Inception Health
9200 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53226, United States
Overview
Inception Health is the hub for the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network’s digital health services. Inception facilitates innovation by working effectively within the walls of an academic medical center, as well as collaborating with technology companies from outside our enterprise.
- Total investments
- 9
- Lead investments
- 2
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 1
Sector focus
- Health Care
- Medical
Investment portfolio
- TailorMed
Participated · Equity · Nov 2024
TailorMed provides an enterprise platform that manages the full lifecycle of patient support programs to reduce cost barriers and improve medication access and adherence. The company has built the nation’s largest Affordability Network, deployed across more than 800 hospitals, 1,300 clinics, and 650 pharmacies. TailorMed integrates directly with manufacturer assistance programs to automate patient support and streamline stakeholder workflows. Having reached an inflection point in its network evolution, the company is expanding into an end-to-end platform to tackle cost, access, and adherence across the medication continuum. The new financing will fund that expansion and broader efforts to create a seamless flow of data and resources across patients, providers, pharmacies, life sciences, and payers. TailorMed frames this work as addressing affordability at the point a prescription is written or dispensed to prevent delayed or skipped treatments. TailorMed Medical provides a technology platform that automates identification of financially at-risk patients and matches and enrolls them in financial resources such as co-pay assistance, replacement drug programs, government subsidies, community and state resources, disease-specific foundations, and programs addressing living expenses. Its platform is designed to reduce out-of-pocket responsibility for patients, helping to eliminate downstream financial hardship and avoidance of care. For health organizations, TailorMed shifts financial assistance from reactive matching or downstream collections to a proactive, point-of-care approach. The company serves physician practices, specialty clinics and health systems, and in 2021 expanded adoption into pharmacies nationwide. TailorMed said it will use the new funding to further expand its reach across health care with innovative financial solutions. Srulik Dvorsky is CEO and co-founder and the company is based in New York City.
- Season Health
Led · Equity · Dec 2023
Season Health provides a food-as-medicine platform that delivers personalized recipes, pre-made meals, grocery support, nutrition education and one-on-one meetings with registered dietitians. The company recently expanded its provider network from dozens to hundreds via a strategic asset acquisition from Wellory. Season plans to use the new funding to develop and scale food-as-medicine programs, including initiatives for diabetes and high-risk pregnancy. It is also focused on expanding partnerships with providers and payers to broaden access. In early 2024 Season Health will launch two programs with the Froedtert & MCW health system to give employees in-network access to its dietitian practice and a value-based diabetes care program. To date the company has raised $45 million in total. Season Health operates a "digital food pharmacy" where patients are paired with dietitians to create medically tailored meal plans addressing conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, chronic kidney disease, and food allergies or personal preferences. Patients can choose from suggested meals and have ingredients and recipes delivered to their homes. The startup launched out of stealth earlier this year and has announced partnerships with health systems CommonSpirit Health and Geisinger, and with chronic kidney disease-focused Cricket Health. Season raised $34 million in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz after previously raising $11 million in seed funding. The company plans to use the financing to build its business development and operations teams and to support integrations and partnerships with food retailers. Its platform aims to translate dietary advice into actual food delivery and reimbursement workflows to make food-as-medicine more accessible.
- Layer Health
Participated · Seed · Nov 2023
Layer Health is a Boston, MA-based health technology company led by CEO David Sontag that uses large language models (LLMs) to perform chart review and data abstraction. Its AI platform is trained on longitudinal patient data to interpret both structured and unstructured EHR data at scale with clinician-level accuracy. The company focuses on enabling health systems to automatically review and interpret clinical data to generate insights. Layer Health plans to expand its offerings, advance its AI models, and deepen partnerships with health systems and other ecosystem partners. Financially, the company completed a new funding round in March 2025 to support these plans. Layer Health is an MIT spin‑out that builds AI to extract value from unstructured clinical data and address the information problem in healthcare. Its first product, Distill, ingests clinical notes and uses machine learning and large language models to perform clinical, administrative, and research tasks that require unstructured chart review. Distill integrates into existing workflows, reduces development time for use cases from months to as little as a day per the company, and adapts from customer interactions to produce customer‑specific models. The company cites beta customers including xCures and the Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin health network, which use Distill for trial matching, real‑world evidence curation, quality improvement, and registry submissions. Layer Health emphasizes AI safety and transparency by surfacing evidence for every prediction and maintaining a clinical team to validate models across diverse datasets and use cases. The founding team includes AI and clinical leaders such as David Sontag, Divya Gopinath, Luke Murray, Monica Agrawal, and Steven Horng.
- Homecare Hub
Participated · Seed · Sep 2023
Homecare Hub is a Toronto-based company building an on-demand, tech-enabled small care home platform to deliver home care and housing solutions. The company’s core product combines technology and on-demand services to support small care homes. It raised USD2.5M in seed funding and intends to use the funds to scale its solution. Backers included Froedtert Health’s venture arm Inception Health, Ballad Health’s venture arm Ballad Ventures, the Center for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI), AARP, Blue Lion Global, FHS Capital, and prominent angel investors. The round was announced alongside the company’s plans to expand its offering. Homecare Hub is led by CEO and Co-founder Dr. Vipan Nikore and technology leader Rahim Lalani. Dr. Nikore has clinical experience at the Cleveland Clinic and medical leadership roles, and Mr. Lalani has over 20 years of technology experience.
- Vincere Health
Led · Equity · Oct 2022
Vincere Health provides a risk-bearing health engagement platform built to serve low-income populations. The company is initially focused on helping smokers and vapers in partnership with state governments and Managed Care Organizations. Its system combines clinical support with real-time incentives based on behavioral science, offering two-way SMS and calls, integrated clinicians and bots, automated nudges, digital financial rewards, and remote monitoring. Vincere raised USD1.75M in funding to support growth. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth with health plans and provider networks and to expand operations. Vincere Health is based in Boston, MA.
Team
Christopher Sawicki
Managing Director
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