Martin Ventures

Martin Ventures provides capital, operational support and mentoring to assist entrepreneurs who want to be catalysts for change. Focusing primarily on health care and technology initiatives, Martin Ventures’ unique approach allows the leadership of our portfolio companies to more acutely focus on the optimal execution of their vision and strategy while quickly scaling and growing their businesses into successful, profitable organizations.

Devin Carty

CEO

Jordan Lipson

Principal

Charles N. Martin Jr.

Founder and Chairman

Adrienne Thompson

Vice President of Finance

39 past transactions

Greater Good Health

Series A in 2022
Greater Good Health is a healthcare organization committed to expanding access to primary care by redefining holistic whole-person value-based care. In addition to developing its own comprehensive primary care clinics, Greater Good Health's innovative nurse practitioner centered clinical model provides solutions to help healthcare organizations manage complex patient populations. Focused on empowering NPs, the company provides NPs access to a broad digital community, an education portal, including the Greater Good Institute, technology tools to enhance scheduling, analytics, and point-of- care tools, as well wellness resources to help prevent burnout

TileDB

Venture Round in 2022
TileDB, Inc. develops and maintains a system for managing multi-dimensional array data, primarily for scientific applications. Its key offerings include TileDB Embedded, a storage engine, and TileDB Cloud, which facilitates the management of array data. The company's universal data engine enables users to access, analyze, and share complex data with various tools, emphasizing universal storage and data management rather than the compute layer. Founded in 2017, TileDB is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an additional location in Athens, Greece.

Synapticure

Seed Round in 2022
Synapticure is a tele neurology startup that provides tailored care to ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) patients and their families.

Mployer Advisor

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of an insurance brokerage directory intended to help employers find the best insurance broker for their needs. The company provides actionable data to search, evaluate, and search for insurance brokers in their area and their options for selecting insurance advisors, enabling employers to make informed decisions via transparency in the insurance brokerage industry.

Cadence Solutions

Series A in 2021
Cadence is a pioneering health technology company helping the nation’s largest health systems deliver world-class care outside of the four walls of the hospital.

ReadiVet

Series A in 2021
ReadiVet Management provides health and wellness services for pets. The company is based in Dallas, Texas.

BEKHealth

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of clinical research software designed to accelerate timelines by automating multiple impact processes. The company's software provides complete rapid trial feasibility, electronic medical record data processing, feasibility and site selection, precision patient trial matching and care coordination, enabling clients to reduce cost increase enrollment and streamline the clinical research process.

Zus Health

Series A in 2021
Zus Health helps a new wave of healthcare builders to create technologies and services without the usual blockers. Zus Health aims to bring forth a better health reality by empowering an inspired new wave of healthcare builders to create digital technologies and services that are cheaper, easier to customize, and far more intimate.

Memora Health

Venture Round in 2021
Memora Health Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in enterprise healthcare productivity software focused on automating outpatient communication. The company addresses the challenges faced by healthcare organizations that invest significant time and resources in phone follow-ups with patients. By providing a solution that automates various aspects of patient interaction, including follow-ups, instructions, health coaching, and the collection of patient-reported outcomes, Memora Health enhances operational efficiency and improves patient engagement through the use of text messaging.

Livara Health

Series A in 2021
Developed by spine specialists, the SpineZone Method relieves long-term back and neck injuries without resorting to invasive procedures

Integrative Health Centers

Seed Round in 2021
Integrative Health Centers, LLC (IHC) addresses the 3 key barriers to quality care (access, coordination and continuity) by providing integrative, comprehensive psychiatry, behavioral health and addiction medicine services. IHC uses a blend of in-person and telemedicine patient encounters through partnerships. By partnering with sites that see the value in integrative care, IHC can supplement patient care in any or all three service lines via a telemedicine platform.

OncoLens

Series A in 2021
OncoLens is a technology company that focuses on enhancing cancer treatment planning and management through a HIPAA-compliant mobile and web-based platform. Its innovative solution consolidates various data sets, oncology care teams, and stakeholders into a single platform, facilitating multi-disciplinary treatment planning and improving clinical decision-making. By automating tumor board management and survivorship care planning, OncoLens streamlines business processes and enhances accreditation and quality reporting. The platform's AI-driven clinical decision support capabilities empower physicians to collaboratively create and discuss individualized treatment plans for cancer patients, ultimately aiming to improve patient outcomes and streamline oncology workflows.

