Optum Ventures

Optum Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm founded in 2017 and located in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in London. The firm focuses on investing in early-stage companies within the digital health and healthcare sectors that aim to disrupt the traditional healthcare landscape. By leveraging Optum's extensive data resources and industry insights, Optum Ventures provides its portfolio companies with significant advantages, helping them to connect and collaborate with key players in the healthcare ecosystem. The firm seeks to support transformative ideas that can enhance healthcare for everyone, fostering innovation and growth within the industry.

Moses Adubi

Associate

Vijay Barathan

Partner

Richie Chaikof

Principal

Mike Cunningham

Partner

Joe Gentile

Vice President

Alessandro Guazzi

vice_president

Mazen Hammad

Associate

James Lighton

vice_president

Austin Martin

Associate

Sam Milliken-Smith

vice_president

George Pantazopoulos

Principal

Larry Renfro

Managing Partner

Heather Roxborough

Partner

Jon Sklaroff

Principal

Laura Veroneau

Managing Partner

76 past transactions

Medallion

Series C in 2022
Medalion helps hospitals to empower their practice for market expansion while maintaining compliance.

CareBridge

Venture Round in 2022
CareBridge provides technology and services that assists health plans and states in caring for individuals receiving long-term support services. The company services include electronic visit verification (EVV), data aggregation, 24/7 member support and benefit management. CareBridge was founded in 2009 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

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

Loop Health

Series B in 2022
Loop Health is a healthcare provider based in Pune, India, founded in 2018. The company offers a range of services including acute and urgent care, chronic condition management, women's health, health coaching, and preventive care. Loop Health aims to simplify the healthcare experience by connecting patients with family physicians, specialists, and hospitals, facilitating access to major medical treatments. Their team of Loop Coordinators assists patients in finding appropriate doctors, comparing treatment costs, obtaining second opinions, and managing admission procedures, thereby alleviating the stress associated with healthcare decisions. Additionally, Loop Health features a virtual medical practice that supports employees and their families, allowing them to consult with healthcare experts and medical advisors without delay, ultimately promoting better health management and cost-effectiveness.

Duos

Series A in 2022
Duos is a company that focuses on improving the quality of life for older adults by providing a personal assistance platform that promotes independence. Founded in 2020 and based in New York, Duos utilizes technology and community support to help elderly individuals manage various daily tasks, including companionship, transportation, errands, shopping, and nutrition. By fostering long-term, trust-based relationships, the platform enables seniors to engage more fully in their communities and maintain their autonomy while receiving the assistance they need.

Brightline

Series C in 2022
Brightline is a technology-enabled behavioral health home for children and their families. Brightline delivers integrated care through innovative technology, virtual behavioral health services, and a collaborative care team focused on supporting children across developmental stages and their families.

Vira Health

Series A in 2022
Vira is a digital health company focused on improving long-term health for women. We do this by addressing female-specific conditions and improving the collection and use of female data in healthcare.

Flume Health

Series A in 2022
Flume Health Inc., founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, operates as a third-party administrator for health plans. The company focuses on making self-insured health plans more accessible and user-friendly. Flume Health enhances the experience for its members by providing exceptional customer support alongside innovative payment technology. This approach enables members to access healthcare providers at significantly reduced rates, typically 20-40% lower than those found in traditional network plans. Through its services, Flume Health aims to improve the affordability and usability of health insurance for its clients.

Scipher Medicine

Series D in 2022
Scipher Medicine is a biotechnology company based in Waltham, Massachusetts, that focuses on developing a molecular technology platform to predict patient responses to drug therapies, particularly in cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases. The company offers several diagnostic tests, including PrismDx, which identifies patients who may not respond to specific medications, PrismRA for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and PrismUC for those with ulcerative colitis. These tests enable healthcare providers to prescribe more suitable alternative therapies for patients who are unlikely to benefit from traditional treatments. Scipher Medicine emphasizes the importance of providing scientifically backed data to improve patient outcomes and enhance treatment decisions. The company has also established a strategic partnership with Ambry Genetics Corporation to further advance its capabilities. Founded in 2014, Scipher Medicine was previously known as DZZOM Delaware Corporation before changing its name in 2015.

Secureframe

Series B in 2022
Secureframe is a compliance automation platform designed to assist organizations in achieving and maintaining compliance with security and privacy standards, specifically SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Founded in 2020 by Shrav Mehta and Natasja Nielsen, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Secureframe's software streamlines the compliance process by offering automated audits and continuous monitoring, ensuring that service providers effectively manage data to protect both organizational interests and client privacy. This platform enables companies worldwide to navigate the complexities of compliance, thereby enhancing their security posture and maintaining adherence to critical global standards.

