Jumpstart Foundry

Jumpstart Foundry is an investment firm that funds and supports early-stage healthcare companies. It is a healthcare innovation fund driven by a mission to make something better. JSF connects companies with strong industry stakeholders, consults them on strategic marketing plans and advises around talent and growth. Jumpstart Foundry was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

Eller Mallchok

Managing Director

99 past transactions

Xcellent Life

Seed Round in 2022
Xcellent Life is building the Xcellent Life Cloud Platform (XLCP), which will be the central nervous system for connecting biometric sensors, mobile applications, & software systems for healthcare & wellness applications. Xcellent Life will revolutionize healthcare and wellness by using real-time data from a broad array of sources.

LiveFreely

Seed Round in 2022
LiveFreely provides cutting-edge digital health technology solutions that empower seniors and caregivers to take control of aging. Through AI, LiveFreely’s app, BUDDY, monitors, tracks, and alerts seniors, caregivers, and emergency services of critical health issues in real-time. BUDDY fosters a supportive, sustainable ecosystem of health professionals, families, and friends, promoting greater peace-of-mind, security, and well-being for loved ones. BUDDY not only detects health issues in seniors but also predicts and prevents them. Best of all, the system already works on existing consumer devices such as Apple Watch, Fitbit, and Samsung Galaxy.

Wingwomen

Seed Round in 2022
Wingwomen offers virtual and in-person care for Gynecology, family planning, health coaching, and doula support.

Maro

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Maro provides mental health an asset to student success instead of a roadblock. They partner with schools and families to provide physical and mental health care that helps students feel better and get back to learning.

Xcellent Life

Seed Round in 2022
Xcellent Life is building the Xcellent Life Cloud Platform (XLCP), which will be the central nervous system for connecting biometric sensors, mobile applications, & software systems for healthcare & wellness applications. Xcellent Life will revolutionize healthcare and wellness by using real-time data from a broad array of sources.

The Skin Consult

Seed Round in 2021
The Skin Consult is a SAAS marketplace for the skincare and aesthetic industry. We connect patients to skincare providers to find personalized skincare solutions enabled by AI.

SOAP Health

Seed Round in 2021
SOAP helps patients and physicians make better decisions by capturing and analyzing detailed patient data pre-visit, offering augmented intelligence at the point of care, graphically representing risk, and providing actionable insights to improve clinical decision-making. It identifies, verifies, and simplifies accurate and complete patient-reported data collection, risk assessment, documentation, and electronic delivery to physicians in a 90% completed SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan) Note to improve patient care and doctor productivity, and decrease liability exposure. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Boca Raton, Florida.

EyeGage

Seed Round in 2021
EyeGage is a technology company that, with its innovative intelligent mobile eye scan technology, is revolutionizing drug screening access. With substance abuse costing the US $600 billion per year and a large portion of substance abusers working full-time, the need for effective drug screening solutions is greater than ever. Its technology gives businesses a dependable and accurate way to stay ahead of substance-abuse-related accidents, ultimately saving time, money, and lives. EyeGage is committed to making a positive impact on society by reducing the negative effects of substance abuse on families and communities. EyeGage is setting the standard for workplace drug screening with its advanced mobile eye scan technology.

Clinical Platform

Convertible Note in 2021
Clinical Platform creates short form, video based patient and caregiver information for people that have chronic illnesses and then connects them to clinical trials. The purpose of our business is to improve the outcomes of patients by providing easily accessible and retain-able information on the diagnosis of, treatments for and living with and any chronic disease. It is a fact that better educated patients have improved outcomes.

InovCares

Pre Seed Round in 2021
InovCares is a behavior change platform for women, particularly women of color, that provides access and treatment to culturally sensitive clinicians. We combine real-time metabolic health data gathering with telehealth, computer vision, artificial intelligence, patient engagement rewards, and a sense of community. InovCares patented NASA tech simplifies and unifies the whole-person Black and Latin women's health through personalized, integrated, and connected care to spend less time managing your health and more time staying healthy. Consolidate your complete medical record information to integrating wearable, genomic data, telemedicine services, & lifestyle guidance.

HueHealth.com

Convertible Note in 2021
Your complete one point health care solution.

SageSurfer

Seed Round in 2021
They leverage technology to empower people to partner with their full circle of caregivers in overcoming behavioral health challenges. They imagine a healthcare system where every member of the care team has the whole story on the consumer's needs and treatment and where the consumer is at the center of the recovery plan, resulting in a world where no one suffers alone, and where help is available at the click of a button.

