Cathay Innovation is a global venture capital firm, created in affiliation with Cathay Capital, investing in startups at the center of digital revolution across North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Its global platform unifies technology investment across continents, investors, entrepreneurs and leading corporations to accelerate startup growth with access to new markets, invaluable industry knowledge and introductions to potential partners from the start. As a multistage fund with over $1.5 billion assets under management and offices across San Francisco, New York, Paris, Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore, Cathay Innovation partners with visionary entrepreneurs and startups positively impacting the world through technology.  To learn more, please visit www.cathayinnovation.com or follow us on Twitter @Cathayinnov.

Cathay Innovation

Comcast Ventures is the venture capital affiliate of Comcast Corporation and partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs building transformative consumer and enterprise companies.

Comcast Ventures

GreatPoint Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing between $250k and $20m into Seed, A, and B rounds. The firm was founded in San Francisco, California in 2015.

GreatPoint Ventures

Kauffman Fellows is a world-wide network of innovation investors who provide smart, connected capital to fuel entrepreneurial change.

Kauffman Fellows

Morpheus is a venture capital firm that invests in consumer to enterprise technologies including data analytics, machine learning, robotics, transportation, and SaaS. The firm was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Los Angeles.

Morpheus Ventures

Drive Capital invests in innovative technology, healthcare, and consumer companies in the Midwest. The firm is looking for innovative entrepreneurs addressing big market opportunities. Its goal is to partner with entrepreneurs that have audacious goals and strive to build large sustainable companies. The firm seeks to invest in information technology, financial services, and mobile sectors. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Drive Capital

Menlo Ventures provides capital for multi-stage consumer, enterprise, and life sciences technology companies. Since 1976, the firm’s market-driven analysis has led to the identification of opportunities and successful investments in innovative markets. Notable areas of investment include Marketplaces (Uber, Rover.com, Poshmark); Consumer Services (Tumblr, Betterment, Roku, Siri); Dev/Ops (Harness, Edge Delta, Fire hydrant); SaaS (Carta, ScoutRFP, Qualia, Benchling, Everlaw); Fintech (Betterment, Bluevine, Chime); Cybersecurity (Cavium, IronPort, BitSight, Abnormal, StackRox); and Life Sciences Technology (Synthego, Cofactor Genomics, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, 3T Biosciences). Menlo’s portfolio includes more than 70 public companies, and more than 100 mergers and acquisitions, with $5 billion under management. The firm is currently investing in Menlo Ventures XV, a $500 million early-stage fund, as well as its $500 million Inflection Fund, which targets early-growth investments.

Menlo Ventures

Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossover strategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.

Tiger Global Management

Alpha Edison is a venture capital firm that focuses on technology-driven innovation. The firm helps entrepreneurs to build a better world. Alpha Edison is an early-stage venture firm that partners with courageous entrepreneurs to build industry-changing technology platforms. It helps founders to create new markets, unlock latent demand, and scale businesses by sharing its research and expertise in business model innovation.

Alpha Edison

Bond is a venture capital firm that supports visionary founders of high-growth Internet companies throughout their life cycle of innovation and growth. The firm, a spinout of the Kleiner Perkins Digital Growth Fund, was launched in January 2019 and founded by Mary Meeker with Mood Rowghani, Noah Knauf.

Bond

Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), founded in November 2017 with a transformational spirit, originates and invests in promising entrepreneurs and technologies across industries to improve Koch Industries' existing businesses and create new opportunities. Based in Wichita, Kansas, Koch Industries is one of the largest private companies in America with estimated annual revenues as high as $100 billion, according to Forbes. It owns a diverse group of companies involved in refining, chemicals, and biofuels; forest and consumer products; fertilizers; polymers and fibers; process and pollution control equipment and technologies; electronics; information systems; commodity trading; minerals; energy; glass; ranching; and investments. Since 2003, Koch Companies have invested more than $80 billion in acquisitions and other capital expenditures. With a presence in about 60 countries, Koch Companies employ more than 120,000 people worldwide, with about 70,000 of those in the United States. From January 2009 to the present, Koch Companies have earned more than 1,200 awards for safety, environmental excellence, community stewardship, innovation, and customer service.

Koch Disruptive Technologies

Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.

