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Techstars

Techstars Central LLC, founded in 2006 and based in Boulder, Colorado, operates as a startup accelerator and venture capital firm focused on supporting early-stage technology-oriented companies. It specializes in a mentorship-driven accelerator program, selecting ten startups each summer to participate in a three-month incubation period, offering funding of $120,000 in exchange for equity. Techstars invests primarily in sectors such as fintech, artificial intelligence, blockchain, augmented reality, and IoT, while avoiding investments in medical devices, healthcare technology, and local service-oriented businesses. In addition to its primary accelerator, Techstars has various specialized programs, including those focused on music, retail, mobility, and social impact, with global reach extending to regions such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The firm prefers taking minority stakes, typically between six and ten percent, without seeking board representation or investor rights. Techstars has built a robust network of entrepreneurs, mentors, and corporate partners to foster innovation and growth within its portfolio, which includes over 1,000 companies with a significant collective market capitalization.

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Past deals in Personal Health

MindStand Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Fostering a healthy online community, one post at a time!

Kiddo

Series A in 2022
Good Parents Inc. develops Kiddo, a pediatric at-home care delivery system designed to assist parents in monitoring their children's health and wellness. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, Kiddo combines a proprietary wearable device with a connected application and integrated care options, including telehealth and doctor visits. The system tracks a range of health metrics, such as emotional well-being, physical activity, heart rate, caloric intake, sleep patterns, and growth. By providing these insights, Kiddo not only supports parents in overseeing their children's health but also aids healthcare providers in managing pediatric admission rates and care costs effectively.

Healthtracka

Seed Round in 2021
Healthtracka is a digital health platform that allows consumer direct access to lab tests bookings, at-home sample collection and digital results in 1-3days

Vincere Health

Seed Round in 2021
Vincere Health Inc. is a health technology company based in Allston, Massachusetts, founded in 2019 at the Harvard Innovation Labs and backed by Techstars. The company has developed an application designed to assist users in quitting smoking and making healthier lifestyle choices. This application utilizes a combination of incentives, behavioral nudges, and evidence-based interventions, allowing users to set personal goals and monitor their progress. Users engage with the application by using an attachable breathalyzer device to verify their adherence to smoking cessation goals. Additionally, they can receive financial rewards for reducing their smoking habits and achieving cessation. Through these methods, Vincere Health aims to address significant healthcare challenges by promoting positive behavior change.

Robyn

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Robyn Inc. operates a community-driven digital platform focused on integrative maternal wellness, catering to women at various stages of parenthood. The company connects aspiring, expecting, and new parents with a network of wellness providers across 14 service categories, including birth education, nutrition, mental health, and lactation support. Robyn also offers digital education courses, such as childbirth education and lactation classes, aiming to make parental wellness and education more accessible. By providing resources and tools, Robyn seeks to empower women in making informed decisions about their health and well-being during pre-pregnancy and throughout their parenting journey. Founded in 2019 and based in Los Angeles, Robyn was previously known as FertileGirl LLC.

Neolth

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Neolth offers on-demand, individualized mental health support specifically designed for high school and college students in the United States. By assessing students' health, Neolth provides personalized behavioral practices that can be completed on its platform. The company focuses on delivering self-guided care through a behavioral treatment technique that includes tailored stress management plans based on neuroscience. Students have access to various resources, including relaxation practices, instructional videos, and live-stream events, all aimed at enhancing emotional awareness and reducing the stigma associated with mental health. Neolth's solution is convenient, affordable, and designed to meet students' needs whenever and wherever they require support.

Flourish

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Flourish offers a subscription membership that helps women develop healthy habits that last through personalized accountability, community support, and education.

Launchpad

Pre Seed Round in 2021
A complete system to get elite athletic training at home.

Eli

Seed Round in 2020
Eli enables women to take control of their health across their lives, by providing them with powerful information on their daily hormone profile. We develop an at-home device to monitor hormones in saliva and an app to provide personalized insights. Eli's initial focus is to give women a no-compromise option to own their fertility and contraception decisions.

Spora Health

Seed Round in 2020
Spora Health, Inc. operates as a telemedicine provider that recognizes lived experiences and works to create health solutions. It provides treatments in the areas of allergies, cold and flu, infections, digestive system, musculoskeletal, reproductive system, and skin conditions. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Holisticly

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Holisticly provides employees with a monthly wellness stipend to choose from a range of team-wide experiences and fitness and mental health solutions.

