• ClearCare

  Participated · Series B · Jun 2014

  ClearCare provides a cloud-based software platform to agencies that deliver daily in-home care, offering scheduling, point-of-care tracking, integrated payments, family portals and quality-of-care monitoring. Led by founder and CEO Geoff Nudd, the platform enables agencies to attract and retain customers, schedule and deliver care, and optimize their back offices. ClearCare serves four of the largest five national home-care enterprises, representing roughly 250,000 caregivers and 150,000 seniors under care. The company will use the funds to invest in its core platform and explore new strategic partnerships. As part of recent changes, Battery Ventures partners joined the company’s board and a senior technologist was hired as VP of engineering. The company raised growth capital to support continued product investment and strategic expansion. ClearCare is a cloud-based web and mobile software platform that supports private-duty home care agencies in operating efficiently, scaling services, and documenting care. The company powers the largest home care network in the U.S., serving four of the top five national home care enterprises and covering 250,000 caregivers and 150,000 seniors. ClearCare’s network delivers more than 150 million hours of care annually and is growing by roughly three million hours each month. With strategic funding from McKesson Ventures, ClearCare plans to accelerate integrations including telemedicine services, remote monitoring and diagnostics, and the ability to provide medical supplies and medications to partners across the United States. The investment will also be used to strengthen ClearCare’s cloud-based web and mobile technology and capitalize on market demand for cost-saving, home-based healthcare solutions. The company is working with Harvard on a three-year study to improve measurability of care outcomes. ClearCare is a San Francisco-based software platform for private duty home care agencies that delivers front- and back-office solutions. Its web and mobile platform includes scheduling, integrated telephony, two-way caregiver messaging, and marketing features. The platform is used by over 1,300 local and national home care companies. The company raised $11M in a round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Cambia Health Solutions and existing investors Voyager Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and Harbor Pacific Capital. ClearCare intends to use the funds for product development efforts. The company is led by CEO Geoff Nudd.

• Dyad.com

  Led · Seed · Apr 2014

  ChaseFuture offers a tiered admissions-coaching platform that pairs about 140 alumni and admissions experts from top U.S. and U.K. universities with prospective international applicants via messaging and video tutorials. Its product lineup ranges from basic essay and school-selection help to high-touch packages that can cost several thousand dollars. The company reports roughly 1,000 paying clients, who pay annual fees between $300 and $5,000. In its first cycle dozens of students gained admission to top schools (e.g., 17 to Columbia and 17 to USC; 16 to Imperial College London; 11 to LSE). ChaseFuture recently launched a beta App Tracker with how-to articles and videos, plus a mentor ratings system and a CRM to manage prospective clients. It plans to use new funding to expand sales and engineering headcount and pursue markets outside mainland China (including India, Egypt, and Turkey), and to build Arabic-language video content.

• Noom

  Participated · Series A · Feb 2014

  Noom is a weight-loss and behavior-change app that combines calorie tracking with cognitive behavioral therapy–based coaching. The core product helps users count calories while addressing psychological triggers to support medium- and long-term weight loss. The app has 45 million downloads across 100 countries, including the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand. Noom generated $400 million in revenue in 2020, up from $237 million in 2019, after a pandemic-driven surge in demand. The company plans to expand into new categories and international markets and will grow its product team to support that expansion. Founded in 2007 by Saeju Jeong and Artem Petakov, Noom pivoted to a weight-loss focus in 2017 after earlier experiments with a connected bike and calorie-counting app. Noom delivers clinically‑proven behavior-change programs that pair compassionate human coaches with mobile technology, artificial intelligence, and psychology to provide customized support and motivation. Its core product offerings focus on sustained habit change for weight loss and broader health outcomes, including a virtual diabetes prevention program recognized by the CDC. The platform is used by leading healthcare and pharmaceutical companies to improve patient treatment outcomes. Noom reports it has worked with over 50 million users and supports those users with more than 1,000 personal coaches. The company emphasizes a data‑informed, psychology‑driven approach rather than short‑term diet fads. Noom is headquartered in New York City and maintains offices in Seoul and Tokyo. Noom is best known for its direct-to-consumer weight loss app that pairs personalized programs and 1:1 coaching with algorithm-driven recommendations. It also develops enterprise products, including apps focused on diabetes and hypertension. Users receive coaching and fitness programs personalized by an algorithm based on questionnaire responses. The company differentiates itself by focusing on long-term lifestyle and behavior changes alongside calorie, nutrition and exercise tracking. Headquartered in New York City with offices in Seoul and Tokyo, Noom plans to use the new funding to expand its product-development team. Jan Koum said he invested because Noom is ahead of the competition on technology, execution and brand recognition. Noom combines human coaches with artificial intelligence to deliver mobile behavior-change programs focused on preventing and managing cardiometabolic conditions such as obesity, pre-diabetes, diabetes and hypertension. Its programs use disease-specific curricula with daily tasks assigned by trained coaches, short-form educational content, food- and exercise-logging, one-on-one coaching and group support. Noom markets both direct-to-consumer weight-loss apps and an enterprise platform sold to payers, employers, solution providers and health systems. Internationally it has expanded in Japan and partnered with South Korea’s National Health Institute of Science; it has offices in New York City, Seoul and Tokyo. The company reports its direct-to-consumer mobile applications have reached more than 45 million users worldwide and cites a peer-reviewed study showing 64% of participants who completed its Diabetes Prevention Program lost over 5% of body weight. Leadership framed the investment as a way to accelerate mobile health and chronic disease prevention at scale. Noom makes Noom Coach, a weight-loss app, and Noom Health, a platform that connects patients and their healthcare providers. The company uses artificial intelligence to deliver personalized recommendations based on users' logged food and exercise and analyzes data to develop programs aimed at preventing diabetes. Noom currently claims 32 million users in total. CEO Saeju Jeong said the company will use the new funding to focus on other chronic conditions, such as heart disease. Noom also plans to expand its coaching platform by adding features, including guidance about prescription medicine. Financially, the company has received grants from organizations including the National Institutes of Health and previously raised a $7 million Series A in February 2014.