Duke University

Marbruck is an open-ended venture capital group. Marbruck sources, invests, and provides ongoing guidance to early / growth stage technology companies. With no outside capital, Marbruck actively manages a diverse global portfolio of 30+ companies spanning Seed through to pre-listing. Marbruck leverages its intellectual capital, its network of partner investors, and its deep operational experience, to successfully navigate the highest-risk, highest-reward spectrum of investing.

Marbruck

Sidecar Health

Sidecar Health is an insurtech company that provides a personalized health insurance platform. Its platform offers customizable plans based on coverage needs and budget while being completely transparent about medical costs and payouts with comparable coverage and permits fast and easy transactions through a credit card to charge medical expenses upfront at the doctor's office and pharmacy of their choice, enabling consumers to get suitable and affordable health insurance plans.

Sidecar Health is a transformative health insurance company providing medical coverage for employers. Its model eliminates the need for prior authorizations, referrals, and restrictive formularies, offering transparency into benefits and local pricing. Members know exactly how much their plan pays before receiving care and can choose any licensed provider without network restrictions.

Managing employee health-related benefits

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Sidecar Health and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Announce Groundbreaking Fixed-Price Care Agreement

Sidecar Health is a transformative health insurance company providing medical coverage for employers. Its model eliminates the need for prior authorizations, referrals, and restrictive formularies, offering transparency into benefits and local pricing. Members know exactly how much their plan pays before receiving care and can choose any licensed provider without network restrictions.Sidecar Health operates on an instant-pay non-network model, enabling members to pay for care at the time of service using their Sidecar Health VISA benefit card. This facilitates immediate payment to providers, reducing administrative complexities. When members opt for providers charging less than their plan's benefit amount, Sidecar Health shares the savings with them. Key customers and partnershipsIn June 2024, the company partnered with Koch Disruptive Technologies to provide health coverage to a segment of the latter's workforce in 2025. Additionally, Sidecar has chosen Kosh as its design partner to develop insurance coverage options for large-scale employers.

Corestream provides voluntary benefits administration through a cloud-based, proprietary HR technology platform. The platform creates a single integration point for carriers, brokers, employers and employees to streamline the selection and administration of insurance benefits and other employee perks. The platform handles insurance benefits like critical illness, long term care, pet insurance, auto and home insurance, as well as financial assistance programs and health/wellness offerings. A Duke University study found that enrollment through Corestream's platform contributes to employee retention, with enrolled employees staying an average of six years versus three years for non-enrolled employees. The platform removes complexity by demystifying benefit features and preventing employees from enrolling in unsuitable benefits, as these offerings are not one-size-fits-all.
Key customers and partnerships
In January 2022, Corestream entered into a strategic partnership with Standard Insurance Company (The Standard) to streamline benefits management and provide insurance products through its platform. Corestream's platform was delivering benefits to more than two million employees as of March 2022. The company has also partnered with Enhesa to provide content supporting risk management and compliance requirements, and with SafePaaS to support identity security and access governance solutions. Additionally, Corestream maintains a partnership with Data Privacy Simplified to offer consultancy services including information audits, gap analysis, and requirements identification.

CoreStream

BeneBay is a cloud-based claims processing and management technology platform for healthcare services. The platform processes claims at the point of service and provides real-time data responses to help manage healthcare costs effectively. Initially developed and implemented in Northern Europe, where it processed over 90% of private health insurance transactions covering 400,000 members, the platform expanded to the US market starting in Florida in mid-2015. BeneBay functions as an online self-insurance platform specifically designed for smaller employers, addressing the underserved market of health benefits for smaller groups through self-funded health insurance products and simplified product design. The platform's technology stack includes secure cloud delivery, built-in intelligence, and automation features for claims adjudication. In 2016, BeneBay reported annual recurring revenues of USD 0.5 million.
Key customers and partnerships
BeneBay served customers in Florida following its US market entry. In Northern Europe, the platform managed transactions for a member base of 400,000 individuals in the private health insurance sector.

