Quiet Capital is a technology investment firm.

Quiet Capital

Lux Capital manages over $5 billion in assets focused on founding, seed, early-stage, and growth investments at the intersection of technology and the sciences. Lux takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses in high-growth sectors. Its investment team has built over 20 companies from scratch. Lux's investment strategy ensures portfolio companies are better connected, have a deeper insight, and command industry leadership faster than their competitors.

Lux Capital

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier legal advisor to technology, life sciences, and other growth enterprises worldwide. They represent companies at every stage of development, from entrepreneurial start-ups to multibillion-dollar global corporations, as well as the venture firms, private equity firms, and investment banks that finance and advise them. The firm's broad range of services and practice areas are focused on addressing the principal challenges faced by the management, boards of directors, shareholders, and in-house counsel of their clients.  The firm is nationally recognized for providing high-quality services to address the legal solutions required by its enterprise and financial institution clients. Their services include corporate law and governance, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, securities class action litigation, intellectual property litigation, antitrust counseling and litigation, joint ventures and strategic alliances, technology licensing and other intellectual property transactions, tax, and employee benefits and employment law, among other areas. Their distinguished international roster of clients span a wide variety of industries, including information technology, life sciences, energy and clean technology, media and entertainment, communications, retail, and financial services.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

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

VamosVentures is a venture capital fund that invests in Latinx and diverse founders leading early-stage tech-enabled companies in the United States across Health + Wellness, Future of Work, FinTech, and Sustainability.  VamosVentures seeks to generate financial returns and deliver meaningful impact through wealth creation, social mobility, and creative solutions. The fund will lead, co-lead, or participate in funding rounds.

VamosVentures

Early-stage venture firm backing electric founders with an uncontrollable passion for creating. The company has offices in San Francisco and New York.

Adapt Ventures

Floating Point is an early-stage venture capital firm. The company has offices in both Boston and New York.

Floating Point

Asymmetric Capital Partners (''Asymmetric'') is a venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage companies with a focus on B2B SaaS, marketplaces, digital health, and fintech. The firm was founded in 2021 by Rob Biederman and currently invests from its Fund I with $105 million in assets under management. Asymmetric seeks to partner with disruptive technology and internet companies by offering founders and limited partners transparent, research-driven, and operator-centric capital. The firm uses a thesis-driven approach to preemptively identify opportunities and back visionary leaders seeking to disrupt large markets. The firm’s team members are spread across San Francisco, New York, and Boston.

Asymmetric Capital Partners

Miga

Miga is a virtual cardiometabolic clinic that combines a character-driven, gamified app (akin to Duolingo) with full-stack clinical services (labs, devices, pharmacy, lifestyle) across obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. Founded by Jarrad Aguirre, MD, and Dre Limberopoulos, Miga is building the future of cardiometabolic health.

California-based remote patient monitoring startup Miga Health is developing a consumer app for managing heart health. The app will facilitate at-home blood pressure monitoring and analysis, virtual consultations, medication delivery, and lifestyle coaching. The app will also include other educational content and non-clinical features. The app will be available across multiple states but will have clinical services in select states. In the long term, the firm plans to accept insurance for its services.

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

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California-based remote patient monitoring startup Miga Health is developing a consumer app for managing heart health. The app will facilitate at-home blood pressure monitoring and analysis, virtual consultations, medication delivery, and lifestyle coaching. The app will also include other educational content and non-clinical features. The app will be available across multiple states but will have clinical services in select states. In the long term, the firm plans to accept insurance for its services. Key customers and partnershipsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21755">September 2023 </a>, the company partnered with Sana, a provider of self-funded health insurance, to offer Miga's heart health program for obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia to over 25,000 Sana Benefits members across 10 states. Funding and financialsThe company’s most recent investment took place in May 2022 amounting to USD 12 million raised in a seed funding round led by Quiet Capital. The funds were allocated to hire staff in order to build and launch their free consumer app, to include clinical care features focused on heart diseases within 2022.

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

Membership-based, non-insurance healthcare companies helping maintain a steady state of well being.

Preventive Healthcare

Virtual heart health clinic, Miga, has joined forces with self-funded health insurance provider, Sana, to offer Miga's heart health program to over 25,000 Sana Benefits members. The program aims to prevent heart attacks and strokes through a focus on improving risk factors such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. Miga's program includes personalized plans, data monitoring, lifestyle interventions, and clinical services provided by a multidisciplinary care team. This partnership will allow Sana members across 10 states to access Miga's heart health program, enhancing their overall health and well-being.

Miga Health

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