Led · Equity · Apr 2026

Founded in 2026 and headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Cresora Commerce offers an AI-native commerce infrastructure platform that streamlines transactions between payers and payees. The processor-agnostic platform provides a unified gateway and orchestration layer enabling software platforms, healthcare organizations, and enterprises to embed commerce into their workflows. Core capabilities include payments, settlement, reconciliation, and reporting, with AI used to automate integrations, normalize transaction data, detect anomalies, and reduce manual financial operations. The company plans to deploy its newly raised capital to further platform development and to pursue initial market entry in healthcare followed by expansion into additional industries. The article does not disclose revenue, user, or other operating metrics.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2026

Founded in 2023 by former HCA Healthcare executives, Nashville-based UnityAI develops artificial-intelligence scheduling agents that streamline operations for outpatient and specialty care providers. Its platform keeps clinical workflows moving in high-volume, rapidly changing environments, reducing administrative bottlenecks for customers such as Tennessee Oncology and Peregrine Health. The company reports that its solution is already deployed at nationwide scale, demonstrating reliable performance in real-world clinical settings. Proceeds from the latest round will be used to deepen product capabilities and expand go-to-market efforts, especially with multi-site provider platforms. UnityAI aims to move health systems beyond isolated point solutions toward integrated, AI-powered operations. Including the new capital, the startup has raised a total of $15 million to date, underscoring growing investor confidence in its approach.

Participated · Series C · Dec 2024

ModifyHealth operates a turnkey food-as-medicine program that delivers medically tailored meals alongside dietitian support, remote patient monitoring, and digital education. The company serves patients through payor, employer, and healthcare system contracts, targeting chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, obesity, and IBS. Its customizable meal plans include Low‑FODMAP, Mediterranean, gluten‑free, plant‑based, and low‑sodium options tailored to clinical needs. ModifyHealth emphasizes telenutrition and live coaching to help patients make sustainable dietary changes and improve outcomes. The company plans to accelerate growth, implement technology advancements, and enhance operations to broaden access and scale its solutions. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article. ModifyHealth operates a nationwide food as medicine platform and provides medically tailored meals, working directly with patients and partnering with payors, employers, and healthcare systems. The company’s programs aim to decrease costs and improve outcomes for chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, obesity, and irritable bowel syndrome where dietary management is recommended. Led by founder and CEO GB Pratt, ModifyHealth delivers medically tailored meal programs to patients and coordinates with healthcare stakeholders. The company intends to use its recent funding to support continued growth of its food as medicine solutions and to expand its nationwide operations. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article. ModifyHealth provides gut-friendly, Low-FODMAP and gluten-free home-delivered meals combined with dietitian support and digital health solutions. Its offerings deliver evidence-based treatments for GI conditions including IBS, IBD, SIBO, and celiac disease. Led by founder and CEO GB Pratt and based in Atlanta, GA, the company packages meals and clinical support as 'food as medicine' interventions. ModifyHealth closed a $2m Series A to continue scaling those solutions. The company intends to use the funds to grow its 'food as medicine' programs and further expand nationwide operations. The goal is to deliver meaningful patient outcomes through combined nutritional therapy and digital care management.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2024

PayShepherd provides a cloud-based contractor management platform purpose-built for heavy industrial sites, automating contract compliance and enabling real-time cost reporting, accountability, and risk management. The company centralizes contractor data to replace paper-heavy administrative processes and to surface efficiencies across procurement, maintenance, and capital projects. Since launching in 2018 it has managed billions in contractor cost submissions and has entered energy and mining markets. PayShepherd plans to expand across Canada and the United States and to enhance its platform with new capabilities, including deeper use of artificial intelligence. Its product roadmap emphasizes building a comprehensive, frictionless system of record between contractors and clients. Financially, PayShepherd has grown since its 2022 seed and has now raised C$12.1 million in equity financing to date. PayShepherd provides a billing management and contract-assurance platform that automates billing review, validates contract and collective agreement logic, and identifies invoice discrepancies across labour, equipment, materials and third‑party expenses. The platform runs historical audits, works with multiple contractors simultaneously, and has benchmarked savings in excess of US$1M yearly per major facility. PayShepherd’s validation engine serves as a digital source of truth to reduce overspending, speed payments, and improve facility–contractor relationships. The company says its software increases visibility and accountability, enabling closer alignment to strategic goals and faster, more accurate payments. PayShepherd was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada, with offices in Vancouver and Charlotte, North Carolina. The new funding will support expanded product and engineering capabilities, stronger operations across Canada and the U.S., new verticals, and additional ecosystem integrations. PayShepherd is a Calgary-based fintech that provides contractor billing software to help large industrial facilities manage contractor billing. Its platform captures high-volume contracts and timesheets, detects overbilling, and makes contract history transparent for facility owners and contractors. Founded in 2018 as Project Recapture, the company’s current customers include multinational conglomerates with dozens of facilities across Canada, the US and Europe. PayShepherd plans to use the $700,000 CAD pre-seed to boost sales and business development, bolster its product, and add customers across Canada and the United States. The startup has grown headcount from three to eight employees, is hiring two more software engineers, and aims to expand across North America and add at least 20 more facility clients over the next 18 months. Longer-term plans include offering invoice financing for contractors and delivering aggregate spending-data insights to the heavy-industry market.

Led · Equity · Oct 2022

Spiny.ai is an AI-powered content analytics, publisher intelligence, and advertising technology platform for digital publishers. It provides author management tools, audience analytics, and ad revenue generation via BidRoll to help publishers increase operational efficiency and drive revenue. The platform is used by anchor customers including On3 Media, Outsider.com, and Leaders.com. The company intends to use the newly raised funds to grow its team and build key product features such as subscription analytics and multimedia tools. Spiny.ai raised $2.5M in funding in a round led by Nashville Capital Network. The company was founded by Nana B. Nyantekyi, Shannon Terry, and Andrew Johnson and is based in Nashville, TN.