Somatus

Series E in 2022
Somatus is a healthcare company that partners with health plans, health systems, and nephrology, and primary care groups. It provides integrated care for patients with or at risk of developing kidney disease. Somatus' is vertically integrated clinical services and technology delay or prevent disease progression, improve quality and care coordination, and increase the use of home dialysis modalities and rates of kidney transplantation. The company is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, and founded by a team of world-class healthcare operators, successful entrepreneurs, and leading clinicians treating kidney disease.

Equip Health

Series B in 2022
Equip is a virtual program helping families recover from eating disorders at home with comprehensive, gold-standard care created by experts in the field and people in recovery. Equip’s five person care teams include dieticians, physicians, therapists, and mentors who deliver wrap-around support to provide families progress and lasting recovery. Kristina Saffran and Erin Parks co-founded the company in San Diego, California in 2019.

Future

Series C in 2022
Future is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in personalized online fitness coaching and workout programs. The company provides one-on-one digital training, allowing clients to work with coaches who have experience training professional athletes and Hollywood celebrities. Future's services are designed to be accessible, enabling clients to engage in fitness coaching at home, in the gym, or while on the go, catering to a diverse clientele that includes athletes and busy professionals.

mPulse Mobile

Venture Round in 2022
mPulse Mobile, Inc. specializes in healthcare communication technology, focusing on enhancing consumer health and wellness through its cloud-based mobile messaging platform. This intelligent platform features pre-configured message workflows designed to address issues such as missed appointments, medication adherence, and chronic disease management. The company's solutions cater to a range of healthcare needs, including Medicaid preventive care, medication adherence, chronic condition management, and optimizing health plan experiences. With over a decade of experience, mPulse Mobile has successfully delivered more than a hundred million messages and serves a diverse clientele that includes Medicare, Medicaid, commercial plans, health systems, and pharmacies. Headquartered in Encino, California, mPulse Mobile leverages technology, analytics, and industry expertise to foster healthy behavior change and improve health outcomes for individuals and healthcare organizations alike.

Garner

Series B in 2021
Garner Health is a technology company established in 2019 and based in New York, NY, that focuses on enhancing the healthcare experience for employees through employer partnerships. By leveraging a doctor quality analytics platform, Garner Health provides insights into clinical quality and total care costs, helping employers direct their employees to high-quality healthcare providers. The platform also offers an overlay account that covers employee deductibles and coinsurance, allowing employees to reduce out-of-pocket expenses while ensuring employers achieve guaranteed savings. Through this approach, Garner Health aims to improve healthcare quality and affordability for both employees and their employers.

Holmusk

Venture Round in 2021
Holmusk Pte. Ltd. is a digital health and data analytics company based in Singapore, with additional offices in New York, Durham, London, and Cyberjaya. Founded in 2015, Holmusk specializes in developing a real-world evidence platform focused on mental health and chronic diseases. This platform integrates specialty behavioral health data with advanced analytics to provide actionable insights for personalized medicine. Holmusk offers several key products, including an electronic health record system called MindLinc, which captures and monitors patient decisions alongside historical mental health data, and digital therapeutics that track and treat patients. The company's solutions are designed for a broad range of stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem, including pharmaceutical companies, providers, payers, regulators, and contract research organizations. By leveraging scientific research and electronic health record data, Holmusk aims to enhance data-driven, evidence-based care for individuals managing behavioral health conditions, ultimately supporting informed decision-making for improved patient outcomes.

Medallion

Series B in 2021
Medalion helps hospitals to empower their practice for market expansion while maintaining compliance.

Caresyntax

Series C in 2021
Caresyntax Inc. develops a technology platform specializing in surgical analytics to enhance safety and efficiency in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers. The company offers solutions designed to identify and manage risks, automate workflows, and reduce variability in surgical procedures. Its flagship products include qvident, a performance management software that enables surgical teams to create and share surgical content, and PRIME365, an integration platform that consolidates key surgical data from various sources such as video, audio, patient vitals, and procedural timestamps. Caresyntax's offerings support a range of surgical procedures, from minimally invasive to robotic surgeries, and can be deployed as HIPAA-compliant software through on-premise, cloud-based, or hybrid installations. Established in 1991, Caresyntax is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Alma

Series C in 2021
Alma is a membership-based network for mental health care professionals that simplifies access to higher quality, more affordable mental healthcare.

