Participated · Series A · May 2024

Backpack Healthcare (formerly Youme Healthcare) operates an online pediatric mental-health platform that combines an AI-powered emotion-monitoring app with live teletherapy delivered by licensed clinicians. The company’s algorithms assess mood signals and automatically match young users to therapists who specialize in their needs, creating individualized treatment plans. Beyond one-on-one pediatric sessions, Backpack offers family therapy, medication management, and live parent-training webinars covering topics such as cyberbullying and substance abuse. Interactive digital tools and gamified activities are used to keep children engaged and encourage consistent participation in care. With its newly secured capital, management plans to enhance the technology stack, broaden geographic reach, and deepen its teletherapy service portfolio. Equity and inclusion remain a stated priority, underscored by the addition of Robert Johnson, ESQ, to the advisory board to guide inclusive growth initiatives.

Led · Series A · Jan 2023

Wisdo Health provides an evidence-based peer support and benefits navigation platform designed to address loneliness, social isolation, and lack of engagement. The platform uses a data-driven model to map users’ life challenges, goals, and obstacles to health, then proactively connects them with helpful peers, group coaching to build social skills, and referrals to clinical and SDOH solutions. Those referrals are delivered to users through their employer, state, or health plan. Led by founder and CEO Boaz Gaon, the company positions its offering to improve health outcomes and reduce costs associated with social isolation. Wisdo plans to use the newly raised funds to accelerate growth and expand operations. Financially, the company closed its Series A at $11M after adding an additional $5M to the round.

Participated · Series A · Jan 2023

Wisdo operates an online social‑health platform that connects members to customized peer‑to‑peer networks and weekly virtual coaching, organized across more than 50 communities (mental illness, physical activity, identity, family, etc.). Members complete monthly assessments using validated measures (UCLA loneliness scale, HRQL, PHQ, GAD) and are matched with trained peers who provide emotional support and social‑skill coaching. The company reports over 500,000 adults have joined the platform and cites measurable improvements in quality of life and reductions in loneliness and medical costs. In a 2021 Humana pilot of 1,400 Medicare Advantage members (avg. age 71), 61% reported reductions in mentally and physically unhealthy days and 59% reported lower loneliness. Wisdo has shifted toward working with major health insurers and self‑insured employers to tie social‑health impact to reductions in cost of care. The company plans to use new funding to broaden the scope of its AI, including automating new administrative tasks. Wisdo is a social platform that connects people seeking help with those who can offer help based on lived experience. Communities on the app focus on physical health, mental health, self-growth, sexuality, identity, and family. The product uses a timeline feature that lets users lay out their experiences in steps and then generates an outline for each life experience. Users can engage in one-on-one conversations grounded in those outlines to share guidance and practical advice. In beta, Wisdo grew to 500,000 users, and CEO Boaz Gaon frames the product as building a map for life’s emotional challenges by sharing earned wisdom. Investors and supporters say the app aims to reward empathy and helpfulness as an alternative to generalized social networks.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2022

Homecoming is a Toronto-based health-tech startup that offers a comprehensive patient care platform designed specifically for psychedelic therapy. The software supports clients before, between, and after psychedelic sessions with personalized guides, tasks, and daily check-ins. Clinics and retreats use the system to streamline operations, manage the entire patient experience, and reach more patients through modern therapy tools and precision data. By integrating preparation and integration support into one interface, the platform aims to improve clinical outcomes and operational efficiency. The company plans to use newly secured capital to scale its products and services, deepening its partnerships with psychedelic clinics and retreats. Although detailed user or revenue figures were not disclosed, management emphasizes its data-driven approach to enhancing patient engagement and care continuity.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2021

Wavepaths builds on scientific research showing the critical role of music in psychedelic therapy, offering clinicians an AI-powered system that generates personalized, adaptive soundscapes in real time. Practitioners can seamlessly shift emotional atmospheres, depth, activation levels and instrumentation, drawing on compositions from artists such as Jon Hopkins, Greg Haines, Robert Rich and Christina Vantzou. Founded in 2019 by Dr. Mendel Kaelen and Anna Rickman, the company partners with research institutions, universities and psychedelic-therapy providers to study and optimize therapeutic outcomes. The product is currently in closed beta, is used in more than 29 countries and has a wait-list exceeding 5,000 practitioners ahead of a planned public launch later this year. Fresh capital will be deployed to refine the platform’s personalization and music-generation algorithms, scale infrastructure and add features for a broader range of healthcare practices.