Venrock continues a tradition of partnering with entrepreneurs to establish successful, enduring companies. With a primary focus on technology and healthcare, portfolio companies have included Apple Computer, Athenahealth, Centocor, Check Point Software, DoubleClick, Endeca, Gilead Sciences, Idec Pharma, Imperva, Illumina, Intel, Nest, SlideShare, and Tudou.

Venrock

Shasta Ventures invests in startups in sectors. Their program consists of a proven methodology and a set of comprehensive playbooks that dive deep into the obstacles and challenges of early-stage startups. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to early-stage, so this agile program allows founders to tap into the resources they need when they need them.

Shasta Ventures

Google Ventures invests in sectors including life sciences, consumer, enterprise, crypto, climate, and frontier technology. With Alphabet as its sole limited partner, Google Ventures focuses on long-term investments. Its operating partners assist startups in design, equity, diversity & inclusion, talent, and engineering and help them connect with Google for technology and expertise. Founded in 2009 as Google Ventures, Google Ventures manages over $8 billion in assets with 400 active portfolio companies in North America and Europe. Some notable investments include Uber, Nest, Slack, GitLab, and One Medical. Google Ventures is based in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Cambridge, New York, and London.

Google Ventures

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

Andreessen Horowitz

Lerer Hippeau is a seed-stage venture capital firm founded and operated in New York City. Since 2010, they have invested in entrepreneurs with great ideas who aren’t afraid to do hard things. Their portfolio includes more than 400 enterprise and consumer businesses including Guideline, MIRROR, Blockdaemon, K Health, Allbirds, ZenBusiness, and Thrive. They’re experienced operators who invest early and stay in their founders’ corners as they build iconic companies.

Lerer Hippeau

Techammer is an angel investor who helps founders solve important problems. Designers invest in data science, digital health, and companies that accelerate science. Companies that improve the lives of ordinary Americans pique our interest. The designers are both Midwesterners (Jeff from Michigan/Indiana and Halle from Ohio), and we both started our careers bagging groceries. Designers met in San Francisco, where we both lived for three months. The designers got married in Italy and just moved to the East Coast.

Techammer

iSeed is an early-stage investment company.  They focus on consumer mobile technology with a keen interest in healthcare. iSeed is committed to partnering with the next generation of technology startups to grow a lasting and impactful company.

iSeed Ventures

TomorrowVentures is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on developing innovative ideas that have the power to change the way we live, interact, and thrive. Founded in 2009 with a unique approach to venture capital and an extensive, diverse base of experience and expertise, we add value far beyond capital. Our goal is to grow companies capable of transforming technology, lifestyle and philanthropy.   The firm is currently evaluating new opportunities. TomorrowVentures is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and has an office in Denver, Colorado.

TomorrowVentures

Virgin is a international investment group and one of the world's most recognised and respected brands.

Virgin Group

Tenaya Capital is a venture capital firm with offices in Woodside, California, and Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1995 as Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, they became an independent company in 2009. Over the years they've raised five funds representing over $1 billion of committed capital, investing it in a wide range of high-growth technology companies including software, consumer Internet, communications, semiconductors, electronics, and cleantech.

Tenaya Capital

23andMe is a human genome research company enabling users to study their ancestry, genealogy, and inherited traits. A startup co-founded by Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, 23andMe has plans to make the human genome searchable. Brin, along with Google, gave 23andMe $3.9 million as part of a series A in May of 2007. The company was named after the number of chromosome pairs in humans. They aim to help people understand what their genes mean by indexing them and highlighting significant findings. 23andMe allows its clients/users to study their ancestry, genealogy and inherited traits. The company also markets to researchers and scientists, for whom they provide neatly categorized and easily searchable data. One reason the Google investment in 23andMe made sense was that this company could enable the search giant to index another facet of the world's information. With the Biotech and Health Care industries growing rapidly, 23andMe could help Google get and maintain a market hold in these already multi-billion dollar areas.