Neolth

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Neolth offers on-demand, individualized mental health support specifically designed for high school and college students in the United States. By assessing students' health, Neolth provides personalized behavioral practices that can be completed on its platform. The company focuses on delivering self-guided care through a behavioral treatment technique that includes tailored stress management plans based on neuroscience. Students have access to various resources, including relaxation practices, instructional videos, and live-stream events, all aimed at enhancing emotional awareness and reducing the stigma associated with mental health. Neolth's solution is convenient, affordable, and designed to meet students' needs whenever and wherever they require support.

Wysefit

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Wysefit is a fitness center specifically designed for adults over 50, focusing on extending healthy lifespans through personalized fitness plans. The company offers custom programs created by physical therapists that cater to individual health conditions and mobility limitations. These programs provide data-driven recommendations and measurable benefits, ensuring that older adults can stay fit and active in a way that is engaging and relatable. Additionally, Wysefit incorporates progress tracking, coaching, and community support, fostering motivation and a sense of belonging among its users.

Kiddo

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Good Parents Inc. develops Kiddo, a pediatric at-home care delivery system designed to assist parents in monitoring their children's health and wellness. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, Kiddo combines a proprietary wearable device with a connected application and integrated care options, including telehealth and doctor visits. The system tracks a range of health metrics, such as emotional well-being, physical activity, heart rate, caloric intake, sleep patterns, and growth. By providing these insights, Kiddo not only supports parents in overseeing their children's health but also aids healthcare providers in managing pediatric admission rates and care costs effectively.

Vincere Health

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Vincere Health Inc. is a health technology company based in Allston, Massachusetts, founded in 2019 at the Harvard Innovation Labs and backed by Techstars. The company has developed an application designed to assist users in quitting smoking and making healthier lifestyle choices. This application utilizes a combination of incentives, behavioral nudges, and evidence-based interventions, allowing users to set personal goals and monitor their progress. Users engage with the application by using an attachable breathalyzer device to verify their adherence to smoking cessation goals. Additionally, they can receive financial rewards for reducing their smoking habits and achieving cessation. Through these methods, Vincere Health aims to address significant healthcare challenges by promoting positive behavior change.

Spora Health

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Spora Health, Inc. operates as a telemedicine provider that recognizes lived experiences and works to create health solutions. It provides treatments in the areas of allergies, cold and flu, infections, digestive system, musculoskeletal, reproductive system, and skin conditions. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

River Health

Seed Round in 2020
River Health, established in 2019 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, offers a comprehensive range of health and wellness services through a membership model. Members gain 24/7 access to a variety of services, including doctor visits, urgent care, lab tests, nutrition counseling, and women's health services such as birth control. The company emphasizes quality care by ensuring that all its healthcare providers maintain good standing and deliver optimal service. River Health collaborates with healthcare providers, payers, and digital health companies to enhance its offerings and improve member experiences.

Fitnescity

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Fitnescity's mission is to empower people to learn more about their wellness so they can make more informed decisions.

ZoneIn

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Nearly every vertical within fitness and wellness is accelerating, from gear to on-demand exercise to recovery. Meanwhile nutrition is stuck in neutral and is often overlooked, despite the well documented impact it has on health and performance. Developed with sports scientists from the NBA and NFL, ZoneIn is the performance-focused nutrition app that meets the needs of all athletes.

Gini Health

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Gini Health is the fastest growing app in actionable personalized nutrition. With millions of people having access to the DNA, health and quantified self data it's possible to understand people's nutrition needs at the individual level and give them tools to put this information into action. Gini Health's iOS and Android apps help tens of thousands of people to do this. The first of its kind, Gini also helps users calculate their exact multivitamin dosages based on your DNA, diet, exercise and sleep.

Invincible

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Invincible is a developer of a community application aimed at supporting children with type 1 diabetes and other chronic conditions throughout their lives. The mobile app connects families with schools, healthcare professionals, and various environments where children engage, fostering an ecosystem that encourages children to develop skills to manage their health. By providing essential resources and facilitating communication between families and caregivers, Invincible enables users to access care and support for chronic health issues effectively.

bestselfy

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Bestselfy is a company that specializes in developing a personalized coaching platform aimed at enhancing leadership soft skills among employees. Founded in 2019, the platform utilizes AI technology to create tailored coaching plans for individual team members, focusing on their unique goals, strengths, and areas for improvement. This approach enables managers to monitor progress over time and fosters a culture of continuous learning and development within organizations. By improving employee engagement and retention, Bestselfy's platform contributes to overall business success.