Mployer Advisor

Seed Round in 2020
Operator of an insurance brokerage directory intended to help employers find the best insurance broker for their needs. The company provides actionable data to search, evaluate, and search for insurance brokers in their area and their options for selecting insurance advisors, enabling employers to make informed decisions via transparency in the insurance brokerage industry.

Artera

Series C in 2020
Artera operates a communication platform tailored for the healthcare industry, facilitating connections between patients and healthcare organizations through various channels, including text, email, phone, and live chat. The platform enables two-way text conversations using existing office phone numbers, enhancing the patient experience and streamlining communications for healthcare practices. Designed for ease of use, Artera's solutions integrate information technology, operations, and revenue cycle management to improve overall patient engagement. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, Artera aims to simplify the process of accessing healthcare, making it as straightforward as meeting a friend. The platform is compatible with multiple devices, including iOS, Windows, Mac, and Android, ensuring accessibility for both patients and healthcare providers.
Upfront Healthcare Services, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in designing and developing a data analytics platform aimed at enhancing the ambulatory care experience. Founded in 2015, the company focuses on automating and personalizing care navigation to improve patient engagement and optimize healthcare resources. Its platform, known as Care Traffic Control, utilizes advanced analytics to direct patients toward appropriate care options within the health system, thereby minimizing wasted appointments and improving outcomes. By integrating various data types, including demographics, billing, scheduling, claims, and care gap information, Upfront Healthcare Services effectively aligns patient needs with healthcare resources, fostering a more efficient and satisfactory healthcare experience for all stakeholders.
Professional Credentials Exchange, LLC operates a blockchain-based health credentialing platform known as ProCredEx, which serves as a digital marketplace for verified professional credentials, specifically targeting the U.S. healthcare market. The platform facilitates the sharing, exchange, and monetization of credential verification data among member healthcare organizations. By enabling vetted members to buy and sell verified credentials, ProCredEx accelerates the onboarding process for clinicians and enhances the control of credentialing data. The company was established in 2018 and is headquartered in Tampa, Florida. It was developed through collaboration with Hashed Health and industry leaders to address the challenges of cost, complexity, and delays associated with traditional credentialing practices. Rather than creating a credentialing system, Professional Credentials Exchange focuses on establishing a network and transaction infrastructure that connects various stakeholders within the healthcare industry, allowing for secure and efficient access to verified credential information.

Contessa

Series D in 2019
Contessa is a Nashville-based company that specializes in Home Recovery Care, a model that provides hospital-level care to patients in their homes. Founded in 2015, Contessa aims to improve patient outcomes while reducing costs for health systems and health plans. The company's proprietary health informatics platform supports its services, which include home hospitalization programs and bundled payment managed services. ContessaCare enables healthcare providers to administer inpatient care without the need for hospital admission, enhancing the patient experience. Additionally, the company offers ContradoClaim, a claims analytics solution that facilitates prospective payment administration. Through its innovative approach, Contessa is leading the way in transforming care delivery in the healthcare sector.

Wellvana

Venture Round in 2018
Wellvana is a healthcare company that focuses on creating a clinically integrated network platform designed to facilitate coordination across various levels of care. Founded in 2018, it is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The company aims to enhance healthcare quality, reduce costs, and improve patient experiences by providing independent medical providers with the infrastructure needed for collaboration. Wellvana offers services that support real-time decision-making and effective patient flow management within the healthcare system. Additionally, it provides direct primary care programs for employers, employees, and their families. The company's framework enables physicians to work together under alternative payment models while achieving financial stability to maintain private practices.

Trilliant Health

Series A in 2018
Trilliant Health, Inc. is an analytics and data science company based in Brentwood, Tennessee, that specializes in providing intelligent patient acquisition solutions. Founded in 1989, it integrates all-payer claims data, household information, and patient-generated data to enhance healthcare marketing and operational effectiveness. Trilliant Health offers a comprehensive suite of products and services, including an analytics platform, physician relationship management tools, and consumer acquisition solutions, aimed at strengthening hospitals and improving their growth potential. Through its innovative approach, Trilliant Health leverages technology and data to support healthcare organizations in optimizing patient engagement and operational performance.

