Pipeline Angels is changing the face of angel investing and creating capital for women and non-binary femme social entrepreneurs. Since Pipeline Angels launched April 2011, over 200 members have graduated from our angel investing bootcamp and have invested more than US$4M in 40+ companies via our pitch summit process. Our members serve as the friends and family round for entrepreneurs who may not already have support at that critical stage. Pipeline Angels is currently accepting applications for its signature bootcamp for new investors and for its signature pitch summit for entrepreneurs looking for funding.

Pipeline Angels

nvp invests in seed-stage B2B software companies based on data-driven and thematically oriented convictions, reinforced by industry insights and relationships.  Our tight-knit team of investment professionals executes with a startup mindset, putting decades of operational experience to support entrepreneurs throughout the journey of building a business.

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HearstLab is an early-stage venture fund focused on women-led startups innovating across the enterprise technology, data analytics, health, fintech, transportation and media spaces. To date, HearstLab has invested in over 56 companies at the Seed and Series A stages, with four successful exits. The firm often participates as a co-investor and in follow-on rounds.  HearstLab is a venture arm of the Hearst Corporation (''Hearst'') and provides one year of services in addition to cash investments. With access to Hearst's resources across 360+ businesses, HearstLab’s breadth of services includes providing assistance with commercial deals, privacy and security, legal services, marketing support and raising capital. Portfolio companies also benefit from the strategic guidance and resource support of HearstLab Scouts, women leaders across Hearst who share their networks and expertise. HearstLab has a full-time dedicated team assisting with UI/UX, DevOps engineering, data security, data science, brand storytelling, financial modeling and business development.

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Today, 13% of angel investors are women.  We want that number to be 50%.    37 Angels activates the untapped capital and experience women can bring to investing in male and female-led ventures.         We do this by sourcing high potential deals and coordinating due diligence for members to invest in deals between $50K and $200K.  We also offer an unique training program to educate novice angels in the fundamentals of investing in young companies.

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Elevate Capital is a seed and early-stage investment firm with a primary focus in the Pacific Northwest and investing in under-represented founders. Elevate proudly maintains a 50/50 male/female founder split among its invested portfolio and has 100% of its investments where at least one co-founder is from a minority group (East Indian, Veterans, East Asian, African American, Latino, and etc.).

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Act One Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage fund that focuses on investing in business software. The firm leads pre-seed and seed rounds.  The team is made up of founders who understand the journey of building companies having founded and taken a company public. Alejandro Guerrero and Michael Silton formed the fund in Los Angeles, California in 2016. Act One Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider. Focus areas include e-commerce infrastructure software, Vertical SaaS and Fintech

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Next Act Fund was founded in 2017 with the intent of investing in early-stage, women-owned/led companies, thereby positively impacting women, the region, and the nation. Next Act Fund, which is the first of its kind in Southwestern Pennsylvania, is also focused on member education, hosting monthly educational sessions open to its members and the public, as well as a series of educational sessions targeting “future investors”

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Time Study

Time Study offers a time intelligence platform that uses machine intelligence to activate and transform enterprise time data into real-time insights on how time is spent and its impact on workforce effectiveness, operational efficiency and compliance. The team is led by 3x entrepreneur and computer scientist Kishau Rogers; she is joined by an experienced team bringing many years of collective experience growing & building enterprise software solutions. Many of the top US hospitals have selected Time Study as their cloud application for studying how time is spent (at work).

Time Study is a provider of time intelligence solutions that help healthcare organizations optimize their workforce and operations by leveraging data analytics. Launched in 2017, the company offers a centralized platform that gathers time data from various sources across an enterprise to create a comprehensive profile of how healthcare providers spend their time at work. The platform integrates with electronic health records (EHRs), payroll systems, billing software, and other data sources to provide insights that enable organizations to evaluate workforce efficiency, optimize workflows, meet regulatory requirements, and improve cost reporting accuracy.

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Time Study is a provider of time intelligence solutions that help healthcare organizations optimize their workforce and operations by leveraging data analytics. Launched in 2017, the company offers a centralized platform that gathers time data from various sources across an enterprise to create a comprehensive profile of how healthcare providers spend their time at work. The platform integrates with electronic health records (EHRs), payroll systems, billing software, and other data sources to provide insights that enable organizations to evaluate workforce efficiency, optimize workflows, meet regulatory requirements, and improve cost reporting accuracy.
Time Study's platform leverages technologies such as natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to transform unstructured data into standardized information and support predictive analytics. By responding to insights derived from time data, organizations can reduce redundancies, improve efficiencies, better allocate resources, and increase billable time for providers.
As of May 2024, Time Study's solution has helped several healthcare entities increase research grant and Medicare and Medicaid compliance rates by 150% and boost reimbursement by half a million dollars. The company proudly serves major health organizations, including NY-Presbyterian and Stanford.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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