Optum

Optum is a healthcare services and innovation company dedicated to improving health outcomes. It offers a range of services including family medicine, mental health care, and specialized therapies for rare diseases. Optum also provides healthcare financial services and technology solutions to health plan providers.

Moses Adubi

Associate

Vijay Barathan MD

Senior Principal, Healthcare VC

Tom Capon

Principal

Richie Chaikof

Principal

Nicole Chen

Vice President

Past deals in Health Care

Caresyntax

Series C in 2024
Caresyntax develops a digital surgery platform that improves patient outcomes by analyzing large volumes of data from operating rooms. Its proprietary software and AI enable OR teams to predict and enhance surgical performance, helping surgeons benchmark their care, hospital administrators optimize resources, medical device companies advance products, and insurance providers assess risk.

Endear Health

Series A in 2023
Endear Health is a technology company focused on addressing the healthcare needs of the aging population. It provides an online platform that serves as a single access point for Medicare-eligible individuals, enabling them to effectively manage their health and benefits. The platform is designed to be user-friendly, offering tools that help seniors collect and organize their health-related information. By doing so, Endear Health aims to empower older adults to overcome barriers in healthcare and take control of their health management.

Alma

Series D in 2022
Alma is a membership-based network for mental health care providers that aims to improve access to high-quality, affordable mental health care. Its platform enables providers to accept insurance and also provides a member directory, client-matching service, scheduling, and billing functions, as well as education, training, and a community for support.

CareBridge

Series C in 2022
CareBridge provides technology and services to health plans and state agencies to support individuals receiving home and community-based services. The company offers electronic visit verification, data aggregation, 24/7 clinical support for patients, family members, and paid caregivers, and benefit management to help members access services, equipment, and support needed to live at home and remain independent. It focuses on serving Medicaid beneficiaries or individuals eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid, aiming to enable coordinated care through a value-based approach. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, CareBridge connects care teams around the clock.

Loop

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 founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York, focused on enhancing the independence of older adults through a personal assistance platform. The platform offers a variety of services that support the elderly in daily activities such as transportation, errands, shopping, and nutrition. By fostering trusted relationships and facilitating community engagement, Duos enables older individuals to live fulfilling lives at home while maximizing their autonomy. The company's emphasis on technology and community connections aims to create a supportive environment for seniors, ensuring they receive the assistance needed to maintain their independence.

Garner Health

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.

Caresyntax

Series C in 2021
Caresyntax develops a digital surgery platform that improves patient outcomes by analyzing large volumes of data from operating rooms. Its proprietary software and AI enable OR teams to predict and enhance surgical performance, helping surgeons benchmark their care, hospital administrators optimize resources, medical device companies advance products, and insurance providers assess risk.

Alma

Series C in 2021
Alma is a membership-based network for mental health care providers that aims to improve access to high-quality, affordable mental health care. Its platform enables providers to accept insurance and also provides a member directory, client-matching service, scheduling, and billing functions, as well as education, training, and a community for support.

Ultromics

Series B in 2021
Ultromics Limited, founded in 2017 and based in Oxford, United Kingdom, specializes in developing advanced echocardiography software aimed at enhancing the diagnosis of coronary heart disease. By leveraging artificial intelligence, the company has created highly accurate diagnostic tools that improve the identification of coronary artery disease, achieving diagnostic accuracy improvements of over 90%. Ultromics' technology processes complex data from electrocardiograms, empowering healthcare providers to make informed clinical decisions and ultimately enhancing patient care in cardiology.

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.

Main Street Health

Series A in 2021
Main Street Health delivers value-based, care-focused healthcare services addressing rural wellness challenges. It uses data-driven solutions to support partner clinics by providing staff, technology, and access to critical access hospitals and community health centers, enabling rural residents to receive high-quality treatment.