Calibrate

Series B in 2021
Calibrate Health, Inc. is a telemedicine startup that specializes in weight loss services through a comprehensive metabolic health approach. Founded in 2019 and based in New York, the company offers a one-year metabolic reset program grounded in contemporary weight health science. This program, which is endorsed by a clinical advisory board, combines personalized medication with individualized coaching, addressing the underlying causes of weight issues. By focusing on the unique biology, goals, and lifestyles of its clients, Calibrate aims to achieve sustainable weight loss of at least 10%.

Ultromics

Series B in 2021
They are building world-class diagnostic aids to help cardiologists — powered by artificial intelligence. To date, they have developed the world’s most accurate echocardiography software to improve the diagnosis of coronary heart disease by more than 90%.

Rey

Series A in 2021
Rey is a membership-based, on-demand mental health company on a mission to revolutionize mental health and wellness by improving access to personalized services through technology.

Brightline

Series B in 2021
Brightline is a technology-enabled behavioral health home for children and their families. Brightline delivers integrated care through innovative technology, virtual behavioral health services, and a collaborative care team focused on supporting children across developmental stages and their families.

LetsGetChecked

Series D in 2021
LetsGetChecked is an at-home health testing platform that connects customers to regulated laboratory testing to better manage and control one's individual health. LetsGetChecked is making healthcare and diagnostics open and patient-led, empowering people to use technology in a simple yet powerful way. This offers consumers greater control over their individual health. LetsGetChecked is headquartered in New York, NY, with tests covering general wellness, sexual health, women's health and men's health, and is available nationwide, as well as in Canada and Europe.

Medallion

Series A in 2021
Medalion helps hospitals to empower their practice for market expansion while maintaining compliance.

Main Street Health

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

Heartbeat Health

Series B in 2021
Heartbeat Health, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in cardiology services. Established in 2017, it provides a range of offerings, including web-based real-time consulting and virtual physician consultations, along with follow-up services. The company aims to address cardiovascular health by screening, diagnosing, tracking, and managing cardiovascular risk and disease, leveraging a multidisciplinary team of doctors, designers, and engineers committed to improving heart health outcomes.

Vim

Series B in 2021
Vim, Inc. develops a healthcare platform to provide online services that helps patients and healthcare providers find, schedule, and receive care from doctors and specialists. It provides online booking solutions and referral coordination. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Groups Recover Together

Series C in 2021
Groups Recover Together was founded to make treatment for opioid addiction respectful, accessible, and affordable. We empower our members to regain control of their lives through a proven, evidence-based model of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) with buprenorphine and weekly group therapy.

Caresyntax

Series C in 2021
Caresyntax Inc. develops a technology platform specializing in surgical analytics to enhance safety and efficiency in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers. The company offers solutions designed to identify and manage risks, automate workflows, and reduce variability in surgical procedures. Its flagship products include qvident, a performance management software that enables surgical teams to create and share surgical content, and PRIME365, an integration platform that consolidates key surgical data from various sources such as video, audio, patient vitals, and procedural timestamps. Caresyntax's offerings support a range of surgical procedures, from minimally invasive to robotic surgeries, and can be deployed as HIPAA-compliant software through on-premise, cloud-based, or hybrid installations. Established in 1991, Caresyntax is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Kaia Health

Series C in 2021
Kaia Health Software GmbH is a digital therapeutics company that focuses on developing evidence-based treatments for chronic conditions, particularly back pain and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Founded in 2016, the company creates a holistic training program through its application, Kaia, which empowers users to manage their conditions from home using their smartphones and tablets. By leveraging machine learning, Kaia Health delivers personalized interventions designed to motivate patients and facilitate self-management of their health. The company collaborates with experts across various medical fields and offers its digital therapy programs to payers, service providers, and corporations. With a user base exceeding 400,000, Kaia Health is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, while also maintaining a presence in Munich, Germany.

Vesta Healthcare

Venture Round in 2021
Vesta Healthcare is an industry-leading technology and clinical services organization, dedicated to connecting caregiver insights to the rest of the care team. Vesta Healthcare proactively identifies the need for additional resources in the home and provides 24/7 telehealth support for caregivers and care recipients, with a focus on high-need, frail senior populations. Vesta partners with home care agencies, health plans and providers to create value-based population health programs that emphasize clinical quality, improved health outcomes and personalized engagement. Vesta Healthcare is headquartered in New York, NY.

Unite Us

Series C in 2021
Unite Us is a veteran-led technology company that builds coordinated care networks connecting health and social service providers together. The company helps systems and communities efficiently deliver care and services by inter-connecting providers across communities, seamlessly integrating the social determinants of health into patient care. Providers across the continuum and community are able to externally refer and track every patient’s total health journey, while reporting on all tangible outcomes across a full range of services in a centralized, cohesive, and collaborative ecosystem. This social infrastructure helps communities move beyond legacy resource directories, and transform their ability to measure impact, improved health, and outcomes at scale.