The Natural Nipple

Convertible Note in 2021
The Natural Nipple creates feeding bottles. They provide a biotechnological breastfeeding experience to improve mother-baby health and bonding. They enable protective neurological development through microbiome establishment, preventing the long-term detrimental effects of gut bacterial dysbiosis.

Prezence

Convertible Note in 2021
Prezence is a digital wellness company that aims to shift technology from a stressor to a source of strength through Digital Mindfulness. The company is delivering mindfulness to its clients through technology, services, and immersive experiences. Prezence was founded in 2018 and is based in Boston, MA.

Lifemesh

Convertible Note in 2021
Lifemesh helps traditional and alternative medical practices to rapidly adopt digital health. Our customers Implemented as a complete package or as point solutions, Lifemesh offers 3 main products: Clinic-as-a-Service: An all-in-one offering that includes a complete EHR & Practice Management solution, e-commerce enabled business web site and patient portal, 24-7 AI Contact Center, Hosted Email

Riskfuel

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Riskfuel provides real-time valuation and risk management solutions to capital markets firms. Riskfuel has transformed the slow valuation and risk calculation process of large, high-risk derivatives portfolios, which used to take an entire night to compute, into a real-time system using cutting-edge AI technology. This allows traders to make informed decisions and better manage risk throughout the trading day.

Health Cost IQ

Convertible Note in 2021
Health Cost IQ, LLC develops Health Data IQ platform, a software as a service (SaaS) based solution that equips organizations to manage their population’s cost, utilization, and care outcomes. Its solution identifies risk factors present in medically insured populations, analyzes the risks, and provides solutions to help clients minimize those risks and reduce costs. It serves to professional employer organizations, medical management companies, payers and third party administrators (TPAs), and individual brokers. Health Cost IQ, LLC was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona.

Vascugenix

Convertible Note in 2021
Vascugenix is a medical device company focused on developing innovative products to improve interventional cardiovascular procedures. Their first developed product, the Speed-Torque, is a device designed to improve the process of guidewire manipulation during Percutaneous Coronary and Peripheral Artery Interventions. It uses a unique, patented design to improve the process of guidewire manipulation during Percutaneous Coronary and Peripheral Artery Interventions. Vascugenix's unique, patented design enables physicians to manipulate a guidewire comfortably with one hand, freeing up the surgeon’s extra hand and enabling them to keep their full attention on the patient and the percutaneous guidewire rather than on the torque device. It provides physicians with the ability to manipulate catheter guidewires comfortably with one hand, allowing full attention to the patient and maintaining absolute control of the wire during the procedure.

Hippo Health

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Hippo Health is an online healthcare communication platform that connects patients and clinicians through virtual care. Its platform offers secure messaging, real-time video, automated prompts, automated care team connectivity, and real-time imaging review to help patients get a safe care experience.

One Stop Wellness

Pre Seed Round in 2021
One Stop Wellness is the on-demand health literacy platform that incentivizes employees to adopt healthy habits. We help companies improve population health risks and reduce health care costs through our comprehensive workplace wellness app that helps employees track their chronic risk factors and get personalized guidance to improve their overall wellbeing.

Samata Health

Convertible Note in 2021
Samata Health is the personalized mental health benefit built for growing teams. With our usage-based rates, we provide high-quality mental health care to teams of all sizes with zero barriers to access.

Aila

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Aila is an active wellness brand. We create unique plant-based, superfood vitamin blends, formulated to support your active routine. As a brand, we aim to merge the performance and wellness world. We believe that being active and being well can go hand in hand - whether you're running marathons, doing yoga or walking your dog. We focus on energy because we believe in the power of the in-between moments that push you through. Aila sets the stage for your most free & powerful state - giving you the energy to unlock what’s already inside & letting you just run with it.

TeloPoint

Convertible Note in 2020
TeloPoint helps healthcare Providers provide better patient care with less overhead by licensing and configuring their clinical care coordination SaaS platform. The company was established in New York, New York in 2019.

Junum

Convertible Note in 2020
Nutrition First! Our mission is to empower clinical nutrition care to improve patient outcomes across core settings using technology and data.

RevKeep

Convertible Note in 2020
RevKeep offers software that helps healthcare providers simplify the post-payment medical audit process. The company's software centralizes the claims management and audit response process, as well as tracks, completes, and submits necessary audit responses, meeting critical deadlines. RevKeep is headquartered in Birmingham, Michigan in 2017.

