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Geek Ventures

CEAS Investments is a single-family office that makes long term investments with a capital of a top venture firm. Its portfolio companies include Fivetran, FourKites, SqlDBM, Marqii, and Dataminr. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Delray Beach, Florida.

CEAS Investments

APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor. We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months, depending on traction and speed, we can invest further.    Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.

Practica Capital is an early-stage VC dedicated to backing Baltic founders. We have invested exclusively in tech potential in the Baltic States for the last 10 years. We back great founders in their ambition in seed and selected pre-seed and A stages partnering with them as company builders. Practica Capital manages three funds with €52M in AUM. To date, we have made more than 60 investments, including great companies like TransferGo, PVcase, Interactio, Eneba, Ovoko, Trafi, CGtrader, and others. We are the most active Baltic syndicate partner co-investing with local, regional, and international VCs & PEs, accelerators & incubators, angels, corporates, public agencies, banks, crowdfunding platforms, and others.

Practica Capital

TheVentureCity is a global early-stage venture fund, investing in product-centric startups across the US, Europe, and Latam. With more than $150M under management, the firm invests from pre-seed and seed with a ticket size from $100-500k to Series A with $1-4M.

TheVentureCity

Plug and Play is a seed and early-stage investor focused on great teams leading emerging growth companies.  Plug and Play runs 12 industry-specific accelerator programs twice a year, that acts as a platform for major corporations and high quality startups to connect and collaborate.  Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Plug and Play participates in Seed, Angel and Series A funding where they often co-invest with their strategic partners. Through years of experience and as part of their network, Plug and Play has put together a world-class network of serial entrepreneurs, strategic investors, and industry leaders who actively assist the firm with its successful and growing investment portfolio.  SEED ROUND. Plug and Play participates in seed round investing through a program called Startup Camp. Startup Camp is a 10-week program based in Silicon Valley for top-notch entrepreneurs to work intensively on building out their business model. Select startups will refine their business models and prototypes with help from a combination of structured workshops, speaker series and mentorship sessions, as well as active coaching from their investment team. At the culmination of Startup Camp, founders will have crystalized their business plans and pitched their company to the venture capital community at EXPO Demo Day.''  ANGEL ROUND Plug and Play makes angel round investments throughout the year, sourced from their monthly Plug and Play Angels (PAPA) sessions. They are partnered with local angel investors in Silicon Valley who participate in PAPA to find the most promising startups and best new technologies.  SERIES A. Series A typical Series A round is in the range of $2 million to $10 million, and is intended to provide operating capital for the company for six months to two years. This round capitalizes the company as it develops its products, performs initial marketing and branding, acquires talent, and conducts other early-stage business operations. It is in this stage that Plug and Play will co-invest with over 180 venture capital partners.  Plug and Play has helped grow market leaders such as PayPal, Danger, Google, DropBox, LendingClub, Zoosk, SoundHound, CreditSesame, Skytree, and has over 400 more early-stage startups in its portfolio.

Plug and Play

Spike Technologies

Spike Technologies, Inc., is a B2B data technology and artificial intelligence (AI) startup founded in 2022 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Spike provides API aggregation, data pipeline management (ETL), and a GenAI-driven tech to empower health data from wearables and IoT devices. Spike services clients in the digital health, professional fitness, insurance, and automation sectors. To learn more about Spike, please visit https://spikeapi.com/.

Spike Technologies is a data technology and artificial intelligence startup based in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 2022, the company provides an API aggregation, data pipeline management (ETL), and an AI-backed solution to facilitate the utilization of health data from wearables and internet of Things (IoT) devices. Spike's platform enables businesses to seamlessly integrate and process biometric data from over 200 wearable sensors and IoT devices, including metrics such as heart rate variability (HRV), glucose and cortisol levels, calories, sleep depth, and blood pressure.