Eli

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Eli enables women to take control of their health across their lives, by providing them with powerful information on their daily hormone profile. We develop an at-home device to monitor hormones in saliva and an app to provide personalized insights. Eli's initial focus is to give women a no-compromise option to own their fertility and contraception decisions.

WalkWise

Seed Round in 2019
WalkWise is dedicated to developing solutions for the healthcare industry. It offers a smart walker attachment that helps seniors maintain their independence by monitoring wellness, health, and safety.

River Health

Pre Seed Round in 2019
River Health, established in 2019 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, offers a comprehensive range of health and wellness services through a membership model. Members gain 24/7 access to a variety of services, including doctor visits, urgent care, lab tests, nutrition counseling, and women's health services such as birth control. The company emphasizes quality care by ensuring that all its healthcare providers maintain good standing and deliver optimal service. River Health collaborates with healthcare providers, payers, and digital health companies to enhance its offerings and improve member experiences.

Wella Health

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Wellahealth is a startup that has developed a digital triage bot that provides guidance based on Nigeria Centre for Disease Control guidelines and logs responses for follow up by public health as needed.

Albert Health

Pre Seed Round in 2018
50% of people with chronic diseases do not take medications as prescribed. Improper medication use, especially for elderly patients, leads to hospitalizations and costs insurers billions of dollars. Current apps in the market are too complicated and difficult to use for the elderly who suffer the most from chronic diseases. Albert is a voice-based health assistant which is accessible through mobile app, Amazon Alexa and Google assistant. Our machine learning algorithms create a unique conversational medication management experience. Elderly patients don’t have to text anymore. They will talk with Albert to manage their medications in an easy and effortless way. Patients can easily track health measurements, keep medical diary and set pill reminder by voice command. Furthermore, “Caregiver Mode” allows family members to manage and monitor their relatives’ treatment remotely. Albert helps elderly patients to take the right dose at the right time and help insurers to have less medical expenses, more satisfied customers.

FIX Health

Seed Round in 2018
FIX Health develops high quality, interactive games that promote health and daily activity in a fun. FIX is dedicated to making fitness fun, accessible and hyper-socially connected through an interactive social media platform centered around making the pursuit of fitness an enjoyable and engaging game.

Player’s Health

Seed Round in 2018
Player’s Health is an insurance agency that protects athletes and sports organizations with a unique risk management platform. To do this, they use an interactive mobile and web-based platform designed to allow coaches to quickly and easily document any injury that occurs during practice or games. This promotes real-time communication between coaches and parents to best care for the health and wellbeing of youth athletes. Their HIPAA compliant interface simplifies the flow of youth athlete health information between coach, parent, and healthcare provider. Player’s Health fosters a personalized network of care for each youth athlete.

Nell Health

Seed Round in 2017
Nell Health's science backed platform offers modern health screening, programs and expert coaching for individuals and adults. Our programmes offer support from start to finish. We are a team of scientists and health enthusiasts. Founded in 2017, headquartered in London, UK.

Brook Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Brook is a personal health companion that brings together clinicians, designers, developers, and entrepreneurs. It helps to find the healthy zone in the flow of everyday life by combining automated tracking and data analysis with access to health experts every day of the year. It generates member health reports that make for better doctor’s visits, make it easy to sync their system with their devices, and most importantly, help people stay healthy – so they can be their best selves at work, at home, and wherever life takes them.

Hawthorne

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Hawthorne creates personal care products using premium quality ingredients, data-driven algorithms, and smart subscriptions. It makes it easy to elevate consumers with premium quality products that work perfectly for them as an individual. With just a quick quiz, consumers will receive tailored products for all of their bathroom needs.

Artera

Seed Round in 2017
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.

Artera

Seed Round in 2017
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.

Fitspot

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Fitspot is a centralized hub for all things wellness, connecting employees to an ecosystem of onsite and virtual wellness experiences.

Fitspot

Seed Round in 2016
Fitspot is a centralized hub for all things wellness, connecting employees to an ecosystem of onsite and virtual wellness experiences.

Artera

Pre Seed Round in 2016
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.