Equip Health

Series A in 2021
Equip is a virtual program helping families recover from eating disorders at home with comprehensive, gold-standard care created by experts in the field and people in recovery. Equip’s five person care teams include dieticians, physicians, therapists, and mentors who deliver wrap-around support to provide families progress and lasting recovery. Kristina Saffran and Erin Parks co-founded the company in San Diego, California in 2019.

Equip Health

Series A in 2021
Equip is a virtual program helping families recover from eating disorders at home with comprehensive, gold-standard care created by experts in the field and people in recovery. Equip’s five person care teams include dieticians, physicians, therapists, and mentors who deliver wrap-around support to provide families progress and lasting recovery. Kristina Saffran and Erin Parks co-founded the company in San Diego, California in 2019.

PatientsLikeMe

Venture Round in 2021
PatientsLikeMe, Inc. operates a healthcare data-sharing platform that allows patients to share their symptoms, treatments, and health experiences with a broad audience, including caregivers, researchers, and pharmaceutical companies. This platform aims to enhance the understanding of various health conditions, such as cancer, mental health issues, and chronic diseases, ultimately contributing to the development of new treatments. With over 600,000 members, PatientsLikeMe serves as a trusted source for real-world disease information and has published more than 100 research studies, demonstrating its commitment to integrating patient voices into research and public policy. The company collaborates with major pharmaceutical firms and government organizations to advance health management and outcomes. Founded in 2004 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, PatientsLikeMe is a subsidiary of United Healthcare Services, Inc.

Alma

Series B in 2021
Alma is a membership-based network for mental health care professionals that simplifies access to higher quality, more affordable mental healthcare.

Sitka

Series A in 2021
Sitka, Inc. develops and operates an online communication platform that connects patients with health care providers. Its platform enables endocrinology, neurology, orthopedics, pulmonology, and rheumatology providers to interact with their patients. Sitka, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Carmel, California.

Greater Good Health

Seed Round in 2021
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

Diameter Health

Series B in 2020
Diameter Health, Inc. develops innovative software solutions aimed at enhancing data interoperability for healthcare organizations. The company's flagship product, Fusion, facilitates intelligent data exchange by normalizing and cleansing information from certified electronic health records (EHRs), thereby transforming it into clinically relevant data for point-of-care use and analytics. In addition to Fusion, Diameter Health offers various tools, including Data Dashboard, which provides instant data quality ratings and metrics for clinical document accuracy; Quality, which supports certified quality reporting of e-measures; and Payer Edition, designed for generating standard supplemental reporting data. Other offerings include Subscribe, which allows for automatic updates for specific patient populations, and a scalable Hosted Solution. Diameter Health serves a diverse clientele, including government agencies, health information exchanges, payers, healthcare IT vendors, life insurers, and health systems. Founded in 2013, the company operates from its offices in Farmington, Connecticut, and Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Springtide Child Development, Inc. provides child development services. It offers personalized and holistic treatment plans. The company provides Applied behavior analysis therapy for autism, speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, language acquisition, social skills, school readiness, and functional living skill development services. Springtide Child Development, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Trumbull, Connecticut.

Buoy Health

Series C in 2020
Buoy Health, Inc. is a health technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in New York. Founded in 2014, Buoy Health specializes in artificial intelligence-driven digital health solutions that assist individuals in managing their health and healthcare options. The company offers a personalized online healthcare chatbot, known as Buoy Assistant, which analyzes symptoms, facilitates initial triage, and provides treatment recommendations. This platform enables users to conduct real-time assessments of their symptoms while simplifying the navigation of the healthcare system. Additionally, Buoy Health provides resources for employees through its Buoy Dashboard, allowing them to research benefits, access wellness programs, and connect with in-network providers. The service is available 24/7, making self-diagnosis and healthcare navigation straightforward and accessible.