Cedar

Series A in 2017
Cedar is a patient payment and engagement platform for hospitals, health systems, and medical groups that elevate the end-to-end patient experience. The platform leverages advanced data science to customize and simplify the payment experience, resulting in a modern, consumer-friendly way for patients to plan for and pay their bills. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Carena

Series E in 2017
Carena is a Seattle-based team of medical, technology, and consumer service professionals committed to delivering the best possible healthcare experience to every patient. 24 hours a day. 365 days a year.
Upfront Healthcare Services, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in designing and developing a data analytics platform aimed at enhancing the ambulatory care experience. Founded in 2015, the company focuses on automating and personalizing care navigation to improve patient engagement and optimize healthcare resources. Its platform, known as Care Traffic Control, utilizes advanced analytics to direct patients toward appropriate care options within the health system, thereby minimizing wasted appointments and improving outcomes. By integrating various data types, including demographics, billing, scheduling, claims, and care gap information, Upfront Healthcare Services effectively aligns patient needs with healthcare resources, fostering a more efficient and satisfactory healthcare experience for all stakeholders.

Hashed Health

Seed Round in 2017
Hashed Health is a collaborative healthcare innovation firm focusing on building an ecosystem of businesses that use blockchain infrastructure for new approaches to healthcare challenges. The company's networks share a source of truth for the flow of clinical, financial, business, and real-world data assets. They focus their efforts on asset exchanges, multi-party business process automation, and data custody initiatives where they partner with collaborative enterprise organizations on problems they can't solve alone.

Chiron Health

Seed Round in 2015
Chiron Health, Inc. is a web-based platform that facilitates secure video conferencing between physicians and patients, primarily for routine follow-up appointments. Founded in 2013 and based in Austin, Texas, the company focuses on enhancing telemedicine for primary care, behavioral health, and other specialties. Chiron Health uniquely enables physician practices to receive reimbursement for video consultations, converting previously unpaid follow-up calls into billable telemedicine encounters. By addressing the complexities of state medical board compliance and HIPAA regulations, Chiron Health provides a comprehensive solution that allows practices to navigate the challenging reimbursement landscape. Additionally, the platform includes a proprietary database to verify patients' insurance eligibility for telemedicine services. As a result, Chiron Health presents an economically viable telemedicine option that supports practices in generating significant additional revenue. The company operates as a subsidiary of Medici Technologies, LLC, and has established itself as a leader in the outpatient telemedicine sector.

Contessa

Series A in 2015
Contessa is a Nashville-based company that specializes in Home Recovery Care, a model that provides hospital-level care to patients in their homes. Founded in 2015, Contessa aims to improve patient outcomes while reducing costs for health systems and health plans. The company's proprietary health informatics platform supports its services, which include home hospitalization programs and bundled payment managed services. ContessaCare enables healthcare providers to administer inpatient care without the need for hospital admission, enhancing the patient experience. Additionally, the company offers ContradoClaim, a claims analytics solution that facilitates prospective payment administration. Through its innovative approach, Contessa is leading the way in transforming care delivery in the healthcare sector.

Zest Health

Series A in 2015
Zest Health, LLC develops a mobile application for consumers, employers, and providers. Its mobile application features Talk to Me, which gives one immediate phone access to a medical expert (nurse, nurse practitioner, physician's assistant, etc.); Schedule Me for booking medical appointments; Inform Me, a la WebMD; and Track Me, which stores one's electronic health record. The company’s solution is used in the areas of strategic buying, access to healthcare professionals, and preventative care and disease management programs. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Carena

Series D in 2015
Carena is a Seattle-based team of medical, technology, and consumer service professionals committed to delivering the best possible healthcare experience to every patient. 24 hours a day. 365 days a year.

eRelevance Corporation

Seed Round in 2014
eRelevance Corporation provides technology-enabled marketing automation services to small and medium-sized businesses, utilizing various digital communication channels such as email, text, web, and social media to generate leads. Founded in 2013 and based in Austin, Texas, the company focuses on industries including healthcare, marketing, and real estate. eRelevance combines advanced technology with expert marketing strategies, offering a cost-effective solution that simplifies the marketing process for its clients. By eliminating the need for complex software tools and high consulting fees, eRelevance aims to deliver significant returns on investment, averaging 16 times the monthly potential for its customers.

