Led · Series B · Sep 2021

Xealth is a Seattle-based company that develops digital health enablement solutions for health systems. Its platform allows providers to prescribe and monitor digital health content, apps, and services as easily as medications. The platform incorporates custom data and analytics so health systems can track, analyze, and evaluate digital health use through its integration platform. Led by CEO Mike McSherry, Xealth reports 12 million orders sent, 100,000 providers engaged, and three million patients reached to date. The company received an investment from Morningside Ventures and intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts. The amount and instrument of the investment were not disclosed in the announcement. Xealth provides a platform that centralizes integration, prescribing, monitoring and governance for digital health tools within clinician workflows. The platform is tightly integrated with EHRs and has full integrations with the largest EHR vendors. It is available to more than 100,000 physicians and its deployments demonstrate a 50–80% reduction in integration and deployment costs while driving substantial patient engagement. Xealth is backed by health systems and strategic investors, including Cerner, Novartis, Philips, ResMed, McKesson Ventures, Threshold Ventures and LRV Health. The company plans to use the new funding to roughly double its team and to fund product innovation, including enhancements to its intelligence engine to better match tools to patients and scale deployments across the U.S. Spun out of Providence St. Joseph Health in 2017 and based in Seattle, Xealth has raised $52.6 million to date. Xealth provides a platform that enables health systems to organize, integrate, deploy and activate digital health tools and programs. Through the platform, clinicians can find and order digital health tools directly from the EHR workflow, send those digital orders to patients' smartphones or desktops, monitor patient engagement and analyze the effects of more engaged patients. The company raised an additional $3M in its Series A, bringing the round to $14M total, and intends to use the funds to advance development and deployment of its platform for digital health programs. Xealth spun out of Providence St. Joseph Health in 2017 and is led by CEO Mike McSherry; it is based in Seattle, Washington. It works with health systems including UPMC, the Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin health network, Duke Health and other leading health systems. Xealth is a digital prescribing platform that enables clinicians to integrate, prescribe and monitor digital health tools for patients from their EHR workflows. Its platform supports patient education, online third-party apps and programs, device monitoring, and non-clinical services such as ride shares, food delivery and e-commerce recommendations. Care teams and physicians can monitor patient engagement and analyze the effects of more engaged patients. Originally incubated and spun out of Providence St. Joseph Health in 2017 and led by CEO Mike McSherry, the company is based in Seattle, WA. Xealth works with health systems including UPMC, the Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin health network, Baylor Scott and White, and Duke. The company raised $11m in a Series A to accelerate expansion of its platform. Xealth is launching a digital prescribing and analytics platform that lets physicians and clinicians prescribe and track educational health content, disease-management apps, and monitoring devices directly from their EMR charting interface. The platform aggregates and filters a variety of content sources into a care provider’s existing EMR workflow, simplifying creation of a customized patient experience. Clinicians can discuss digital tools during appointments, track patient usage afterward, and schedule reminders to encourage engagement. Patients access prescribed digital health tools through their health system’s secure patient portal. Xealth was founded in 2016 by Mike McSherry and was incubated within Providence’s Digital Innovation Group. The company has raised $8.5M to support launch and expansion with participating health systems planning broader integration and use of third-party digital solutions.

Led · Series C · Mar 2021

Foodsmart operates a telenutrition and food benefits management platform that pairs virtual nutrition counseling from a network of U.S. Registered Dietitians with digital tools to plan personalized meals and order food. The platform enables patients to order from nationwide grocers and local medically tailored food partners, apply for SNAP benefits, and learn cost‑effective shopping strategies. Foodsmart partners with health plans and providers to support people facing chronic disease and food insecurity. The company serves over 2.2 million members through contracts with regional and national Medicaid managed care organizations, Medicare Advantage plans, commercial insurers, and more than 1,000 employers. Founded in 2010 and led by CEO Jason Langheier, Foodsmart is based in San Francisco, California. It intends to use the new funding to expand operations and broaden its business reach. Foodsmart (doing business as Zipongo) is a San Francisco-based personalized telenutrition and foodcare leader. The company offers a fully customizable app-based platform backed by a national network of Registered Dietitians that guides members through personalized journeys to healthier eating. Its platform integrates dietary assessments and nutrition counseling with online food ordering and cost-effective meal planning for whole families, making the most of ingredients at home and on the go. The company describes itself as the world's largest telenutrition and foodcare solution. Foodsmart emphasizes making healthy eating affordable and accessible, a mission highlighted by participation from social impact investors. Financially, the company announced a Series C funding round of more than $25 million. Zipongo, launched in 2014 by CEO Jason Langheier, MD, MPH, provides a Food Benefits Management (FBM) platform that delivers sustained engagement through tools including Health (Digital Dietitian), Cooking (recipes, meal planning, grocery delivery, and discounts) and Restaurants (menus, restaurant ordering, and workplace cafes). The company uses those tools to help people assess and improve their nutrition and engage with food-related benefits. It raised $18M in Series B1 financing to expand the platform beyond wellness toward using food as a first-line therapy to treat chronic disease. Zipongo is developing a new solution called FoodScripts to enable health plans and providers to use food to treat conditions. FoodScripts adds prescriptive, personalized, evidence-based modules addressing hypertension, diabetes, obesity and more. The company plans to roll out an early version of FoodScripts to pilot customers in the early spring. Zipongo provides a software-as-a-service platform that enables digital nutrition coaching for large employers, health plans and health systems, and offers food utility tools for families to select and buy healthy food. Its product suite includes meal planning, recipes, grocery rewards, online grocery ordering, menu coaching and mobile meal ordering for cooking and eating prepared meals. The company serves over 150 companies and the majority of national health plans and wellness platforms. Founded by Jason Langheier, MD, MPH, Zipongo combines coaching and commerce to drive healthier food choices. It has raised $28M in total funding and intends to use the new proceeds to expand operations. The platform targets enterprise and consumer-facing partners to broaden adoption. Zipongo offers a web-based health community and an iPhone app that deliver personalized wellness plans, recipes, and grocery deals. The platform personalizes recommendations by allowing users to opt in and connect electronic medical records via a HIPAA‑secure portal. It integrates loyalty-card discounts at local retailers and is building a digital partner network so users can redeem discounts at their preferred grocery stores. The product focuses on transaction-level support to help families identify and afford healthy options at the point of purchase. Zipongo was in private beta and preparing for a full-scale launch while developing technology to sync shopping history and health data automatically. The team recruited grocery and health-industry veterans as advisers to facilitate integration with national chains.

