Pipeline Angels is changing the face of angel investing and creating capital for women and non-binary femme social entrepreneurs. Since Pipeline Angels launched April 2011, over 200 members have graduated from our angel investing bootcamp and have invested more than US$4M in 40+ companies via our pitch summit process. Our members serve as the friends and family round for entrepreneurs who may not already have support at that critical stage. Pipeline Angels is currently accepting applications for its signature bootcamp for new investors and for its signature pitch summit for entrepreneurs looking for funding.

Pipeline Angels

Ready, Set, Raise is an accelerator and a a four-week pitching and fundraising program design for female founders to accelerate startups. Ready Set Raise was designed by female founders for female founders. Its goal is to find, support, and advance high-growth, pre-seed startups across North America.

Ready, Set, Raise

Unseen Capital created by racially diverse and historically underrepresented business leaders that is intended to identify, fund and support underrepresented founders of early-stage healthcare companies and those building solutions for marginalized communities.

Unseen Capital

Seae Ventures is a venture fund designed to maximize financial returns by investing in entrepreneurs who deliver superior value. It is dedicated to building and investing in early-stage healthcare technology and services companies

Seae Ventures

Female Founders Alliance is a private community of female startup founders dedicated to helping each other succeed. The group consists of prominent female investors in Boston, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles who are tired of the status quo and want to encourage more women to start companies. The group focuses on its businesses, and actively create tangible opportunities for its member companies to get ahead.

Female Founders Alliance

BLXVC invests in Black and Latinx Women to solve real world problems.

BLXVC

Genius Guild is a business creation platform that supports market-driven innovations to end racism. Using a venture studio model, it invests in Black entrepreneurs building scalable businesses that serve black communities and beyond. The company applies an investment lens that actively addresses the ways in which capitalism and capitalist markets have been manipulated to limit, exclude, and defraud black communities, creating 360 value for communities, investors, and entrepreneurs. Genius Guild was founded by Kathryn Finney, one of Inc. Magazine's ''Most Influential Women in Tech'' and the visionary founder of The Doonie Fund, The Budget Fashionista, and digitalundivided and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Genius Guild

Healthworx operates at the intersection of healthcare and innovation by creating, supporting, and investing in companies that are improving healthcare quality, accessibility and affordability. As the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst of Maryland, Inc., Healthworx envisions a healthier future for all people by changing the way health works.

Healthworx

Inclusive Ventures Lab is an accelerator focused on companies founded for multicultural and women-led startups. The Lab building a community of technology-enabled startups and early-stage technology led by multicultural and women entrepreneurs. It provides early-stage companies with a wide range of benefits, including an equity investment from Morgan Stanley. Multicultural Innovation Lab also provides curriculum customized for each startup including branding & marketing, sales & finance & strategy, and provide sessions with industry experts. it also brings other elements to help the entrepreneurs scale and grow their companies. The Lab's goal is to provide these founders with additional contributions toward their future success by leveraging their resources, expertise, and expansive & global networks that will attract the capital needed to scale and grow.

Inclusive Ventures Lab

Purple Sage Ventures invests in early stage startups founded by diverse teams building products/services that innovate supply chains, reimagine wellness and increase business and personal productivity.

Purple Sage Ventures

Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures invest in purpose-driven entrepreneurs innovating at the front lines of care.

Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures

The HBCU Founders Accelerator is a four-month (mostly virtual) intensive program completely customized for each startup. The HBCU Founders Accelerator provides follow-on funding to help further the growth and impact of HBCU-led companies. Follow-on financing ranges from $100k to $500k with an average investment of approximately $250k.

HBCU Founders Accelerator

Stanford GSB Impact Fund is an evergreen fund managed by students that invests in early-stage for-profit enterprises with the goal of generating both attractive financial returns and verifiable social good. All profits are reinvested in new enterprises.

Stanford GSB Impact Fund

Health In Her HUE

Health In Her HUE is a digital platform that connects Black women and women of color to culturally sensitive healthcare providers, and offers culturally resonant, evidence-based health content. Health in Her HUE's mission is to reduce racial health disparities by leveraging the power of technology, media and community to improve health outcomes for Black women.