Vesta Healthcare

Venture Round in 2021
Vesta Healthcare is a technology and clinical services organization based in New York, specializing in connecting caregivers to care teams through its innovative health care platform. The company offers 24/7 telehealth support aimed at caregivers and care recipients, particularly focusing on high-need, frail senior populations. Vesta partners with home care agencies, health plans, and healthcare providers to develop value-based population health programs that prioritize clinical quality and improved health outcomes. Founded in 2008 and originally known as Hometeam Technologies, Inc., Vesta Healthcare has established itself as a leader in enhancing caregiver insights and facilitating personalized engagement in the healthcare setting.

Unite Us

Series C in 2021
Unite Us is a veteran-led technology company founded in 2013 in New York, specializing in creating coordinated care networks that connect health and social service providers. The company develops a platform that enables providers to send and receive secure referrals, track individuals' health journeys, and report on outcomes across a variety of services. By integrating social determinants of health into patient care, Unite Us facilitates a cohesive and collaborative ecosystem that enhances the ability of communities to deliver services effectively. This innovative approach moves beyond traditional resource directories, allowing systems to measure impact and improve health outcomes on a larger scale.

Alma

Series B in 2021
Alma is a membership-based network for mental health care providers that aims to improve access to high-quality, affordable mental health care. Its platform enables providers to accept insurance and also provides a member directory, client-matching service, scheduling, and billing functions, as well as education, training, and a community for support.

Springtide Child Development

Series A in 2020
Springtide Child Development, Inc. is a Trumbull, Connecticut-based provider of child development services tailored for children aged 2 to 18 with autism and other developmental challenges. Established in 2018, the company offers a range of personalized and holistic treatment plans designed to address various needs. Its interdisciplinary team of specialists provides services including Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and social skills development. The clinic also focuses on language acquisition and functional living skills, ensuring a comprehensive approach to support each child's growth and progress. By closely monitoring individual development, Springtide Child Development aims to help children reach their full potential.

Buoy Health

Series C in 2020
Buoy Health is a health technology company that develops AI-powered digital health tools to help individuals manage healthcare options. It offers an online healthcare assistant that analyzes symptoms, performs first-line triage, and provides treatment recommendations. Its platform delivers real-time symptom analysis and helps users navigate the healthcare system, research benefits, and locate in-network providers. For employers, the platform surfaces benefits information, guides employees to in-network providers, and integrates with other health portals. Founded in 2014 and based in Boston, Buoy Health aims to resemble a physician-patient conversation through machine learning and proprietary data, enabling users to make informed care decisions.

Truepill

Series C in 2020
Truepill is a B2B pharmacy fulfillment service headquartered in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2016 by Umar Afridi and Sid Viswanathan, the company provides a pharmacy API and medication fulfillment to customers across all 50 states from its own facilities. Truepill collaborates with direct-to-consumer brands, digital health companies, and various healthcare organizations to enhance the pharmacy experience. Its technology offers real-time visibility into patients, prescriptions, and order details, facilitating payment flexibility and delivery tracking. With a team of 150 employees, Truepill has attracted investment from several notable investors, including Initialized Capital and Y Combinator.

Truepill

Series B in 2020
Truepill is a B2B pharmacy fulfillment service headquartered in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2016 by Umar Afridi and Sid Viswanathan, the company provides a pharmacy API and medication fulfillment to customers across all 50 states from its own facilities. Truepill collaborates with direct-to-consumer brands, digital health companies, and various healthcare organizations to enhance the pharmacy experience. Its technology offers real-time visibility into patients, prescriptions, and order details, facilitating payment flexibility and delivery tracking. With a team of 150 employees, Truepill has attracted investment from several notable investors, including Initialized Capital and Y Combinator.

Oxford VR

Series A in 2020
Oxford VR Limited is a company that specializes in developing cognitive treatments for clinical conditions utilizing virtual reality technology. Founded in 2016 and based in Oxford, United Kingdom, it emerged as a spin-out from Oxford University, building on the research of Professor Daniel Freeman. The company offers automated treatments delivered by a virtual coach, targeting conditions such as fear of heights, psychosis, and social anxiety. By leveraging immersive virtual reality, Oxford VR aims to provide faster and more effective therapies at a lower cost to health providers. The treatments are designed to be user-centered and clinically validated, thereby enhancing access to mental health care while significantly impacting patients and the broader healthcare system.

