Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

Ladder Health delivers virtual-first, AI-enabled developmental and therapeutic care for children, providing speech, occupational, physical, and feeding therapy through a model that activates caregivers as therapeutic partners. The platform offers evenings and weekends access and emphasizes extending care into the home to reduce wait times from months to days. Ladder partners with pediatric practices and health systems as a referral and care-extension partner and reports working with more than 80 provider organizations and health systems across Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Maryland. The company was incubated by 25madison and developed in collaboration with clinical experts at Boston Children's Hospital, which holds equity in Ladder. Current plans highlighted by the company include geographic expansion into additional states and continued investment in its AI-enabled care platform and health system integrations. Ladder positions its model as a scalable response to pediatric workforce shortages and the surge in demand for developmental services.

Participated · Series B · Oct 2023

Optimize Health is a Seattle-based provider of a remote patient monitoring and chronic care management software platform. Led by CEO Todd Haedrich, the company’s platform helps healthcare providers improve patient outcomes, enhance clinical decision-making, and optimize operational efficiency. Its technology assists physicians in preventing episodic events, delivering personalized care plans, and enabling clinical teams to practice proactive medicine by sharing patient data and insights. The platform also empowers patients with visibility into their health metrics to increase engagement. Thousands of healthcare providers have used the software to drive down costs and create better outcomes. The company plans to use new funding to accelerate market strategy, scale operations, expand its product portfolio, and fuel market expansion. Optimize Health recently closed an $18M Series B financing. Founded in 2015 and based in Seattle, Optimize.health offers an end-to-end remote patient monitoring service used by independent practices and hospital systems. The platform ingests data from home devices such as blood pressure cuffs and pulse oximeters, surfaces potential issues on a clinician dashboard, integrates with EHRs, and supports outreach via texts and video calls. The dashboard can trigger billing to insurers for clinician monitoring. The company shifted from its prior Pillsy smart pill-bottle product to a broader remote-monitoring strategy. Optimize.health is capitalizing on a recent Medicare policy change that allows providers to bill for remote monitoring and on increased attention to telemedicine amid the pandemic. Revenue recently grew more than 800% year-over-year; the company employs fewer than 30 people and has raised over $21 million to date. optimize.health offers a technology platform that enables healthcare providers to deliver patient-centric, reimbursable remote monitoring using a wide selection of integrated, affordable devices. The solution integrates device data with the company’s platform to help patients and providers improve health outcomes and contain costs. The company plans to use new funding to build out platform capabilities and integrate additional data sources, and to expand its sales and marketing teams. optimize.health was established in 2019 by Jeff LeBrun and Chuks Onwuneme and is based in Seattle with additional employees in Phoenix, Houston and Charlotte, NC. Its team and advisors include clinicians, software engineers, designers and data scientists with backgrounds at Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Novartis, Duke University and the Institute for Health Metrics.

Participated · Series B · May 2020

Higi makes free-to-use Smart Health Stations deployed in retail pharmacies and grocery stores that let consumers self-measure blood pressure, pulse, weight and BMI. The stations deliver a breadth of digital content focused on condition prevention and management and provide personalized recommendations for nearby health services. The company says more than 10,000 kiosks have been used by 62 million people and are located within five miles of 73% of the U.S. population. Higi has integrated third-party digital health offerings on its stations, including a deal earlier in the year to bring Livongo’s chronic-care program to hundreds of kiosks. The new funding will be used to expand the reach and content offerings of Higi’s kiosks. Higi plans to incorporate Babylon Health’s symptom-checking and remote-care technology into its station experience to broaden access to digital-first healthcare services. higi operates a nationwide network of over 11,000 FDA-cleared self-screening health stations found at pharmacy retailers and community locations, enabling consumers to measure, track and act on biometric data. The platform offers integrations with more than 80 third-party devices and applications and can connect consumer data into population health workflows, including EHRs, for real-time use by care teams. higi reports that its stations are located within five miles of 78% of the U.S. population and that an estimated 47 million people have used higi to conduct over 271 million biometric tests. The company provides consumer-centric, data-driven engagement solutions for providers, payers, retailers and self-insured employers and positions retailers as a new front door to health and wellness. higi plans to use new capital to expand access points, broaden consumer engagement, and deliver deeper data-driven solutions to support prevention, early intervention and value-based outcomes. Financially, the company announced a $21.3 million Series C to accelerate growth and continue building its population health offerings. higi operates the largest FDA-cleared self-screening health station network in the U.S., with nearly 11,000 stations located in food, drug and mass-market retailers. The company links those stations to an online community platform and integrations with over 80 connected health devices, wearables, and apps. To date more than 36 million unique users have used a higi station for nearly 200 million biometric screenings, and over 4.5 million people have signed up for a higi account. higi collects and secures ambient health and lifestyle data with explicit user consent and HIPAA-compliant tools, and provides engagement and workflow integration capabilities to payers, providers, retailers, and brands. The company plans to use recent strategic moves to accelerate the creation of tools to transform population health activities through data collection and workflow integration. higi also acquired EveryMove to extend its consumer health engagement and incentive capabilities. higi operates a retail and omni-channel community health engagement platform centered on a network of health stations, a mobile app and a web portal. The platform is accessible via nearly 10,000 retail locations, web and mobile, and is both FDA cleared and HIPAA compliant. higi offers multiple screening and tracking modalities, incentives and rewards and enables consumers to collect and, when they opt in, share health and activity data with trusted partners. The company partners with more than 40 retail banners and collaborates with healthcare organizations including health plans, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. higi plans to use the new funding to further innovate its platform and expand services and programs for retail partners and healthcare organizations that support wellness, coordinated care and chronic disease management initiatives. The company is led by CEO Jeff Bennett with William Wrigley, Jr. as Chairman.

Participated · Equity · Aug 2013

StyleSeek is a personalized e-commerce site for lifestyle products that features an interactive relevance engine enabling users to create and refine a unique StyleDNA. Its core recommendations technology works across the style spectrum and is applicable to verticals including apparel, home furnishings, hospitality, travel, and automotive. The site also helps online retailers create custom, contextual shopping opportunities via personalized email placements. The company was founded by two MIT graduates and a FIDM professor and is based in Chicago, IL. According to the report, StyleSeek has raised $750,000 in additional funding. Investors named in the round include Cedar St. Capital, Jumpstart Capital, Padova Investments, Trebuchet Fund, and several angel investors.