Spike Raises $700K to Help Digital Health Firms Utilize Data from Wearables and IoT Devices

Spike Technologies joins the Plug and Play’s Accelerator — Spike API

Enabling the health systems to seamlessly connect, exchange, and interpret shared data

Hospital Interoperability

Spike Technologies is a data technology and artificial intelligence startup based in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 2022, the company provides an API aggregation, data pipeline management (ETL), and an AI-backed solution to facilitate the utilization of health data from wearables and internet of Things (IoT) devices. Spike's platform enables businesses to seamlessly integrate and process biometric data from over 200 wearable sensors and IoT devices, including metrics such as heart rate variability (HRV), glucose and cortisol levels, calories, sleep depth, and blood pressure.
The startup's solution allows digital health firms, professional fitness companies, insurance providers, and automation sectors to leverage this data for applications like health prediction, recommendation, and prevention. By offering a managed ETL service and AI tools, Spike aims to streamline the process of data management and analysis, eliminating the complexities and resources required for in-house development.
In December 2022, Spike raised USD 700,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by Geek Ventures of New York City, with participation from CEAS Investments and APX. The funding reinforced the company's mission to empower businesses with cross-sensor data fusion, unlocking new opportunities in healthcare and disease prevention.

Redox is a leading healthcare technology company that provides a secure and efficient platform for exchanging healthcare data. Its core offering is an integration engine that enables seamless connectivity between various healthcare systems, electronic health records (EHRs), and digital health applications. By acting as a single, standardized API endpoint, Redox simplifies the complex process of interoperability, allowing healthcare organizations to share and access patient data seamlessly.
Redox's platform is built on a standardized data model format, utilizing HTTPS communication with JSON to facilitate secure and convenient integration for healthcare applications. The company's ecosystem encompasses a vast network of over 2,000 healthcare delivery organizations, 350 healthcare software vendors, and connections to more than 90 EHR systems. This extensive reach enables Redox's customers, including payers, providers, and digital health companies, to exchange data with a wide range of healthcare stakeholders.
The company's offerings include Redox Nexus, a managed integration platform that facilitates interoperability between legacy formats and the current FHIR standard; Redox Nova, which enables cloud-based data integration and translation of legacy standards into FHIR; Redox Access, which connects to national clinical networks like Carequality and DirectTrust for seamless clinical data exchange; and Redox Chroma, an Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) solution that aggregates patient records across multiple data sources.
Key customers and partnerships
Redox has established partnerships with leading healthcare organizations and companies, including Mytonomy, a video-based patient engagement company. Mytonomy leverages Redox's integration capabilities to synchronize the assignment and viewership of its educational video modules with health system EHRs, ensuring seamless documentation of patient education activities.
Furthermore, Redox has collaborated with Columbia University Medical Center's Department of Cardiology, enabling the integration of Mytonomy's patient education platform with the center's EHR system.
The company has also forged alliances with healthcare consulting firms like Productive Edge, providing joint solutions for healthcare data integration and strategy development.

Redox

Moxe Health, based in Madison, WI, is a healthcare interoperability company that utilizes innovative technology to simplify and improve the secure exchange of clinical data and crucial insights between healthcare payers and providers. Through its API-enabled solutions compatible with leading electronic health records (EHRs), Moxe fosters meaningful collaboration within the healthcare ecosystem by connecting various stakeholders and facilitating faster, more cost-effective data exchange.
The company's digital release of information (ROI) product automates requests for medical charts, enabling providers to securely fulfill such requests in seconds, eliminating manual processes, paper, faxes, and phone calls. Additionally, Moxe's convergence product allows payers to input their insights directly into the EHR for providers to access. By streamlining data sharing, Moxe empowers providers and payers to optimize operations, improve accuracy, and deliver better financial and clinical outcomes.
As of June 2022, Moxe's network connected major health systems, national health plans representing over 75 million lives, leading third-party requestors, and more than 60 hospital systems. The company aimed to accelerate its mission of advancing interoperability and making healthcare more affordable by eliminating administrative waste through its patient-centric solutions.
Key customers and partnerships
Moxe Health partners with leading healthcare organizations, including Allscripts, whose Allscripts Sunrise EHR users can leverage Moxe's Digital ROI solution for efficient data exchange between health systems, payers, and third-party requestors.

