Felicis Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors and industries reinventing core markets, as well as those creating frontier technologies. Felicis currently manages over $2B in capital across 8 funds. The firm is an early backer of more than 40 companies valued at $1B+. More than 90 of its portfolio companies have been acquired or gone public since the firm was founded by Aydin Senkut in 2006.

Felicis

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that provides early-stage and growth equity investments. The company provides ongoing momentum that accelerates ideas, careers, and companies toward standout success.

General Catalyst

Reshape is a next-generation investor in technology-enabled companies that need real estate to scale.

Reshape

Bling Capital is a venture capital investment firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. It primarily invests in consumer tech, internet, mobile, marketplace, data, fintech, SaaS, and automation sectors.

Bling Capital

Cold Start is a venture builder that incubates and funds mission-oriented companies.

Cold Start Ventures

Headline (formerly e.ventures) is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. It invests across geographies, leading rounds at every stage. The firm's Early Stage Funds are based in the US, Europe, Asia, and Brazil, and invest locally. Its San Francisco-based Growth Fund invests globally from Series B and beyond, working in collaboration with their Early Stage Teams. The sizes and locations of these funds make it possible for them to see local trends up close, identify winning founders, and lead rounds at every stage. Sonos, The RealReal, Creditas, Sorare, Pismo, AppFolio, goPuff, Acorns, Farfetch, Segment, Bumble, and Yeahka are among the stars in Headline’s world. Headline was founded in San Francisco, California in 1998.

Headline

Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests at every stage in companies building revolutionary technologies. It has been investors, founders, and early employees of prominent technology companies. It has historically invested in a wide variety of sectors, including aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, health, and consumer Internet.

Founders Fund

Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm. The company seeks to invest in the technology sector.

Sound Ventures

8VC seeks to enable industry transformation. In a wave of creative destruction, they believe emerging platforms will replace the decades-old technology infrastructure behind many industries, promoting greater innovation and prosperity.

SignalFire is a complete redesign of the modern venture firm based on six years of careful study, development, and iteration on how to fuel today's entrepreneur. Their distributed network approach gives access to some entrepreneurs, product, and engineering leaders in virtually every key discipline and industry, provided by a centralized team of investors and engineers trained at General Catalyst, Bessemer, KPCB, Google, and Yahoo. They have developed a centralized infrastructure to help with recruiting, business development, customer acquisition as well as educational and community events. They invest in leaders with an uncommon passion and perspective for leveraging data and technology solutions to upend substantial markets.

SignalFire

TA Ventures is a network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups shaping the industries of tomorrow, primarily across Europe and North America. Our typical initial check for Pre-Seed and Seed companies is $100-250k. TA Ventures also provides follow-on investments. We offer speed of execution, proactive support, and access to a broad international network. Drawing upon our network, we support our portfolio companies by proactively soliciting large, growth-minded co-investors in subsequent rounds. We utilize our industry knowledge and network to give portfolio companies and partner VCs access to highly skilled and cost-effective R&D outsourcing teams in Central and Eastern Europe.

TA Ventures

PremjiInvest is a multi-family office specializing in private equity and venture capital investments. It is a private equity fund owned by Azim Premji which manages his $1 billion personal portfolios. In 2011, Azim Premji invested around $15 million in Vinod Khosla's clean-tech fund.

PremjiInvest

Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are a global force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

Goodwater Capital

The Capital Partnership is an independent asset manager providing institutional and private investors with a comprehensive range of asset management and wealth preservation services. Established in 1998, The Capital Partnership was created to provide sophisticated investment services to the families of its founding partners. The success of the firm's approach allowed it to expand its services and capabilities and offer them to institutions and other large families in EMEA with similar asset management requirements.  With offices in London and Dubai, The Capital Partnership is the advisor to a number of leading global institutions and family groups - helping them to address a range of challenges to the growth and preservation of their assets. The Capital Partnership Group Limited, the group's ultimate holding company is incorporated in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). The Capital Partnership (UK) Limited, the group's UK operating subsidiary is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

The Capital Partnership

Amity Ventures is a people-focused firm that supports founders of technology companies in building category-defining businesses. Based in San Francisco, CA, the partners at Amity have invested in over fifty companies across all stages of company growth throughout their years in business together.

Amity Ventures

Whale Rock Capital Management is an investment firm that focuses on the technology, media, and telecom sectors. The firm was established in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Whale Rock Capital Management

SoftBank Vision Fund is a subsidiary of Softbank Group that specializes in growth capital and social impact investments. Sectors that the fund invests in include the internet of things, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, communications infrastructure, telecoms, computational biology, biotech, cloud technologies and software, consumer internet businesses, financial technology, and mobile apps. The Fund is designed to be a catalyst for technology progress in anticipation that it will expand SoftBank's capabilities, accelerating progress towards SoftBank 2.0. It aims to invest in businesses and foundational platforms that SoftBank believes to revolutionize and innovate the world tomorrow.

SoftBank Vision Fund

Avidity Partners is an investment management firm that offers financial services.

Avidity Partners

Metrodora Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on health and learning businesses. The firm was founded in 2020 by Chelsea Clinton and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Metrodora Ventures

Bill Ackman’s family office Table Management operates as an investment firm.