• Ginger Software

  Led · Series D · Aug 2012

  Ginger Software develops speech and natural-language-processing technology powering products such as a real-time Proofreading grammar and spelling checker, text-to-speech, and ESL offerings. The company’s platform is designed to understand accents, local idioms and metaphors to infer user intent and help users "communicate like a native speaker." It reports an "embarrassments avoided" query counter of around 922 million across its services. Ginger says it is implementing its core technology into a number of new products and plans mobile implementations of existing products by the end of the year. The company intends to use recent funding to expand product development and to build bridges into markets further east. Total historical backing now stands at close to $21 million. Ginger Software builds contextual grammar- and spell-checking tools and educational features aimed at ESL learners and people with dyslexia. Its Proofreader product corrects spelling and grammar based on context and the Personalized Tutor provides tailored lessons, tips, and quizzes informed by users' errors. The company supports Microsoft Office, IE, and Firefox and includes a text-to-speech feature in its premium offering. Ginger's technology was developed by NLP experts, statisticians, linguists, and educators using a context-aware text-correction algorithm. Leadership says the technology can eliminate up to 95 percent of common writing errors for dyslexic users and new English learners. The company plans to expand overseas and to further productize its text-to-speech capabilities to enable contextual search across media.

• ChargePoint

  Participated · Series D · May 2012

  ChargePoint operates the world's largest electric vehicle charging network and provides a cloud subscription platform plus internally designed, software-defined charging hardware. Its portfolio includes charging solutions for home, multifamily, workplace, parking, hospitality, retail and fleets of all types. To date the network has grown to more than 114,000 places to charge and 80 million charging sessions, with drivers plugging in approximately every two seconds. ChargePoint has been working since 2007 and is headquartered in Campbell, Calif., and says it has more than a decade of category leadership. The company announced it closed $127 million in incremental equity financing. It plans to use the funds to expand its commercial and fleet portfolio in North America and Europe and to scale policy, marketing and sales efforts. ChargePoint builds hardware and software for every electric vehicle charging use case and operates a network of independently owned public and semi-public chargers. Its network now contains more than 57,000 charging spots. The company has raised more than $500 million to build out its network, including a $125 million Series G last year that funded expansion into Europe. ChargePoint is preparing for a large increase in electric vehicles over the next four years as automakers ramp EV production. The company plans to use new capital to expand its charging network in Europe and North America, broaden options for fleets, and improve the driver experience. Planned product improvements include integrations such as Amazon Alexa and Tap to Charge for phone-initiated charging. ChargePoint operates one of the world's largest electric vehicle (EV) charging networks and designs, develops, and manufactures hardware and software solutions for home, work, public and on‑road charging. The company offers products and services for passenger cars, electric buses and trucks and provides station owners remote monitoring, detailed analytics and energy-usage reporting. ChargePoint reports more than 37,800 independently owned charging spots, over 7,000 customers and drivers have completed more than 25 million charging sessions, saving roughly 25 million gallons of gasoline and driving over 603 million gas-free miles. Financially, the company recently closed a $125M Series G (including an additional $43M announced in June 2017) to support growth. ChargePoint is focused on accelerating its expansion across Europe through partnerships and deployments with customers and complementary partners. The company is headquartered in Campbell, CA. ChargePoint operates a large network of electric vehicle charging stations and provides corporate charging solutions. The company supplies public and private charging ports used by businesses and other sites. It has more than 33,000 charging ports across its stations and installations and serves about 6,500 corporate customers. ChargePoint has seen strong adoption in North America and is pursuing expansion into Europe. Its stated goal is to make EV charging as readily available and convenient as gas stations, positioning the company to scale infrastructure in new markets. ChargePoint builds and operates one of the largest electric-vehicle charging networks, deploying Level 2 chargers and Level 3 Express DC fast chargers in businesses, apartment garages and homes. Since 2007 it has installed 28,000 stations, including 310 Level 3 fast chargers. The company raised $50 million in its latest funding round led by Linse Capital and has now raised a total of $164 million from investors including BMW iVentures and Siemens. Linse Capital said the additional funds will allow ChargePoint to expand its network outside North America. The financing is intended to accelerate ChargePoint’s ability to capitalize on its North American position and replicate it in other markets around the world, per Michael Linse. ChargePoint’s mission is to ease range anxiety and support broader EV adoption as global plug-in vehicle sales have grown rapidly.

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