Moxe Health

Particle Health is a developer-friendly API platform that aggregates and standardizes data from over 270 million patients' medical records across thousands of healthcare sources in the US. The company's comprehensive API enables healthcare providers and digital health companies to easily obtain clinical data points and actionable patient health insights through a single integration. Particle Health's technology performs patient matching behind the scenes to connect accounts within HIPAA authorization, overcoming the challenges of accessing medical records across different portals and providers.
Since its inception, Particle Health has achieved significant milestones, including a 90% success rate in finding patient records and an average of 105 records per patient search as of July 2022. The company has expanded its offering beyond electronic medical records (EMRs) to include data sources such as pharmacy records, admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) notifications, and billing claims data, with plans to integrate genomics and other sources in the future.
Key customers and partnerships
Particle Health has formed notable partnerships and collaborations with various healthcare companies and organizations. For instance, xCures, a technology platform that uses artificial intelligence and predictive modeling to identify and rank treatment options for cancer patients, has integrated Particle Health's Specialty Search capabilities. This integration allows xCures to efficiently access comprehensive oncology data, leading to a significant increase in program enrollment and better patient care management.
Another strategic partnership was announced in November 2023 between Particle Health and Hona, a customizable AI product that converts health records into concise patient overviews. By integrating Particle Health's API for medical record retrieval, Hona can analyze and present a complete view of a patient's health history, enabling providers to make informed clinical decisions and streamline care encounters.

Particle Health

Verto Health is a Canadian digital health company that offers a Digital Twin Orchestration Platform. Its patented machine learning technology consolidates data from various sources to create normalized, contextual snapshots – known as 'Digital Twins' – of each patient's healthcare journey. Verto's platform then automates actions across different systems while securely managing consent, data, and communication.
In October 2022, Unity Health Toronto implemented Verto's technology to help manage ambulatory patient flow, streamline consent management, and transform patient experience across dozens of ambulatory clinics. Verto's solution allowed Unity Health to coordinate and engage with patients before, during, after, and in-between hospital visits, supporting care pathway management and enhancing the patient experience.
Key customers and partnerships
In July 2023, Verto Health partnered with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) to develop a web-based Digital Front Door platform. This platform aimed to digitize the patient journey and support data-driven, measurement-based care for CAMH's patients and care providers. The collaboration involved co-designing, configuring, and implementing the Digital Front Door to act as a single-point of entry for CAMH patients and families, enabling virtual care and integrating various patient-facing information systems.

Verto Health

Wellsheet is the leading provider of a Smart Electronic Health Record (EHR) User Interface (UI) solution that aims to reduce clinician burnout and increase efficiency and usability of EHRs. The company's technology utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms to synthesize, summarize, and elevate relevant clinical data from EHRs like Cerner, Epic, or athenahealth, as well as other data sources.Wellsheet's Smart EHR UI predicts and prioritizes the most pertinent data based on a clinician's specialty and workflow habits, assembling it in an intuitive and customizable manner. This enables providers to quickly arrive at accurate clinical insights without compromising patient interactions. By embedding within existing EHRs, the solution helps clinicians understand what needs to be done and make more informed decisions while reducing errors.As of July 2022, Wellsheet had an enterprise-wide deployment with over 10,000 clinicians using its interface, reducing the time spent in EHRs for physicians, nurses, and care managers. The company's FHIR-based APIs allow for rapid implementation across multiple data sources within weeks and minimal training requirements.

Wellsheet

Includes tools that allow healthcare providers to aggregate clinical data (both structured and unstructured) from a variety of sources and share this information with other providers, patients, or insurance providers.

Platforms that provide interoperability APIs and developer toolkits that allow siloed healthcare applications or systems to communicate with each other. Targeted at both healthcare providers and digital health apps.

Software platforms that integrate patient information (including social determinants of health) from multiple sources to digital tools. These tools support patient management and offer actionable insights on a patient's health by leveraging data analytics.

Healthcare data is exchanged, shared, and interpreted via digital mediums

AI/ML algorithms aggregate and standardize data for seamless sharing between healthcare systems

IoT technology is being used to improve hospital interoperability, connectivity, and secure data sharing

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