23andMe

Qualcomm Ventures is the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated. Founded in 2000, Qualcomm Ventures is a corporate venture capital fund with over 150 active portfolio companies and more than 20 exits over a billion dollars, including 99 Taxis, Cruise Automation, Fitbit, Invensense, NQ Mobile, Waze, and more. As a global investor, Qualcomm Ventures helps connect entrepreneurs to the resources, relationships, and deep industry expertise they need to succeed in the mobile technology ecosystem.

Qualcomm Ventures

Rock Health Capital is a full-service seed fund that invests in and supports startups working in digital health. The company invests in entrepreneurs working at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Rock Health Capital is a digital health-focused investment firm.

Rock Health Capital

Dignity Health offers services including cardiology, neurological conditions, orthopedics, oncology, and women's services. They also offer video visit resources using mobile and computers. They connect through their apps that track health, doctors, appointments, directions to hospitals, and health content.

Dignity Health

Jump Capital is a thesis-led, sector-focused, and operating-centric venture capital firm specializing in Seed/Series A. Jump invests in data-driven technology companies within the FinTech, B2B SaaS, IT/Data Infrastructure, and Media sectors. With offices in Chicago and New York, Jump provides advocacy and support through a platform of institutional-level resources for entrepreneurs.  Jump's philosophy is to align with talented management teams that desire a trusted partner with real-world operating experience and a firm with an operating platform targeting initial investment checks between $2M to $10M.

Jump Capital

Rosemark Capital Group is a private equity firm that specializes in growth equity investments in tech-enabled businesses. The firm's specific focus is on healthcare, financial services, and business services. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.

Rosemark Capital Group

WiL (World Innovation Lab) is a venture capital firm that partners with leading global corporations and government entities in Japan and Asia. With offices in Palo Alto, California, and Tokyo, the firm’s mission is to serve as a bridge between startups and corporations in the United States and Asia, with a particular focus on Japan. WiL supports its portfolio companies by establishing corporate partnerships that enable U.S. and European startups to scale globally, and Japanese startups to innovate and globalize. WiL invests in emerging technology spanning fintech, insurtech, automation and productivity, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, health tech and sustainability. Notable WiL investments that have exited to public markets from Fund I and Fund II include Asana, Mercari, Raksul, Wise and Auth0 — whose acquisition by Okta was completed in May 2021. WiL also invests in exceptional venture funds, and supports its LPs in corporate venture investment efforts. WiL also works with its corporate investors on evolving their own innovation capabilities through new business creation, partnerships with leading startups, and organizational culture change. WiL acts as the bridge between startups and corporates across key innovation hubs around the globe in driving growth - starting with Japan and the US.

WiL (World Innovation Lab)

ACME Capital is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in breakthrough technologies that fuel platform shifts and disruptive business models that capitalize on new platforms. Its purpose is to support those founders who choose to take their capital.  The firm was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

ACME Capital

Goldman Sachs Investment Partners is a global team of professionals from a wide range of backgrounds with one common goal—driving technology-based disruption. They have invested more than $6 billion in over 100 late-stage venture capital and growth equity transactions since 2003. They are dedicated to partnering with entrepreneurs around the world to build revolutionary businesses.

Goldman Sachs Investment Partners

Princeville Capital invests in breakout-stage technology companies and helps them fulfill their global aspirations. Princeville Capital is an investment firm focused on backing rapidly-growing technology-related companies around the world.  We believe that technological innovation is accelerating, and that disruptive business models are propagating faster than ever before, impacting every sector of the global economy. We differentiate ourselves by the value we provide a truly global perspective, and the ability to help our companies successfully implement their international expansion plans. We currently invest out of our two funds, Princeville Global, which focuses on investing in software and internet companies emerging as leaders in their target markets and Princeville Climate, which invests in technology companies with a positive impact on climate change which we call Climate Positive®. Princeville Climate targets both impact and financial returns. We align ourselves with entrepreneurs seeking not only growth capital, but a value-added partner who can help them fulfill their aspirations to create companies of global scale. We have a worldwide network of relationships built over decades of experience in technology, climate change, and capital markets. Collectively we have experience in 65 technology IPOs, 200+ strategic M&A transactions, and climate policy leadership at the U.S. State Department. We have been involved in some of the largest tech success stories globally for the past two decades as well as many of the most consequential international developments in climate, including the Paris Agreement.   With offices in San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam, our global focus positions us well to attract unique opportunities and help our companies expand their businesses in the Americas, Asia, Europe and around the world.

