Launchpad Digital Health

Launchpad Digital Health is a venture capital firm established in 2013 and located in San Francisco, California. The firm specializes in partnering with early-stage digital health entrepreneurs to develop companies that enhance healthcare delivery, reduce costs, and improve patient convenience. Launchpad Digital Health invests significant capital in its portfolio companies, providing up to $1 million in seed funding and $2-3 million in subsequent rounds. The firm seeks to support businesses that focus on areas such as healthy living, wellness, patient compliance, remote diagnostics, electronic health records, data analytics, and independent living support. With over two decades of experience in funding and operating various companies in the healthcare and technology sectors, the founders bring substantial expertise to the digital health space.

Jens Geitmann

Venture Partner

Omar Sillah

Venture Partner

Toney, C. Fred

General Partner, CEO and Co-Founder

39 past transactions

Medable

Series D in 2021
Medable provides a global decentralized trial platform that streamlines design, recruitment, retention, and data quality, replacing siloed systems with integrated digital tools, data, and interfaces to accelerate trial execution. The platform connects patients, sites, and clinical trial teams to improve patient access, experience, and outcomes. It is now used by leading biopharma sponsors and clinical research organizations worldwide and has been used for trials in 30+ countries and 26 languages. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

BreezoMeter

Series C in 2021
BreezoMeter is the provider of street-level and real-time air quality information; their suite of easy-to-integrate APIs includes air pollution, pollen, and active fire data. Product and healthcare brands, such as Siemens, Tata Motors, and allergy pharmaceutical provider ALK, choose to integrate BreezoMeter thanks to their unmatched level of real-time accuracy. BreezoMeter is the only AQ provider with a published accuracy validation process. BreezoMeter's exceptional team of multi-disciplinary scientists and engineers has managed to achieve this unparalleled accuracy thanks to a unique multi-data layer approach to air quality based on information from governmental sensors, satellites, weather, traffic, and more. The company then deploys hundreds of air quality calculations at once, using sophisticated modeling and AI, in order to calculate air quality up to a resolution of 0.003 miles (5 meters/16 feet) in 90+ countries on an hourly basis.

Harmonize

Series A in 2021
Harmonize offers a remote care platform that simplifies technology implementation and clinical triage. It focuses on improving remote care for patients in need, many of whom are unfamiliar with technology and suffer from multiple comorbidities. The patient interface gathers both high-tech and high-touch inputs, while its medical platform guides staff through triage and intervention routing at scale. The Harmonize platform reduces potential overhead by more than 90% while increasing patient engagement. It includes patient adherence rate, information triage workload reduction, and healthcare utilization cost reduction. Harmonize was founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Patient Premier

Seed Round in 2020
Patient Premier is a medical SaaS provider that offers insights by quantifying patient-reported outcomes and physiologic data. Its flagship product Pain Scored helps people gain insight into their own health and share it with their care teams. When given the proper tools and education, managed by a care team, health will improve. Its evolving platform uses standardized assessments to give a better view of pain, activity, and mood.

Anagram

Series A in 2020
Founded in 2014, Anagram is a unified revenue cycle management SaaS for eye care providers

Smileyscope

Venture Round in 2020
Smileyscope solves pediatric problems using VR keeping kids calm and still during needles, allowing clinicians to do their job safely. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Limelight Health

Series C in 2019
Limelight Health helps insurance carriers, PEOs and employee benefit brokerage firms to achieve higher levels of sales by automating manual workflows and supporting plan distribution through our technology. By using our 'quote-to-enroll' platform, users simplify their experience, promote their value-add, and reinforce their brand. Integrated API enables seamless connectivity with other carrier, agency and employee benefit systems for end-to-end integration. By using our 'quote-to-enroll' platform, users simplify their experience, promote their value-add, and reinforce their brand. Integrated API enables seamless connectivity with other carrier, agency and employee benefit systems for end-to-end integration.

Stop, Breathe & Think

Seed Round in 2018
Stop, Breathe & Think's mission is to inspire the world to practice mental wellness every day. Their app is a free mindfulness, meditation and compassion-building tool that is simple, fun and easy to use. Check in to how you are thinking and feeling, and select emotions that guide you to recommended meditations.

