BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund that invests in technology companies. The fund aims to invest in the consumer, enterprise, fintech, healthcare, life science, and marketplaces industries at the earliest stage, as early as pre-seed round and as late as Series A. It supports companies based on a conviction in the team and seeks entrepreneurs working at the beginning of movements in existing markets or new markets yet to be created and with visions to create the next generation of category-defining businesses.

BoxGroup

Syndicated angel investment fund in San Francisco and Pittsburgh

Alt-Capital

Liquid Ventures invests in young companies with transformative technologies, builds business and patents strategies around them, and aims to take them public through an NYSE or NASDAQ IPO.

Liquid Ventures

Tuesday Capital (formerly known as CrunchFund) is a seed stage focused venture firm that invests in information technology enabled companies. In 2019 CrunchFund was rebranded as Tuesday Capital.

Tuesday Capital

Calm/Storm Ventures is a founder network and boutique venture capital firm that invests in solutions improving health and wellbeing. They invest in founders that change lives for the better. Calm/Storm Ventures believe in lifelong learning and personal growth, empowering entrepreneurs with unique access to successful founders.

Calm/Storm Ventures

Page One Ventures is an early-stage venture firm.

Page One Ventures

Exceptional Capital is an investor in B2B enterprise software at pre-seed and seed stages.

Exceptional Capital

Transpose Platform Management seeks out innovative companies and invests in tomorrow's category-defining leaders.

Transpose Platform Management

Foundation Health

Foundation Health is a telehealth and nationwide pharmacies and diagnostic distribution centre

<div>Foundation Health is a health tech company that offers a cloud-based patient engagement platform. It caters to healthcare providers, enabling them to offer telehealth and online pharmacy services. Foundation Health&rsquo;s telehealth API enables healthcare providers to offer virtual primary care consultations, either asynchronous or synchronous, over chat, phone calls, or video. Also, the company&rsquo;s online pharmacy solution enables healthcare providers to offer digital pharmacy services, including medication adherence functions, home delivery, prescription transfers, and bespoke information on 10,000+ pharmaceuticals. The company additionally notes that its platform can fulfill 100,000 prescriptions daily for medications and has coverage across the US.</div>

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

Telehealth

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 Foundation Health is a health tech company that offers a cloud-based patient engagement platform. It caters to healthcare providers, enabling them to offer telehealth and online pharmacy services. 
 Foundation Health&rsquo;s telehealth API enables healthcare providers to offer virtual primary care consultations, either asynchronous or synchronous, over chat, phone calls, or video. Also, the company&rsquo;s online pharmacy solution enables healthcare providers to offer digital pharmacy services, including medication adherence functions, home delivery, prescription transfers, and bespoke information on 10,000+ pharmaceuticals. The company additionally notes that its platform can fulfill 100,000 prescriptions daily for medications and has coverage across the US. 
 
 
 In March 2024, Foundation Health projected profitability within around 18 months.
 
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 
 
 The company&rsquo;s solutions are focused on consumer health, health plans/Insurers, and pharma manufacturers. As of March 2024, the company's services were offered across the US, UK, and European markets.
 
 
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 
 
 In March 2024, the company raised USD 6 million in a seed funding round led by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, along with participation from other venture capital firms. The raised funds were set aside for product development initiatives, processing existing customer waitlists, and attracting new clients.
 
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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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Foundation Health, a telehealth and pharmacy tech provider, secured $6 million in a seed funding round led by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, with contributions from other VC firms. The newly-acquired funds will be utilized to speed up the product development process, manage existing customer waitlists, and attract new clients.
The company offers white-label tech solutions to healthcare providers, allowing them to render telehealth services through their API and online pharmacy services. Foundation also states that its platform is capable of a daily medication capacity of 100,000 and coverage across the U.S. As of March 2024, their services are available in the U.S, U.K, and European markets, with the U.S healthcare industry as their primary target. The firm estimates achieving profitability in approximately 18 months.
 
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