods, and GutCheck, which analyzes gut bacteria to recommend tailored diets. Vivante Health emphasizes individualized care, utilizing a scalable platform that integrates real-time data from biometric devices and partners. This approach not only aims to reduce healthcare costs and improve employee health for large employers and health plans but also enhances user empowerment through advanced science and technology. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, with an additional office in Athens, Greece, Vivante Health continues to prioritize innovative solutions in the realm of digestive health.

Nayya

Series C in 2022
Nayya Health, Inc. is a digital health software company founded in 2019 and based in New York. The company leverages artificial intelligence and data science to enhance how employees select and utilize their employee benefits. Nayya's platform analyzes vast amounts of provider data to offer personalized recommendations for medical procedures and networks, ensuring users can access affordable, high-quality care. Additionally, the software assists users in searching for doctors and understanding their insurance options, while also providing relevant patient information to healthcare providers upon patient arrival.

ianacare

Series A in 2022
Ianacare, Inc. is a health care company focused on supporting family caregivers through its ianacare platform, which offers products and services via mobile applications. Founded in 2017 and based in Newton Center, Massachusetts, the company provides care management for individuals with chronic illnesses and other challenges. The platform facilitates connections among caregivers, care recipients, and care supporters, ensuring that users receive the encouragement and resources they need. Ianacare aims to empower caregivers by drawing on the experiences of caregivers, patients, and medical professionals, thereby addressing the complexities of caregiving in a comprehensive manner.

Fountain

Series C in 2021
Fountain, Inc. is a hiring platform focused on streamlining the recruitment process for companies with hourly workers across various industries, including retail, hospitality, and manufacturing. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, the company provides a mobile-first solution that enhances engagement and reduces candidate drop-off through automated scheduling and reminders via text and email. Fountain's software simplifies workforce management by integrating background checks and document signing, allowing employers to quickly screen and hire independent contractors. Serving a diverse clientele, including major companies like Uber and Safeway, Fountain operates in over 50 countries and 700 cities, helping organizations scale their hiring operations efficiently.

Hone

Series A in 2021
Hone Group Inc. is a company that develops and operates a platform for live online leadership and management training, primarily aimed at enhancing both hard and soft skills within organizations. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, Hone provides a comprehensive development platform that facilitates the sourcing, management, and delivery of instructor-led training programs. The company's offerings include training in areas such as management, diversity and inclusion, communication, conflict management, team building, and interpersonal skills. Hone's platform is designed to support organizations of various sizes by measuring the impact of training and promoting behavior change, human connection, and continuous progress. Through its innovative approach, Hone aims to uplift human skills development in modern, distributed teams.

Karat

Series C in 2021
Karat Inc., founded in 2014 and based in Seattle, Washington, specializes in technical interviewing methodologies and software. The company has pioneered the concept of Interview Engineering, conducting technical interviews for organizations seeking software engineers. Utilizing a community of Interview Engineers, Karat employs a proprietary interviewing infrastructure, standardized questions, and data-informed best practices to ensure fair and predictive interviews at scale. Their flagship product allows companies to record interviews, capture candidates' coding performances, structure feedback, and generate recommendations for hiring teams. By building a robust dataset of structured interview intelligence, Karat provides valuable hiring analytics to enhance the recruitment process for its clients.

Praisidio

Seed Round in 2021
Praisidio, Inc. is a company based in San Francisco, California, that focuses on designing and developing augmented intelligence tools aimed at mitigating talent risk for enterprise organizations. Established in 2019, Praisidio specializes in artificial intelligence-driven employee retention software tailored for talent management. The company's solutions leverage data-driven insights to help businesses effectively manage workforce challenges, enhance employee care, and prevent revenue loss associated with talent attrition.

Cocoon

Series A in 2021
Cocoon is a platform that provides employee leave benefits from compliance to payroll.

Multiverse

Series C in 2021
Multiverse offers apprenticeship opportunities tailored for non-graduate individuals, positioning itself as an alternative to traditional university education. Founded in 2016 and based in London, the company focuses on providing career-oriented apprenticeships that empower young people to take charge of their professional journeys. By facilitating access to high-quality training and resources, Multiverse aims to create a fulfilling career path for its participants, moving away from conventional corporate training methods. The company also incorporates digital tools to help apprentices build their profiles and engage in social networking, enhancing their learning experience and career prospects.

Spring Health

Series C in 2021
Spring Health is a behavioral healthcare service provider that focuses on improving employee mental well-being through personalized care solutions. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company utilizes proprietary assessments and machine-learning technology to evaluate the mental health conditions of individuals. Based on these evaluations, Spring Health matches employees to tailored care plans suited to their unique needs. Each member is supported by a Care Navigator who assists in exploring options, booking appointments with therapists, and connecting with experts in various fields, including work-life, legal, and financial services. By offering a comprehensive and effective approach to mental health care, Spring Health aims to enhance behavioral health benefits for employers and their employees.

Bravely

Series A in 2021
Bravely, Inc. provides guidance and conflict management services aimed at enhancing workplace health and employee satisfaction. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, the company operates a platform that connects employees with professional coaches and human resource professionals. This service allows employees to engage in confidential conversations about various workplace challenges, including performance, growth, relationships, and company culture. By facilitating these discussions, Bravely helps employees feel more comfortable and confident in addressing issues they may have been avoiding, ultimately leading to increased productivity and higher retention rates within their roles.

Brightline

Series B in 2021
Brightline is a technology-enabled behavioral health home for children and their families. Brightline delivers integrated care through innovative technology, virtual behavioral health services, and a collaborative care team focused on supporting children across developmental stages and their families.

