Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests at every stage in companies building revolutionary technologies. It has been investors, founders, and early employees of prominent technology companies. It has historically invested in a wide variety of sectors, including aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, health, and consumer Internet.

Founders Fund

Felicis Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors and industries reinventing core markets, as well as those creating frontier technologies. Felicis currently manages over $2B in capital across 8 funds. The firm is an early backer of more than 40 companies valued at $1B+. More than 90 of its portfolio companies have been acquired or gone public since the firm was founded by Aydin Senkut in 2006.

Felicis

Band of Angels is an investment firm that offers financial and advisory services to start-up companies. Band members have founded companies such as Symantec, Logitech, and National Semiconductor and been senior executives at the likes of Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, and Intuit.

Band of Angels

Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies. The firm invests in companies that define new markets, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Apptio, Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), Cloudera, Docker, Dropbox, Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Medium, Nextdoor, Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), Pandora (NYSE: P), Pure Storage, and Workday (NYSE: WDAY). It was founded in 1965 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Greylock

Maveron is a consumer-only venture capital firm. Founded in 1998 by Dan Levitan and Howard Schultz, the firm has offices in San Francisco and Seattle. Maveron investments include Zulily, Allbirds, Common, August Home, eBay, Capella Education, General Assembly, and Trupanion. Maveron's name was coined from the words ''maverick'' and ''vision.'' Maveron funds seed and Series A companies that empower consumers to live on their terms. Based in SF and Seattle and invest coast-to-coast. Maveron has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

Maveron

Correlation Ventures is a new breed of venture capital firm, leveraging world-class analytics to offer entrepreneurs and other venture capitalists a dramatically better option when they are seeking additional capital to complete a financing round.

Correlation Ventures

Lodestar Ventures they are focused on investing in dedicated entrepreneurs, building consumer, and enterprise technologies .

Lodestar Ventures

Western Technology Investment is a venture capital firm that specializes in offering acquisition financing to revenue-generating firms. The firm provides debt and lease financing to venture capital backed technology companies.

Western Technology Investment

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

Ali (阿狸/梦之城文化) is a Chinese domestic animation brand that develops products such as picture books, animations, and other peripheral products.  Founded in April 2009 in Beijing, the company is mainly focused on original cartoon images that feature the character “Ali”. Ali’s product portfolio covers content creation, marketing, product design, commercial authorization, channels, e-business, purchase, and physical distribution. The company is also a content supplier of internet value-added products such as Ali QQ expressions, community templates, wallpapers, and more, and it owns peripheral products such as plush dolls, bags, stationery, household items, and more. Ali is affiliated with the company, Beijing Dream Castle Culture Co., Ltd.

SV Tech Ventures focuses its investments primarily on companies that have successfully demonstrated their capabilities to develop advanced technologies.

SV Tech Ventures

Oakhouse Partners invests in companies that use breakthrough technologies to radically improve millions of lives. We believe mission-driven companies who better humanity on a global scale produce the best VC returns. Oakhouse Partners is no longer actively investing.

Oakhouse Partners

8VC seeks to enable industry transformation. In a wave of creative destruction, they believe emerging platforms will replace the decades-old technology infrastructure behind many industries, promoting greater innovation and prosperity.

K50 Ventures is a purpose-driven, early-stage venture capital firm.  We are the first institutional check and long-term partner to founders who believe technology has the potential to unlock access and affordability for the world’s working class across health, finance, and work.  Since 2016, we’ve invested in over 150 companies that have generated top-decile venture returns for our investors and material impact for millions of people and small businesses.

K50 Ventures

City Light is a venture capital firm that invests early in impactful companies. They partner with experienced teams building category-defining solutions in the areas of education, safety and care, and the environment - where more revenue equals better lives at scale, every time. As one of the earliest and most successful impacts investing firms, City Light has a track record of identifying and scaling impact in ways that build better companies.  The firm was founded in 2004 and is based in New York, New York. Some of its key portfolio investments are 2U (Nasdaq: TWOU), ShotSpotter (Nasdaq: SSTI), Trilogy Education, and Ready Responders.

City Light Capital

Transamerica Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of the Aegon Group and Transamerica. Transamerica Ventures invests in early-stage, high-growth technology companies throughout the United States and around the world.  Transamerica Ventures is an extension of Aegon’s innovation strategy and makes equity investments in companies that align with and help facilitate these strategic goals. The broad range of companies and market sectors into which Transamerica Ventures invests or looks to potentially invest includes communication technologies, marketing and social media platforms, financial technology and financial services (FinTech/FinServ), big data, enterprise IT, content and other B2B and B2B2C opportunities. Transamerica Ventures adds strategic value to its portfolio companies by providing them with the unique opportunity to leverage the global networks and resources of one of the world’s leading life insurance, pension and asset management firms.  Transamerica Ventures puts its entrepreneurs first and supports them with strategy and business development and by creating partnerships with the Aegon/Transamerica organization.

Transamerica Ventures

SCOR is a reinsurance company that provides financial solutions, analytics tools, and services to control and manage risk. Using its experience and expertise, the company offers Life and Health insurance (longevity, mortality, LTC, etc.) as well as Property and Casualty insurance (natural catastrophes, agriculture, industry, transport, engineering, etc.). SCOR's aim, as an independent global reinsurance company, is to develop its Life and P&C business lines, to provide its clients with a broad range of innovative reinsurance solutions, and to pursue an underwriting policy founded on profitability, supported by effective risk management and a cautious investment policy, in order to offer its clients an optimum level of security and to create value for its shareholders. The Paris, Ile-de-France-headquartered company was founded in 1970.

Scor

Masnavi is a globally-focused VC firm investing in early-stage, impact-oriented and talent-driven startups that provide disruptive technologies and solutions within such sectors as Biotechnology, Mental Health, Sustainable Agtech and Foodtech, Spatial Intelligence , Space Exploration and Telecommunication.