SANITAS

Pre Seed Round in 2020
SANITAS operates a cloud-based telehealth platform that specializes in behavioral health and autism. Founded in 2019 and based in Los Angeles, California, the platform connects users directly with therapists and experts, facilitating access to essential mental health resources. By leveraging social media-styled tools within secure private networks, SANITAS creates a supportive environment that promotes peer engagement and shared experiences. The platform offers a range of tools for well-being, including mindfulness practices, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), coaching, and teletherapy, all designed to enhance the user experience. By addressing the physical, psychological, and social aspects of mental health, SANITAS aims to improve emotional and physical well-being for individuals seeking support.

Patient Forecaster

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Patient Forecaster is an AI-powered precision staffing platform, offering Emergency Department and Urgent Care Center leaders' greater predictability of patient volumes, bed capacity, staff scheduling and hospital admissions. Real-Time Data Feeds Real-time monitoring of external data including COVID-19, Flu Index, Weather, Air Quality, Local Events, and Holidays. Schedule Optimization Optimized staff schedules for Nurses, Techs, APPS and Physicians including start/stop time, shift length, patients per hour, patients per shift and required staff ratios. Hospital Operations Shift monitoring & hourly alerts indicating needed shift adjustments triggered by increases or decreases in patient volumes and the required staff coverage (ED and hospital).

Elly

Venture Round in 2020
Elly is the world's first empathetic audio companion for patients living with a chronic disease.

SpellBound

Seed Round in 2020
SpellBound provides immersive augmented reality tools to hospital care teams to positively engage patients in treatment, lower cost of care, and improve patient experience. SpellBound works with the iOS and Android devices that are already used by hospital therapists and families to bring books, spaces, and printed materials to 3D life. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

Lena Health

Seed Round in 2020
Text-based Health Assistant for patients. With Lena, clinics can offer callers the option to skip the long call queues and schedule their appointment via SMS-text live chat. Value-based care organizations and payers can offer members a text-based assistant that can take care of health tasks such as scheduling appointments and coordinating their care.

Vision Care Connect

Seed Round in 2019
Vision Care Connect offers a complete range of ophthalmology services and refractive surgery solutions that correct vision problems and restore your vision health.

ScribeLink

Seed Round in 2019
ScribeLink Corporation provides a revolutionary hardware, software, and personnel solution for the healthcare industry. We address two crucial needs: 1) Physicians waste almost half their day in charting and 2) Healthcare desperately seeks broader use of telecommunications. With ScribeLink, doctors can return their focus to the patient care and medical organizations can drastically reduce the need for in-person interaction.

Carepool

Seed Round in 2019
Carepool currently provides non-medical specialized transportation throughout Wisconsin. They service MCO members, people in IRIS, and anyone else who needs independence through mobility.

AGOGIE

Pre Seed Round in 2019
AGOGIE designs and manufactures resistance integrated clothing for the sports performance, fitness, and athleisure industries.

Ruth Clinic

Seed Round in 2019
Ruth Clinic is a local medical practice dedicated to your recovery from opioid abuse disorder. Their team provides Medicine-Assisted Treatment (MAT) with counseling and support to help you heal and stay well. They accept cash and credit card payment for services at time of delivery.

Intelligent Observation

Seed Round in 2019
Intelligent Observation provides an automated hand hygiene tracking system that improves compliance and reduces the risk of infection. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Miami, Florida, United States.

Medifies

Seed Round in 2019
Medifies is a SF Bay Area software company providing products to help hospitals increase patient satisfaction and revenue.

surefhir

Seed Round in 2019
surefhir build EHR plug-in apps to solve the attribution problem and identify opportunities to improve quality and value.

CureMint

Pre Seed Round in 2019
CureMint empowers dental organizations with a cloud-based source-to-pay platform that manages their entire procurement lifecycle in one easy-to-use place. CureMint’s Procure module delivers a streamlined ordering experience that office staff will love while arming managers with the tools necessary to gain full control and visibility across their organization. CureMint’s Pay module removes the costly blindspots that exist between procurement and accounts payable departments by removing silos and streamlining invoicing and other A/P processes.

iTherapyDocs

Seed Round in 2019
ITherapydocs is a billing and documentation platform. The company provides software to IDD agencies to help with compliance, record keeping, and billing. It enables hospitals and health insurance companies to raise revenue, reduce costs, and enhance efficiency.

Nouri Life

Seed Round in 2019
Nouri is for men and women around the world who believe in increasing their mental and physical health.

Mandala Scrubs

Seed Round in 2019
Lotus Scrubs is a scientific and nursing organization that specializes in basic essential designed scrub.

Kegelbell

Seed Round in 2019
Kegelbell is on a mission to change the status quo for women and help them unleash their greatest possibility with products that are simple, safe and radically effective.

CaptoGlove

Seed Round in 2019
CaptoGlove was first created as a health rehabilitation tool for patients recovering from strokes, but has since evolved into a wearable hand machine interface for gaming and smart devices.

