We exist to create exceptional value for people and their ideas.   We do this by providing mentorship and capital for startups through our EdTech and Digital Health accelerators as well as full-time code education via The Iron Yard Academy.   Through our large, deep and growing network of instructors, mentors, programmers, designers, entrepreneurs, investors, employers and collaborative spaces we have developed a thriving community where serendipity happens en-masse.  We are people-centric. We put our students, teams, investors, and supporters first in all of our decision making. Our success is entirely dependent on their success.   Our challenge is immense. The world has huge problems that need to be solved, many of which technology is perfectly suited to address. Companies around the globe are answering this call, but anyone with boots on the ground can feel the acute shortage of people needed to rise to the occasion. That gap is widening right now, and over the next decade the shortfall will effect industries, economies, businesses and individuals as they fight to add value in digital world.   The Iron Yard is a solution at that juncture of supply, demand, business and a broken education system. We are committed to training up the highest-quality developers and startups in the world, both in skill and in character.   We want to accomplish this alongside talented, passionate people who share our vision, love what they do, and want to have a whole lot of fun along the way.

Iron Yard Ventures

Trend Discovery is an alternative investment fund based in New York. The fund is a hybrid hedge and venture capital fund that invests in seed and early-stage technology startups. They also invest in consumer products, healthcare, and energy companies.

Trend Discovery

Compound is a venture capital firm that invests in bleeding-edge technology built by outliers. They have partnered with elite operators that understand the intricacies of many different industries and various components of businesses, that help them navigate the complex systems in which each startup lives by removing roadblocks and compounding growth. Compound is based in New York City.

Compound

Draper Frontier is a venture capital firm that finances early-stage media and technology companies.  Frontier backs passionate entrepreneurs and provides a breadth of business assistance, including strategy, corporate management, hiring, customer acquisition, and fund raising.

Frontier Venture Capital

KPCB Edge is a team of builders, investing in seed stage founders working on emerging areas of technology, specifically, blockchains, virtual reality, digital health, drones, computer vision & mobile marketplaces. Edge is comprised of engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists, with the ability to draw on KPCB’s decades of investing experience. The partners at Edge spend two days each week investing in seed stage companies, and the rest of their time to build tools and products for the founders they invest in.  The Edge team is focused on building software to  address recurring challenges of early-stage founders, such as recruiting, financing, and operations. Edge takes a software defined approach to venture capital, based on the belief that at the earliest stages of company building, founders can be helped as much by great software as by great people.

KPCB Edge

Colle Capital is an opportunistic, global technology venture fund.  We focus on early stage companies that offer products and services in a broad range of verticals, such as telecommunications, computing, compliance, healthcare, wireless, financial services, security, home automation and information technology.

Colle Capital Partners

Laconia leads investments in pre-seed and seed B2B software companies transforming how business is done. Submit your info here: bit.ly/laconiapitch In addition to the company's early-stage funds, it offers investment advisory services through Laconia Venture Asset Management (LVAM). LVAM serves as an outsourced venture capital office (OVCO) to institutions, family offices, and high net worth individuals by creating and executing a comprehensive and sustainable venture capital investment program.

Laconia

Techstars Ventures (formerly Bullet Time Ventures) is the venture capital arm of Techstars. Bullet Time Ventures is a $150 million fund based in Boulder, Colorado.

Techstars Ventures

Meyer Ventures is a merchant bank focused on strategic growth investments & the management of a ''FAMILY OFFICE'' portfolio

Meyer Ventures

Draper Associates is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming companies. They invest globally, in great teams of people creating revolutionary companies in new media, gaming, SaaS, cloud, new finance, IOT, and mobile. Their portfolio companies disrupting markets in the tens of billions and are on a clear path to later rounds of fundraising. Draper Associates encourages entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness, to transform industries with new technologies, and to build platforms for extraordinary growth, jobs, and wealth creation. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA, USA.

Draper Associates

New York City-based early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in post product-market fit software-enabled businesses.

