• Better Health

  Participated · Series A · Oct 2021

  Better Health is a San Francisco, CA–based provider of medical supplies and support for people with chronic conditions. Co-founded by Adam Breckler and Naama Stauber Breckler, the company serves patients with ostomy, chronic wounds, diabetes, chronic retention, and incontinence. Its solution combines a cohesive care model that incorporates peer coaching, education, and home delivery of medical supplies to drive engagement, adherence, improved outcomes, and reduced costs. The company recently raised $14M in financing following a prior $10M Series A. Better Health plans to use the funds to bring a more comprehensive solution to payers and providers and to expand into new categories to serve members with chronic conditions. Backers named in the round include Healthworx, UHealth – University of Miami Health System, Mosaic General Partnership, new investor Samsung Next, and existing investors such as Caffeinated Capital, General Catalyst, Bill Ackman’s family office Table Management, and at.inc/. Better Health offers an end-to-end chronic condition care solution that bundles peer-support, education, telehealth and home delivery of medical supplies to help members discover and purchase appropriate equipment and manage conditions at home. The company reports strong member growth (4.5x growth in the first half of 2021) and clinical outcomes from its programs: a company study found 64% of participants reduced utilization of care and 47% saw improved mental health scores. Better Health currently operates in 46 states and its services are covered by insurance for more than 81 million lives; reported insurance partners include Medicare, Medicaid, Oscar Health and Humana. The team plans to build out specialized telehealth services covered by insurance, expand its bundled supplies, education and telehealth model into new product categories and chronic conditions, and deepen partnerships with health systems and payers. The company recently closed a $10 million Series A to support those expansion plans. Better Health operates an e-commerce marketplace designed to simplify how people with chronic conditions buy home medical supplies. The company provides one-to-one advisors, peer coaches with lived experience, product education and hands-on help navigating insurance, paperwork, cost estimates and appeals. Founder Naama Stauber Breckler built the business after earlier work on CompactCath exposed systemic problems in the medical-supplies market. Better Health is Medicare-licensed in 48 states and has partnerships with commercial payers including Humana and Oscar Health. The startup estimates the U.S. home medical-supplies market at roughly $60 billion annually, underscoring the opportunity. It recently raised seed funding to pursue improving customer choice, experience and innovation in the space.

• Wescover

  Participated · Seed · Jun 2019

  Wescover maps physical objects into digital context, enabling consumers to identify and purchase items seen in hotels, stores, and homes. The product functions as a searchable catalog and experiential e-commerce marketplace that links items to their brands and stories. The company reports more than 50,000 images of unique products mapped across spaces coast-to-coast and over 5,000 local brands and independent artists using the site. Wescover estimates a broader opportunity of roughly 55 million brands and 220 million products in real-world showrooms waiting to be credited. The team positions the service as a network of connections that builds trust and discovery through credibility by association. Wescover says it is building a future where every object has a story and physical environments are rich with digital context.

• Netlify

  Participated · Series A · Aug 2017

  Netlify provides a Jamstack-focused platform that separates front-end design from back-end business processes, embracing Jamstack and microservices. The company is working to reduce developer friction around managing multiple APIs and has acquired OneGraph to help connect APIs via GraphQL. Netlify reports more than 2 million developers using the platform, though many are on the free tier; it grew from 1 million to 2 million users in one year. The company currently has about 200 employees and plans to double headcount in the next year. Financially, Netlify raised a $105M Series D at a $2B valuation and has raised close to $200M in total, according to Crunchbase. It also announced a $10M Jamstack Innovation fund (with checks around $100k) and set aside $1M to invest in adjacent open source tooling to support the ecosystem. Netlify provides a platform that abstracts away the traditional web server by shifting sites to a static front end with back-end microservices, aiming to improve security, scaling, and speed. The company has grown developer sign-ups from 300,000 in 2018 to about 800,000 today and says it has tripled revenue three years running. Netlify plans to use new capital to build out its enterprise business and win larger customers; current enterprise customers include Google, Facebook, Citrix and Unilever. The team has expanded headcount from 38 to 97 since the beginning of last year and expects to reach 180 employees by year’s end. Management framed the raise as prudent support for rapid growth rather than a necessity, and they described valuation as “very generous” without disclosing specifics. Netlify provides a platform that shifts web development from monolithic servers to static front ends paired with backend microservices, and has added support for AWS Lambda. The founders, Chris Bach and Matt Biilmann, frame the product as part of a broader API-economy shift and aim to replace traditional web servers with a global application delivery network. The company reports roughly 300,000 developers using its approach, signaling early traction. Funds raised will be used to build a more organized sales and marketing team to target larger organizations, while continuing product development and developer outreach. The team positions Netlify as simplifying deployment, security, and scaling by abstracting server complexity and making web development more like mobile app development. Netlify is a San Francisco–based provider that offers developers an instant setup for deploying and collaborating on modern frontend web projects. Led by Mathias Biilmann Christensen, the company provides an all-in-one platform bundling servers, CDN, continuous delivery, HTTPS, staging environments, prerendering, asset post-processing, DNS and related tooling. The product targets both individual developers and large organizations adopting the modern web stack by combining deployment, automation, and collaboration features. Netlify raised $12m in a Series A to support its growth. The company intends to use the funds to expand contributions to the modern web ecosystem — including open-source projects such as Netlify CMS, GoTrue and GoCommerce — and to continue building out collaboration tools and infrastructure. Netlify provides a developer-focused workflow that pushes site updates to a repository and its services, builds pre-rendered static pages, and distributes them across content delivery networks to reduce load times. The company bundles build, deploy, rollback and monitoring functions into a command-line tool and a web-based interface for snapshots and health checks. Netlify’s service pushes updates to GitHub and its own pipeline, then selects and serves pages from the closest or best CDN. Most sites served are functionally dynamic in the browser while remaining pre-built server-side, and Netlify intentionally does not provide tools that interact with a database layer. The founders, Mathias Biilmann and Chris Bach, aim to simplify front-end deployment and attract developers who prefer lightweight, fast page experiences. The company faces competitive risk from large providers like AWS but positions itself for the long tail of developer usage.

• Peer5

  Participated · Seed · Jul 2017

  Peer5 sits on top of existing CDNs to enable large-scale streaming by using viewers' devices to distribute video to other viewers. It leverages WebRTC technology, which both Microsoft and Apple have recently indicated support for, to enable browser-based peer-to-peer delivery. Publishers can offer incentives (for example, higher-quality broadcasts) to encourage viewers to opt in and contribute upload capacity. The company reports it recently supported its first event with more than 1 million concurrent viewers, up from 40,000 two years earlier, and is targeting 10 million concurrent viewers next. Peer5 was part of Y Combinator and has raised seed funding to further develop and scale its technology. CEO Hadar Weiss frames the product as addressing a fundamental scalability problem in online TV and streaming. Peer5, based in Palo Alto, CA and Tel Aviv, Israel, provides a hybrid platform that combines HTTP and P2P mesh networks to optimize content delivery for mobile and internet applications. Its mesh network and P2P offloading system reduces bandwidth usage and speeds file transfers, which the company says increases user engagement. The platform is positioned to improve mobile and internet content delivery performance for publishers and app developers. Peer5 was co-founded by Hadar Weiss (CEO) and Shachar Zohar (CTO). The company announced a strategic seed investment and intends to use the funds to expand operations. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.

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