Participated · Seed · Dec 2021

HelloHero delivers technology-powered mental health and behavioral care services to students, staff and families via school districts, emphasizing accessible, personalized care. The company offers no waitlists, flexible scheduling, and accepts insurance to reduce access barriers. Led by CEO and Founder Syed Mohammed, HelloHero partners with school districts to embed services in K–12 settings. The company intends to use new capital to expand its service capabilities and support more school districts. It also plans to extend its reach into new geographies. Financially, HelloHero secured a dilution-free growth funding package that will be repaid from future revenues. HelloHero operates a technology-focused teletherapy platform for children up to 21, including an electronic medical record system and a payer platform connected to private insurers and Medicaid. Every child begins with a therapist-established treatment plan and therapists and parents evaluate progress after each session; HelloHero uses that session-level data to tweak plans week-to-week and build an outcomes-linked dataset. The company has served 3,800 children total and about 1,800 this school year, is contracted with 500 school districts with more than 100 actively providing therapy, and direct-to-family programs represent roughly 8–10% of its business. HelloHero was originally founded as Enable My Child in 2018 and recently rebranded. The company plans to develop real-time, data-informed on-screen guidance for therapists within the next year and to invest more in its direct-to-family offerings. It also intends to recruit expertise in insurance integration, child psychology, and technology.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2021

CreatorUp operates a first-of-its-kind video marketplace that lets clients instantly purchase from more than 650 proven video solutions across formats including live-action, animation, live-streaming, and 360VR. The company serves organizations of all sizes and industries, with particular expertise in education, social impact, events, and marketing communications. CreatorUp activates and trains a network of almost 7,000 creative professionals, offering hundreds of on-demand learning modules to expand skills and foster inclusion and career growth. The company says it certifies creators to produce professional-quality content quickly and cost-effectively. CreatorUp is headquartered in Los Angeles and maintains offices in Athens, Dubai, Mumbai, and Singapore. The business plans to use new investment to expand operations of its marketplace and to scale training and opportunity programs for creators. CreatorUp is a global video marketplace and creator network that lets organizations browse, select, and instantly purchase from over 400 video services spanning live-action, animation, live-streaming, and 360VR. The company activates, trains, fosters inclusion, and certifies creators, then matches teams of trained professionals to projects to guarantee professional production quality. CreatorUp provides CreateTrack™, a tool that gives clients a simple and transparent way to track video production. Its marketplace targets education, marketing, business communications, events, social impact, and other industries, helping organizations roll out video initiatives without building in-house teams. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Athens, Dubai, Mumbai, and Singapore. CreatorUp recently closed a $5M Series A and plans to use the funds to scale its platform and global growth. CreatorUp operates a digital media studio and an educational training program that teaches business and digital production skills — from short branding courses to two-month technical programs like drone and AR/VR filming. It offers an online library of self-paced courses available for $25 per month or $200 per year, and awards digital certifications to graduates who join its community. After training, the company helps match members with gigs and client projects, and it also earns revenue directly from client work. CreatorUp has worked with clients including Google, YouTube, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Special Olympics, Cengage and Chegg, and educational institutions such as Penn Foster and the Bill of Rights Institute. To date more than 5,000 people have completed its programs and they have helped create over 10,000 videos; CreatorUp professionals earn roughly $175–$500 per day depending on project complexity. Future plans include expanding production-skills training, building an online menu to help clients budget and plan content projects, and exploring a tuition model where trainees pay back a share of gig fees (an income-share agreement style model).