Runway Venture Partners

SpringTide is a venture capital that provides investment in the health tech industry. The firm was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

SpringTide Ventures

Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health is the leading U.S. early-stage (Seed and following on at the Series A) venture capital fund focused 100% on healthcare. Launched in 2018, Wavemaker 360 invested into the most promising healthcare startups in North America, with LPs from every sector of the US healthcare system.  We are SEEDING HEALTHCARE'S TOMORROW.  We invest in healthcare disruptors and entrepreneurs that see how the industry is transforming itself and want to make a big difference.

Wavemaker 360

Techstars is a global platform that provides investment and innovation. Through the Techstars Worldwide Entrepreneur Network, founders and their teams connect with other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporate partners who will help their companies grow. Techstars operates four divisions: Techstars Mentorship-Driven Accelerator Program supercharges success and Techstars Startup Programs inspire, educate, and connect entrepreneurs. Techstars Venture Capital Fund invests in innovative and disruptive companies. Techstars Corporate Innovation Partnerships help brands create products and services. Techstars' accelerator portfolio includes more than 1,000 companies with a market cap of $8.1 billion.

Techstars

We believe creativity doesn't stop at 30. And that experience requires time - and not only wins, but losses. We're looking for savvy, seasoned entrepreneurs who want to turn their idea into a new business, or to help brilliant up-starts realize theirs. If you own a hoodie but wouldn't wear it to a first meeting, you may fit our profile.  Investing is early stage companies; pre-seed through Series A.

Wisdom LLP

The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator is transforming healthcare quality, efficiency, and care delivery by helping entrepreneurs bring their innovative technology products to market.     This three-month program, based in Los Angeles, California, provides companies with $100,000 in funding, mentorship from more than 300 leading clinicians and executives, access to Cedars-Sinai, and exposure to a broad network of entrepreneurs and investors. Since 2015, the accelerator has helped dozens of companies transform healthcare delivery and patient care. It helps technology innovators turn their ideas into breakthroughs that can improve the lives of patients around the world.

Cedars-Sinai Accelerator

DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost. Deep Tech is a potent approach to this challenge that enables more for less - now and for this century. The transformative companies in their portfolio combine the latest advances in science and technology with unique computing and algorithmic advantage, reducing CAPEX and OPEX.

DCVC

Founded in 2015, CSC Upshot Ventures is an early-stage venture fund focusing on providing seed capital to technology companies at scale. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the enterprise, artificial intelligence, healthcare, Fintech, and the marketplace. In close partnership with AngelList, CSC Upshot Ventures built a new model of venture investing based on the needs of founders, investors, and startup communities.

CSC Upshot

Noteworth

Noteworth is connecting healthcare organizations to patient-generated health data and provides software and services that allow clinicians and healthcare organizations to have an unprecedented level of health data clarity for patients outside the clinic. The startup company works with primary care doctors, pediatricians, and specialists to improve patient engagement on an ongoing basis, whether it be through collecting information on vitals, providing education on diagnosis, and avenues to talk to a doctor via telemedicine or chat. Its HIPAA-compliant, interoperable solution integrates with 400+ FDA-approved clinical devices and delivers patient-generated data directly into an existing electronic medical record (EMR) in actionable, clinically-relevant Noteworth Reports. They position their partners to target costly readmissions, reduce utilization, boost patient satisfaction, and increase the overall quality of care. The Hoboken, New Jersey-based company was founded by Bryan Bonnet, Justin Williams, and Nishant Panchal in 2015.

Noteworth is a company that offers a comprehensive virtual care delivery platform designed to address the fragmentation of medical data in the US healthcare system. The company's technology enables health systems to conduct video visits with patients while simultaneously accessing and tracking their electronic medical records and medication information. Noteworth's platform also integrates data from patients' mobile apps and wearable devices, providing doctors with a more holistic view of each patient's health. By consolidating medical data from various sources, the company aims to improve healthcare delivery and enable more informed decision-making by physicians.