Circleof

Seed Round in 2018
CircleOf’s mission is to help unpaid caregivers by reducing the stress, overwhelm and isolation of caring for a loved one with a sudden or chronic illness. The easy-to-use app gives families, friends, and coworkers the power to build on-demand communities of care around those who need help. Caregivers use CircleOf to instantly form teams to safely share information and manage and delegate care tasks among friends and family. CircleOf is both a resource and powerful, social communication tool -- allowing anyone at any time to create a connected community of care.

Agathos

Venture Round in 2018
Agathos helps hospitals optimize length of stay and utilization of resources by engaging physicians with real-time, individualized, and actionable feedback and care insights. Focusing on key clinical metrics, Agathos creates a new physician experience with data grounded in a “weighted attribution” methodology based on shared case ownership, user-centric design, clinically and statistically credible benchmarks and insights, and technology to facilitate problem-solving and collaborative patient care. To learn more on how physician engagement can drive better outcomes at your hospital, visit www.agathos.io.

Anagram

Funding Round in 2018
Founded in 2014, Anagram is a unified revenue cycle management SaaS for eye care providers
Thrivors is a digital health platform that provides oncology pharmaceutical manufacturers, specialty pharmacy distributors, and payers with at-home behavioral insights on cancer patients who have side effects from cancer drug therapy. Thrivors equips our customers with the opportunity to offer “the pill with a platform”. The aim is to improve clinical (prescribed medication) and lifestyle (exercise, nutrition, meditation) adherence while better understanding barriers to positive compliance and health behaviors (pain, energy, mood). Success with prescribed intervention and lifestyle adherence will dramatically improve outcomes.

Hint Health

Series A in 2018
Hint Health powers tomorrow's healthcare providers by giving them the tools they need to operate and administer their own plans, and by doing so compete directly with insurance-based models. Based in San Francisco and backed by top investors, Hint’s mission is to fix the broken healthcare system by fundamentally restructuring the way that care is delivered. Hint was co-founded in late 2013 by Stanford GSB alum Zak Holdsworth and CTO Graham Melcher. Their annual conference Hint Summit (summit.hint.com) brings together pioneering physicians, industry leaders, technology experts, and policy advocates who are at the forefront of healthcare reform in the US, to accelerate direct care and make it the new standard.

Go2Practice

Seed Round in 2018
Go2Practice aggregates all fitness options across the U.S. to create the most all-inclusive fitness search engine on the web. With 20 years experience in the fitness industry and partnership marketing with brands like Lifetime Fitness, 24 Hour Fitness Crunch and Equinox, founder Joanna Stahl recognized the growing popularity for millions of potential members to search for additional fitness experiences each month. To fill this marketplace void, Go2Practice was developed to provide a one-stop free resource for the increasing demand to access fitness options anywhere, anytime. Operationally streamlined, gyms will share their own pricing, class schedules and general policies. The 100,000+ database will grow as operators take over their listing and new facilities open offering fit fiends more and more options for their on demand fitness desires. For more information, please visit: www.Go2Practice.com, Facility management please visit: www.Go2Practice.com/business

Elemeno Health

Seed Round in 2017
Elemeno Health is a team-based medical information platform—a personal assistant for doctors and nurses. Team communication and point-of-care training are essential to keeping our healthcare workforce healthy and ready to meet the COVID surge. With Elemeno, frontline staff can access the most current practices, checklists, and videos needed to deliver the best care possible and stay safe. We launched Elemeno to improve practice consistency and reduce medical errors. They have fundamentally transformed training and accelerated the adoption of best practices, improved patient outcomes, and saved providers millions. Elemeno closes the knowledge-practice gap at the frontlines to help improve patient safety. Our proprietary cloud-based platform provides context-driven microlearning. We transform complicated practices into bite-sized steps (decision guides, checklists, “how to” videos) to help doctors and nurses deliver the right practice at the right time. Social elements include recognition and gamification. With a built-in feedback loop, leadership learns what works, what doesn’t, and what their staff really need. Elemeno, founded in 2016 and based in Oakland, California, is a web application. Deployed without hospital IT resources. Accessible on any device.

