Frist Cressey Ventures

Frist Cressey Ventures, LLC is a venture capital firm established in 2015 and based in Nashville, Tennessee. The firm specializes in investing in early and growth stage companies within the healthcare sector. It focuses on accelerating the development of high-potential healthcare enterprises by forming value-added partnerships. Frist Cressey Ventures seeks to invest in technology and service businesses that offer viable solutions aimed at enhancing the quality of care, improving system integration, and advancing patient outcomes and population health. The firm collaborates with entrepreneurs who share similar core values and are committed to transforming the healthcare landscape.

Christopher Booker

Partner

Navid Farzad

Partner

Riley Macdonald

Senior Associate

Matt Schappell

Senior Associate

William Trapnell

Associate

Caroline Young

VP of Partnership Development

Past deals in Southeastern US

Thyme Care

Series A in 2021
Thyme Care is a Nashville TN-based provider of oncology care management solutions.

Monogram Health

Series B in 2021
Monogram Health, Inc. is a Nashville-based company that specializes in kidney care services for patients with chronic kidney disease. Founded in 2019, it offers a range of services aimed at managing kidney disease progression, dialysis, and pre-emptive kidney transplants. The company focuses on optimizing health outcomes for patients undergoing dialysis. Monogram Health emphasizes a personalized approach to care, tailoring each patient's plan to align with their specific health goals and social determinants of health. By partnering with health plans and other healthcare sponsors, Monogram Health facilitates collaboration among patients, their support systems, and healthcare providers to achieve improved health outcomes.

Main Street Health

Series A in 2021
Main Street Health is a value-based healthcare provider dedicated solely to rural America. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

Ready

Series C in 2020
Ready Responders was founded in 2016 with the mission of giving patients direct access to healthcare professionals in their homes and giving Responders the opportunity to provide care in their communities. Responders travel to patients’ homes to address their physical, mental, and social health needs, utilizing technology to connect with an advanced medical or behavioral health provider, and connecting them with external resources and relationships for ongoing, sustained support. With Ready Responders, patients now have access to quality whole-person care in their homes, 16 hours a day, 365 days a year, and talented individuals are provided the opportunity to work with a rapidly growing, mission-driven company. They are in-network with most major insurance companies in the markets they serve. Ready Responders is backed by leading venture capital firms, including Google Ventures, Founders Fund, Rise of the Rest, and City Lights Capital.

Monogram Health

Series A in 2020
Monogram Health, Inc. is a Nashville-based company that specializes in kidney care services for patients with chronic kidney disease. Founded in 2019, it offers a range of services aimed at managing kidney disease progression, dialysis, and pre-emptive kidney transplants. The company focuses on optimizing health outcomes for patients undergoing dialysis. Monogram Health emphasizes a personalized approach to care, tailoring each patient's plan to align with their specific health goals and social determinants of health. By partnering with health plans and other healthcare sponsors, Monogram Health facilitates collaboration among patients, their support systems, and healthcare providers to achieve improved health outcomes.

Ready

Series B in 2020
Ready Responders was founded in 2016 with the mission of giving patients direct access to healthcare professionals in their homes and giving Responders the opportunity to provide care in their communities. Responders travel to patients’ homes to address their physical, mental, and social health needs, utilizing technology to connect with an advanced medical or behavioral health provider, and connecting them with external resources and relationships for ongoing, sustained support. With Ready Responders, patients now have access to quality whole-person care in their homes, 16 hours a day, 365 days a year, and talented individuals are provided the opportunity to work with a rapidly growing, mission-driven company. They are in-network with most major insurance companies in the markets they serve. Ready Responders is backed by leading venture capital firms, including Google Ventures, Founders Fund, Rise of the Rest, and City Lights Capital.

InformedDNA

Venture Round in 2019
InformedDNA is a provider of genetics benefits management services that connects genetic counselors to patients, enhancing access to genomic expertise in healthcare. As the nation's largest independent network of genetics specialists, the company offers a comprehensive evidence-based knowledge library focused on genetic tests and hereditary conditions. InformedDNA supports health plans, health systems, and providers by offering services such as policy development, prior authorization for genetic testing and specialty drugs, and utilization analytics. Their approach emphasizes personalized care and informed decision-making, with the goal of optimizing healthcare spending while improving patient outcomes. By facilitating direct access to genetics experts, InformedDNA empowers healthcare providers to utilize cutting-edge genetic insights effectively, ensuring patients receive appropriate testing and care.