Health In Her HUE connects women of color with culturally competent healthcare providers for customized care. As of January 2024, Health In Her HUE notes its platform had around 13,000 members who have access to a network of over 1,300 healthcare providers across 60 specialties.

More important now than ever, telehealth will long outlast the pandemic that drove its growth.

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Health In Her HUE connects women of color with culturally competent healthcare providers for customized care. As of January 2024, Health In Her HUE notes its platform had around 13,000 members who have access to a network of over 1,300 healthcare providers across 60 specialties. Funding and financialsIn January 2024, the company raised USD 3 million in a seed funding round led by Seae Ventures, along with participation from other venture capital firms and angel investors, including Johnson &amp; Johnson's Impact Ventures and Morgan Stanley's Inclusive Ventures Lab. The company set aside the funds to drive growth by securing more talent and developing novel programs and product offerings.

Nice healthcare is a virtual and in-home primary care provider that offers a suite of healthcare services to small and medium-sized businesses, including primary care, mental health therapy, and physical therapy. Nice healthcare operates on a fixed monthly fee per member model, allowing employees to access unlimited care without additional out-of-pocket costs. The company provides virtual consultations through its app, as well as in-home visits for physical exams, lab tests, and X-rays.&nbsp;As of <a href="https://www.nice.healthcare/locations">August 2024</a>, Nice Healthcare was operating in 12 states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin. The company's services covered <a href="https://www.nice.healthcare/the-nicessities/three-categories-of-primary-care#:~:text=Only%204%25%20of%20our%20patients,with%20Nice%20may%20look%20like.">over 95%</a> of issues patients typically discuss with their clinicians, with <a href="https://www.nice.healthcare/the-nicessities/three-categories-of-primary-care#:~:text=Only%204%25%20of%20our%20patients,with%20Nice%20may%20look%20like.">only 4%</a> of patients being referred to external specialists. The company employs nurse practitioners, registered nurses, physician assistants, and medical assistants to deliver care.As of <a href="https://www.nice.healthcare/the-nicessities/three-categories-of-primary-care">August 2024</a>, Nice healthcare offered 35 free labs and physical tests as well as in-home imaging services and prescribed over 550 free medications that could be picked up at over 60,000 pharmacies nationwide or delivered to patients' homes.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsIn <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/getlabs-and-nice-healthcare-partner-to-expand-access-to-virtual-healthcare-services-and-at-home-lab-testing-301813668.html">May 2023</a>, Nice Healthcare announced a partnership with Getlabs, a provider of at-home diagnostic collections. This collaboration aimed to expand access to in-home healthcare services and lab testing, allowing Nice healthcare patients to benefit from a more comprehensive suite of diagnostic tests.

Nice Healthcare

Amicomed is a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform which provides blood pressure monitoring services. It collects blood pressure data of patients from at-home devices, applies algorithms, and assesses the fluctuations in the blood pressure. Physicians can be connected and provided with blood pressure data of their patients in order to facilitate their workload, enabling more personalized management of patients regarding medication and lifestyle indications.Amicomed can also recommend actionable and personalized lifestyle interventions such as daily diet and exercises via virtual coaching.

Amicomed

Winston is a men’s health telemedicine platform that treats common issues impacting men such as sexual problems, hair loss, acne, and cold sores. Winston allows patients to consult doctors, place orders for prescription drugs, and offers free delivery to the homes of patients.The Toronto-based company aims to avoid men deferring doctor visits or withholding sensitive information. The consultation fee is covered by the provincial health plan, but the prescriptions are billed to the customer.

