Everywhere Ventures (fka ''The Fund'') is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created ​by founders for founders​ to support the next generation of entrepreneurs. Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds. The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.

Everywhere Ventures

Flare Capital Partners provides capital for early-stage and emerging healthcare technology companies. The firm invests across the United States, recognizing that healthcare technology innovation is occurring in many cities around the country.

Flare Capital Partners

Seven Seven Six is a venture capital firm. The firm features The Seven Seven Six Operator in Residence Program as a full-time, paid, one-year appointment.

Seven Seven Six

Flybridge is a seed-stage VC investing with entrepreneurs to leverage the power of the community. It prefers to invest in computer hardware, software, SaaS, and big data sectors. Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Flybridge

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

Human Ventures is a fund and partner in New York City. They possess their own perspective on evaluating companies due to their experience in building businesses themselves. Consequently, Human Ventures focuses on supporting founders who are establishing category-defining companies in the pre-seed and seed stages. In terms of their investment focus, they concentrate on the Human Needs Economy, which encompasses areas such as health and wellness, the future of work and finance, the attention economy, and human connection through experiences.

Human Ventures

BossaNova is the number one Brazilian Micro Venture Capital. We are the most active investor in the pre-seed stage in Latin America with more than 1200 investments in over 1000 Startups. We also invest in global companies, directly or through co-investment syndicates on AngelList.

Bossanova Investimentos

XFactor Ventures is focused on making pre-seed and seed stage investments in companies with billion dollar market opportunities that have at least one female founder.

XFactor Ventures

January Ventures is a VC fund focused on angel/pre-seed in the US & Europe. We are replacing the friends & family round and re-writing the networks in venture. We invest early and opens doors for the visionary founders of the future. We believe the founders of the next decade will look fundamentally different: more female, more diverse and more distributed. Our firm is built on the principles of transparency and access, and we back founders based on their tenacity and ambition, not their pedigrees or who they know.  January Ventures was founded in 2018 and is based in Boston, MA and London, UK.

January Ventures

Company Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that facilitates interactions between peers and delivering a dynamic shared experience. The firm helps businesses of all sizes unlock true value. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Company Ventures

The Community Fund is a $5 million early-stage fund investing in community-driven companies through an investment partner team. The investment team consists of operators, founders, and investors that bring a wide range of complementary functional and industry expertise. The Community Fund is led by Lolita Taub and Jesse Middleton.

The Community Fund

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

UPMC Enterprises offers smart integration of technology needed to solve the complex problems facing the health care industry. At UPMC Enterprises, they help create health care innovations that will impact the lives of patients in meaningful, lasting ways. To deliver on this promise, they’ve chosen a few focus areas where their insights about health care’s future give us a unique advantage. They’ve built an impressive team with expertise in health care investing that’s second to none. When they choose to work with an entrepreneur, they work side by side with them and provide full access to UPMC’s vast resources. As an organization dedicated to Life Changing Medicine, UPMC has defined a bold mission: to shape the future of health care through innovation. At UPMC Enterprises, they help bring this mission to life by turning innovative ideas into growing, thriving businesses. That’s why they want the best to choose UPMC Enterprises. They wouldn’t have it any other way.

UPMC Enterprises

Elektra Health

Elektra Health is a next-gen healthcare platform for the tens of millions of women currently and soon to be navigating perimenopause & menopause. 80% of women report that menopause significantly disrupts their life – symptoms include anxiety, depression, loss of libido/painful sex, brain fog, joint pain & more – but 75% of those who seek help don’t receive appropriate care. Elektra was founded to solve this problem.

Elektra Health is a female technology (femtech) startup, which offers evidence-based telehealth services for managing perimenopause and menopause symptoms. The platform requires users to complete a short health questionnaire that records symptoms and user goals, followed by a 30-minute one-on-one video consultation with a specialist. Users receive a personalized treatment plan built with individual preferences and access to community support. At a cost of USD 199 for a period of 30 days, members will get unlimited support and guidance via text messages. As of July 2021, the company had over 1,800 participants on its private beta launch, and the program will be available to the public in 2022.

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

Telehealth

Elektra Health aims to break taboos around menopause care

Elektra Health is a female technology (femtech) startup, which offers evidence-based telehealth services for managing perimenopause and menopause symptoms. The platform requires users to complete a short health questionnaire that records symptoms and user goals, followed by a 30-minute one-on-one video consultation with a specialist. Users receive a personalized treatment plan built with individual preferences and access to community support. At a cost of USD 199 for a period of 30 days, members will get unlimited support and guidance via text messages. As of July 2021, the company had over 1,800 participants on its private beta launch, and the program will be available to the public in 2022. Funding and financialsIn February 2024, Elektra raised USD 3.3 million in a funding round led by UPMC Enterprises, along with participation from Wavemaker 360 and other venture capital firms. The company planned to use the newly raised capital to broaden its evidence-based care delivery platform across payers, self-insured employers, and new markets. Post funding, Kathryn Heffernan from UPMC Enterprises and Dr. Monica Jain from Wavemaker 360 joined Elektra's Board of Directors.

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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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 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

Elektra Health

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