Benebay

Benecaid Health Benefit Solutions Inc. is a provider of group health benefits solutions for Canadian small and medium-sized businesses. The company's core offering includes health spending accounts (HSAs) and the Honeybee digital benefits platform. Through HSAs, employers can provide tax-free accounts for employees to pay for healthcare services not covered by government insurance plans. In July 2022, Benecaid, as part of the Green Shield Canada (GSC) group of companies, launched Honeybee Select, a digital benefits solution specifically designed for small businesses with 25 or fewer employees. Honeybee Select offers standardized health, dental, and travel benefits plans powered by GSC, with additional mental health coverage through Inkblot Therapy. The platform features streamlined user experience, add-on allowance accounts, and electronic claims processing through GSC's adjudication platform, enabling instant eligibility assessment at healthcare providers.
Key customers and partnerships
Benecaid operates as a third-party administrator for several Canadian insurance companies and serves clients through a network of independent licensed insurance advisors. Benecaid integrated GSC's adjudication system for processing health and dental claims for Honeybee Select plan members. The company also partnered with Inkblot Therapy to provide mental health coverage as part of its Honeybee Select offering.

Benecaid

Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA) is a provider of business insurance, employee health and benefits, retirement, and private client insurance solutions in North America. The company offers services including commercial property and casualty insurance, employee benefits, management liability, cyber insurance, captives, alternative risk transfer programs, small business solutions, and personal lines insurance. As of January 2024, MMA operates through 170 offices across the US and Canada with over 9,900 employees. The company generated more than USD 2 billion in annualized revenue, making it one of the largest brokerage operations in North America. MMA leverages data analytics capabilities, maintaining one of the industry's largest data repositories to help clients make objective decisions about insurance products and risk exposure. In November 2024, MMA completed the acquisition of McGriff Insurance Services, integrating over 3,500 employees and expanding its capabilities in specialty and middle-market segments. McGriff, which reported revenue of USD 1.3 billion for the 12 months ended June 2024, brought expertise in areas such as commercial property and casualty, corporate bonding and surety, cyber insurance, and management liability.
Key customers and partnerships
MMA works with organizations across various industries including healthcare, senior living, physician practices, construction, transportation, education, agriculture, hospitality, public entities, and banking. The company serves as the official business insurance partner for NCHA (North Carolina healthcare Association) and works with more hospitals and health systems in North Carolina than any other brokerage or consultant.

Marsh McLennan Agency

SAG-AFTRA Health Plan provides health insurance coverage to eligible members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). The plan offers comprehensive medical services including medical, surgical, mental health, life and AD&D insurance, maternity care, hearing aids, therapy, and dental and vision services. As of January 2024, only 12.7% of SAG-AFTRA's 170,000 members qualify for the union's health plan. Monthly premiums for members range from USD 125 to USD 250, with costs increasing to USD 2,501 following unemployment. The plan requires members to meet specific earnings-based or days-based eligibility criteria, which varies depending on occupation and work performed under specific contracts.
Key customers and partnerships
The SAG-AFTRA Health Plan partnered with Carrot Fertility in 2024 to provide infertility treatment coverage starting January 2025, offering services including IVF, IUI, and prescription drug therapy with a family lifetime maximum of USD 30,000. In December 2022, the organization partnered with AFL-CIO to offer new SAG-AFTRA Senior Benefit Plans for Medicare-eligible members and their Medicare-eligible spouses/partners.

SAG-AFTRA Health Plan

Enterprise platforms that help employees and their dependents receive primary or specialist care services as part of their health benefits. These platforms also provide access to Telehealth services, behavioral care services, and remote patient monitoring

Enterprise platforms that help employees better navigate their healthcare journey by identifying which healthcare services are covered under their benefits plan and how to best maximize their use (e.g. identifying a wider pool of suitable regional physicians for consultation)

Enterprise platforms that specialize in helping employees manage their pharmacy- and prescription-related benefits to refill prescriptions or dispense medication for in-store pickup or home delivery

Enterprise platforms that allow employers to directly manage and customize employee benefit plans. These platforms enable enterprises to present employees with multiple health benefits options across health plans and negotiate terms with third-party health administrator services and insurance providers

Platforms are offered using a B2B SaaS business model, enabling digital health

Platforms are offered on a B2B basis to help manage employee benefits across an enterprise

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 Sidecar Health and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center have formed a partnership to introduce a transparent, fixed-price healthcare model, which is a first for the medical center. This partnership aims to do away with barriers such as prior authorizations and complex medical management programs. This would enable Sidecar Health members to access any Ohio State University medical facility with full awareness of the costs upfront. It can potentially allow members to avail covered services at no extra cost, while the medical center will have clear payment terms, lessening administrative complexity.
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