CareBridge

Series B in 2019
CareBridge provides technology and services to health plans and state agencies to support individuals receiving home and community-based services. The company offers electronic visit verification, data aggregation, 24/7 clinical support for patients, family members, and paid caregivers, and benefit management to help members access services, equipment, and support needed to live at home and remain independent. It focuses on serving Medicaid beneficiaries or individuals eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid, aiming to enable coordinated care through a value-based approach. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, CareBridge connects care teams around the clock.

Contessa

Series D in 2019
Contessa, headquartered in Nashville, specializes in Home Recovery Care, a risk-based model that delivers inpatient-level care in patients' homes. Established in 2015, Contessa uses its proprietary health informatics platform to facilitate safe, affordable, and outcome-improving home care. The company offers turnkey solutions, providing upfront savings for health plans, enabling healthcare systems to reinvent their care delivery model by treating patients outside the hospital, and enhancing patient experience through better physician support.

Buoy Health

Series B in 2019
Buoy Health is a health technology company that develops AI-powered digital health tools to help individuals manage healthcare options. It offers an online healthcare assistant that analyzes symptoms, performs first-line triage, and provides treatment recommendations. Its platform delivers real-time symptom analysis and helps users navigate the healthcare system, research benefits, and locate in-network providers. For employers, the platform surfaces benefits information, guides employees to in-network providers, and integrates with other health portals. Founded in 2014 and based in Boston, Buoy Health aims to resemble a physician-patient conversation through machine learning and proprietary data, enabling users to make informed care decisions.

DaVita Medical Group

Acquisition in 2017
DaVita Medical Group is a prominent independent medical group in the United States, managing and operating medical groups and affiliated physician networks across several states, including California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Washington. With over twenty years of experience, the organization is dedicated to delivering coordinated, outcomes-based medical care that prioritizes cost-effectiveness. DaVita Medical Group serves approximately 1.7 million patients through its employed and affiliated clinicians, offering patient-centric and clinically focused medical services. The company's commitment to leadership development and social responsibility has garnered recognition from esteemed publications, reflecting its dedication to improving healthcare delivery and outcomes.

The Advisory Board Company

Acquisition in 2017
The Advisory Board Company is a provider of research services aimed at leaders in the healthcare industry, serving over 2,700 hospitals, health systems, universities, and mission-driven organizations in the United States and globally. With a team of more than 900 researchers, experts, and consultants, the company focuses on addressing critical issues faced by its members and delivering insights for optimal performance. Its offerings include personalized digital subscriptions, executive education, decision-support tools, and consulting services, tailored to the unique needs of each institution. The Advisory Board Company helps healthcare organizations navigate complex challenges such as clinical workforce management and turnover through actionable strategies and practical resources.

Buoy Health

Series A in 2017
Buoy Health is a health technology company that develops AI-powered digital health tools to help individuals manage healthcare options. It offers an online healthcare assistant that analyzes symptoms, performs first-line triage, and provides treatment recommendations. Its platform delivers real-time symptom analysis and helps users navigate the healthcare system, research benefits, and locate in-network providers. For employers, the platform surfaces benefits information, guides employees to in-network providers, and integrates with other health portals. Founded in 2014 and based in Boston, Buoy Health aims to resemble a physician-patient conversation through machine learning and proprietary data, enabling users to make informed care decisions.

New West Physicians

Acquisition in 2017
New West Physicians is a primary care group practice that focuses on enhancing the physical, mental, and spiritual health of communities. The organization provides a range of healthcare services, including family practice, internal medicine, behavioral health, gastroenterology, neurology, spine care, and sports medicine. New West Physicians is dedicated to delivering integrated, patient-centered care, aiming to meet the diverse health needs of its patients. Additionally, the company offers emergency services to address immediate healthcare requirements, reinforcing its commitment to comprehensive medical management and community wellness.
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