UptimeHealth

Pre Seed Round in 2019
UptimeHealth, headquartered in Boston, MA, is a software startup that simplifies medical device service events, purchases, and compliance practices through automation and predictive analytics. The company focuses on providing administrators and operators with simple-to-use software to manage compliance tasks, gain access to actionable data to increase operational efficiencies, and tap into the largest network of qualified biomed technicians to support their medical devices.

Clearstep

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Clearstep is an AI care navigation platform that matches patients to the right level of care based on their symptoms, insurance, and location, ultimately helping them book the best in-person or virtual care.

Proof Work

Seed Round in 2018
Proof puts patients medical data on a decentralized secure platform and ledger for personal ownership, interoperability and a lifetime history of care. For free. In two minutes your health data is secured on the blockchain. It's as easy as that. Our solution makes data more private and liquid costs less to administer and provides a real-time lifesaving flow of medical data. This same medical data becomes an intrinsic valuable digital passport arising from the users prerogative for permission-based access control. Rights can be granted or traded to either another patient, payer or provider such as doctor, insurer, hospital, pharmacy, nurse, caregiver, family or friend.

Solaster

Seed Round in 2017
Solaster is a consumer-centric healthcare ecosystem creating global interoperability amongst decentralized applications and blockchains.

Sightbox

Convertible Note in 2017
Sightbox is a vision service for people who wear contact lenses. Each membership includes an eye exam, contact lens fitting, an annual supply of contacts, and a payment plan to spread out the customer's cost over the course of a year. The Sightbox team works from the Pittock Block in downtown Portland, Oregon. Formerly a power generator station for the city and print room for The Oregonian newspaper, it is now home to many of the area's leading tech companies. Our five distribution centers are located across the US. Sightbox is designed for people who need new contacts and don’t have a current prescription. We spread out the high upfront cost of vision care into simple monthly payments. When a new member joins Sightbox our first priority is to refer them to a local optometrist for a comprehensive exam. We schedule the appointment, pay the doctor, and provide the patient with an annual supply of contacts. Sightbox supports all major manufacturer disposable lenses including toric, multifocal, and color contact within our standard vision memberships. Sightbox is available in all 50 US states. An annual membership is $39 per month and includes your eye exam, contact lens fitting, and an annual supply of 2-Week or Monthly contacts. We also offer an upgrade option, with flexible pricing, for members who wish to wear 1-Day contacts.

Akibah Health

Seed Round in 2017
Akibah Health harnesses the power of mobile health technology and data science to give people the knowledge and recommended actions to live healthier lives. AkibaH's flagship product, GluCase, is a smartphone case diabetes management system that eliminates the need for a person to carry bulky supplies while also offering real-time, data-driven coaching.

Luna Lights

Seed Round in 2017
Luna Lights consists of an ultra-thin pressure sensor that detects when a user gets out of bed and immediately turns on small, wireless lights around the home. When the user returns to his or her bed, the sensor turns the lights off automatically. Additionally, a software component collects data regarding the frequency and duration that an adult is out of bed at night. Our system sends a text notification to a caregiver if an older adult is out of bed for an unreasonable amount of time. It also allows caregivers to identify trends in nighttime trips and see which individuals are most at risk for falling.

Level

Seed Round in 2017
Level Therapy is a platform that provides patients with treatment tools and video access to psychotherapists. Level Therapy is a platform that provides treatment tools and video access to licensed psychotherapists. Its mission is to empower everyone on Earth to achieve their highest potential.

Level

Seed Round in 2017
Level Therapy is a platform that provides patients with treatment tools and video access to psychotherapists. Level Therapy is a platform that provides treatment tools and video access to licensed psychotherapists. Its mission is to empower everyone on Earth to achieve their highest potential.

WoundMetrics Inc.

Angel Round in 2017
Wounds A.I.‘s mission is to reduce patient suffering associated with wounds. We use artificial intelligence and computer vision to improve wound identification and treatment strategies. At a time of dramatic changes in reimbursements and patient populations, Wounds A.I. provides users with the insights to proactively and efficiently manage the clinical, operational and financial aspects of wound care.

FitBliss

Angel Round in 2016
Built natively on Salesforce.com, FitBliss improves sales, service, & marketing performance by optimizing employee health through intelligent gamification & educational engagement. FitBliss integrates with 100s of popular consumer health trackers and applications for a user-friendly experience and ties the data with work performance to quantify outcomes in a secure and private experience for the employee.

AffirmHealth

Seed Round in 2016
We create software that helps physicians maximize every patient visit.

