Participated · Seed · Oct 2025

Allswell is an early-stage digital health company that delivers virtual one-on-one and group therapy tailored to LGBTQ+ adults. Its clinicians, primarily licensed social workers, use affirmative cognitive behavioral therapy as well as cognitive processing therapy and eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing to address trauma and minority stress. The platform is in-network with Maryland Medicaid, UnitedHealthcare, CareFirst and Cigna, and it also accepts cash payment, enabling access for a predominantly Medicaid population. According to the company, 83% of patients experience reduced depression symptoms within four to eight weeks. Founded in 2024, Allswell currently operates only in Maryland but plans to expand across additional states and reach the full Washington, D.C.–Maryland–Virginia region by early 2026. Proceeds from its recent pre-seed raise will support growth of its therapist network and the development of AI-enabled digital tools such as journaling features and skills-practice worksheets.

Led · Series A · Jan 2025

Twentyeight Health is a NYC-based digital-first women’s healthcare platform that makes reproductive and sexual healthcare affordable through telemedicine consultations, fast at-home deliveries, and ongoing access to providers for services such as birth control and herpes treatments. The company accepts almost every commercial insurance and Medicaid plan, positioning itself as a broadly accessible alternative to traditional care. It currently serves more than 100,000 users across 43 states. Twentyeight Health raised $10M in a Series A, bringing its total capital raised to $25M. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and accelerate product development. Bruno Van Tuykom serves as CEO. Twentyeight Health operates a women’s virtual healthcare platform focused on sexual and reproductive care, accepting Medicaid and partnering with culturally competent clinicians. The platform is bilingual (English and Spanish) and aims to serve medically underserved, low-income, and non-urban populations. Since founding in 2018, the company has expanded from six to 34 states and now covers more than 85% of women of reproductive age in the U.S. It has helped over 60,000 individuals access care, with 55% of users on Medicaid, 58% identifying as BIPOC, and 60% living in non-urban areas; 63% of its birth-control users previously lacked access to prescriptions. The company offers free birth control to uninsured users through a partnership with the Contraceptive Access Fund of Bedsider and donates 2% of revenues to related organizations. With recent funding, Twentyeight Health plans to expand nonprofit partnerships, grow its services and footprint, and improve the quality of its telehealth offerings. Twentyeight Health offers telemedicine reproductive-health services focused on contraception, providing online medical questionnaires reviewed by U.S. board-certified doctors and access to more than 100 FDA-approved birth control options. Customers receive shipments within three days and ongoing care via audio consultations and doctor follow-up messages. The company emphasizes serving Medicaid, underinsured, and uninsured women and works with partners such as Bottomless Closet and eight CUNY colleges to reach underserved populations. Twentyeight Health is the only telemedicine contraception provider noted in the article that accepts Medicaid and also partners with Bedsider’s Contraceptive Access Fund to provide free birth control to uninsured patients. The company donates 2% of its revenue to Bedsider and the National Institute for Reproductive Health. Launched in 2018, Twentyeight Health currently operates across Florida, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania and plans to use new funding to expand services across the U.S.

Participated · Series A · Aug 2024

MD Ally offers 9-1-1 and EMS-integrated telehealth and care navigation technology that enables medical dispatch to expand non-emergency services. The platform is designed to remove logistical barriers between 9-1-1 systems and the broader healthcare ecosystem. The company collaborates with public safety systems and health insurance payors to route callers with non-emergency concerns into timely, appropriate care. MD Ally also provides downstream care coordination and supports callers with personal-assistant level help to improve treatment adherence and long-term outcomes. The company says it partners with large U.S. cities such as Phoenix and has national payor partnerships across Florida, Arizona, and California, serving over 5 million patients. MD Ally is NYC-based, was founded in 2018, and is led by CEO Shanel Fields. MD Ally integrates directly into public safety answering point computer-aided dispatch systems to identify low-acuity 911 calls and redirect them to telehealth options using established Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System codes. The platform is offered free to 911 centers while the company plans to generate revenue from telehealth provider referrals and insurers seeking to reduce emergency-service costs. MD Ally is already integrating with centers in New York and Florida and aims to add centers in Louisiana, California and Arizona by the end of the year. Long-term the company hopes to deescalate situations — including mental-health calls — by routing callers to appropriate clinical or behavioral resources instead of police response. The company was started by CEO and founder Shanel Fields in fall 2019; Kojo DeGraft-Hanson serves as chief product officer. Financially, MD Ally closed a $3.5 million seed round and had previously raised $1 million last March. MD Ally provides an on-demand telemedicine platform that lets dispatchers offer immediate virtual appointments to 911 callers as an alternative to dispatching EMS teams. The product includes a telehealth platform and EMS integrations designed to safely transmit caller information across the 911 system. Founder and CEO Shanel Fields incorporated the company in 2018 after researching EMS workflows and drawing on a Wharton healthcare‑management MBA; the team includes a chief technical officer, chief product officer, and a recent sales hire. MD Ally is distributed but was founded in Philadelphia and plans to relocate to New York City through its involvement with HearstLab. The company raised just over $1 million in a seed round and intends to use the funds to grow headcount and invest in R&D focused on 911 system integration. The service aims to reduce non‑emergent EMS responses, conserve PPE and lower risk to responders and patients, a benefit highlighted during the COVID‑19 pandemic.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2024