Princeville Capital

Blue Cloud Ventures (BCV) is a software-focused growth equity venture capital firm based in New York City.  The fund targets investments in leading SaaS, infrastructure and open source software companies. BCV offers entrepreneurs an alternative to raising a traditional growth round by being flexible on amount invested, ownership requirements, board representation and exit horizon. BCV supports entrepreneurs in raising the optimal growth round and enables early-stage investors to double down on their most promising companies.

Blue Cloud Ventures

Ridgeview Asset Management offers wealth management services from a different perspective. It is an independent adviser for those who appreciate that wealth can be managed better than the approach taken by traditional asset management firms. In 2016, Ridgeview was created to be a partnership of sophisticated, like-minded individuals and institutions who seek superior performance through empirically driven techniques At Ridgeview, the client comes first.

Ridgeview Asset Management

General Atlantic is a private equity firm that provides capital and strategic support for growth companies. General Atlantic combines a collaborative approach, sector-specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon, and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great entrepreneurs and management teams to build market businesses.

General Atlantic

Doctor On Demand

Doctor On Demand is a video telemedicine company, offering on-demand and scheduled visits with US-licensed healthcare providers via any smartphone, tablet, or computer. It focuses on providing solutions for employers, health plans, retail clinics, and health systems. With solutions for employers, health plans, retail clinics, and health systems, Doctor On Demand is redefining the industry with top-rated customer experience, highest clinical standards, and implementation and customer success directors, as well as 24/7 customer support. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

<div>Doctor on Demand is an online provider platform that allows users to consult doctors through video, text messages, or phone calls. The company&rsquo;s services include urgent care (24/7 access to doctors), behavioral health, preventive health, and chronic care. It does not currently offer subscription plans and charges on a per-visit basis. Patients can either set up an appointment with a doctor or opt for a doctor on demand, which will direct them to the next available practitioner. Doctor on Demand charges different fees based on the medical specialties. On-demand sessions can also be extended for an additional fee.</div>

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

Telehealth

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 Doctor on Demand is an online provider platform that allows users to consult doctors through video, text messages, or phone calls. The company&rsquo;s services include urgent care (24/7 access to doctors), behavioral health, preventive health, and chronic care. It does not currently offer subscription plans and charges on a per-visit basis. Patients can either set up an appointment with a doctor or opt for a doctor on demand, which will direct them to the next available practitioner. Doctor on Demand charges different fees based on the medical specialties. On-demand sessions can also be extended for an additional fee. 
 
 
 In addition to the business-to-consumer (B2C) model, Doctor on Demand also operates a business-to-business (B2B) model, providing a suite of virtual primary care services for the covered beneficiaries of employers and health plans. It was the first telemedicine company to integrate lab testing into its services in 2017. In May 2020, the company expanded telehealth services to the 33 million senior beneficiaries of the Medicare Part B program, becoming the first telehealth operator to do so. Doctor on Demand raised USD 75 million in July 2020 from General Atlantic, bringing the total funding to USD 235.7 million. The company was valued at USD 875 million after the round. The funds are being used to fund the growth and expansion of its virtual care model amidst the increased demand from the Covid-19 pandemic.
 
 
 In March 2021, Doctor on Demand and Grand Rounds entered into a merger agreement to form a new virtual primary care company. The terms of the merger were not disclosed but the transaction is expected to take place within the first half of 2021 subject to regulatory approval.&nbsp;The companies has also signed a definitive agreement to acquire Included Health, a care navigation platform for the LGBTQ+ community in May 2021. This marks the first LGBTQ-specific healthcare platform to be acquired by a leading telehealth provider and would enable Doctor on Demand to enhance its member-centric digital offering by supporting diverse and underserved communities as well as capitalizing on the growing demand for LGBTQ specific offerings.&nbsp;
 
 
 
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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

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