Agathos

Seed Round in 2017
Agathos helps hospitals optimize length of stay and utilization of resources by engaging physicians with real-time, individualized, and actionable feedback and care insights. Focusing on key clinical metrics, Agathos creates a new physician experience with data grounded in a “weighted attribution” methodology based on shared case ownership, user-centric design, clinically and statistically credible benchmarks and insights, and technology to facilitate problem-solving and collaborative patient care. To learn more on how physician engagement can drive better outcomes at your hospital, visit www.agathos.io.

Addicaid

Seed Round in 2017
Addicaid is a new approach to improving behavioral health outcomes, including aftercare, friends and family guidance, and utilization management. It is digital addiction wellness platform for individuals with substance/process disorders, friends/family coping with loved ones in care, a dashboard for treatment centers and insurance companies to facilitate care delivery in an organized, intelligent, cost-effective manner.

OmniCure

Seed Round in 2017
Omnicure provides an efficient, economical and effective solution for delivery of Tele critical care using mobile devices. A unique and disruptive model that offers significant cost savings for hospitals, is easily scalable and adaptable to the entire spectrum of inpatient care.

Amicomed

Seed Round in 2017
Amicomed is a cloud-based platform to support physicians in BP management. The platform combines innovative remote monitoring, through unprecedented data analysis, with an actionable and personalized lifestyle intervention (daily diet, activity, and BP measurement scheduling). The service is fully automated thanks to proprietary algorithms. Aimed at physicians, yet designed with consumer in mind. Use cases are all conditions in which BP must be kept under control (e.g. Hypertension, CHF and pregnancy). The outcomes are striking: a reduction of mean systolic BP of 5mmHg (up to 20) with an adherence of 70%. According to clinical literature, a mean systolic reduction of 5mmHg reduces mortality by 30% and leads to $24bln savings in the US alone. Results have been peer reviewed and presented to latest ACC, ASH, ESH, and ISH.

Happy Couple

Seed Round in 2017
Happy Couple is the only app that helps couples build happy, healthy relationships using gamified interactions and proprietary AI to promote positive communication and deeper understanding. Expert content and adaptive algorithms lead couples on an engaging journey that offers unique insights while building confident relationships that keep getting better.

WellStart Health

Seed Round in 2017
WellStart Health, a medical company, is transforming healthcare by addressing the root causes of chronic disease through evidence-based lifestyle change, delivered through telemedicine. It is an intensive lifestyle change program led by highly-qualified physicians, dietitians, and health coaches. The goal of the 12-week program is to support participants with chronic conditions, or those at high risk, to slow down and reverse their illnesses by empowering them with the knowledge and practical skills to take control of their own health.

Tueo Health

Seed Round in 2017
The name Tueo ("too-ee-oh") comes from a Latin word meaning to observe, care for, and maintain. Tueo Health is creating a solution that puts this meaning to work in asthma management. The solution delivers accurate, objective indicators of asthma control together with clinical insight and understanding of what patients and their families need to achieve the best control and outcomes.

Stop, Breathe & Think

Seed Round in 2017
Stop, Breathe & Think's mission is to inspire the world to practice mental wellness every day. Their app is a free mindfulness, meditation and compassion-building tool that is simple, fun and easy to use. Check in to how you are thinking and feeling, and select emotions that guide you to recommended meditations.

LifeDojo

Series A in 2017
LifeDojo is turning the traditional corporate wellbeing model upside down, by giving employees a platform to design their own health behavior change programs. The result? Large, self-insured employers achieve unprecedented engagement, leading to 45% of employees creating new health habits that stick for 6+ months. With a demonstrable 4.4x ROI in a $31B industry where long-term behavior change is rare, LifeDojo is being trusted by the world’s largest companies to reduce healthcare costs, improve productivity, and inspire a genuine culture of health.

BreezoMeter

Series A in 2016
BreezoMeter is the provider of street-level and real-time air quality information; their suite of easy-to-integrate APIs includes air pollution, pollen, and active fire data. Product and healthcare brands, such as Siemens, Tata Motors, and allergy pharmaceutical provider ALK, choose to integrate BreezoMeter thanks to their unmatched level of real-time accuracy. BreezoMeter is the only AQ provider with a published accuracy validation process. BreezoMeter's exceptional team of multi-disciplinary scientists and engineers has managed to achieve this unparalleled accuracy thanks to a unique multi-data layer approach to air quality based on information from governmental sensors, satellites, weather, traffic, and more. The company then deploys hundreds of air quality calculations at once, using sophisticated modeling and AI, in order to calculate air quality up to a resolution of 0.003 miles (5 meters/16 feet) in 90+ countries on an hourly basis.