WiserTogether

Series B in 2014
WiserTogether’s personalized healthcare treatment comparison software enables consumers to choose the right treatment – most effective in the outcome, most personally suitable, and most cost-effective and affordable. The result is improved health and improved costs for consumers, their employers, payers, and providers. The company serves over 3 million people through their employers and health plans. It was founded in 2008 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

Ludi

Series A in 2014
Ludi, Inc. is a healthcare technology firm based in Nashville, Tennessee, founded in 2012. The company specializes in providing solutions to help hospitals and health systems automate and manage their administrative processes related to physician payments and agreements. Its flagship product, DocTime Log, is an automated mobile solution that allows physicians to easily log their hours, manage monthly activities, and track financial alignment with healthcare organizations. Ludi's platform integrates complex tasks and data into a single financial management system, enabling healthcare providers to audit payments, improve compliance, optimize revenue, and enhance physician satisfaction. In addition to its technology solutions, Ludi offers consulting services to assist organizations in evaluating their processes and building strong relationships with physician partners.

InvisionHeart

Series A in 2014
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.

Clariture

Seed Round in 2014
Clariture is a developer of a cloud-based healthcare marketing platform that focuses on helping healthcare providers engage with potential patients through digital, social, and mobile channels. The platform enables hospitals, health systems, and outpatient providers to execute and optimize marketing campaigns by analyzing consumer behaviors, interests, and demographics. This data-driven approach allows healthcare organizations to enhance patient acquisition and retention while effectively measuring the return on investment of their marketing efforts. By providing insights into patient behaviors, Clariture aims to maximize patient conversion rates, ultimately improving the effectiveness of healthcare marketing strategies.

Spendsetter

Series B in 2014
Spendsetter, Inc. is an advocacy marketing platform that enables brands to identify and engage their advocates through targeted campaigns. The platform features a growing database and offers various tools, including incentives, rewards, native applications, and location-based communication. Spendsetter provides a range of advocacy marketing solutions encompassing research, strategy, and management, facilitating direct interactions between advocates and brands across iOS, Android, and web applications. The company serves a diverse clientele, including retail and commerce, organizations, nonprofits, hospitality, travel, entertainment, and employee advocacy sectors. Originally launched as Moontoast in 2007, the company rebranded to Spendsetter in 2014 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Healthcare Bluebook

Venture Round in 2014
Healthcare Blue Book helps people find the right healthcare treatments and services such as inpatient, outpatient, and diagnostic. People often pay up to 500% more for healthcare treatments and services than they should because they don't ask about price ahead of time. It is designed to help in finding the right care from the right provider at the right price. Their free online tool at, www.healthcarebluebook.com, and their new iPhone application, help easily search for prices on thousands of inpatient, outpatient, diagnostic, laboratory, dentistry, and other healthcare services. The Healthcare Blue Book can help people learn how to shop for healthcare services by asking the right questions of their providers, understanding their options for treatment, and obtaining a fair price for what is needed.

Shareable Ink

Series C in 2013
Shareable Ink is an enterprise cloud computing firm that transforms point-of-care clinical documentation to structured data and analytics. Shareable Ink provides a software platform that enables health care organizations of all sizes to convert handwritten information on paper forms to data for electronic health records and other information systems. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

Spendsetter

Series B in 2013
Spendsetter, Inc. is an advocacy marketing platform that enables brands to identify and engage their advocates through targeted campaigns. The platform features a growing database and offers various tools, including incentives, rewards, native applications, and location-based communication. Spendsetter provides a range of advocacy marketing solutions encompassing research, strategy, and management, facilitating direct interactions between advocates and brands across iOS, Android, and web applications. The company serves a diverse clientele, including retail and commerce, organizations, nonprofits, hospitality, travel, entertainment, and employee advocacy sectors. Originally launched as Moontoast in 2007, the company rebranded to Spendsetter in 2014 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Spendsetter

Series A in 2012
Spendsetter, Inc. is an advocacy marketing platform that enables brands to identify and engage their advocates through targeted campaigns. The platform features a growing database and offers various tools, including incentives, rewards, native applications, and location-based communication. Spendsetter provides a range of advocacy marketing solutions encompassing research, strategy, and management, facilitating direct interactions between advocates and brands across iOS, Android, and web applications. The company serves a diverse clientele, including retail and commerce, organizations, nonprofits, hospitality, travel, entertainment, and employee advocacy sectors. Originally launched as Moontoast in 2007, the company rebranded to Spendsetter in 2014 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.