Recoup Fitness

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Recoup Fitness provides innovative muscle recovery products trusted by professional athletes and used by everyone. Its goal is to become the leading name in muscle recovery and injury treatment and prevention. For Recoup Fitness, current products on the market lack innovation and can be out of reach financially for many consumers. It believes that through its "game-changing" innovation people can finally make the highest quality tools accessible to everyone at an affordable price. Recoup Fitness was established in 2015 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

splitsecnd

Venture Round in 2015
splitsecnd is the only portable and effective portable plug-in vehicle connectivity device on the market. Designed to simply plug into the 12V lighter outlet in any car, splitsecnd can detect a crash, connect you to a live operator, send help to your location, and notify your emergency contact in an instant. Perfect for seniors, teens, and drivers of all ages, splitsecnd uses airbag sensor technology to activate the emergency response system on impact, calling for help even if you can’t respond; it can also be activated manually in the event of a 9-1-1 emergency or roadside breakdown. And with comprehensive trip analytics and GPS capabilities, splitsecnd lets you track routes, encourage good driving habits and even find your parked car. splitsecnd keeps up with you and your family on the road no matter where you are, what you drive, or what the situation. No cell phone required.

Life Detection Technologies

Seed Round in 2015
Life Detection Technologies is a medical device company that captures respiratory and heart rates with no user contact. The company’s core technology is a high-fidelity heart and respiration signal sensor system that senses changes in the bulk permittivity of a user’s body and convers that change into clear usable data from a distance with absolutely no contact with the user. It also offers its systems to leading manufacturers of consumer and medical products that have already established routes to markets. Life Detection Technologies was founded by Eric Howie, Marc M. Thomas, Guy Mcllroy, John Langley, and Ian Williams in 2014 and is based in San Jose, California.

Life Links

Seed Round in 2015
LifeLinks Care Management - Care coordination for those you love.

Spiras Health

Seed Round in 2015
Spiras Health is an operator of a healthcare organization designed to bring specialized treatment to a patient's home who is coping with a challenging chronic condition. Clinical services provided by their business are provided at clients' homes by a multidisciplinary team of clinicians. These services are enhanced by telehealth, two-way digital communications, and remote patient monitoring, which improves patients' quality of life and reduces the cost of unneeded hospitalizations. The company's mission is to add value by providing compassionate specialized care to patients in their homes.

Intelligent Exercise Systems

Seed Round in 2015
Intelligent Exercise, LLC is dedicated to improving overall physical performance and quality of life through movement and fitness. The company informs individuals through physical awareness, biomechanics and efficiency of movement. They create thoughtful and challenging workouts that integrate into activities of daily life, improving overall movement performance for athletes and special needs clients alike.

Community Health TV

Seed Round in 2015
Community Health TV is a provider of health videos on the Internet geared toward, multicultural consumers. From in-depth medical content for condition prevention and management to exercise and cookery videos to tips for leading a healthy lifestyle, CHTV has a wide range of service offerings that cover the health spectrum. The CHTV website also includes areas for interactive support communities, health and wellness tools, and answers to frequently asked medical questions.

Reemo Health

Seed Round in 2015
Reemo Health is a remote mobile health platform that connects live personal health data with support networks to improve health and wellness outcomes. Using Reemo Smartwatch strengthens the connection between wearers and support networks, while helping improve experiences and health outcomes. From remote monitoring to key risk indicators and wellness reporting, Reemo elevates a personalized approach to health through proactive adjustments and earlier intervention. Wearing Reemo increases health engagement, giving peace of mind to wearers wherever they go.

Vital Metrix

Seed Round in 2015
The Vital Metrix measurement is based on pulse oximeter technology, which is a mature measurement that is widely used in hospital settings and by first responders. Utilizing information contained in the pulse oximeter waveform, Vital Metrix extracts the cardiac output as a readily measured vital sign that can be used for patient assessment and diagnosis.

Pro Hydration Therapy

Seed Round in 2015
IV hydration therapy for athletes.

Care IT

Seed Round in 2015
Care IT allows its users to access doctors from their computers and get diagnosed report and prescribed from anywhere in the world. It maintains a national physician network to engage with patients online. The patients are employees of self-insured corporations that receives employer-funded telehealth benefits. The company’s Patient On-board feature ensures that existing patients see only one doctor as their default medical provider each time they sign in and it protects the relationship between the doctor and patients. Doctors can extend services to their patients after hours, weekends, and anytime. They can personalize their platform by adding medical practice name and logo. Care IT is a U.S.-based company that was founded by Sean Elwell.

