
Sorenson Impact Group
6330 South 3000 East, Suite 630, Salt Lake City, UT, 84121, United States
Overview
The mission and purposes of the James Lee Sorenson Global Impact Investing Center (SGII Center) are to accelerate and advance the understanding and application of principles of free enterprise to create scalable and sustainable, global societal change.
- Total investments
- 7
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 5
Sector focus
- Education
- Financial Services
- FinTech
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Paralign Health
Participated · Seed · May 2026
Paralign Health provides technology, operational infrastructure, and funding pathways to scale Mobile Integrated Health and Community Paramedicine (MIH-CP) programs nationwide. Co-founded by CEO and EMT Aaron Molloy and EMS leader Justin Duncan, the company helps health plans identify high-risk members, coordinate in-home EMS-led interventions, and manage contracting, claims, and payment flows with local EMS agencies. Paralign aims to reduce avoidable emergency room utilization, improve outcomes for patients in medically underserved areas, and lower total cost of care. The company announced a $3 million seed raise to expand its network of fire departments and EMS agencies, accelerate its platform development, and grow health plan partnerships. The article references Paralign's Kansas City, Mo. dateline and frames the company as building an operating model to scale community-based preventative care.
- Occupi
Participated · Seed · Jul 2025
Occupi provides an AI-driven payment and screening platform that offers seamless payment options, including traditional methods and digital cash wallets, to reduce operational friction for property managers. The company focuses on affordable and student housing markets and aims to cover multiple housing markets across the U.S. Occupi completed an oversubscribed seed funding round, raising $3.105 million. Investors include Fenway Summer and Assurant Ventures (co-leads), social impact firms Halcyon Venture Partners and Sorenson Impact Foundation, and various private investors. With the new funding, Occupi plans to hire experienced engineers in payments and proptech and roll out new product features. The company is also partnering with the Alabama Power Foundation to address affordable housing assistance programs as it scales.
- Canopie
Participated · Seed · Sep 2024
Canopie provides personalized virtual maternal mental health care including one-on-one behavioral health assessments, care management, on-demand therapeutic programs, and clinician-led virtual classes. Its core on-demand program was developed by perinatal clinical psychologists, physicians, researchers, and new moms and is underpinned by seven meta-analyses and 50 randomized controlled trials. In a recent case study with GuideWell (parent company of Florida Blue), 89% of members engaged in Canopie’s core program, 100% of program completers reported improved mood, and 79% of surveyed members attributed Canopie to increased care-seeking; Black, Latina, and resource-constrained moms were the highest engagers. The company plans to use new funding to expand personalized, insurance-covered virtual mental health care and to address social drivers of health for moms across all risk levels. Canopie is led by Founder and CEO Anne Wanlund and is based in Falls Church, Virginia. The company recently raised a $3.7M Seed round to support that expansion. Canopie delivers evidence-based, automated and personalized mental-health programs tailored to expecting and new mothers. The mobile app builds customized 12-day programs with short audio sessions, mood monitoring, and peer stories to reduce stigma and address barriers like scheduling, time, and cost. The company offers two product lines—prevention/treatment for expecting mothers and one for new mothers—and sells primarily to health plans, integrated delivery networks, and self-insured employers. Services include HIPAA-compliant depression screenings (reimbursable through existing CMS codes), cost-effective customized treatment at a fraction of face-to-face therapy, and referral pathways to mental-health providers. Canopie cites randomized controlled trials and a 2021 study in which 79% of users with depressive symptoms experienced a clinically significant improvement. The company plans to use the VIPC investment to secure early customers in healthcare delivery and validate product readiness for larger-scale deployment.
- homium
Led · Series A · Apr 2024
Homium is a Los Angeles, CA–based home equity mortgage lender and provider of a securitization platform. It uses patented technology to monetize and securitize owner-occupied home equity at scale, leveraging capital markets through a product the company says puts homeowners’ interests first. Homium enables homeowners to take out an on-title second mortgage in the form of a shared appreciation mortgage loan, which it pools with other loans into an investment vehicle to offer a tokenized security to investors. The company has its first loans live in Colorado and aims to expand the platform to several other states. Homium raised $10M in a Series A led by Sorenson Impact Group and Blizzard, the Avalanche Ecosystem Fund, and intends to use the funds to expand operations and development efforts.
- FutureFit AI
Participated · Equity · Mar 2022
FutureFit AI develops AI-powered workforce development technology that combines real-time labor market data with personalized career pathways to drive measurable workforce outcomes. The company builds talent marketplace and workforce infrastructure to connect individuals, education providers, and employers across education, training, and employment systems. FutureFit AI works with government and industry partners across U.S. states, provincially and federally in Canada, and in Europe to coordinate scalable approaches to workforce development. In partnership with the State of Connecticut, the platform has supported nearly 50,000 individuals, trained about 7,000 in high-demand industries, and achieved an 85% placement rate for those trained. The company says its platform supports career navigation, pathway discovery, and informs education and training pathways to address regional talent gaps. FutureFit positions itself as building the infrastructure to help people navigate transitions in the AI-driven economy.