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Global Medical Response

4400 Hwy 121, Suite 700, Lewisville, TX, 75056, United States

Overview

With more than 38,000 employees, Global Medical Response teams deliver compassionate, quality medical care, primarily in the areas of emergency and patient relocation services in the United States, the District of Columbia and around the world. GMR was formed by combining the industry leaders in air, ground, managed medical transportation, and community, industrial/specialty and wildland fire services. Each of their companies have long histories of proudly serving the communities where they live: American Medical Response (AMR), Rural Metro Fire, Air Evac Lifeteam, REACH Air Medical Services, Med-Trans Corporation, AirMed International and Guardian Flight.

Total investments
2
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
4

Sector focus

  • Health Care
  • Transportation
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Investment portfolio

  • Carbyne

    Participated · Series D · Jul 2025

    Carbyne builds a cloud-native APEX platform that embeds AI into 911 call handling, dispatch, resource coordination, and emergency decision-making. Its AI Suite is integrated across the platform rather than as bolt-on tools, trained on proprietary datasets generated from millions of emergency interactions. Over the past year the company reported triple-digit growth, including +477% year‑over‑year growth in APEX ARR and a +105% increase in APEX platform customers. Carbyne is deployed at nearly 300 sites worldwide across 23 U.S. states and six countries, with more than 7,000 calltakers using its platform. The company processes over 250 million data points annually and reports 99.999% call handling uptime. Carbyne plans to use new capital to expand R&D and engineering, deepen AI capabilities, scale operations globally, and pursue strategic partnerships and integrations. Carbyne provides cloud-native solutions for emergency response centers, enabling emergency contact centers and select enterprises to connect with callers and connected devices via secure channels without requiring a consumer app. Its unified platform delivers live, actionable data—including video, photos, geolocation—and AI-based features to streamline operations and improve transparency. The company offers Carbyne APEX, an i3-compliant unified emergency call management solution that consolidates AI and rich media data for call takers, and Carbyne Universe, an OTT solution that delivers AI-based and rich media functionality without disrupting existing contracts or infrastructure. Carbyne intends to use the new investment to expand operations and development efforts. Led by CEO Amir Elichai and based in New York City, the company is positioning its offerings for resale through AT&T. Carbyne provides cloud-based systems used by emergency services to handle medical, public-safety, transportation and other urgent calls, including its APEX platform used by customers such as the city of New Orleans. Its technology is installed in emergency response services that cover about 400 million people and handles roughly 150 million 911 calls annually, and the company says it is on track to cover 1 billion people by 2024. Carbyne aims to make contact-center workers more effective and less stressed by investing in tools like sentiment analysis and trauma detection and by capturing richer data from callers. The company plans to expand in the U.S., establish a partner program to pursue global opportunities (it does not sell directly), and increase R&D investment. Financially, Carbyne grew revenues 400% in the last year and has raised $56 million in a Series C that values the company around $400 million. The startup was founded in Israel (R&D remains there) and is now headquartered in New York; it is primarily active in the U.S. Carbyne provides a unified, cloud-native platform that enables emergency communication centers, first responders, citizens and governments to share live actionable data to improve operational efficiency and save lives. The company is expanding its cloud-native platform into the emergency health services market and introducing an instantly deployable platform for unified flow between callers, health-related call centers, first responders, nurses and hospitals. Carbyne plans to work with Global Medical Response to develop interactive communication solutions for health and medical sectors and to build new dedicated domestic resources. To scale operations in North America, Carbyne will relocate CTO and co-founder Alex Dizengoff from Tel Aviv to the United States to grow a North American R&D center. Global Medical Response’s COO Edward Van Horne will join Carbyne’s board of directors as part of the collaboration. Financially, the company has raised a total of $73 million since its launch in 2015. Carbyne offers a cloud-based platform for emergency services that surfaces richer caller data (location, video) and enables remote telemedicine to accelerate 911 and EMS responses. Its technology no longer requires users to install an app, having integrated third-party location services to connect callers directly. The company partners with public-health providers and firms such as CentralSquare and Global Medical Response and says it is on target to cover about 90% of the U.S. market. Usage and adoption grew strongly during the pandemic: Carbyne served 250 million people before COVID and now covers roughly 400 million people, launching a new implementation every 10 days since March. In the last nine months it provided about 155 million location points and 1.3 million minutes of video; revenues doubled starting in Q2 and then grew 160% in Q3 and Q4. Carbyne aims to serve some 1.5 billion people by 2023 as it expands its technology and market footprint.

  • Medically Home

    Participated · Equity · Jan 2022

    Medically Home’s core product is a platform and ecosystem that unlocks patients’ homes as safe alternative sites for delivering hospital-level and lower-acuity care. The model combines centralized clinical oversight in medical command centers with field clinicians (nurses, paramedics, technicians) and relies on national partners for medications, equipment, technology, and supportive services. Medically Home has treated over 7,000 patients to date and reports rapidly expanding utilization across health systems. The company says the model increases health system capacity and resiliency while meeting patient preferences for home-based care. Recent strategic investment activity is intended to strengthen logistics and clinical capacity to scale the model nationwide and to grow a next‑generation clinical workforce. Medically Home partners with hospitals to provide hospital-level care in patients’ homes. The company helps hospitals parse logistics for in-home services such as X-rays, diagnostic lab testing, and infusion services while clinicians manage patients virtually. Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente are investing $100 million in the startup. Both health systems have been partnering with Medically Home to roll out hospital-at-home services over the last year. The investment aligns with growing reimbursement flexibilities and CMS programs that have encouraged providers to adopt hospital-at-home models. The company and the model face challenges related to variable patient home environments, including space and internet connectivity affecting digital care delivery. Medically Home Group provides a virtual hospital that transforms patients' homes into temporary hospital units, enabling advanced medical care at bedside. Its offering allows healthcare providers to deliver a clinically-validated program intended to improve patient experience while reducing costs. The company's solutions include clinical intellectual property, a technology platform, a Mission Control Telemedicine Command Center and acute rapid response clinical services. Medically Home's platform is designed to allow medical providers to safely shift advanced medical care from hospitals to patients' homes. Led by CEO Richard Rakowski and based in Boston, MA, the company raised financing to support growth. The company intends to use the funds to scale its growth efforts.

Team

  • Randy Owen

    Chief Executive Officer

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  • Edward Van Horne

    Chief Operating Officer

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  • Daniel Perez

    Dispatch Manager

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  • Jennifer Mardosz

    Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Vice President

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