ChartHop

Series B in 2021
ChartHop, Inc. is a provider of an organizational management platform that facilitates data-driven strategic planning for leaders and team members. Founded in 2018 and based in Brooklyn, New York, the platform integrates various aspects of an organization, including people, finance, and hiring processes, into a single view. ChartHop enables users to visualize essential employee data through real-time updated organizational charts and custom reporting tools. This allows companies to analyze key metrics such as departmental costs, employee demographics, and compensation structures without the need to aggregate data from multiple sources. By promoting efficiency and transparency, ChartHop empowers organizations to make informed decisions and effectively plan for their future.

Pinwheel

Series A in 2021
Developer of employment and income data platform designed to offer income data engineered for fintech innovation. The company's platform offers insights into the income data of people and powers use cases like direct deposit switching, income, and employment verification, and earned wage access, enabling financial institutions to become the primary bank, reduce risk, and activate users.

Nayya

Series B in 2021
Nayya Health, Inc. is a digital health software company founded in 2019 and based in New York. The company leverages artificial intelligence and data science to enhance how employees select and utilize their employee benefits. Nayya's platform analyzes vast amounts of provider data to offer personalized recommendations for medical procedures and networks, ensuring users can access affordable, high-quality care. Additionally, the software assists users in searching for doctors and understanding their insurance options, while also providing relevant patient information to healthcare providers upon patient arrival.

Mathison

Seed Round in 2021
Mathison is the first all-inclusive diversity hiring platform. We centralize hundreds of diverse talent networks and uses AI to help employers source diverse candidates for their most important roles. Mathison’s platform offers a robust candidate marketplace, tools for diversity measurement, detecting job description bias and diversity raining courses for employees.

Rightfoot

Seed Round in 2021
Rightfoot operates a financial technology platform focused on alleviating student debt for employees. The platform offers intelligent repayment recommendations and a structured pathway to financial freedom, allowing employers to contribute monthly towards their employees' student loan payments. Additionally, Rightfoot has developed a passwordless, consumer-permissioned financial data system tailored for banks and lenders. This innovative platform provides comprehensive banking and credit data without requiring users to log in, empowering financial institutions to make informed, data-driven lending decisions. Through these services, Rightfoot aims to enhance financial wellness and support both employees and lenders in managing educational debt and credit information.

XP Health

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an artificial intelligence-powered vision benefits platform designed to take care of human sight. The company's platform uses augmented reality, customer-centric design, and care navigation to offer a vision care platform that is a virtual-first approach for eye care and eyewear that can work as a standalone benefit or alongside any vision insurance plan and allows one to find in-person eye exams, take an online vision acuity test to renew prescriptions online and find personalized glasses, providing employees and their families with access to good-quality, comprehensive vision care at significantly lower costs while expanding their coverage.

Multiverse

Series B in 2021
Multiverse offers apprenticeship opportunities tailored for non-graduate individuals, positioning itself as an alternative to traditional university education. Founded in 2016 and based in London, the company focuses on providing career-oriented apprenticeships that empower young people to take charge of their professional journeys. By facilitating access to high-quality training and resources, Multiverse aims to create a fulfilling career path for its participants, moving away from conventional corporate training methods. The company also incorporates digital tools to help apprentices build their profiles and engage in social networking, enhancing their learning experience and career prospects.

Spring Health

Series B in 2020
Spring Health is a behavioral healthcare service provider that focuses on improving employee mental well-being through personalized care solutions. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company utilizes proprietary assessments and machine-learning technology to evaluate the mental health conditions of individuals. Based on these evaluations, Spring Health matches employees to tailored care plans suited to their unique needs. Each member is supported by a Care Navigator who assists in exploring options, booking appointments with therapists, and connecting with experts in various fields, including work-life, legal, and financial services. By offering a comprehensive and effective approach to mental health care, Spring Health aims to enhance behavioral health benefits for employers and their employees.

ChartHop

Series A in 2020
ChartHop, Inc. is a provider of an organizational management platform that facilitates data-driven strategic planning for leaders and team members. Founded in 2018 and based in Brooklyn, New York, the platform integrates various aspects of an organization, including people, finance, and hiring processes, into a single view. ChartHop enables users to visualize essential employee data through real-time updated organizational charts and custom reporting tools. This allows companies to analyze key metrics such as departmental costs, employee demographics, and compensation structures without the need to aggregate data from multiple sources. By promoting efficiency and transparency, ChartHop empowers organizations to make informed decisions and effectively plan for their future.

Brightline

Series A in 2020
Brightline is a technology-enabled behavioral health home for children and their families. Brightline delivers integrated care through innovative technology, virtual behavioral health services, and a collaborative care team focused on supporting children across developmental stages and their families.

Rula

Venture Round in 2019
Path is a comprehensive addiction treatment solution designed for employers and organizations, focusing on the treatment and management of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) for employees and their families. The company collaborates with experienced healthcare professionals and visionaries to deliver scientifically validated treatment for SUD on a large scale. Path aims to provide an affordable and accessible approach to managing addiction as a chronic illness, ensuring that individuals have the necessary resources to address their needs effectively. Through its innovative solutions, Path seeks to improve the overall well-being of employees while supporting organizations in fostering a healthier workforce.

Vetty

Seed Round in 2018
Vetty, Inc. is a company that specializes in creating an artificial intelligence-based employee verification platform tailored for gig-economy marketplaces and enterprises. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, Vetty offers a mobile and desktop platform that facilitates identity and background verification during the hiring process. The platform includes various checks such as identity verification, criminal background checks, credential assessments, financial checks, driving record evaluations, and drug testing. By serving industries like hospitality, technology, financial services, healthcare, and staffing, Vetty aims to enhance hiring efficiency while reducing risks associated with remote hiring. Additionally, the platform empowers job seekers by providing them with access to their background information, thereby supporting their skill development in alignment with current labor market demands.
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