Participated · Series A · Dec 2022

Carallel delivers expert, human-led guidance combined with digital tools to identify and empower family caregivers and help them manage caregiving needs. The company partners with health plans, providers, and employers to improve outcomes and member experience. Carallel already supports more than 400,000 Medicare Advantage and commercially insured members and their caregivers nationally. According to a 2020 survey of users, Carallel reduced stress for 90% of caregivers and improved decision-making confidence for 87%, and the company reports a Net Promoter Score of 88. With new funding, Carallel plans to expand its reach in Medicare Advantage and commercial markets, build dynamic digital experiences, expand peer-to-peer support, and deploy targeted care interventions. The company says these efforts aim to improve quality metrics such as Medicare Star Ratings and CAHPS performance.

Participated · Series A · Apr 2022

Offor Health is a Columbus, OH–based provider of on-site clinical services for medical and dental practices. Its SmileMD oral health offering enables office-based procedures by delivering an OR-quality experience with anesthesia clinical staff to dentists’ offices. Founded in 2014, the company began in Ohio and now also operates in Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Led by CEO Saket Agrawal, Offor Health closed a $9M Series A1 round to support growth. The company intends to use the funds to scale its last-mile care delivery model into additional markets and expand on-site medical delivery across practice areas. Offor Health says this expansion will drive improved population health and make healthcare more accessible and affordable for more patients. Offor Health provides SmileMD, an oral health offering that enables office-based procedures by supplying dental and clinical specialists, medical supplies, and equipment to treat patients in their local communities. The company operates as the Columbus, Ohio-based operating company under SmileMD Holdings and is led by CEO Saket Agrawal. It is expanding on-site medical delivery across practice areas and offerings to make healthcare more accessible and more affordable for patients. Offor plans to use new funding to further develop logistical infrastructure, scale business initiatives, recruit for key positions, and continue developing its technology platform. The company closed a $5M Series A in January 2021 to support these initiatives.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2022

Pay Theory builds financial-services infrastructure that integrates with SaaS vendors to let families pay must-pay service providers such as K‑12 schools, childcare providers, healthcare services, and kids sports organizations. The platform gives families the option to complete online transactions in physical cash through a network of nearly 60,000 retailers nationwide, including Dollar General, CVS, 7‑Eleven, Walgreens, and Walmart. When a family chooses cash, Pay Theory issues a barcode (on a smartphone or via email) that can be scanned and paid for at a retailer, enabling providers to be virtually cash‑free while remaining financially inclusive. The company is led by Brad Hoeweler (CEO) and Eric Fulkert (President and CTO). Pay Theory plans to use new funding for product development and to hire for sales, finance, and software development roles. The company recently raised seed capital to support these initiatives.

Led · Seed · Jul 2021

SupplyHive offers a Supplier Performance Management Technology platform that centralizes, standardizes, scales and automates supplier performance processes for corporations. The software leverages AI, machine learning and natural language processing to analyze aggregated quantitative and qualitative data. Its interface measures KPIs, analyzes trends, identifies disparities, automates action plans and provides predictive analytics to help organizations hold suppliers accountable and enhance partnerships. The company was launched in Chicago in 2018 by Mike Anguiano and is led by CEO and President Lou Sandoval. In 2020 SupplyHive counted clients including Facebook, MARS Global, McDonald’s Corporation, Abbott, BOX, Eaton and First Energy. The company plans to use new funding to expand sales and marketing and to further product development and integrations.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2021

S’More’s core product deliberately blurs profile photos (and initially blurs video chat) so users must interact before images fully reveal, aiming to foster more meaningful relationships. The startup recently launched a completely rebuilt app with real-time conversation prompts and a paid option to promote profiles. New features include blurred video chat and other multimedia elements on the product roadmap such as video, audio, and games. The app has seen early traction with 160,000 downloads in its first year and “thousands” of paying users, including a 50% increase in subscriptions after the January relaunch. Funding has been used to assemble a named “founding team” (chief architect, head of operations, head of product and design, senior developer). S’More is also pursuing content strategy, producing “anti-superficial” dating content and running a celebrity dating show on Instagram Live with 60 episodes so far. S’More is a relationship dating app that blurs profile photos and unlocks images and private content as users engage, prioritizing personality, values, and conversation over initial looks. Its matching algorithm recommends profiles based on location, age, sexual orientation, interests, opinions, values, hobbies, gender identities and learned attraction preferences. Profiles support more than 20 criteria with interactive icons and multimedia, and the app uses required photo verification and a publicly visible behavior-based rating score to reduce catfishing and encourage higher-quality community behavior. The company positions itself as a disruption to swipe-based dating apps and aims to elevate online dating standards toward relationship-focused experiences. S’More currently has a public waitlist of over 8,000 singles and has opened national sign-ups at smoredate.com. Founder Adam Cohen Aslatei brings experience from Chappy (Bumble’s gay app) and The Meet Group and has consulted for several social discovery companies.