Simplifying healthcare administration with intuitive tech tools

Hospital Management

CentraState Healthcare System Partners With Noteworth to Deliver Telemedicine Services and Extend Care Management Capabilities

Noteworth is a company that offers a comprehensive virtual care delivery platform designed to address the fragmentation of medical data in the US healthcare system. The company's technology enables health systems to conduct video visits with patients while simultaneously accessing and tracking their electronic medical records and medication information. Noteworth's platform also integrates data from patients' mobile apps and wearable devices, providing doctors with a more holistic view of each patient's health. By consolidating medical data from various sources, the company aims to improve healthcare delivery and enable more informed decision-making by physicians.

Modernizing Medicine is a healthcare technology company that specializes in developing cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) systems and solutions tailored for specific medical specialties. Their flagship products, EMA and gGastro EHR, are designed to streamline clinical workflows and documentation processes, saving time for healthcare providers. These intuitive platforms incorporate built-in medical knowledge and can adapt to individual practice preferences.
Beyond EHRs, Modernizing Medicine offers an integrated suite of products and services, including practice management, revenue cycle management, endoscopy report writing, analytics, and advisory services. Their solutions aim to address the challenges of value-based care, such as population health management, quality measure reporting, and optimizing reimbursements.
Modernizing Medicine's innovative EHR architecture emphasizes speed, convenience, and adaptability, enabling doctors to complete exams efficiently. The systems can generate notes, suggest codes, and automate billing processes, reducing administrative burdens.
In November 2022, Modernizing Medicine agreed to pay USD 45 million to resolve allegations of accepting and paying illegal kickbacks, as well as causing users to report inaccurate information for federal incentive payments. The settlement addressed three marketing programs alleged to have violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute.

Modernizing Medicine

Kyruus Health is a leading provider of care access solutions that connect patients with the right healthcare providers. The company's platform integrates comprehensive provider data, enabling informed decisions and seamless access to care across various touchpoints. Kyruus Health's offerings include provider search and scheduling tools, cost transparency solutions, and data management capabilities.
Kyruus Health's technology facilitates provider matching, appointment scheduling, and digital patient intake processes. The platform enhances the overall patient experience by streamlining access to care and ensuring transparency regarding provider expertise, availability, and costs. Additionally, Kyruus Health's solutions empower healthcare organizations, such as hospitals, medical groups, and health plans, to optimize provider utilization and comply with industry mandates.
Through strategic acquisitions and partnerships, Kyruus Health has expanded its network to encompass over 425,000 providers across more than 1,000 hospitals and 500 medical groups. As of 2023, the company served over 90 million health plan members from 100 different health plan brands, solidifying its position as a leading care access platform.
Key customers and partnerships
In July 2024, Kyruus Health announced a strategic partnership with XO Health, an innovative healthcare services organization designed for self-insured employers. This collaboration aimed to enhance XO Health's digital member experience by integrating Kyruus Health's provider search and cost transparency tools, ultimately creating a seamless healthcare journey for members, providers, and payers.
Furthermore, in May 2024, Kyruus Health expanded its national provider network by integrating virtual behavioral health providers, demonstrating its commitment to improving access to mental health services. This expansion added over 30,000 virtual behavioral health providers to the Kyruus Network, enabling health plans, hospitals, and medical groups to seamlessly integrate these providers into their online directories and address access gaps.
Kyruus Health also partnered with WellHive and V3 Gate to support the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), aiming to improve care for all Veterans by accelerating access to care through centralized appointment management across VHA sites.

Kyruus

AKASA is a healthcare technology company that leverages advanced generative AI and machine learning models to address administrative inefficiencies and financial challenges in the revenue cycle management (RCM) process. Their AI solutions are specifically trained on vast amounts of clinical and financial data to comprehend the nuances of the healthcare industry.
AKASA's platform is powered by large language models and generative AI capabilities akin to ChatGPT, but optimized and tailored for the healthcare domain. Their AI understands clinical context, grasps the intricate details of health systems, and is designed to integrate directly into staff workflows, enabling automation of routine tasks and improving operational efficiencies.
The company takes an "expert-in-the-loop" approach called Unified Automation, which combines machine learning with human expertise. This allows their technology to adapt to the dynamic nature of revenue cycle operations while benefiting from the judgement of AKASA's in-house team of RCM veterans with an average of over 15 years of industry experience.
AKASA's solutions aim to reduce the substantial administrative waste associated with billing and insurance communication failures, estimated at over USD 500 billion annually in the USD 4 trillion healthcare industry. By automating comprehensive and complex tasks, AKASA enables healthcare providers to reallocate staff toward patient-facing activities and enhance care delivery.

