Altitude Ventures aims to maximize value creation through value-added partnerships. AV provides early-stage venture capital financing to healthcare services and technology startups that improve healthcare. Their firm leverages its combined industry expertise, relationships, investment experience, and infrastructure to benefit entrepreneurs, investors, and the healthcare system.

Altitude Ventures

[Connecticut Innovations](http://www.ctinnovations.com) provides strategic capital and operational insight to to companies in high-tech industries such as energy, biotechnology, information technology, and photonics. Their mission is to be the leading source of financing and ongoing support for Connecticut’s innovative, growing companies. By offering flexible financing, strategic guidance and introductions to valuable partners, Connecticut innovations enable promising businesses to thrive.

Connecticut Innovations

Portfolia connects sophisticated investors and leaders with entrepreneurial companies. Their platform enables users to collaborate with other members and lead investors to evaluate innovative products and teams, join diligence teams, and immerse themselves in the investment process. It is an investment fund designed for women while backing innovative companies for returns and impact.

Portfolia

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that seeks to invest in early-stage startups operating in software, business to business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

Hustle Fund

Bread and Butter Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Minnesota, the Bread and Butter State, investing globally while leveraging our state and region’s unparalleled access to strong corporate connections, commercial opportunities, and industry expertise for the benefit of our teams. Led by Brett Brohl and Mary Grove, we invest in founders at the seed stage across foodtech, digital health and enterprise saas.

Bread and Butter Ventures

Carnrite Ventures provide investment capital, executive leadership, turnaround services and back-office support to our partner and portfolio companies. they are actively seeking investment opportunities in businesses with growth potential or require operational and financial performance improvements to maximize value.

Carnrite 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

Nest Collaborative

Nest Collaborative’s comprehensive lactation support platform provides breastfeeding support by board-certified lactation consultants (IBCLCs) for parents and parents-to-be, virtually, 365 day a year. With a focus on prevention, improving access to care, and reducing care costs, Nest implements evidence-based interventions shown to extend the duration of breastfeeding for families. Preventive lactation care addresses the unique physiologic, emotional, societal, and economic barriers to breastfeeding by providing education, anticipatory guidance, reassurance, and skilled practical help and problem solving, in addition to problem based care.

Maryland-based Nest Collaborative is a specialized telehealth platform for lactating mothers. The company claims to be the first specialized platform to connect mothers and mothers to be with International Board Certified Lactation Consultants via online video appointments. The service is available on most health plans while the consultation fee for uninsured users is USD 79 for a 50-minute session. The company also partners with hospitals and healthcare providers.

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

Telehealth

Nest Collaborative Secures $6M in Series A Funding to Scale ...

Maryland-based Nest Collaborative is a specialized telehealth platform for lactating mothers. The company claims to be the first specialized platform to connect mothers and mothers to be with International Board Certified Lactation Consultants via online video appointments. The service is available on most health plans while the consultation fee for uninsured users is USD 79 for a 50-minute session. The company also partners with hospitals and healthcare providers.Nest Collaborative’s platform provides evidence-based breastfeeding support including breastfeeding education, prenatal planning, as well as tips for breastfeeding.The company noted that as of January 2024, its board certified lactation consultants had facilitated over 50,000 lactation support encounters across the US.Key customers and partnershipsIn November 2022, the company <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/14955">partnered with non-profit health provider Kettering Health </a>to provide free virtual consultations for families in Ohio. Funding and financialsIn January 2024, Nest Collaborative secured <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26172">USD 6 million in a Series A funding </a>round led by Altitude Ventures, along with participation from investors. The funds were set aside to expand Nest Collaborative's initiatives for product innovation, with the aim to offer accessible, evidence-based lactation support to families across the US.

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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 
 <a href="https://investors.dialogue.co/English/news/news-details/2023/Dialogue-to-be-Acquired-by-Sun-Life/default.aspx">
 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

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 Nest Collaborative, an online lactation support platform, has received $6 million in Series A funding led by Altitude Ventures. This increases their total raised funds to $10.3 million. The company will utilise the investment to further their product innovation, aiming to provide accessible and evidence-based lactation support countrywide. As of January 2024, Nest Collaborative's board-certified lactation consultants have managed over 50,000 support instances throughout the US. 
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Nest Collaborative

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