QueueDr

Series A in 2016
Backed by top digital health investors and some amazing customers, QueueDr is taking healthcare software by storm. QueueDr was created out of necessity for doctors and patients. Their great worry was the quality of products in healthcare. So many depend on outdated, poorly designed, unintituive software to take care of them. They want to change the view in the doctor's office with simplicity and enjoyable user experiences. No more software that looks like it was designed in 80s and requires months of training.

Sober Grid

Seed Round in 2016
Sober Grid is digital health company focused on the chronic disease management of substance use disorders (SUD). Covering all chemical dependencies including but not limited to opioid use disorder (OUD), Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), and Cocaine Use Disorder. The application has been adopted in over 170 countries and has been used over 20 million times. The solution was developed in partnership with researchers from Harvard Medical School and University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine with support from the National Institutes of Health. Researchers at UPenn Perelman School of Medicine found that the use of the Sober Grid app correlated with lower relapse rates. At its core the app uses a unique community based approach for chronic disease management. While including proven concepts such as the use of contingency management when giving app members in app badges as rewards for their sobriety achievements. The apps large user base and strong engagement metrics help provide large data sets that enable the Sober Grid predictive analytics to help predict an impending relapse risk. Depending on risk level a coach reaches out and delivers an intervention. Improving the overall heath outcomes by reducing relapse rates with the combined use of AI and human connection. - - Sober Grid Mobile App is a geo-social software application for iOS/Android smartphones. Sober Grid provides users with a GPS locator interface, direct messaging and newsfeed functionalities, certified and cost effective coaching with both regularly scheduled and crisis driven on demand access 24/7, daily educational and inspirational literature, daily quests for users to complete and maintain a consistent habit of focusing on getting healthier, and social supports in a single platform. Sober Grid allows users to find other sober people nearby: in their neighborhood, in an airport, on a cruise ship, and traveling for business or pleasure. Sober Grid provides an instant social network for sober people in recovery, a group that numbers more than 23 million in the United States alone.

Moving Analytics

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Moving Analytics is a telehealth service provider that specializes in cardiovascular prevention programs. Its first product Movn is an end-to-end, integrated program to deliver remote and virtual cardiac rehab. The platform reduces readmissions and empowers the effective and efficient delivery of quality care to patients based on 30+ years of research in remote disease management from Stanford University.

Hint Health

Seed Round in 2016
Hint Health powers tomorrow's healthcare providers by giving them the tools they need to operate and administer their own plans, and by doing so compete directly with insurance-based models. Based in San Francisco and backed by top investors, Hint’s mission is to fix the broken healthcare system by fundamentally restructuring the way that care is delivered. Hint was co-founded in late 2013 by Stanford GSB alum Zak Holdsworth and CTO Graham Melcher. Their annual conference Hint Summit (summit.hint.com) brings together pioneering physicians, industry leaders, technology experts, and policy advocates who are at the forefront of healthcare reform in the US, to accelerate direct care and make it the new standard.

Decisive Health

Venture Round in 2016
Decisive Health helped patients find medical services based on their preferences. We're the Expedia for healthcare services. For example, a patient can find and book an appointment for an MRI based on his/her preferences for schedule, location, and price.

Lab Sensor Solutions

Seed Round in 2016
Lab Sensor Solutions provides a full-stack real-time 'mobile sensor as a service' solution for the $8B Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics (HCCL) industry. LSS tracks materials in transit between laboratories, doctors offices, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies, giving customers a view into location and temperature over time. The system allows for configuration of alerts and remediation notifications so personnel know when critical environmental factors, like temperature, near or exceed required thresholds. Lab Sensor Solutions increases patient safety while helping customers reduce liability, meet regulatory requirements, and save money.