Truepill

Series C in 2020
Truepill is a B2B pharmacy fulfillment service. They provide a pharmacy API and fulfillment of medications to 50 states from their own facilities. They work directly with D2C consumer brands (e.g. Hims, Nurx), digital health companies, and other healthcare organizations. They are a team of 150 employees and have raised funding from Initialized Capital, Y Combinator, Slow Ventures, Sound Ventures, Tuesday Capital, Foundation Capital, Index Ventures, Social Capital, Box Group, Joe Montana, and others. Founded in 2016 by Umar Afridi and Sid Viswanathan, Truepill is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

mPulse Mobile

Series C in 2020
mPulse Mobile, Inc. specializes in healthcare communication technology, focusing on enhancing consumer health and wellness through its cloud-based mobile messaging platform. This intelligent platform features pre-configured message workflows designed to address issues such as missed appointments, medication adherence, and chronic disease management. The company's solutions cater to a range of healthcare needs, including Medicaid preventive care, medication adherence, chronic condition management, and optimizing health plan experiences. With over a decade of experience, mPulse Mobile has successfully delivered more than a hundred million messages and serves a diverse clientele that includes Medicare, Medicaid, commercial plans, health systems, and pharmacies. Headquartered in Encino, California, mPulse Mobile leverages technology, analytics, and industry expertise to foster healthy behavior change and improve health outcomes for individuals and healthcare organizations alike.

Lumeon

Series D in 2020
Lumeon Ltd. is a digital health company specializing in care pathway management solutions for the healthcare sector. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in London, the company offers a cloud-based platform known as the Care Pathway Manager, which provides a comprehensive, real-time view of the patient journey from referral to outcome. Lumeon's services encompass business analysis, project management, data migration, training, and ongoing support. By focusing on the entire care pathway, Lumeon aids healthcare providers in optimizing clinical and administrative workflows, automating tasks, and achieving measurable healthcare outcomes. The company serves a diverse range of clients, including some of Europe's leading healthcare organizations. Lumeon was previously known as Qinec Ltd. before rebranding in July 2016.

Truepill

Series B in 2020
Truepill is a B2B pharmacy fulfillment service. They provide a pharmacy API and fulfillment of medications to 50 states from their own facilities. They work directly with D2C consumer brands (e.g. Hims, Nurx), digital health companies, and other healthcare organizations. They are a team of 150 employees and have raised funding from Initialized Capital, Y Combinator, Slow Ventures, Sound Ventures, Tuesday Capital, Foundation Capital, Index Ventures, Social Capital, Box Group, Joe Montana, and others. Founded in 2016 by Umar Afridi and Sid Viswanathan, Truepill is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

DispatchHealth

Series C in 2020
DispatchHealth Management, LLC is a provider of on-demand mobile and virtual healthcare services based in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 2013, the company offers a wide range of services including acute injury and illness evaluations, laceration repair, splinting of injured extremities, treatment for nosebleeds, placement of Foley and G-tubes, medication administration, laboratory testing, and coordination with primary care physicians and home health agencies. By delivering care in the comfort of patients' homes, DispatchHealth aims to reduce unnecessary emergency room visits and hospitalizations, improve clinical outcomes, and lower overall healthcare costs. The organization focuses on creating an integrated and convenient healthcare solution that enhances the capabilities of patients' care teams and ensures high-quality care.

Somatus

Series C in 2020
Somatus is a healthcare company that partners with health plans, health systems, and nephrology, and primary care groups. It provides integrated care for patients with or at risk of developing kidney disease. Somatus' is vertically integrated clinical services and technology delay or prevent disease progression, improve quality and care coordination, and increase the use of home dialysis modalities and rates of kidney transplantation. The company is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, and founded by a team of world-class healthcare operators, successful entrepreneurs, and leading clinicians treating kidney disease.

Kaia Health

Series B in 2020
Kaia Health Software GmbH is a digital therapeutics company that focuses on developing evidence-based treatments for chronic conditions, particularly back pain and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Founded in 2016, the company creates a holistic training program through its application, Kaia, which empowers users to manage their conditions from home using their smartphones and tablets. By leveraging machine learning, Kaia Health delivers personalized interventions designed to motivate patients and facilitate self-management of their health. The company collaborates with experts across various medical fields and offers its digital therapy programs to payers, service providers, and corporations. With a user base exceeding 400,000, Kaia Health is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, while also maintaining a presence in Munich, Germany.

DocASAP

Venture Round in 2020
DocASAP is a hospital and healthcare company that provides patient access and engagement platform for health systems, payors, and physician groups. DocASAP builds unique payer-provider connections with an eye towards simplified access, increased care compliance, and improved population risk management. DocASAP's intelligent patient-provider matching enables patients to connect with optimal care providers to enhance access, improve outcomes and reduce costs.'s The company was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Virginia, United States.

Mindstrong Inc.

Series C in 2020
Mindstrong Health develops comprehensive care pathways based on passively-collected, continuous and objective measures of cognitive function and mood. Solutions include a patient-facing app, a provider-facing product, and clinical services that leverage its telehealth enabled measurement science and engagement platform. Mindstrong is partnered with leading organizations committed to advancing medical innovation and improving healthcare delivery for patients, including pharmaceutical companies, large payers and providers, large employers, and state and county governments, in addition to top-tier academic institutions for clinical research.