Participated · Equity · Jun 2017

Babyscripts offers a mobile clinical solution for remote monitoring in pregnancy, combining a mobile app with internet-connected devices, digital education, and customized risk-specific experiences. The platform enables providers and payers to manage patients via risk-based care modules, remote monitoring, and automated care elements. Babyscripts reports managing more than 200K unique pregnancies across 30 states and says its tools can allow providers to manage up to 90% of pregnancies virtually. The solution is delivered via a joint deployment model that incorporates payers sponsoring platform use at participating sites to identify and triage member risk and improve care coordination. The company emphasizes targeting and reducing systemic racial and ethnic inequities in maternal and infant outcomes. Babyscripts intends to use the new funding to accelerate rollout of its Virtual Maternity Care solution across U.S. providers and to develop models specifically designed for payers; the company has raised $37M to date. Babyscripts offers a virtual maternity care platform that pairs medical-device kits (blood pressure, weight, captured blood sugars) with a mobile app to monitor and alert clinicians to maternal health issues. The platform can automate roughly 40%–50% of prenatal care and has been shown to accelerate diagnoses (for example, preeclampsia detected 13 days faster than standard care at a site). Babyscripts is used by 75 health systems across 32 states and monitors about 250,000 women annually; more than 70% of its patients are on Medicaid. The company expanded product lines from a single device to multiple targeted kits and recently launched a mental health product while developing a substance use disorder experience. Babyscripts has formed partnerships with public health departments, managed Medicaid plans and providers to enable local payment and broader deployment. The company grew enrollments 10x during the pandemic and has 45 employees, with plans to double headcount in the next 12–18 months to support product, payer growth, clinical expertise, implementation and customer success. Babyscripts builds a clinically validated virtual care platform that allows OBGYNs to deliver a new model of prenatal and postpartum care using internet-connected devices for remote monitoring. The platform offers risk-specific experiences and the company says it can allow providers to manage up to 90% of pregnancies virtually. Babyscripts has spent six years developing what it describes as the most-implemented mobile clinical solution for remote monitoring in pregnancy and was named to CB Insights' 2020 Digital Health 150. The company emphasizes partnering with physicians and health systems to guide product development and improve maternal outcomes. Its stated mission is to eliminate maternal mortality and expand access to care. Recent health-system partnerships are intended to align Babyscripts' roadmap with customer needs and support scaling of its virtual maternity care solutions. Babyscripts offers a clinically-validated virtual care obstetrics platform that uses internet-connected devices for remote monitoring to support prenatal and postpartum care. The core product delivers risk-specific experiences to allow OBGYNs to manage a large portion of pregnancies remotely. The system is designed to detect risk more quickly and automate elements of care, enabling providers to manage up to 90% of pregnancies virtually. Led by CEO and co-founder Anish Sebastian, the company has spent the last four years building this platform. Babyscripts recently acquired iBirth, expanding its offering to include a provider-delivered, co-branded pregnancy app and a more holistic pregnancy and postpartum program. Financially, Babyscripts raised $500K from Inova Health System, which will support deployment of the platform. Babyscripts develops a mobile app and remote-monitoring devices that track blood pressure and weight and deliver neonatal care information to expecting mothers. The company works with hospitals and healthcare providers to distribute its devices and software, creating a channel between patients and OBGYNs throughout pregnancy. Using remote monitoring, Babyscripts says it can tailor treatments to risk profiles and enable providers to manage up to 90% of pregnancies virtually. The platform is already being used to monitor 160,000 pregnancies across 20 states, and the company reports average patient engagement of six app or monitoring interactions per week. Leadership says the company will use funding to continue acquiring market share and build additional products for pregnancy patients, including postpartum and early-stage pediatric services through expanded offerings.