Participated · Seed · Jan 2023

knownwell delivers evidence-based obesity treatment that combines metabolic health services, primary care, nutrition counseling, and behavioral health, all covered by insurance and offered virtually nationwide and at select physical clinics. Its physician-designed care model emphasizes respectful, longitudinal engagement, producing a >90 net promoter score, 91% one-year patient retention, and 93% sustained weight loss after one year. Over the last 18 months the company has expanded from Massachusetts into Georgia, Illinois, and Texas while activating virtual care in all 50 states. This approach targets a market in which obesity drives more than $260 billion in annual U.S. healthcare costs. Management views payer and health-system alignment as critical and positions knownwell as a scalable, value-based partner for those stakeholders. The company has now raised more than $50 million in total funding, including the latest $25 million round, to fuel further geographic growth and platform development.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2022

WeMatter (fka SheMatters) is an NYC-based online platform and mobile app designed to support Black women and women of color who experience postpartum comorbidities and mental illness. The product pairs habit-tracking tools with an online/offline community where members serve as role models, attend events, participate in the online community, and access culturally competent resources and certified therapists. Users build healthy habits that can be tracked and openly celebrated through the platform. Led by founder Jade Kearney, the company positions itself where tech and wellness meet to motivate women to define their own paths toward mental wellness. WeMatter closed over $1.5 million in seed funding and named Alexander Packard as board chair and Eric Ries as a board member. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and business reach and will offer cultural competency certifications over the next two years for Asian American women, Indigenous women, Hispanic women, LGBTQI+, Trans and marginalized heterosexual men.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2022

SheMatters builds digital tools to improve maternal outcomes for Black and minority mothers, including a new Symptom Tracker app for monitoring signs of serious complications such as preeclampsia, eclampsia, and HELLP syndrome. The company also offers the SheMatters Cultural Competence Certification Program, which trains medical providers on safety, communication, and confronting the legacy of racism in healthcare. Major universities and hospital systems are adopting the certification to better serve minority communities. Founders Jade Kearney (CEO) and Marguerite Pierce (COO) lead the company’s strategy and product development. In 2024 SheMatters plans to grow its team and build out its product offering with the symptom tracker leading the effort. The platform emphasizes empowering expecting and new mothers to track vital signs and symptoms tied to life‑threatening conditions. She Matters operates a digital health platform that connects Black women with culturally sensitive postpartum care and trains clinicians on cultural competency. The app originally focused on postpartum anxiety and depression and connecting users with therapists, but has expanded to address a wider range of postpartum comorbidities including preeclampsia and hemorrhaging. The company shifted from training individual therapists to selling subscriptions and cultural-competency training to healthcare networks and systems, partnering with hospitals. Hospitals buy subscriptions and provide the app to patients as part of care packages; Kearney says average hospital contracts are about $1.2 million and the company does not charge Black moms for therapy. She Matters participated in Techstars late last year, has six employees and plans to grow to 15 by year-end, and has hired researchers and cultural experts for product expansion. Planned product lines include Ella Importa for Latina women, They Matter for LGBTQ people and Native Her for Native American women as it scales the approach to other underrepresented groups.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2021

Zus is building a shared data platform that lets doctors and health-tech companies access standardized patient records across specialties. Its core offerings include a data aggregation service to standardize medical records, a platform that enables multiple clinicians to view the same information, a patient portal for transparency, and a growing library of software tools such as patient relationship management. The company plans a community-based marketplace for digital health companies to set up and trade clinical notes. Zus launched alongside recent regulatory shifts from the 21st Century Cures Act that expand patient data access and portability. The platform is already in use by four partners: Cityblock Health, Dorsata, Firefly Health and Oak Street Health. Zus aims to accelerate digital health product development by commoditizing parts of the infrastructure stack so startups can move from years to weeks or months.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2021

Zus Health is a next-generation shared health data platform centered on the Zus Aggregated Profile (ZAP), which provides a single, comprehensive, actionable view of a patient’s healthcare information. The platform includes a FHIR-native data store and common patient record technology to enable real-time, cross-provider insights. Zus plans to use its recently closed $40 million financing to add unique data sources, build workflow and referral solutions, and expand integration pathways so providers can leverage external patient data and collaborate around a shared record. The company is integrating ZAP with partners such as Elation Health, which supports millions of patients, enabling clinicians to access expanded patient records from hospitals, clinics, labs, and pharmacies in real time. Zus positions its product to reduce clinician time spent gathering and entering data, decrease duplicated tests and procedures, and improve care coordination and outcomes. The company intends to scale the platform to become a go-to source of aggregated health records for Americans, replacing unstructured PDFs and faxes with an always-on network of healthcare insights. Zus Health builds an industry-first shared development platform backed by a shared data record, combining a FHIR-native, never-overwritten, patient-centric multi-tenant health record with tools for builders. Its stack includes healthcare workflow libraries, data acquisition and enrichment services, patient identity and control, and the ability for builders to store proprietary data logically joined to the patient record. Zus launched with four builders on its platform: Cityblock Health, Dorsata, Firefly Health and Oak Street Health. The company intends to use the funding to grow its engineering team and invest in the platform, tools and products that support digital-first healthcare builders. Zus positions itself to reduce redundancy in healthcare technology by enabling information sharing and lowering the cost and time to build clinical and experience-layer applications. The company emphasizes a network effect from shared data to improve clinical value and accelerate innovation among its builder community.