ObjectiveHealth

Seed Round in 2019
ObjectiveGI is a operator of an integrated research and technology services platform intended to improve patient outcomes through partnerships with leading physicians.The company's model seamlessly integrates gastroenterology (GI) research services into local community-based GI practices in support of patient care and practice enhancement, offering research infrastructure, optimal trial selection, study implementation and key research personnel management, thereby providing patients affected by NonAlcoholic SteatoHepatitis (NASH) with improved and better outcomes.

Stratasan

Venture Round in 2019
Stratasan, LLC specializes in providing market intelligence to hospitals and healthcare systems through its software and services. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, the company offers an analytical platform featuring applications such as Blackbird, a data query engine that delivers insights, and Canvas, a customizable report delivery system that provides financial analysis and market projections for various healthcare volumes. Additionally, Stratasan provides a suite of software solutions known as Pathways, which grants access to actionable intelligence. Founded in 2010 and formerly known as Health Data Source LLC, Stratasan focuses on enabling healthcare organizations to make informed decisions to enhance strategic growth, covering areas such as strategic planning, marketing, physician relations, and mergers and acquisitions.

Monogram Health

Series A in 2019
Monogram Health, Inc. is a Nashville-based company that specializes in kidney care services for patients with chronic kidney disease. Founded in 2019, it offers a range of services aimed at managing kidney disease progression, dialysis, and pre-emptive kidney transplants. The company focuses on optimizing health outcomes for patients undergoing dialysis. Monogram Health emphasizes a personalized approach to care, tailoring each patient's plan to align with their specific health goals and social determinants of health. By partnering with health plans and other healthcare sponsors, Monogram Health facilitates collaboration among patients, their support systems, and healthcare providers to achieve improved health outcomes.

180 Health Partners

Series B in 2018
180 Health Partners, Inc. specializes in addressing substance use and behavioral health challenges, particularly among expecting mothers. The company offers two main programs: The 180 Way, which combines personalized interdisciplinary treatment with a supportive ecosystem, and StrongWell, aimed at helping pregnant women overcome addiction to ensure the delivery of healthy babies. By facilitating multi-modal care coordination, 180 Health Partners connects opioid-addicted mothers with healthcare providers, allowing them to receive medical assistance in various settings, including their homes or preferred locations. Founded in 2016 and based in Franklin, Tennessee, the organization focuses on improving maternal health outcomes through accessible and comprehensive healthcare support.

Relode

Seed Round in 2016
Relode is one platform that works equally well for employers, employees, and ultimately the patients they care for. Relode is a community-based online platform for healthcare professionals to easily match jobs and candidates. It allows healthcare professionals to refer friends or directly apply for great jobs and be rewarded. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

180 Health Partners

Series A in 2016
180 Health Partners, Inc. specializes in addressing substance use and behavioral health challenges, particularly among expecting mothers. The company offers two main programs: The 180 Way, which combines personalized interdisciplinary treatment with a supportive ecosystem, and StrongWell, aimed at helping pregnant women overcome addiction to ensure the delivery of healthy babies. By facilitating multi-modal care coordination, 180 Health Partners connects opioid-addicted mothers with healthcare providers, allowing them to receive medical assistance in various settings, including their homes or preferred locations. Founded in 2016 and based in Franklin, Tennessee, the organization focuses on improving maternal health outcomes through accessible and comprehensive healthcare support.

Aspire Health

Series D in 2016
Aspire Health is a new healthcare company that specializes in providing an extra layer of support to patients facing a serious illness. The company's clinicians are experts in providing patients with relief from the symptoms, pain, and stress of a serious illness, helping patients and caregivers navigate the healthcare system; guiding patients and caregivers through difficult and complex treatment choices, and providing emotional and spiritual support to patients and their families. The company's practice in each market provides disease management and care coordination across many settings including outpatient clinics, patients’ homes, and assisted living centers. It was established in 2012 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.