Skill Spectrum

Seed Round in 2014
Hiring the right millennial can be tough. Beyond the vast sea of résumés seemingly all written by the same person, however, is a generation that really is itching to work. Why not outsource that project you've been telling yourself to do for weeks while simultaneously trying out a potential hire for your growing organization? Their platform matches you with students who have the proven skill to ship something you need done, effortlessly screening and managing young talent for you.

Aloncii

Seed Round in 2014
The art of dressing is in a constant state of flux, but never more so than today. The modern era presents consumers with seemingly infinite choice, but the choice often lies between the convenience of ready-to-wear and the superior quality, fit, and originality of couture. Aloncii was founded on the premise that in a perfect world, convenience and quality would be synonymous. The future of fashion is in couture as ready-to-wear, and Aloncii uses new technologies to enable just that. Your bespoke wardrobe is en route. Register for their First Look or join the conversation on social media to stay informed of new developments, join a unique society of tastemakers, and learn how Aloncii is moving fashion forward. They look forward to presenting their patrons with an entirely new shopping experience.

PinPtr

Seed Round in 2014
Technology that brings very precise location information—think drones, driverless cars, collision avoidance, etc.

Healthcare MarketMaker

Seed Round in 2014
Healthcare MarketMaker is a healthcare solutions provider that brings healthcare buyers and sellers together in one virtual marketplace. Its solutions are focused on medical and dental practice transactions as well medical equipment. It also provides buyers and sellers of medical and dental practices with mRange, the practice market value range, computed using a proprietary formula of Healthcare MarketMaker. Healthcare MarketMaker is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Arrister

Seed Round in 2014
Arrister has kept their original vision as an online marketplace to browse, build, and buy custom hardwood products and furniture. They are starting small with drink coasters, and once they process has been refined a bit, they will scale to doing entire furniture pieces. Their online platform makes is very simple to customize the shape of your new table.

Spotwise

Seed Round in 2014
Spotwise is an IT service provider for the parking industry that focuses on providing real-time analytics to lot operators by using camera technology. It uses high-end camera technology and proprietary image processing software to build parking management systems. Spotwise integrates with its clients’ existing payment system to enforce parking space. Its system works by using cameras mounted on its users’ existing light poles. Spotwise was founded by a team of engineers and entrepreneurs in 2014. It is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Applyance

Seed Round in 2014
Applyance is hiring made easy. They take the time, energy, and cost out of your hiring process so you can focus on what matters.

Boomalang

Seed Round in 2014
Boomalang is an online language exchange platform that connects native speakers across the world to improve cultural and conversational fluency. With minimally but relevantly guided conversation, the platform simulates a natural language learning experience. Boomalang was launched in 2014 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Octovis, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Octovis expand the capabilities of nursing staff with live-streaming two-way video and real-time delivery of integrated medical device data, direct to a remote physician. Our Bluetooth enabled devices include a stethoscope, pulse oximeter, EKG, blood pressure cuff, otoscope, and a dermatoscope. These devices are connected to an Android tablet that live streams video between the nurse and remote physician (they connect via web browser); in addition to the data from the devices. The nurse can also don Vuzix smart glasses to transmit a live stream of video at their perspective, providing ‘eyes on site’. Organizations can use their own physicians, our partner PSO, or even a hybrid of both. We’ve built a robust platform between the nurse and physician, integrating into EHRs and providing intelligent dispatching algorithms to handle many concurrent encounters with a pool of available physicians. Our customers experience an increase in efficient, available, and effective care that helps them to drastically reduce hospital readmissions while providing more physician coverage than previously possible.

InvisionHeart

Seed Round in 2013
InvisionHeart draws on the strengths of experienced leadership, robust software and hardware developers and a strong clinical advisory team. The technology was originally developed by a team of physicians and engineers at Vanderbilt University in response to real-world clinical problems. Along with their team of investors, they share a vision for the improved care of heart patients wherever they live and work.

Rocket Raise

Seed Round in 2013
Rocket Raise is a new messaging app that lets people support the causes they care about while they text, with the help of a consumer brand. Rocket Raise is the only app that lets you turn each of your text messages into a donation for a good cause. Free for Android and coming soon for iPhone. Rocket Raise was built to turn a daily habit like texting into an easy way to give back to the world. We connect socially responsible brands with individuals passionate about changing the world. Learn more at www.RocketRaise.com

dVisit

Seed Round in 2013
dVisit is a platform that allows existing patients to save time (2.5 hr on avg) & be treated by their family doctor for routine illnesses and for the doctor to get paid for that care & maintain Continuity of Care for patients while managing patient volume. dVisit is focused on improving the patient-doctor communication and relationship. Patients can use dVisit to get treatment for routine illness from their personal doctor using our mobile and web app. Patients can get convenient care, save time, and reduce expenses. Doctors can use dVisist to improve quality of care, improve productivity, and manage patient volume without increasing overhead.