Winston

Dialogue is a leading virtual care and well-being platform that provides comprehensive health services to organizations and their employees. Founded in 2016, the company offers an integrated health platform that centralizes various health and wellness programs in a single application, accessible <a href="https://www.dialogue.co/en/blog/dialogues-2023-year-in-review#:~:text=Serving%2015%25%20of%20the%20Canadian%20population&amp;text=How%3F,aspects%20of%20their%20well%2Dbeing.">24/7/365</a>. Dialogue's services include primary care, mental health support, employee assistance programs, and wellness initiatives. As of <a href="https://www.dialogue.co/en/blog/dialogues-2023-year-in-review#:~:text=Serving%2015%25%20of%20the%20Canadian%20population&amp;text=How%3F,aspects%20of%20their%20well%2Dbeing.">December 2023</a>, Dialogue's platform was accessible to around 6 million Canadians, representing approximately 15% of the country's population.The company saw significant growth in <a href="https://www.dialogue.co/en/blog/dialogues-2023-year-in-review#:~:text=Serving%2015%25%20of%20the%20Canadian%20population&amp;text=How%3F,aspects%20of%20their%20well%2Dbeing.">December 2023</a>, with a 34% increase in consultations across all aspects of well-being in 2023 compared to the previous year. Mental health consultations, in particular, saw a 67% increase.&nbsp;In <a href="https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/dialogue-enters-into-license-agreement-with-sun-life-u-s--824463104.html">July 2023</a>, Dialogue was acquired by Sun Life for an undisclosed sum, expanding its reach beyond Canada. This expanded service reach was estimated to cover an additional 600,000 members in the US. The acquisition was completed in <a href="https://www.sunlife.com/en/newsroom/news-releases/announcement/sun-life-completes-the-acquisition-of-dialogue-canadas-premier-health-and-wellness-virtual-care-platform/123792/">October 2023</a>, with Dialogue continuing to operate as a standalone entity.Key customers and partnershipsThe company has partnerships with major insurers and benefits providers to offer its services as part of employee benefits packages. Additionally, the company noted that, as of <a href="https://www.dialogue.co/en/pricing">August 2024</a>, it worked with over 50,000 companies across Canada to provide its services to employees.

Dialogue

Grin offers telemedicine and remote monitoring services for orthodontic needs such as braces and teeth straightening. Patients can conduct self-scans (using a Grin device made available to patients in collaboration with 3M) which can be connected to their smartphones and share the feed with orthodontists to access dental solutions. The company plans to go to a subscription-based model after the pandemic. The app also encourages patients to have a 40-second check monthly and share the scan with a dentist in order to allow patients to regularly maintain their dental hygiene.Grin is the only Telehealth disruptor covered on the hub that provides virtual orthopaedic consultations.Funding and financialsIn April 2021, the New York-based teledental platform concluded a seed funding of USD 14 million, and the funds will be allocated to develop additional functionalities by building out its technology. The proceeds will also be used to scale up its team, expand its geographic footprint, and add doctors to the company’s orthodontic partner network.

Grin

Real-time collection of patients’ health-related data using any remote patient monitoring device combined with general telemedicine services to reduce readmission rates.

A platform that facilitates the transmission of patient data to different locations for further evaluation and interpretation by medical specialists.

A digital platform that offers specialty care services to address the specific needs of a patient or demographic, including consultations where patients are generally reluctant to meet practitioners face-to-face.

Primary care through virtual consultations for general health-related concerns using a digital platform or mobile app.

Companies developing B2B software solutions for patient engagement, care navigation, practice management, and electronic health records integration to facilitate telehealth services for healthcare providers.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for Telehealth

IoT is used by most telehealth providers to operate virtual services

All telehealth players are involved in digital health via virtual offerings

Industry players offer varying degrees of personalization for each target audience

Some players offer technology and platforms to healthcare providers, converting physical-only services into virtual services

Specific telehealth offerings focus on diversity and inclusion, providing care to LGBTQ+ or BIPOC populations

Generative AI is used to streamline administrative tasks such as clinical note-taking

<div>Health In Her HUE, a telemedicine provider, has raised USD 3 million in seed funding. The round was led by Seae Ventures, with contributions from Johnson &amp; Johnson's Impact Ventures, Morgan Stanley's Inclusive Ventures Lab, and others. The funds will enable company growth through talent acquisition and the development of new programs and products. As of January 2024, Health In Her HUE claims to have approximately 13,000 members and a network of over 1,300 healthcare providers across 60 specialties.</div>

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