Holmusk

Series A in 2020
Holmusk Pte. Ltd. is a digital health and data analytics company based in Singapore, with additional offices in New York, Durham, London, and Cyberjaya. Founded in 2015, Holmusk specializes in developing a real-world evidence platform focused on mental health and chronic diseases. This platform integrates specialty behavioral health data with advanced analytics to provide actionable insights for personalized medicine. Holmusk offers several key products, including an electronic health record system called MindLinc, which captures and monitors patient decisions alongside historical mental health data, and digital therapeutics that track and treat patients. The company's solutions are designed for a broad range of stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem, including pharmaceutical companies, providers, payers, regulators, and contract research organizations. By leveraging scientific research and electronic health record data, Holmusk aims to enhance data-driven, evidence-based care for individuals managing behavioral health conditions, ultimately supporting informed decision-making for improved patient outcomes.

LetsGetChecked

Series C in 2020
LetsGetChecked is an at-home health testing platform that connects customers to regulated laboratory testing to better manage and control one's individual health. LetsGetChecked is making healthcare and diagnostics open and patient-led, empowering people to use technology in a simple yet powerful way. This offers consumers greater control over their individual health. LetsGetChecked is headquartered in New York, NY, with tests covering general wellness, sexual health, women's health and men's health, and is available nationwide, as well as in Canada and Europe.

Heartbeat Health

Series A in 2020
Heartbeat Health, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in cardiology services. Established in 2017, it provides a range of offerings, including web-based real-time consulting and virtual physician consultations, along with follow-up services. The company aims to address cardiovascular health by screening, diagnosing, tracking, and managing cardiovascular risk and disease, leveraging a multidisciplinary team of doctors, designers, and engineers committed to improving heart health outcomes.

RubiconMD

Series C in 2020
RubiconMD, Inc. is a New York-based company that provides an online platform designed to facilitate communication between primary care clinicians and specialists through its eConsult service. This platform enables primary care providers to discuss cases with top specialists, thereby improving patient care and reducing costs. In addition to eConsults, RubiconMD offers a range of services, including a continuing medical education (CME) credit program, live and on-demand CME webinars, and RubiconRx, a clinical pharmacy platform that supports medication access for patients. The company also provides integration services for electronic health records, onboarding and implementation support, and clinician engagement. Founded in 2013, RubiconMD serves a diverse clientele that includes employers, community health centers, correctional health clinicians, health plans, health systems, and direct primary care practices.

Scipher Medicine

Series B in 2020
Scipher Medicine is a biotechnology company based in Waltham, Massachusetts, that focuses on developing a molecular technology platform to predict patient responses to drug therapies, particularly in cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases. The company offers several diagnostic tests, including PrismDx, which identifies patients who may not respond to specific medications, PrismRA for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and PrismUC for those with ulcerative colitis. These tests enable healthcare providers to prescribe more suitable alternative therapies for patients who are unlikely to benefit from traditional treatments. Scipher Medicine emphasizes the importance of providing scientifically backed data to improve patient outcomes and enhance treatment decisions. The company has also established a strategic partnership with Ambry Genetics Corporation to further advance its capabilities. Founded in 2014, Scipher Medicine was previously known as DZZOM Delaware Corporation before changing its name in 2015.

Oxford VR

Series A in 2020
Oxford VR Limited, founded in 2016 and based in Oxford, United Kingdom, specializes in developing automated cognitive treatments for various clinical conditions, including fear of heights, psychosis, and social anxiety. Originating from research at Oxford University by Professor Daniel Freeman, the company harnesses immersive virtual reality technology to deliver therapy through a virtual coach. This innovative approach aims to significantly increase access to mental health treatments, making them faster, more effective, and lower in cost compared to traditional methods. Oxford VR focuses on creating clinically validated and user-centered therapies that not only benefit patients but also positively impact the healthcare system and the broader economy.

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.

Apervita

Venture Round in 2019
Apervita is a trusted healthcare collaboration platform for quality measurement, clinical intelligence, value optimization, and interoperability. They empower payers and providers and other stakeholders to more efficiently and effectively measure clinical and financial performance, improve clinical quality, and administer and run analytics on value-based contracts. By providing an independent, secure, trusted platform to perform shared analyses, Apervita uniquely allows stakeholders to gain mutual, continuous clinical and financial insights and integrate those insights into various systems and workflows simultaneously and at scale. Serving more than one in three hospitals in the United States and several nationally recognized health plans, Apervita conducts more than 10 billion value-based computations and insights for their clients every year. The company maintains office locations in Chicago and Boston.