AKASA

XSOLIS is an AI technology company that offers a platform and solutions to create a more efficient healthcare system by facilitating improved communication and alignment between healthcare providers and payers. The company's flagship product, CORTEX, is an AI-driven platform that utilizes real-time predictive analytics to continuously assign an objective medical necessity score and assess the anticipated level of care for every patient. This technology aims to eliminate waste by leveraging data science, automation, transparency, and objective insights to ensure appropriate care settings.
XSOLIS's solutions streamline patient status communications, enabling providers and payers to align on medical necessity, length of stay timelines, and appropriate care levels. The platform's AI capabilities enable the creation of live clinical profiles for each patient, recognizing patterns to generate predictive analytics for determining the most suitable care setting. CORTEX reduces the administrative burden of case reviews through its proprietary Care Level Score (CLS), allowing teams to prioritize discharge planning tasks and driving optimal workflows.
By August 2022, XSOLIS achieved a three-year revenue growth of 388%, ranking No. 1795 on the 2022 Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies. The company reported 111% growth in its payer network and a 44% increase in hospital partnerships in the same year.

XSOLIS

Suki AI is a healthcare technology company that develops an AI-powered voice assistant, Suki Assistant, designed to help clinicians complete administrative tasks efficiently. The Suki Assistant utilizes natural language processing and generative AI to transcribe conversations between clinicians and patients into clinical notes, populating electronic health records (EHRs) with relevant data. By automating documentation, the company aims to reduce the time clinicians spend on paperwork, claiming to shrink it by as much as 72% in family medicine settings.
Suki Assistant offers multiple modes, including ambient note generation, dictation, and voice commands. The ambient mode leverages generative AI to listen to clinician-patient interactions and auto-generate clinical notes in real-time without human intervention. Clinicians can accept, reject, or edit the AI-generated content to ensure accuracy. In addition to documentation, Suki Assistant can retrieve patient information, such as medication lists and allergies, from EHRs and provide diagnosis code recommendations.
Suki Assistant is deeply integrated with major EHR systems, including Epic, Cerner, athenahealth, Elation, and Meditech, enabling bidirectional synchronization of notes and codes. The company expanded its capabilities to support inpatient care settings in October 2023, making it the first AI-powered voice solution tailored for clinicians in hospitals. Suki Assistant operates across various platforms, including iOS, Android, web, Windows, Mac, and as a Chrome extension.
In October 2023, Suki announced the acquisition of an undisclosed company to enhance its personalization features, allowing the assistant to adapt to individual user preferences and existing workflows.

Suki

Platforms used by hospitals to manage the various aspects of patient care to improve overall efficiency, such as automating routine tasks, improving communication and coordination among healthcare providers, and enhancing patient outcomes within the hospital setting

Platforms that enable patients to actively participate in their healthcare journey by educating and engaging them, along with improving communication with healthcare providers

Platforms that help healthcare organizations analyze patient data and other performance metrics to improve decision-making and optimize resource allocation

Platforms that are designed to help hospitals and health systems manage their financial operations from patient billing and insurance claims to revenue tracking and analysis

AI-powered software solutions that are designed to help healthcare organizations streamline and automate the process of documenting patient encounters

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for hospital management

Offers software platforms that streamline and improve hospital operations

AI/ML algorithms optimize workflows, enable predictive modeling, and analyze patient data in healthcare

Hospital Management companies use GenAI to manage and automate administrative tasks, offering a range of tech solutions designed to meet the needs of different departments and functions.

IoT medical solutions turn traditional hospitals into smart hospitals, allowing them to streamline workflows

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