At Eniac Ventures we lead seed rounds in bold founders who use code to create transformational companies. Armed with over 80 years of combined experience building our own companies, we are your active partners and consider ourselves a member of your founding team. Providing capital is just the first step, when we lead your seed round we provide the industry’s most comprehensive support through our Eniac Platform and hands on approach. From the beginning one of the keys to Eniac’s success has been taking a holistic approach to supporting our portfolio. With Eniac you get four partners for the price of one, and each partner uses their unique experience to open doors and advise our investments. The result has led to companies that consistently bring quality product to market, find follow on investment and have a measurable impact across industries. With each fund our approach has evolved and expanded to address the growing needs of our portfolio companies. We want our founders to focus on their product so we created the Eniac Platform. Term sheets are just the first step, working with Eniac companies enjoy the following free support: - Talent recruiter to find the best employees, especially in engineering   - Public relations and marketing specialist on staff to help your product reach the audiences that matter from launch through growth - Operations resources to organize your staff and install best practices - Business development and networking opportunities with thousands of the top companies, investors, and brands - Connections to other founders in Eniac’s portfolio to explore synergies and opportunities Fundraising support including pitch deck guidance, follow on investor strategy, and syndicate building

Eniac Ventures

NextView Ventures is a high-conviction, hands-on seed VC with a thematic investing focus. NextView Ventures invests in companies that use technology to drive a brighter collective future. This includes themes like healthy living, total footprint, economic access, and conversational computing.

NextView Ventures

Alumni Ventures Group provides high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC. It helps accredited alums from top entrepreneurial schools invest together in the ventures of fellow alums. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with expertise in the space. AVG also offers focused funds that allow any accredited investor access to a venture portfolio, diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. Beth Obermiller, Michael Madden, and Mike Collins co-founded the firm in Manchester, New Hampshire in 2013.

Alumni Ventures

Supernode Ventures they invest in early stage technology companies including fintech, software, digital media, family offices, SaaS companies, and hedge funds.

Supernode Ventures

Everywhere Ventures (fka ''The Fund'') is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created ​by founders for founders​ to support the next generation of entrepreneurs. Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds. The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.

Everywhere Ventures

Two Culture Capital invests in the art and science of entrepreneurship. The company primarily invests in robotics and technology. They believe in the ability of AI, machine learning, and robots to augment human abilities.

Two Culture Capital

Surface Ventures is a seed and pre-seed venture capital firm focused on partnering with B2B software companies.

Surface Ventures

New York based investing firm, founder friendly and partner to 50 VC funds

Arc Ventures

Inspired Capital Partners is an early-stage technology venture fund focused on supporting the next wave of exceptional entrepreneurs. Founded in 2019, Inspired Capital is backed by founders with transformative ideas, brilliant teams, and relentless determination.

Inspired Capital Partners

Celtic House Asia Partners

Irregular Expressions, IrregEx for short, is a group of seasoned software engineering and product leaders investing in and advising early stage technology startups. We’ve spent many cumulative decades bringing high-growth consumer and enterprise products to market, and are driven to help founders scale their own teams, products and businesses faster, by leveraging both our know-how and our network. Having co-founded, built and scaled hundreds of companies, primarily in the San Francisco, New York, and now remote-first ecosystems, we love working closely with the founders and teams we back, and think through thorny challenges on the product, engineering, and business fronts alike.

Irregular Expressions

Founded in 2021 by tech entrepreneurs and siblings, Anna Woodford, David, Daniil, and Maria Liberman, Libermans Co is a new type of company that represents the future economic output of its founders.  Each of the founders owns 25% of the company and signed the Founders Pledge, which states that everything they create of economic value for the next 30 years belongs not to them as persons but to Libermans Co.  Libermans Co. is a holding company for: Product Science (https://www.productscience.ai/), Humanism (https://humanism.is/), Human (https://joinhuman.com/) Libermans Co other investments are here: https://libermans.co/our-investments

Libermans Co

Nirvana Health

Nirvana Health, based in New York City, offers solutions for mental health care providers to navigate and automate complex and time-consuming insurance-related tasks. Established in 2020 by co-founder and president Kelvin Chan, the company aims to maximize therapists’ focus on patients by relieving providers of the necessary filing, managing, and follow-up of insurance claims.

<div>Nirvana Health offers solutions for mental health care providers to navigate and automate complex and time-consuming insurance-related tasks. Established in 2020 by co-founder and president Kelvin Chan, the New York City-based company aims to maximize therapists’ focus on patients by relieving providers of filing, managing, and pursuing health insurance claims and documentation necessary for payments.</div>

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

Mental Health Tech

Nirvana Health announces $7.5M seed extension to help therapists navigate a “new world” of insurance

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 Nirvana Health offers solutions for mental health care providers to navigate and automate complex and time-consuming insurance-related tasks. Established in 2020 by co-founder and president Kelvin Chan, the New York City-based company aims to maximize therapists’ focus on patients by relieving providers of filing, managing, and pursuing health insurance claims and documentation necessary for payments.
 
 
 The company’s “Concierge” service caters to mental health care practices that accept health insurance as well as offices that require private payments. Nirvana's offering includes filing insurance claims, tracking insurance payouts, eligibility checks, and personalized payment plans for clients (for an additional fee). The plans are billed monthly at USD 89 per practitioner, with group practice pricing available upon request. 
 
 
 Nirvana Health claims to reduce the time therapists spend on insurance-related administrative tasks by nine hours per month while also generating patient savings on upfront costs. In November 2021, the company raised an additional USD 7.5 million in a seed extension round led by Inspired Capital which will be used to launch its new consumer-facing tool that enables patients to compute the cost of each visit and identify available therapists.
 
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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.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 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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Boulder Care

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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).
 
 
 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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7 Cups

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%.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.

wayForward

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.
 
 
 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.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In September 2022, Meru Health and clinical trial platform Curebase 
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 to carry out a three-year clinical trial to measure the effectiveness of Meru Health’s 12-week digital depression treatment targeting primary care patients. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health’s Small Business Innovation Research program. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Fundings and financials
 
 
 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

Online peer-to-peer platform and support system that connects mental health communities.

Mobile-based apps and FDA-approved software that incorporate evidenced-based cognitive behavioral therapy to prevent, treat, or manage mental and behavioral conditions in conjunction with or as a replacement for traditional medication.

Products for behavioral health and mental health tracking, measurement-based care, and real-time remote monitoring of patients.

Subscription or membership-based platforms and apps to connect therapists, psychiatrists or behavioral health coaches with patients.

Offers virtual offerings for mental health consultations

Mental healthcare services offer personalized care tailored to a user's needs and treatment progression

There are mental health providers offering services specifically to help LGBTQ+ or BIPOC individuals

Several mental health technology providers offer therapy services rendered by AI/ML technology

Nirvana Health

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