ZendyHealth

Seed Round in 2016
ZendyHealth (ZH) makes it easier than ever before to search and save on health and dental services. ZH connects customers seeking standardized procedures to top local Certified Providers at affordable prices. Consumers are empowered to make smarter purchasing decisions and access care more affordably; they can choose their procedure -- when and where they want -- and at their own price. Providers increase business and fill excess capacity and address perishable inventory -- the end result being a win-win solution for customers and providers alike.

Healthie

Seed Round in 2016
Healthie Inc. operates an online practice management and telehealth platform specifically designed for dietitians and their patients. The Healthie platform automates office management, patient records, and virtual care, streamlining scheduling, billing, and administrative tasks for nutrition professionals. Additionally, it offers a mobile application that allows patients to track their health activities, including food intake, workouts, and various health metrics, facilitating progress monitoring between appointments. Founded in 2016 and based in Lewes, Delaware, Healthie is HIPAA-compliant and aims to empower nutrition providers with tools that enhance patient care. The platform recognizes the unique workflow associated with nutritional care, distinct from traditional medical practices, and is tailored to meet these specific needs while promoting accessible nutritional support for a broader audience.

Sam Heather

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Sam Heather develops personal safety application that provides information to recipients of user’s choice.

Nudge, LLC

Seed Round in 2015
Nudge, LLC is a digital health coaching software provider that focuses on aggregating healthcare data for health professionals, coaches, and providers. The company offers the Nudge Coach platform, which simplifies the integration of data from various fitness applications and wearables, enabling users to share insights with their clients effectively. Founded in 2011 and based in Richmond, Virginia, Nudge, LLC allows users to track their health metrics, including hydration, nutrition, exercise, and sleep, ultimately calculating an overall health score. The platform also facilitates social comparisons among users, enhancing motivation and accountability. Nudge, LLC was previously known as Beene & Gambill, LLC before rebranding in January 2012. The company was acquired by Salveo Diagnostics, Inc. in August 2019.

Melon Health

Seed Round in 2015
Melon Health Inc. develops a mobile health platform for chronic disease management and prevention. The company’s platform allows patients help themselves through peer support, access to clinicians, and tracking and behavior change tools. It offers its services for patients, health providers, pharma sector, and payers in Oceania, North America, and Europe. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

HealthID

Seed Round in 2015
HealthID is a mobile health manager that provides users a simple way to update, manage and communicate all aspects of their personal health directly from their HealthID account, HealthID Band or Card. Their product focuses on three key areas: chronic disease management, medication compliance, and efficient communication of personal medical information to emergency personnel or healthcare providers. HealthID directly meets the needs of both the consumer and the healthcare provider by leveraging the latest technology and value-adding features that can reduce costs, increase outcomes/revenue and potentially save lives.

Prime

Seed Round in 2014
Taking care of someone? You're not alone—60 million Americans do. We've got your back. Prime pulls all the family members and health data you need, in one place.

Qualia Health

Seed Round in 2014
Qualia Health, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that operates an online platform designed for at-home monitoring of heart failure patients. Founded in 2013, Qualia Health has developed a comprehensive software platform capable of assessing an individual's physical, mental, and social health. This platform allows users to evaluate their health status in comparison to the general population, facilitating a better understanding of their overall well-being. By providing a user-friendly interface, Qualia Health aims to enhance patient engagement and improve health outcomes for individuals managing chronic conditions.

Telespine

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Developer of a Web-based tele-health program designed for low back pain sufferers. The company's mobile application teaches users simple and effective healthy back activities to enabling back pain sufferers to recover from lower back pain, correct your alignment and mobility issues, and restore pain free movement.

Qualia Health

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Qualia Health, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that operates an online platform designed for at-home monitoring of heart failure patients. Founded in 2013, Qualia Health has developed a comprehensive software platform capable of assessing an individual's physical, mental, and social health. This platform allows users to evaluate their health status in comparison to the general population, facilitating a better understanding of their overall well-being. By providing a user-friendly interface, Qualia Health aims to enhance patient engagement and improve health outcomes for individuals managing chronic conditions.

