• Backpack Healthcare

  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.

• Backflip

  Participated · Series A · Apr 2024

  Founded in 2020, Backflip offers an all-in-one platform that combines deal-analysis software, market data and purpose-built financing products for residential real-estate investors. The company originates and services residential transition loans through its subsidiary Double Backflip, LLC, and recently formed Backflip Asset Management, LLC to manage loan assets in-house. By controlling origination, servicing and asset management, Backflip claims superior data integrity and a differentiated borrower experience. Its vertically integrated model has enabled the firm to tap institutional capital markets, most recently through an inaugural securitization, to lower its cost of funds and expand lending capacity. The platform supports entrepreneurs investing in single-family homes, thereby aiming to refresh housing supply in local communities. The new securitization structure provides up to $300 million of revolving lending capacity, positioning Backflip to scale nationwide. Backflip’s mobile app is available on iOS and Android, further extending its reach to individual investors.

• CareAcademy

  Participated · Series A · Jun 2020

  CareAcademy offers web-based, state-approved training and an administrator platform for home care agencies, home health agencies, franchise systems, and payors to improve caregiver knowledge and patient outcomes. The company has delivered more than 1.5 million hours of training to nearly 300,000 learners. Its product includes short-form, mobile-accessible courses, upskilling pathways, and compliance solutions for organizations of all sizes. CareAcademy plans to accelerate product development and enhance data measurement capabilities to better track outcomes and expand into enterprise and home health opportunities. The company frames education as a health intervention and seeks to scale caregiver training to improve care quality and economic mobility for care workers. Recent strategic funding will support these growth and measurement efforts and broaden the company’s reach across the long-term care continuum. CareAcademy provides an end-to-end, scalable online training and workforce empowerment platform for home care and home health workers, combining courses, certifications, and a training management dashboard. The product includes advanced reporting, portability, and technical integrations with Clearcare and Alayacare to support onboarding, tracking, and workforce management. To date the company has trained more than 110,000 caregivers with approximately 400,000 classes completed and serves large home care franchise customers such as Sodexo Comfort Keepers, Home Helpers, Home Care Assistance and LivHome Arosa. CareAcademy aims to expand its platform to support measurement of healthcare outcomes, improve retention, and enable caregivers to work across the healthcare continuum. Following a $9.5M Series A, the company plans to scale upskilling efforts to help one million Americans reskill for healthcare work by 2023 in response to COVID-19 and the aging population. The platform focuses on turning caregivers into knowledgeable patient advocates through flexible, accessible online training and specialist certifications such as dementia care. CareAcademy delivers specialized online training and certification courses for senior home care professionals, covering topics such as infection control, nutrition and meal preparation, dementia, fall prevention, and safe transfers. The platform already offers 24/7 English and Spanish language support and has more than 9,700 home care professionals enrolled. The company serves approximately 50 home care agencies, including Home Instead Senior Care, CareLinx, Grace Homecare, and Guardian. CareAcademy plans to use new funding to grow its sales and marketing team, expand its course portfolio, create Spanish versions of its courses, and add new functionality to its training platform. Founded in 2016 by CEO Helen Adeosun and CMO Dr. Madhuri Reddy, the company is based in Boston, MA.

• Motivo

  Participated · Seed · Dec 2019

  Motivo Health operates an online marketplace connecting licensed mental health therapists with clinical supervisors in a fully virtual environment. The company partners with community mental health organizations, treatment centers, and digital health companies to provide access to vetted supervisors and has helped over 2,500 therapists obtain licensure. Founded in 2018 by licensed therapist Rachel McCrickard, Motivo has grown to 23 full-time employees and made key executive hires including Michael Chen (CTO/Co‑founder) and Sarah Louragh (COO) in 2020; Dr. Carla Smith joined as Chief Clinical Officer earlier in the year. With the new financing, Motivo plans to grow its sales and engineering teams, pursue additional contracts with behavioral health organizations, digital health companies, and health plans, and sign channel partnerships with graduate universities. It also plans to expand into continuing education for therapist re-certification and build products for clinical staff augmentation and direct service delivery. The company has raised a total of $16.3 million to date. Motivo operates a tele-supervision platform that connects recent graduates to clinical supervisors so they can complete required in-person consultation hours via secure video conferencing where state rules allow. The company is led by CEO and founder Rachel McCrickard and is based in Atlanta, GA. Motivo recruits supervisors and recent graduates across therapy, counseling, social work and psychology disciplines to help fulfill licensure requirements analogous to a medical residency. After graduating from the 2018 Techstars Atlanta accelerator program, Motivo added Tim Howe of Cox Enterprises to its board. The company intends to use recent funding to grow its team, acquire contracts with mental health agencies and clinics, and sign channel partnerships with therapist associations and universities. Its business model centers on enabling remote clinical supervision to meet state regulatory allowances driven by the rise of telehealth.

• Meritize

  Participated · Seed · Feb 2018

  Meritize is an education lender based in Frisco, Texas, led by CEO Chris Keaveney. The company uses individuals' academic, military and work achievements to enhance credit evaluation through a proprietary merit-based lending program. Its Meritize SkillsBuilding™ platform supports skills-based education and employer talent development to help close the skills gap and build skills-based careers. The lender leverages academic and experiential data to increase access to educational funding and improve outcomes. Meritize will use the Series A proceeds to scale operations, grow, and enhance its technology. Meritize is a Frisco, Texas-based student lending platform that uses an individual’s academic data to improve credit evaluation and broaden access to career-focused education financing. The company partners with schools and employers to offer student loans, financing for employer training and career success services. Meritize was co-founded by Chris Keaveney and Phillip Stegner and launched in January 2017, with full-phase lending beginning in the third quarter. It raised seed capital to accelerate growth and continue building its lending platform. The business plans to deploy the new funds to support sales and marketing and expand the team as it scales.

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