Kaia Health

Series A in 2019
Kaia Health Software GmbH is a digital therapeutics company that focuses on developing evidence-based treatments for chronic conditions, particularly back pain and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Founded in 2016, the company creates a holistic training program through its application, Kaia, which empowers users to manage their conditions from home using their smartphones and tablets. By leveraging machine learning, Kaia Health delivers personalized interventions designed to motivate patients and facilitate self-management of their health. The company collaborates with experts across various medical fields and offers its digital therapy programs to payers, service providers, and corporations. With a user base exceeding 400,000, Kaia Health is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, while also maintaining a presence in Munich, Germany.

Vim

Series B in 2019
Vim, Inc. develops a healthcare platform to provide online services that helps patients and healthcare providers find, schedule, and receive care from doctors and specialists. It provides online booking solutions and referral coordination. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Buoy Health

Series B in 2019
Buoy Health, Inc. is a health technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in New York. Founded in 2014, Buoy Health specializes in artificial intelligence-driven digital health solutions that assist individuals in managing their health and healthcare options. The company offers a personalized online healthcare chatbot, known as Buoy Assistant, which analyzes symptoms, facilitates initial triage, and provides treatment recommendations. This platform enables users to conduct real-time assessments of their symptoms while simplifying the navigation of the healthcare system. Additionally, Buoy Health provides resources for employees through its Buoy Dashboard, allowing them to research benefits, access wellness programs, and connect with in-network providers. The service is available 24/7, making self-diagnosis and healthcare navigation straightforward and accessible.

icometrix

Series A in 2019
Icometrix develops automated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) biomarkers. The company offers icobrain ms that track disease progression in individual multiple sclerosis patients; cobrain dm that quantifies brain structures in individual dementia patients; and icobrain tbi, which tracks axonal injuries in individual head trauma patients. It also provides services in the areas of CT and advanced MRI. The company is based in Leuven, Belgium.

LetsGetChecked

Series B in 2019
LetsGetChecked is an at-home health testing platform that connects customers to regulated laboratory testing to better manage and control one's individual health. LetsGetChecked is making healthcare and diagnostics open and patient-led, empowering people to use technology in a simple yet powerful way. This offers consumers greater control over their individual health. LetsGetChecked is headquartered in New York, NY, with tests covering general wellness, sexual health, women's health and men's health, and is available nationwide, as well as in Canada and Europe.

Diameter Health

Series A in 2019
Diameter Health, Inc. develops innovative software solutions aimed at enhancing data interoperability for healthcare organizations. The company's flagship product, Fusion, facilitates intelligent data exchange by normalizing and cleansing information from certified electronic health records (EHRs), thereby transforming it into clinically relevant data for point-of-care use and analytics. In addition to Fusion, Diameter Health offers various tools, including Data Dashboard, which provides instant data quality ratings and metrics for clinical document accuracy; Quality, which supports certified quality reporting of e-measures; and Payer Edition, designed for generating standard supplemental reporting data. Other offerings include Subscribe, which allows for automatic updates for specific patient populations, and a scalable Hosted Solution. Diameter Health serves a diverse clientele, including government agencies, health information exchanges, payers, healthcare IT vendors, life insurers, and health systems. Founded in 2013, the company operates from its offices in Farmington, Connecticut, and Wellesley, Massachusetts.

AbleTo

Corporate Round in 2019
AbleTo is a leading provider of virtual behavioral health care. Deep behavioral health insights and an integrated proprietary platform identifies and engages the right patients with the right support – when and how they want it. Their proven programs improve clinical outcomes and lower health care costs. AbleTo is committed to reach people with unmet behavioral health needs and eliminate barriers through virtual care. Their high-quality behavioral health care delivers results for their patients and their clients. AbleTo is proven to improve health outcomes and reduce medical costs with a program that earns high satisfaction scores from patients.

Groups Recover Together

Venture Round in 2019
Groups Recover Together was founded to make treatment for opioid addiction respectful, accessible, and affordable. We empower our members to regain control of their lives through a proven, evidence-based model of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) with buprenorphine and weekly group therapy.

IDx

Series A in 2018
Digital Diagnostics is an AI diagnostics company that transforms the quality, accessibility, and affordability of healthcare. Founded in 2010 by a team of world-renowned clinician-scientists, the company is focused on developing clinically-aligned autonomous algorithms that detect disease in medical images. By enabling diagnostic assessment in primary care settings, it aims to increase patient access to high-quality, affordable disease detection. The company’s first product, IDx-DR, is an FDA-cleared AI-based diagnostic system designed for use at the front lines of care to detect diabetic retinopathy. It is developing additional AI-based diagnostic algorithms for the detection of macular degeneration, glaucoma, Alzheimer’s disease, cardiovascular disease, and stroke risk. Digital Diagnostics was formerly known as IDx.