NextStep.io

Seed Round in 2013
NextStep.io is not just about what you want to do next, but who can help get you there - connect your activity with a personal trainer, wellness coach or group to ‪#‎OwnToday‬ Fitness activity tracking devices and apps offer tremendous potential to change the way people live – NextStep.io turns that potential into reality. NextStep.io organizes activity data (Fuelband, FitBit, RunKeeper, etc) to identify habits and improve outcomes by connecting an individual to personal trainers, wellness coaches and groups. Personalized trends and goal progress are reported with simple indicators that engage individual users

Sprout

Seed Round in 2013
Sprout is a health engagement platform enabling workplace wellbeing for corporate wellness. The platform provides employees with the resources needed to lead healthy lifestyles and to provide management with a solution to manage and measure its impact. It inspires employees to get fit and empowers employers to manage and quantify their corporate wellness. Sprout was founded in 2012 by Martha Switzer and Christina Ford and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

HighFive Mobile

Seed Round in 2013
HighFive Mobile, Inc. develops mobile application for health and fitness routines based on real life activities. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Careport

Venture Round in 2012
CarePort Health, LLC specializes in care coordination software solutions designed to facilitate patient transitions between different healthcare settings. The company offers a suite of products including CarePort Guide, which aids in selecting post-acute providers; CarePort Connect, which enables real-time management of patients across various care settings; and CarePort Insight, which assesses patient outcomes and provider performance metrics. Additionally, CarePort provides tools such as CarePort Transition and Transition Extender to streamline referrals and enhance communication within electronic health records. The platform serves a diverse clientele, including health systems, accountable care organizations, and both acute and post-acute care providers. By connecting hospitals with high-quality post-acute care options, CarePort helps ensure that patients receive appropriate follow-up care, while also enabling providers to track patient progress effectively. CarePort Health is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and operates as a subsidiary of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc.

Careport

Seed Round in 2012
CarePort Health, LLC specializes in care coordination software solutions designed to facilitate patient transitions between different healthcare settings. The company offers a suite of products including CarePort Guide, which aids in selecting post-acute providers; CarePort Connect, which enables real-time management of patients across various care settings; and CarePort Insight, which assesses patient outcomes and provider performance metrics. Additionally, CarePort provides tools such as CarePort Transition and Transition Extender to streamline referrals and enhance communication within electronic health records. The platform serves a diverse clientele, including health systems, accountable care organizations, and both acute and post-acute care providers. By connecting hospitals with high-quality post-acute care options, CarePort helps ensure that patients receive appropriate follow-up care, while also enabling providers to track patient progress effectively. CarePort Health is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and operates as a subsidiary of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc.

EveryMove

Series A in 2012
EveryMove is a web-based application for individuals and companies to empower, capitalize on, and follow fitness-focused lifestyles. Available on both Android and iOS platforms, the EveryMove smartphone application facilitates cross-platform communication in order for users to take part in fitness challenges, network with other health enthusiasts, use personal fitness data to incentivize employer rewards programs, share their results with one another, etc.

EveryMove

Seed Round in 2011
EveryMove is a web-based application for individuals and companies to empower, capitalize on, and follow fitness-focused lifestyles. Available on both Android and iOS platforms, the EveryMove smartphone application facilitates cross-platform communication in order for users to take part in fitness challenges, network with other health enthusiasts, use personal fitness data to incentivize employer rewards programs, share their results with one another, etc.

Ginger

Seed Round in 2011
Ginger.io, Inc. operates a behavioral analytics platform that transforms mobile data into health insights, specifically focusing on mental healthcare. The platform provides users with instant access to evidence-based behavioral health coaching, therapy, and psychiatry through a smartphone application. This on-demand service connects behavioral health coaches, therapists, and psychiatrists to deliver personalized care around the clock. Users can collect and analyze both passive mobile sensor data and active patient-reported outcomes, allowing for the identification of behavioral patterns and novel findings. Ginger serves a diverse clientele, including researchers, physicians, healthcare providers, and millions of individuals through partnerships with leading employers and health plans. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Ginger is dedicated to enhancing mental health support.

WAFFL

Seed Round in 2010
Do you know anyone who has suffered at the hands of Diabetes? Obesity? High blood pressure? Heart failure? Hypertension? Colon cancer? The WAFFL team does and their mission is to be fully committed to fighting these types of diseases. They will play a significant role in preventing this epidemic worldwide. These ‘lifestyle’ diseases are all linked to the way we live our lives. They are living in a complicated world, where they are generally living longer but not necessarily better. They are not moving like they should. They are not eating like they should. They have so much stress and unhappiness consuming us on a daily basis.