Participated · Equity · Apr 2023

Kiddie Kredit is a mobile app that teaches 4- to 12-year-olds the foundations of credit through gamified activities, a simulated 'Kredit Score' (300–850) and a rewards currency called Bamboo Bucks. Parents assign chores and activities; children’s Kredit Scores move up or down based on completion, and families can redeem Bamboo Bucks for rewards. The company has a partnership with Equifax (dating to 2021) and last year built a web platform that lets organizations like YMCA and partners add activities, rewards and push notifications. The platform unlocks over 250 hours of content that meets multiple National Financial Literacy Standards. Kiddie Kredit is used by more than 12,000 families, began generating revenue in 2021 and grew revenues 150% between 2021 and 2022; the CEO says revenues are tracking significantly higher this year. Founder and CEO Evan Leaphart says the company plans to expand enterprise partnerships, broaden reach and develop a follow-on product to serve teens, potentially incorporating a true credit product for the teen-plus market. Kiddie Kredit, founded in 2018, is a Miami startup that launched a mobile app last year to teach kids how credit works by leveraging chore completion as a learning mechanic. The app has been downloaded more than 4,000 times and users have completed over 32,000 chores, indicating early engagement, particularly among mothers. Kiddie Kredit has partnered with the Equifax Foundation and with rapper Mickey Factz to help promote the app, and it is in talks with a major teen banking company about another partnership. The team plans a second iteration that would include a "Credit Karma for kids" recommendation engine and a product-recommendation platform for financial institutions, with geo-fencing to surface local bank offers. They intend to offer a premium app version with additional features and are exploring ways to turn Bamboo Bucks into a digital wallet that kids could use for purchases or to send earnings to a bank account. With support from advisors such as Monique Idlett-Mosley of Reign Ventures, the company aims to deepen institutional partnerships and expand its social-impact mission to combat financial illiteracy among youth.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2022

Metriport builds open-source APIs to give digital health companies access to consumer and medical health data. It has launched its first product, the Health Device API, which aggregates consumer data from wearables, RPM devices, and mHealth apps. The company plans to launch a Medical API to allow companies to access patients' medical records and interface with EHRs, targeting a 2023 release. Both products are open source and positioned as a Plaid-like layer for medtech focused on developer friendliness, transparency, and accessibility. Metriport raised a $2.4 million seed round at a $20 million valuation, all on post-money SAFEs, which the company says is being used to grow the team, accelerate engineering, and cover compliance and legal fees. The founders, who went through Y Combinator, describe the company as mission-driven and aim to democratize access to healthcare data to improve patient outcomes.

