Launchpad Digital Health

Launchpad Digital Health partners with the best digital health entrepreneurs at an early stage to build companies that improve care, lower costs, and increase patient convenience. We provide significant capital to our digital health companies. Investments from LDH are up to $1M in the seed round and $2-3M in the A&B rounds. LDH is looking for digital health companies ready to scale businesses focusing on healthy living, wellness, patient compliance, remote diagnostics and monitoring, electronic health and wellness records, data analytical tools and big data, and independent living support. The founders of Launchpad Digital Health have funded and operated a myriad of companies throughout the healthcare and technology sectors, including digital health companies, for the past two decades.

Ted Ridgway

General Partner/Co-Founder

Kara Stone

Associate

Fred Toney

CEO/Co-Founder

44 past transactions

Thrivors

Seed Round in 2018
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.

CircleOf, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
CircleOf creates tools which connect people who care with people in need. Use CircleOf to instantly form teams with your family, friends, colleagues or communities to privately share information, provide assistance, and volunteer your knowledge and time. CircleOf is both a resource and powerful, social communication tool -- allowing anyone at anytime to create a connected community of care. CircleOf helps companies support their employees and fosters engagement. CircleOf is a powerful partner in the management of healthcare costs, targeting benefits and information, increasing awareness and productivity, reducing absenteeism, and attracting and retaining the best people. Easily measure the health of your organization with CircleOf.

Omnicure

Private Placement 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.

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.

Sober Grid

Seed Round in 2016
Sober Grid, Inc. operates a sober social network that allows users to find, connect, and share thoughts, experiences, and struggles associated with sobriety and addiction recovery with other people. It makes its application available for Apple and Android products. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

WellBrain

Seed Round in 2016
WellBrain Inc. provides a tool that enables psychological testing and mindfulness treatment program. The company offers mindfulness algorithm that helps people to gain more focus, calm, and clarity. It specializes in the assessment and treatment of patients with chronic pain, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and other mental health disorders. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Pleasant Hill, California.

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.

WellStart Health, Inc.

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.

Hint Health

Private Placement in 2018
Hint Health Inc. develops a membership management platform for direct care providers. Its platform comprises tools that streamline membership administration and billing for providers and their patient, employer, and health plan clients. The company's offers plans such as essentials, plus, pro, and enterprise. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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.

BreezoMeter

Series A in 2016
BreezoMeter Ltd. provides a real time air quality and health recommendation application for consumers and businesses in the United States and Israel. It offers BreezoMeter that maps air quality in real time and provides street resolution air quality data together with personalized tailor made health solutions for kids, health sensitive persons, athletes, adults, and business organizations. BreezoMeter Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is based in Haifa, Israel with an additional office in the United States.

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.

MyLife

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.

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.

Watershed Health

Venture Round in 2024
Watershed Health utilizes a proprietary software platform and care navigators to significantly improve healthcare quality outcomes by creating a complete ecosystem for the provision and management of value-based care.

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.

Limelight Health

Private Placement in 2018
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.

Anagram

Private Placement in 2020
Anagram Inc. develops a software platform that assists healthcare professionals with the intricacies of health insurance networks. It offers Anagram, an online insurance assistant for managing patients' healthcare plans across various networks by displaying patient’s out-of-network benefits and submitting a claim for them. The company’s platform is also used by healthcare professionals to leverage insurance benefits and avoid any constraints. The company was formerly known as Glass Health, Inc. and changed its name to Anagram Inc. in February 2020. Anagram Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Limelight Health

Private Placement in 2020
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.

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.

Hint Health

Series A in 2018
Hint Health Inc. develops a membership management platform for direct care providers. Its platform comprises tools that streamline membership administration and billing for providers and their patient, employer, and health plan clients. The company's offers plans such as essentials, plus, pro, and enterprise. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Smileyscope

Venture Round in 2020
Smileyscope Pty Ltd develops virtual reality (VR) headset to entertain and distract children from painful procedures like needles. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Melbourne, Australia.

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.

Hint Health

Seed Round in 2016
Hint Health Inc. develops a membership management platform for direct care providers. Its platform comprises tools that streamline membership administration and billing for providers and their patient, employer, and health plan clients. The company's offers plans such as essentials, plus, pro, and enterprise. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

BreezoMeter

Series C in 2021
BreezoMeter Ltd. provides a real time air quality and health recommendation application for consumers and businesses in the United States and Israel. It offers BreezoMeter that maps air quality in real time and provides street resolution air quality data together with personalized tailor made health solutions for kids, health sensitive persons, athletes, adults, and business organizations. BreezoMeter Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is based in Haifa, Israel with an additional office in the United States.

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.

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.

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.

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.

BreezoMeter

Seed Round in 2015
BreezoMeter Ltd. provides a real time air quality and health recommendation application for consumers and businesses in the United States and Israel. It offers BreezoMeter that maps air quality in real time and provides street resolution air quality data together with personalized tailor made health solutions for kids, health sensitive persons, athletes, adults, and business organizations. BreezoMeter Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is based in Haifa, Israel with an additional office in the United States.

Moving Analytics

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Moving Analytics. is a tele-health company dedicated to helping people thrive after heart disease. Our flagship product is Movn a virtual cardiac rehabilitation program that leverages evidence based guidelines, behavioral science, remote monitoring and personalized coaching to help patients recover to full health after a cardiac event. Movn is currently used by the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Highmark Health Plan, Kaiser Permanente Northwest and many more health systems across the US.

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.

Decisive Health

Venture Round in 2016
Decisive Health Systems, Inc. provides a patient engagement platform. It offers Decisive Health that combines patient lifestyle (quality-of-life) preferences with medical information based on clinical evidence. The company’s Decisive Health educates patients about recommended treatment options, predicts patient treatment preferences, and qualifies patients for procedures sooner. Decisive Health Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

MyLife

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.

Elemeno Health

Seed Round in 2017
Elemeno Health, Inc. develops and offers mobile software for hospitals to eliminate medical errors. It provides a checklist tool for frontline healthcare teams in hospitals and medical centers. Elemeno Health, Inc. is based in the United States.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.