• Ilant Health

  Participated · Series A · Jun 2026

  Ilant Health provides end-to-end, clinician-led obesity and cardiometabolic care that combines behavioral therapy, medication (GLP-1 and non-GLP-1), and surgical options within a precision-medicine model that continuously adapts treatment to individual response. The company works directly with employers and health plans to deliver measurable clinical and financial outcomes and to manage both treatment costs and total cost of care. Early results reported by Ilant show members achieve an average 15% weight loss and an average of two additional mentally healthy days per month. Ilant emphasizes data- and analytics-driven care pathways, clinician oversight, and transparent contracting for medications; it has announced direct contracting and transparent pricing through Lilly’s Employer Connect program and is working with Novo Nordisk. The company presents itself as an AI-enabled healthcare services provider that aims to move obesity care from disconnected interventions to a continuous, outcomes-focused service. Ilant has raised over $22 million to date following the $15 million Series A and is partnering with employers and payers to scale its model.

• ViaHero

  Led · Equity · Jun 2017

  ViaHero matches travelers with locals who create end-to-end trip plans and flexible trip guides, offering personal recommendations and arranging transportation and lodging. The service emphasizes off-the-beaten-path experiences and local knowledge for unique activities. The founders describe the product as providing a more comprehensive experience than piecing together bits of research. The company was founded by Greg Buzulencia and Ben Preston after Buzulencia’s trip to Mongolia inspired the idea. As of the article, ViaHero has 205 paying customers. The company has raised $210,000 from investors and Pittsburgh’s AlphaLab accelerator.

• NetBeez

  Participated · Seed · Jan 2016

  NetBeez delivers a network performance monitoring solution that continuously simulates user connectivity across wired and wireless networks using dedicated sensors called Beez. The Beez sensors emulate end users to proactively identify and troubleshoot complex network issues and reduce IT time to resolution. The company intends to use its new funding to expand its team, accelerate customer acquisition, and further develop its product. NetBeez participated in Y Combinator (Winter 2016) and has previously received investments from Innovation Works and Carnegie Mellon University. Founded in 2013 and based in Pittsburgh, PA, NetBeez focuses on scaling its customer base and product capabilities. The amount of the recent funding was not disclosed. NetBeez builds a network monitoring platform that uses low-cost hardware sensors and virtual agents (including Raspberry Pi) to simulate real users and detect performance issues across wired and wireless networks, data centers, and cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. The system displays measurements on a browser-based dashboard to help engineers and DevOps proactively triage outages and reduce reliance on command-line troubleshooting. The company, founded in April 2013 by Stefano Gridelli, Panickos Neophytou, and Panos Vouzis, targets customers in higher education, financial services, healthcare, and retail; its existing customers average about 30 remote offices. NetBeez has launched a free tier aimed at smaller network administrators and DevOps teams with fewer than five locations while continuing to sell annual subscriptions starting at $3,600 for up to five hardware or virtual agents. The product emphasizes both wired and wireless client-perspective monitoring to detect issues caused by environmental wireless interference. The company recently raised funding which it plans to use to broaden user outreach and improve the product. NetBeez deploys hundreds of low‑cost Raspberry Pi devices running its Beez software behind switches to simulate user activity and proactively detect connectivity problems that traditional router/switch monitoring misses. The system validates network changes and alerts engineers to outages before end users report them, aiming to reduce downtime after off‑hour configuration changes. NetBeez targets medium and large companies with complex, distributed networks and has run a beta since May with three demo customers in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The founders, Panagiotis Vouzis and Stefano Gridelli, have backgrounds in network engineering. Its commercial model is either an upfront purchase or a monthly/annual fee per Bee plus fees for use of NetBeez’s server system. The company graduated from the Pittsburgh‑based AlphaLab accelerator and was founded in April. NetBeez is currently raising a seed round.

No current team members are available.