Masnavi Capital

100Plus

100Plus is the fastest-growing remote patient monitoring platform empowering doctors to manage their chronic patients remotely and proactively engage them to avoid expensive, episodic care and drive a higher quality of life. When a Medicare patient receives a 100Plus medical device, it’s at no cost to the patient or practice, fully configured, and ready to use out of the box — no smartphone, app, Bluetooth, or WiFi required. Reduce episodic care and improve patient care by continuously monitoring high-risk seniors in your population.

<div>100Plus is a remote patient monitoring platform for seniors on Medicare. Practitioners review patient's illnesses and symptoms, and can recommend 100Plus devices to patients (blood glucose monitors, blood pressure cuffs, digital weight scales, and emergency watches). Devices send real-time patient data to medical practitioners for review, which enables providers to qualify for Medicare reimbursement under the remote patient monitoring program (approximately USD 720 per patient, per year in revenue). Likewise, eligible Medicare patients can receive devices at no cost.</div>

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

Telehealth

100PLUS CELEBRATES WORLD HYDRATION DAY BY HYDRATING OVER 100,000 MALAYSIANS ACROSS PENINSULAR MALAYSIA

Connect America

To leverage “Ava,” an AI-assisted chatbot developed by 100Plus that assists in patient outreach and coordinating patient care, to enhance its remote patient monitoring and connected care solutions.

A concentration of wealth and a willingness to adopt age-in-place technologies present new opportunities.

Age Tech

Platforms that match seniors with home care providers as well as app-based products to facilitate communication between senior families and caregivers

Transamerica

The partnership will bring the Heart Watch to each insurer’s agents and policy holders.

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 100Plus is a remote patient monitoring platform for seniors on Medicare. Practitioners review patient's illnesses and symptoms, and can recommend 100Plus devices to patients (blood glucose monitors, blood pressure cuffs, digital weight scales, and emergency watches). Devices send real-time patient data to medical practitioners for review, which enables providers to qualify for Medicare reimbursement under the remote patient monitoring program (approximately USD 720 per patient, per year in revenue). Likewise, eligible Medicare patients can receive devices at no cost.
 
 
 Since the launch of its remote patient monitoring platform in January 2020, the company has boosted revenue to USD 5 million in annual recurring revenue. In March 2021, 100Plus raised USD 25 million in seed funding to enhance its AI-driven patient engagement platform. The latest financing round increased the company valuation to around USD 150 million. Additionally, 100Plus has partnered with AdvancedMD, DrChrono, and athenahealth. Through these partnerships, 100Plus extended its reach to more than 250,000 medical practitioners.&nbsp;
 
 
 In August 2021, digital connected care company Connect America entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100Plus for an undisclosed amount. Following the acquisition, Connect America&rsquo;s personal emergency response services (PERS), RPM and medication management solutions will be integrated with 100Plus&rsquo;s AI technology to form a single care management platform. 
 
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 Nice Healthcare is a US based telehealth company with a focus on primary care services to business-to-business (B2B) clients. Once the employer signs its employees with Nice (at a cost of USD 30 to USD 36 per employee per month), employees do not have to incur out of pocket expenses for Nice services and can schedule virtual or home visits within the time frames specified by the company. It connects patients with practitioners through a mobile app over video calls or text messages. Members can also request home visits which will be completed within a few hours, as claimed by the company. As of March 2022, Nice was operating in twelve states, and had over 400 small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
 
 
 In March 2022, the company raised USD 30 million in Series A financing led by DNA Capital which has been earmarked to expand its platform&rsquo;s reach among small and medium businesses. Additionally, the company is hiring three members for its management team to support the continuing growth of the organization.
 
 
 
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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

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 Dialogue partners with employers and health insurers to offer telehealth services to their employees and members. The users have 24/7 access to doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals via audio, video, and chat options for wide arrays of physical and mental health needs, artificial intelligence-enabled (AI-enabled) triage, referrals, and prescription renewals. 
 
 
 The company launched its trademarked Integrated Health Platform in January 2021 to consolidate its virtual care, wellness programs, mental healthcare services, and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) onto a single platform. The company claims to be the only integrated health and wellness B2B platform in Canada. 
 
 
 Key Customers and partnerships
 
 
 Dialogue had direct relationships with over 2,000 customers across Canada and Germany as of December 2020 and served around 50,000 organizations through these partnerships. In addition, the number of members with access to the virtual platform topped 1 million in January 2021. 
 
 
 Fundings and financials
 
 
 As of March 2021, Dialogue was planning to raise CAD 100 million (USD 80 million) from an initial public offering that will be listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol &ldquo;CARE.&rdquo; 
 
 
 In Q2 2023, net losses reduced significantly YoY to CAD 5.8 million (USD 4.3 million) from CAD 8.4 million (USD 6.3 million) in Q2 2022. Top-line revenue met internal expectations, growing 17.2% YoY to CAD 25.5 million (USD 19.0 million), driven by &nbsp;an increase in new members (by 18.6% YoY), 
 an expansion of the attach rate as existing customers added more services, and full-quarter contributions from Tictrac.
 
 Dialogue Health has not provided any forward-looking guidance as the company has entered into an agreement to be 
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 acquired by financial services company Sun Life Financial
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 for a consideration of CAD 365 million (USD 270 million) or CAD 5.15 (USD 3.82) per share. The transaction is expected to close in Q4 2023. Post acquisition, Dialogue will delist from the Toronto Stock Exchange but will continue to operate as a standalone entity under the &ldquo;Sun Life Canada&rdquo; brand from its head office in Qu&eacute;bec. 
 
 
 
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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. 

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

100Plus

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