Mindstrong Inc.

Series B in 2018
Mindstrong Health develops comprehensive care pathways based on passively-collected, continuous and objective measures of cognitive function and mood. Solutions include a patient-facing app, a provider-facing product, and clinical services that leverage its telehealth enabled measurement science and engagement platform. Mindstrong is partnered with leading organizations committed to advancing medical innovation and improving healthcare delivery for patients, including pharmaceutical companies, large payers and providers, large employers, and state and county governments, in addition to top-tier academic institutions for clinical research.

RubiconMD

Series B in 2018
RubiconMD, Inc. is a New York-based company that provides an online platform designed to facilitate communication between primary care clinicians and specialists through its eConsult service. This platform enables primary care providers to discuss cases with top specialists, thereby improving patient care and reducing costs. In addition to eConsults, RubiconMD offers a range of services, including a continuing medical education (CME) credit program, live and on-demand CME webinars, and RubiconRx, a clinical pharmacy platform that supports medication access for patients. The company also provides integration services for electronic health records, onboarding and implementation support, and clinician engagement. Founded in 2013, RubiconMD serves a diverse clientele that includes employers, community health centers, correctional health clinicians, health plans, health systems, and direct primary care practices.

LetsGetChecked

Series A in 2018
LetsGetChecked is an at-home health testing platform that connects customers to regulated laboratory testing to better manage and control one's individual health. LetsGetChecked is making healthcare and diagnostics open and patient-led, empowering people to use technology in a simple yet powerful way. This offers consumers greater control over their individual health. LetsGetChecked is headquartered in New York, NY, with tests covering general wellness, sexual health, women's health and men's health, and is available nationwide, as well as in Canada and Europe.

CareBridge

Venture Round in 2018
CareBridge provides technology and services that assists health plans and states in caring for individuals receiving long-term support services. The company services include electronic visit verification (EVV), data aggregation, 24/7 member support and benefit management. CareBridge was founded in 2009 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Apervita

Venture Round in 2017
Apervita is a trusted healthcare collaboration platform for quality measurement, clinical intelligence, value optimization, and interoperability. They empower payers and providers and other stakeholders to more efficiently and effectively measure clinical and financial performance, improve clinical quality, and administer and run analytics on value-based contracts. By providing an independent, secure, trusted platform to perform shared analyses, Apervita uniquely allows stakeholders to gain mutual, continuous clinical and financial insights and integrate those insights into various systems and workflows simultaneously and at scale. Serving more than one in three hospitals in the United States and several nationally recognized health plans, Apervita conducts more than 10 billion value-based computations and insights for their clients every year. The company maintains office locations in Chicago and Boston.

Buoy Health

Series A in 2017
Buoy Health, Inc. is a health technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in New York. Founded in 2014, Buoy Health specializes in artificial intelligence-driven digital health solutions that assist individuals in managing their health and healthcare options. The company offers a personalized online healthcare chatbot, known as Buoy Assistant, which analyzes symptoms, facilitates initial triage, and provides treatment recommendations. This platform enables users to conduct real-time assessments of their symptoms while simplifying the navigation of the healthcare system. Additionally, Buoy Health provides resources for employees through its Buoy Dashboard, allowing them to research benefits, access wellness programs, and connect with in-network providers. The service is available 24/7, making self-diagnosis and healthcare navigation straightforward and accessible.

Mindstrong Inc.

Series A in 2017
Mindstrong Health develops comprehensive care pathways based on passively-collected, continuous and objective measures of cognitive function and mood. Solutions include a patient-facing app, a provider-facing product, and clinical services that leverage its telehealth enabled measurement science and engagement platform. Mindstrong is partnered with leading organizations committed to advancing medical innovation and improving healthcare delivery for patients, including pharmaceutical companies, large payers and providers, large employers, and state and county governments, in addition to top-tier academic institutions for clinical research.

SHYFT

Series B in 2017
SHYFT is an integral part of the life sciences ecosystem and as the market undergoes a dramatic transformation to deliver more personalized and value-based medicine, the role of SHYFT has never been more important. The SHYFT Platform helps life science companies integrate clinical and commercial data and translate it into patient-centric intelligence and analytics for use across functional groups, shortening development cycles and commercialization activities while improving the probability of success.