WellBrain

Seed Round in 2016
WellBrain develops a digital health chronic pain management platform that addresses mental health. It is a real-time cognitive assessment and treatment tool enabling medical doctors to use non-opiate modalities in analyzing and treating their patients.

Limelight Health

Series A in 2015
Limelight Health helps insurance carriers, PEOs and employee benefit brokerage firms to achieve higher levels of sales by automating manual workflows and supporting plan distribution through our technology. By using our 'quote-to-enroll' platform, users simplify their experience, promote their value-add, and reinforce their brand. Integrated API enables seamless connectivity with other carrier, agency and employee benefit systems for end-to-end integration. By using our 'quote-to-enroll' platform, users simplify their experience, promote their value-add, and reinforce their brand. Integrated API enables seamless connectivity with other carrier, agency and employee benefit systems for end-to-end integration.

BreezoMeter

Seed Round in 2015
BreezoMeter is the provider of street-level and real-time air quality information; their suite of easy-to-integrate APIs includes air pollution, pollen, and active fire data. Product and healthcare brands, such as Siemens, Tata Motors, and allergy pharmaceutical provider ALK, choose to integrate BreezoMeter thanks to their unmatched level of real-time accuracy. BreezoMeter is the only AQ provider with a published accuracy validation process. BreezoMeter's exceptional team of multi-disciplinary scientists and engineers has managed to achieve this unparalleled accuracy thanks to a unique multi-data layer approach to air quality based on information from governmental sensors, satellites, weather, traffic, and more. The company then deploys hundreds of air quality calculations at once, using sophisticated modeling and AI, in order to calculate air quality up to a resolution of 0.003 miles (5 meters/16 feet) in 90+ countries on an hourly basis.

Sensely

Series A in 2015
Sensely is a developer of avatar and chatbot-based platform designed to assist insurance plan members and patients. The company's platform leverages conversational interfaces and provides virtual assistant solutions to insurance companies, pharmaceutical clients, and hospital systems worldwide, enabling enterprises to converse with their members in an entirely new way, combining the empathy of human conversation with the efficiency and scalability of the technology.

LifeDojo

Seed Round in 2015
LifeDojo is turning the traditional corporate wellbeing model upside down, by giving employees a platform to design their own health behavior change programs. The result? Large, self-insured employers achieve unprecedented engagement, leading to 45% of employees creating new health habits that stick for 6+ months. With a demonstrable 4.4x ROI in a $31B industry where long-term behavior change is rare, LifeDojo is being trusted by the world’s largest companies to reduce healthcare costs, improve productivity, and inspire a genuine culture of health.

InsightRX

Seed Round in 2015
InsightRX is a software platform that incorporates the principles of quantitative pharmacology and machine learning to provide an individualized understanding of a patient’s response to treatment. It delivers its technology in the form of easy-to-use clinical decision support tools at the point-of-care to help guide treatment decision-making. The platform guides treatment decisions at both the individual level and the population level. InsightRX controls clinically validated pharmacokinetic models, patient physiology, pharmacogenomics, drug concentrations, and biomarkers to optimize dosing. It combines real-time patient data and machine learning to understand individual patient pharmacology and inform dose optimization. The platform also leverages disease-based pharmacodynamics models to inform treatment decision making. InsightRX was launched in 2015 by Ron Keizer, Sirj Goswami, and Ranvir Mangat. It is operated from San Francisco, California.

Limelight Health

Venture Round in 2014
Limelight Health helps insurance carriers, PEOs and employee benefit brokerage firms to achieve higher levels of sales by automating manual workflows and supporting plan distribution through our technology. By using our 'quote-to-enroll' platform, users simplify their experience, promote their value-add, and reinforce their brand. Integrated API enables seamless connectivity with other carrier, agency and employee benefit systems for end-to-end integration. By using our 'quote-to-enroll' platform, users simplify their experience, promote their value-add, and reinforce their brand. Integrated API enables seamless connectivity with other carrier, agency and employee benefit systems for end-to-end integration.

Addapp

Seed Round in 2014
Addapp is a mobile application that translates its users’ health apps and activity tracker data into actionable recommendations. The application provides its users with insights into their well-being and helps them improve factors like sleep, nutrition, fitness, and mood. Addapp was launched in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.
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