Goalsetter provides a goal-based savings and smart-spending platform for families that combines educational media and tools to build wealth. Its financial wellness content is mapped to JumpStart.org and Council for Economic Education national standards and uses pop culture, memes, GIFs and game-based tools to engage young consumers. Features include “Learn to Earn,” which rewards kids for correct quiz answers, and “Learn Before You Burn,” which lets parents automatically freeze teens' and tweens' debit cards if they miss weekly quizzes. The company offers its app as a white-labeled youth-banking solution through partnerships with banks and credit unions including Fiserv, Trustage, CUNA Strategic Services, MSU Federal Credit Union, InTouch CU, Solutions Bank and Liberty Bank. Goalsetter recently raised $9.6M in a Series A extension and plans to use the funds to continue signing new B2B alliances and to implement existing programs ahead of a Series B raise. The company is led by founder and CEO Tanya Van Court. Goalsetter operates a financial-education app for children that combines allowance and gift management, a Goalsetter debit card, age‑tailored financial‑literacy quizzes to 'unlock' funds, and a newly introduced Goalsetter Invest feature for buying and selling stocks. The product is gamified to engage kids while teaching savings, spending, and investing behaviors. Founder Tanya Van Court built the company drawing on personal financial lessons and prior experience at Nickelodeon, Discovery Education and ESPN. Goalsetter initially grew via B2C channels focused on parents and word of mouth. Following its Series A, the company is shifting into B2B, offering white‑labeled versions of its platform to banks and financial institutions through a partnership with Fiserv. It is also pursuing partnerships with large employers to offer the platform as an employee benefit. Goalsetter provides an app and debit card that teach children financial literacy through quizzes, allowance management, goal cards and parental controls. The platform lets parents pay kids for correct quiz answers, enable family and friends to give goal cards instead of gift cards, and control or lock the kid debit card. Founder Tanya Van Court, who previously worked at Nickelodeon and ESPN, launched Goalsetter in 2019 out of the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator. The company reports families save an average of $120 per month on the platform and said two families saved over $10,000 in the last year. Goalsetter is also launching a campaign for Black History Month aimed at closing the wealth gap among Black children and kids of color through financial education. To date the company has raised a total of $6.0M. Goalsetter provides parents and children a goal-driven savings platform with two main branches: a kids’ savings account (allowance, auto-save, debit card round-ups and GoalCards) and a financial-literacy learning center. Children set goals (college, bikes, gaming consoles), earn allowance through the app, and receive GoalCards from relatives to fund those goals. The company’s quiz game “It’s LIT” is mapped to K–12 financial literacy standards and uses pop-culture content to engage kids; Goalsetter plans to launch that curriculum to school districts with lesson plans and quizzes. Goalsetter monetizes by charging $1 per GoalCard sent, donates 5% of the transaction fee to children’s charities, and offers a voluntary donation function. The app skews younger than competitors and has been featured on Shark Tank; the founder declined an offer from Mr. Wonderful. Goalsetter has more than 20,000 users and graduated from the Entrepreneurs’ Roundtable Accelerator in 2017. The company has raised a total of $2.1 million to date.

Led · Seed · Jan 2024

Health in Her HUE is a digital health app focused on reducing health disparities for women of color by connecting members with healthcare providers and culturally tailored content. The platform offers educational health content, community forums, and a network of about 1,300 providers across 60 specialties, and it reports nearly 13,000 members. It runs a Care Squad program that delivers culturally tailored health education classes and plans to expand that program and add new topics including fertility, endometriosis, and postpartum recovery. The company also plans to launch a product to answer health questions via video from clinical experts. Founder and CEO Ashlee Wisdom said the startup balanced fundraising and revenue focus during a challenging raise. To date the company has raised $4.2 million and will use the new funds to expand products and programs and enhance membership experience. Health In Her HUE provides a digital health solution designed to meet the healthcare needs of women of color, with an initial focus on Black women. The platform helps users find and connect with culturally aligned and sensitive healthcare providers and offers culturally attuned health content and community. It already features nearly 1,000 culturally sensitive providers, including doctors, doulas, midwives, lactation consultants, therapists, and nutritionists. The company plans to develop a new platform and a membership experience that will offer customized care support via tailored content, consults, care recommendations, and other benefits and perks. HHH is led by CEO Ashlee Wisdom and COO Eddwina Bright. The company raised $1M in pre-seed funding to support these product and membership efforts.