NewsBreak

Seed Round in 2013
Newsbreak’s programmatic merchandising platform automates the scheduling and content distribution process through sales data and predictive analytics. NewsBreak schedules and distributes content to display screens using two filters: 1) Playlists vary by location and by screen and are based on key consumer variables that impact buying behavior — These include elastic variables such as time of day, temperature and precipitation, as well as static variables specific to the convenience store location, like average household income, gender or age distributions in the designated location. 2) Predictive data analytics component — The analytics platform gathers data from the C-Store’s data warehouse and automatically pulls location-by-location sales data and key consumer buying data while simultaneously collecting playback data from the content management system. Means variance analyses and predictive selling models are then run assessing the impact of the merchandising playlist against changes in sales volume and market basket. If sales are not being effected, then the platform will replace that message with a promotional message for another product. This virtual feedback loop will ensure that the platform is always optimizing the most effective series of promotional messages.

Poliana

Seed Round in 2013
Poliana is a web application that simplifies the legislative system by analyzing and visualizing money’s influence in politics. Abraham Lincoln once discussed a “government of the people, by the people, for the people” in his famous Gettysburg Address. Since then, things have changed in how their government represents its constituents.

splitsecnd

Seed Round in 2013
splitsecnd is the only portable and effective portable plug-in vehicle connectivity device on the market. Designed to simply plug into the 12V lighter outlet in any car, splitsecnd can detect a crash, connect you to a live operator, send help to your location, and notify your emergency contact in an instant. Perfect for seniors, teens, and drivers of all ages, splitsecnd uses airbag sensor technology to activate the emergency response system on impact, calling for help even if you can’t respond; it can also be activated manually in the event of a 9-1-1 emergency or roadside breakdown. And with comprehensive trip analytics and GPS capabilities, splitsecnd lets you track routes, encourage good driving habits and even find your parked car. splitsecnd keeps up with you and your family on the road no matter where you are, what you drive, or what the situation. No cell phone required.

Zingfin

Seed Round in 2013
Zingfin provides trending, timely and trustworthy stock related information, based on real-time analysis of information from StockTwits® Twitter®, Blogs, and the the news media, exposing the collective wisdom of crowds, so investors can make more informed, efficient, and effective investment decisions.

Contigo Financial

Seed Round in 2012
Contigo is disrupting the subprime lending industry by offering innovative financial products to those with the least access to them, partnering with employers to provide socially-responsible short-term, low-cost loans offered as a benefit to employees who lack strong credit histories. Credit is extended to employees through a robust web-based platform and proprietary underwriting model. Contigo is a graduate of the Jumpstart Foundry accelerator program and a winner of Vanderbilt University's Sohr Grant for startups.

Photo Rankr

Seed Round in 2012
World's Best Photographers Network: World’s Best Photography Community, Portfolio Solution, Photos, and Marketplace. Photorankr is a revolutionary social network and marketplace solution for photographers and image buyers. We offer photographers the ability to share their photos, sell their photos, and manage their entire photography business all within one network. We give photographers the tools (their own customizable profile and portfolio website & domain), exposure (through our fully featured social network), and quality feedback (through photography contests, and commenting) to grow their photography businesses. Buyers are able to search our photography not only by traditional means, but also socially and locally. In addition, Photorankr's crowdsourcing image marketplace and hiring a photographer marketplace will easily connect buyers with any of their photography needs.

The Skillery

Seed Round in 2012
The Skillery is an online marketplace for affordable, offline classes and workshops led by experts in your community. The Skillery began in 2011 as an open marketplace for local, offline classes. It's evolved into a more focused, curated home for classes and workshops that serve the community that naturally grew up around us: creative entrepreneurs, freelancers and independent professionals. Some of our best-received events -- including The Skillery EXPO and creative entrepreneur-focused Nashville Creativity Summit -- informed the thrust of both The Skillery's flexible coworking space and robust schedule of classes and workshops: helping creative professionals broaden their abilities and grow their businesses, while highlighting the work they do and the brands they're building.

SourceYourCity

Seed Round in 2012
SourceYourCity is a service that connects reporters with experts through confidential news sourcing in real-time. Unlike other services that connect reporters with experts on a national level, SourceYourCity focuses on making local connections. To achieve this, we designed a platform that gives reporters total control over their communications with an engaged audience of experts in their own city. Currently, SourceYourCity is located only in Nashville, Tenn. as its pilot market. By catering to three unique user-types–reporter, expert and PR pro–SourceYourCity seeks to create a better experience for both the report and expert/PR user than current competitors provide. This is accomplished by delivering relevant opportunities to experts based on both topic and location, while giving reporters access to a targeted professional community that delivers better source referrals in a manageable volume. SourceYourCity is led by Founder, President Neely Burks. Email us at team@sourceyourcity.com or Tweet us at @sycnash.