Participated · Series D · Oct 2022

HealthJoy provides an integrated benefits navigation platform that connects employees to medical, dental, vision, savings accounts, clinics, wellness programs and virtual care through a 24/7 concierge. The company has expanded its virtual care suite and partners with providers such as Teladoc to help address major claim categories and increase preventive care access. It introduced an "automated steerage" feature that guides members to lower-cost, more efficient care options and integrates claims, utilization and virtual care data. HealthJoy is building a comprehensive member profile and engagement engine to engage members earlier and more often in their healthcare journeys. The platform reports a client base of more than 1,000 employers covering over 500,000 employees and dependents, a 60% activation rate after 30 days, and 25% of its employee base logging into the app monthly. The company says its guidance and comparisons help members save an average of $2,000 in out-of-pocket costs. HealthJoy simplifies employee healthcare benefits by integrating with healthcare providers and benefit consultant agencies. Its features include an AI-based virtual assistant, healthcare concierges, a price-transparency rewards tool called HealthJoy Rewards, and an employee assistance program (HealthJoy EAP). The company reports a 33% monthly login rate, serves 500 employers, and clients see a tenfold increase in employee use of benefits, including telemedicine. HealthJoy has raised $53 million to date following a $30 million Series C led by Health Velocity Capital. The new funding will be used to improve the virtual assistant, develop new services, integrate with more partners, and aggregate data. It plans to add 200 employees in its Chicago office in 2021, double its engineering team, expand work with small- and medium-sized businesses, and pursue a potential partnership to serve Medicare recipients. HealthJoy offers an app that guides employees through health benefits, managing claims, deductibles, health savings accounts and prescriptions, and directs members to single-vendor point solutions like telemedicine. The company launched in 2014 and pivoted to an employer-focused model in early 2017. It currently has about 200,000 users, grew 610% last year, and projects 250% growth this year. HealthJoy reports telemedicine utilization of 27.3% across its book of business and cites per-visit savings of roughly $450–$500 by avoiding higher-cost settings. The startup highlights member savings examples, including a case where monthly drug costs were cut more than 90%, saving the employee over $1,000 and the employer about $8,000. HealthJoy plans to use the new capital to expand its team and product to increase utilization of integrated benefit services. HealthJoy is a chat-based app that gives users access to board-certified doctors, veteran insurance experts, dedicated healthcare concierges and a proactive chatbot to help protect out-of-pocket expenses. The platform is distributed to HR teams at companies of any size (from 5 to 500,000 employees) through benefit advisors, third-party administrators and health plans. HealthJoy combines clinician access, insurance expertise and concierge services within a single app to help employees navigate care and costs. The company plans to use the new funding to expand its national network of distribution partners, build strategic partnerships with service, data and technology companies, and hire in Chicago and remotely. Leadership is listed as Shanu Kurd, Doug Morse-Schindler and Justin Holland. HealthJoy was also named a preferred technology partner to the Benefit Advisors Network. HealthJoy provides a human-supported virtual healthcare assistant called JOY that guides consumers across a wide range of healthcare decisions. Its platform includes online doctor consultations, healthcare concierges, dental, vision and prescription savings plans, personalized prescription cost optimization, and medical bill review and negotiations. Launched in 2014 and led by CEO Justin Holland, HealthJoy serves more than 22,000 users who are protecting over $100 million in out-of-pocket healthcare expenses. The company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. HealthJoy closed a $3 million funding round to accelerate development of its healthcare decision platform and the JOY assistant. It plans to expand into consumer, broker, and employer channels while continuing product development.

Participated · Series B · Nov 2021

BrainCheck offers BrainCheck Assess™, an FDA Class II digital cognitive assessment suite that lets clinicians in primary care, neurology, and psychiatry rapidly screen and monitor patients for conditions such as mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease. The platform produces standardized, repeatable cognitive data and allows providers to customize testing protocols in English or Spanish. Beyond testing, BrainCheck supplies care-planning workflows that have generated more than 14,000 individualized Care Plans and enabled over 640,000 cognitive assessments to date. More than 500 healthcare organizations, including Bon Secours, UPMC and Springfield Clinic, as well as 46 research hospitals like UT Austin and Stanford, currently use the solution. The company is expanding its enterprise cognitive-care infrastructure to support workflow integration, longitudinal monitoring, and population-scale deployment. It also partners with collaborative-care organizations to deliver comprehensive cognitive-care pathways for practices lacking in-house staffing or infrastructure. Future development includes advanced AI-assisted clinical features aimed at risk-bearing and value-based care environments.

Participated · Equity · Aug 2019

IVX Health is a national provider of outpatient infusion and injection therapy for patients with complex chronic conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, and multiple sclerosis. Its experience-first model emphasizes patient amenities including guaranteed private suites, flat-screen TVs with streaming, high-speed Wi‑Fi, leather recliners with seating for guests, and flexible evening and weekend scheduling. Operating over 50 infusion centers across 16 markets, IVX says it achieved record milestones for opening new centers, caring for new patients, and entering new states in the past year. The company reports an industry-leading 97 Net Promoter Score and was named to Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work list for a third consecutive year. IVX positions itself as a cost-effective, convenient alternative to hospital-based infusion care and aims to become the nation’s preferred destination of pharmaceutical care. It plans to use new capital to accelerate entry into additional markets and to collaborate with other providers in the healthcare ecosystem. IVX Health (doing business as Infusion Express) is a patient-focused operator of ambulatory infusion centers that provides infusion and injection therapy for patients with complex chronic conditions. Led by CEO Doug Ghertner and based in Nashville, the company treats conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease and multiple sclerosis. Its centers are located in the communities where patients live and offer flexible scheduling including evenings and weekends, private suites with high-speed Wi‑Fi, flat-screen TVs and comfortable recliners with room for guests. The company operates under the Infusion Express brand in Kansas City, Philadelphia, Chicago and San Francisco, and plans near-term openings in Nashville, Harrisburg and Columbus. IVX Health said it will further expand into additional markets in 2020. In May 2019 it completed a $22.5M funding round to accelerate expansion of its physical footprint and enter new markets across the country.