Bill Ackman’s family office Table Management

Elemy

Elemy is the nationwide provider of childhood behavioral and mental healthcare. The company launched autism care in April 2020 and has since expanded into developmental, attention behavior, anxiety, and mood disorders like autism, ADHD, OCD, depression, social anxiety, bipolarism, and more. Its technology-driven care model, coupled with in-home care delivery, modernizes an inefficient system, resulting in more access, improved clinical outcomes, and lower costs. Our multidisciplinary clinical team oversees an integrated, whole-treatment model that yields powerful results, including an 80% increase in improved behaviors. The company is backed by venture capital and healthcare investors including General Catalyst, SoftBank, Founders Fund, and others.

<div><p>Florida-based Elemy (formerly known as Sprout Therapy) provides in-home and online behavioral care services for children diagnosed with autism. The platform matches children with a network of therapists, board-certified behavior analysts, and registered behavior technicians who design personalized treatment plans based on applied behavioral analysis (ABA) therapy, examining and altering treatment based on how patients react to stimuli. </p></div>

New technologies are opening up mental health services to previously overbooked and underserved populations.

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    Florida-based Elemy (formerly known as Sprout Therapy) provides in-home and online behavioral care services for children diagnosed with autism. The platform matches children with a network of therapists, board-certified behavior analysts, and registered behavior technicians who design personalized treatment plans based on applied behavioral analysis (ABA) therapy, examining and altering treatment based on how patients react to stimuli. 
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    Elemy claims its onboarding process only takes 12 weeks compared to an industry average of six months to two years. It reported an 85% average reduction in problem behaviors in the first six months.
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    The tech-enabled platform also facilitates autism diagnosis and video consultations with its care team. Elemy partners with Medicaid programs and insurance providers to offer its services.  By October 2021, the company had more than 1,000 clinicians operating across 13 US states and it planned to grow this number to 3,000 during the following 18 months. The company reported a 19x YoY revenue growth at the end of August 2021 and was expected to record USD 100 million by summer 2022. 
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    The company reached unicorn status in October 2021, after concluding a Series B funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, which valued Elemy at USD 1.15 billion. The funds were to be used to expand into additional therapeutic areas, enhance its technological capabilities, and hire additional staff.
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    Boulder Care is a telepsychiatry platform that connects patients who are opioid-addicted users to addiction specialists, care coordinators, and peer coaches. Patients can get personalized plans via video and text messaging and the app is intended to be used in conjunction with prescription medicines and lab tests.
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    In June 2022, the company raised USD 36 million in a Series B funding round. The funds were earmarked to triple the size of the company’s medical care team, expand its geographical footprint, and increase its value-based care treatment options through partnerships with health plans.
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    7 Cups provides an emotional-support platform with a network of volunteer listeners. Users can anonymously access either one-on-one chats or group chats 24/7, free of charge for issues such as depression, anxiety, relationships and those related to the LGBTQ+ community.  It also teaches users skills such as meditation to improve their lives. If users want additional support, the company also provides access to an online therapy platform with a network of 180 licensed therapists for a subscription plan of USD 150 per month. 7 Cups is available for users above 13 years of age (users between 13 and 17 years old engage with listeners who are specifically trained in teenage interactions).
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    Volunteer peer listeners get free training and support as well as flexible scheduling. Once a user requests a chat, it will be directed to available listeners and if the user requests a specific listener, he will be connected as soon as the listener accepts the demand. The service is anonymous and the listener has no access to the details of the user unless the information is disclosed to the listener by the user in their conversations. As of January 2022, 7 Cups has facilitated more than 51 million conversations, served 25 million individuals, and had 300,000 trained listeners. The listeners serve in 180 countries in 140 languages.
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    wayForward provides technology-supported behavioral health and emotional wellness services for employers planning to make services available to their employees. It uses a screening procedure designed by neuropsychologists to triage and help employee members get clinically relevant mental healthcare. The company provides a self-guided app, text-based coaching, video visits, telepsychiatry, and if required, in-person visits or an on-site counselor. wayForward leverages its evidence-based approach and artificial intelligence in delivering its services and claims that it has been able to reduce anxiety symptoms by 48% and depression symptoms by 59%.
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    The company raised USD 2 million in a seed round in June 2020, which brought total funding to USD 4.5 million. DarioHealth, a chronic disease management platform based in Israel, signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of wayForward in May 2021 for a total consideration of USD 30 million. As of May 2021, the wayForward had approximately 20,000 members and was available in North America, Australia, and Europe. 
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    Coa is a mental health company that conducts online classes led by licensed therapists for mental health users. The classes focus on conditions such as stress, anxiety, confidence and relationships. The company raised USD 3 million in a seed round in October 2020 from investors led by Crosslink Capital.
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    Meru Health is an online platform that connects patients experiencing stress, depression, anxiety, burnout, and other mental health issues to licensed therapists. The company was founded by Kristian Ranta in 2016 after his older brother died from suicide after battling depression. The platform offers a 12-week program and personalized text-based coaching services and virtual workshops. Meru also provides access to progress reports and anonymous peer support groups as well as sleep, nutrition, and mindfulness advice on top of vital tracking information—such as heart rate data.
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    The company reported a 10x YoY growth in its customer base in 2020 and plans to serve 10 million users by 2027. The company also achieved 8x YoY growth in revenue in 2020 amid an increase in demand in mental health services brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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    In May 2022, the company secured a USD 2 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to measure the effectiveness of its 12-week program for treating primary care patients. The study will follow 300 patients across the US with symptoms of major depression for a period of three years.
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Meru Health

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