Jamplify

Seed Round in 2012
Jamplify provides leading booking agencies with robust ticket sales data and market intelligence. It shouldn’t take countless man-hours for your agency to get the ticket sales numbers you need. Over 80% of the top 200 clubs in the world already report ticket counts through Jamplify.

Urge

Seed Round in 2012
URGE is a point of decision mobile savings platform that incorporates innovative game mechanics, principles of behavioral science, and social networking to promote financial well-being. Through URGE, consumers immediately realize the benefit of making small tradeoffs of foregoing impulse purchases by enabling real time micro-transfers from a checking account to an URGE savings account. URGE is a product of Tradeoff, LLC, a Nashville based mobile behavior change company founded in February 2010.

Cold Crate

Seed Round in 2011
At Cold Crate, we have developed an innovative and new reusable packaging solution that allows items, such as biopharmaceuticals, to stay at a set temperature for 14 days with utmost accuracy.

meevl

Seed Round in 2011
Meevl helps companies to increase brand awareness and engage their employees at the same time. * HOW IT WORKS? * Let your employees receive curated email digest with your latest activity on social networks. * WHY TO USE MEEVL? * Who could better represent your brand than the people who help create it? Be it employees, investors, fans or other stakeholders involved.

iAgree

Seed Round in 2011
iAgree, Inc. provides tools that help facilitate fast, formal and binding documentation of verbal agreements with mobile video. Status: iAgree is bootstrapping operations.

RentStuff.com

Seed Round in 2011
RentStuff.com connects people looking to rent items to suitable local rental companies. It helps users to search, find and compare rental items. RentStuff.com acts like your own personal assistant in order to take the hassle and wasted time out of the rental process. Tell RentStuff a few details of what you're looking for and they will comb a database of nearly 20,000 rental shops to help you get the best deal. Rental companies are given the opportunity to contact new customers directly with their best quote while you sit back, relax and let them compete for your business.

Wannado

Seed Round in 2011
Wannado helps people spend less time figuring out what they "wannado" and more time doing it. Through a suite of innovative event discovery and marketing tools, Wannado empowers local consumers, as well as the organizers and promoters who want to reach them. Wannado is piloting it's services in Nashville, where it's beta iPhone app was recently named "Best Mobile App" in the city's 2013 Best of Tech awards.

DAIO

Seed Round in 2011
Daio is powerful prototyping, collaboration, and review for design teams and their clients. Make screens. Add stencils. Show clients. Get feedback. Lather, rinse, repeat. They’ve painstakingly streamlined DAIO to focus on getting the basics done fast!. Build incredibly touchable, scrollable, interactive prototypes for the iPhone, iPad, desktop, & web. Start USING your existing sketches or high-fidelity designs on real phones & tablets today. Invite team members to collaborate on your prototypes, review changes, comment on screens, and plan the future of your projects through multiple iterations online. Send clients interactive demos that they can use and understand. No sign in or installs required. Get faster approvals & better feedback with less confusion.

Concert Genetics

Seed Round in 2010
Concert Genetics helps physicians order genetic tests by providing them with the information they need to find the right test for their patients quickly and efficiently.

Bizen

Seed Round in 2010
Helping business owners make better decisions. Improving the efficiency of local commerce may sound like a grandiose goal, but we feel it is completely doable. We believe in a world with more business owners, not less. In order to have more business owners, we need to help small businesses be more successful. And right now, only the big guys are enjoying the efficiencies that come from better data, more advanced tools and automated integration. Bizen changes the efficiency of local commerce: Provides peace of mind to franchise and small-business owners by helping them spot sales trends and measure key performance indicators Integrates directly with point-of-sale systems Sends SMS “CliffsNotes“ to business owners summarizing each day’s data Bizen was born directly from our need while managing our own franchise locations. After receiving seed funding from Jumpstart Foundry, we have converted our exclusive tools into a software service available to retail and food-service franchises. Bizen was founded by Jackson Miller and is currently incubating at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center.

Level

Seed Round in 2000
Level Therapy is a platform that provides patients with treatment tools and video access to psychotherapists. Level Therapy is a platform that provides treatment tools and video access to licensed psychotherapists. Its mission is to empower everyone on Earth to achieve their highest potential.
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