Participated · Series D · May 2021

Vida Health delivers a full‑stack virtual chronic care platform that combines an AI‑personalized experience with human clinicians (therapists, coaches, dietitians, diabetes educators) via video, messaging, and digital content. The company treats mental and physical conditions together, applying cognitive behavioral science and machine learning to drive long‑term behavior change. Vida expanded a nationwide provider network by more than 400% and launched a complete Spanish experience while tripling revenue since the start of 2020. Its customers include large employers (Boeing, Visa, Cisco, eBay) and major health plans (Centene, Humana, Blue Cross Blue Shield plans). Vida reports more than 400,000 people with diabetes have access to its services and saw a 6000% increase in therapy sessions year over year. The company plans to scale its clinician network, deepen machine learning capabilities, broaden commercial efforts, and expand mental health and chronic‑disease offerings. Vida commercially launched a direct-to-consumer iPhone app offering app-based health and wellness coaching. The service connects users to nutritionists, physicians, diabetes educators, nurses and coaches across eight initial programs including weight loss, fitness, detox, stress reduction, cholesterol lowering, blood pressure lowering and diabetes prevention. Programs are priced at $15 per week and Vida says its coaches have experience with more than 20 health conditions. The company has begun three-month IRB clinical trials at MD Anderson Cancer Center and will soon begin one at Duke University Hospital; it is also working with Duke on a cardiac rehab program and has integrated MD Anderson recovery protocols for certain cancers. Vida plans to develop an Android app and is testing other distribution channels, including employer per-employee pricing and offerings to providers; insurance companies are on the roadmap. The company is led by CEO and founder Stephanie Tilenius, who previously worked at Kleiner Perkins, Google and eBay/PayPal.

Participated · Series D · May 2021

Vida Health offers a clinically validated virtual cardiometabolic care platform that combines prescriptive and behavioral therapies through an AI-powered personalized mobile app and a national network of providers. Its programs include video sessions, asynchronous messaging, and digital content to prevent and manage diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and related mental health conditions. Vida emphasizes a body-and-mind approach and says it was an early innovator—integrating Cognitive Behavioral Therapy into cardiometabolic care, launching a full Spanish intervention, and combining behavior change with GLP-1 prescribing. Some of America’s largest employers and health plans are customers, and the company markets its model on delivering clinical and financial outcomes for whole populations. Vida frames its mission as increasing access to innovative, lower-cost treatments to improve patient outcomes and address growing unmet needs in cardiometabolic disease, which affects roughly 40% of U.S. adults. The company intends to further scale and pursue growth opportunities in the rapidly expanding GLP-1 market, where demand is projected to reach $100 billion by 2030. Vida Health operates a virtual chronic care platform that combines an AI-powered, personalized app with video sessions, messaging, and a network of licensed clinicians, coaches, dietitians, and diabetes educators. The company focuses on integrated mental and physical care, with heavily used programs for Type 2 diabetes and mental health. Vida has more than tripled its revenue since the beginning of 2020 and expanded its clinician network by over 400%; more than 400,000 people with diabetes currently have access to Vida’s services. The company launched a complete, full-stack Spanish experience and reports a 6000% increase in therapy sessions last year, with multiple JMIR studies showing A1C reductions and improvements in depression/anxiety outcomes. Vida plans to use new funding to grow its clinician and coaching network, deepen machine-learning capabilities, broaden commercial efforts, and scale its nationwide mental health coaching program. Clients include employers such as Boeing, Visa, Cisco, and eBay, and large health plans including Centene, Humana, and Blue Cross Blue Shield plans. Vida Health is a virtual care platform built to treat multiple chronic health conditions simultaneously using machine learning alongside human health coaches and therapists. Launched in 2014 and led by CEO Stephanie Tilenius, the company delivers services via a mobile platform that supports prevention, management and reversal of conditions such as pre‑diabetes, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, depression and anxiety. The platform integrates deep individual expert care with data‑driven technology and remote monitoring. Vida sells its services to employers and health plans to deliver improved health outcomes and cost savings. In January 2020 the company raised $25M in funding led by Ally Bridge Group with participation from returning investors including AME Cloud Ventures, Aspect Ventures, Canvas Ventures, NGP Capital, Webb Investment Network and Workday Ventures. Vida says it will use the funds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. Vida Health is a personalized virtual care platform that combines digital therapeutic programs with health coaching and therapy delivered via mobile and online channels. The platform supports individuals in managing and reversing chronic physical and behavioral health conditions such as pre-diabetes, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, depression and anxiety. The company is led by founder and CEO Stephanie Tilenius and is based in San Francisco. Vida is deployed by Fortune 1000 employers and healthcare organizations, with customers including Avalon Bay, eBay, PayPal, Steelcase, FICO, Cisco, Visa, Veterans Affairs, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Aurora Health Care and Partners Healthcare. In June 2019 the company closed a $30M Series C and said it will use the funds to expand sales and marketing and to grow its national coaching and therapy network. Investors in the round included GuideWell Mutual Holding Corporation, Teladoc Health, Workday Ventures and existing backers Canvas, Aspect Ventures and NGP Capital. Vida Health offers a HIPAA-compliant, subscription-based app that pairs patients with a network of thousands of health coaches, from nutritionists to therapists. Its platform addresses more than 25 chronic conditions and integrates data from users' doctors, insurers, and up to 100 apps and devices (including MyFitnessPal, Garmin, Fitbit, Strava, and Apple Watch). Vida serves both direct-to-consumer users and enterprise customers, with clients that include Stanford, Duke University, MD Anderson Cancer Center, United Healthcare, and eBay. The company says “tens of thousands” of people have received coaching on the platform and that it has collected more than 7 million data points. Vida is paid by both employers and insurance companies, though the CEO declined to specify whether D2C or enterprise revenue is larger. The company aims to use its accumulated data to improve and expand its product effectiveness over time.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2014

Hortonworks distributes a Hadoop open-source software stack used to store, process and analyze varied data types. The company has a strategic reseller and engineering partnership with Hewlett-Packard that enables HP customers to run Hortonworks’ Hadoop distribution as part of HP’s HAVEN software. Hortonworks and HP are collaborating to certify HP Vertica to work with Hadoop’s YARN component and to align engineering plans. The company has raised at least $275 million to date, including a $100 million round in March and the newly announced $50 million investment from HP. Hortonworks had about 450 employees at the time of the report and competes with Cloudera and MapR in the Hadoop market. The company’s near-term plans, as described in the articles, emphasize deeper integration with HP’s cloud and big-data offerings and joint engineering work. Hortonworks develops, distributes and supports the open-source Apache Hadoop data platform that integrates with existing IT investments and enables enterprises to build and deploy Hadoop-based applications. Led by CEO Rob Bearden, the company partners with strategic resellers to broaden market reach. Strategic resell partners named in the article include Microsoft, SAP, Teradata, HP and others. Hortonworks closed a $100M funding round to further support its go-to-market efforts. The company said it will use the funds to accelerate the enablement of these partners to sell HDP into their customer bases as part of their offerings. The article includes a related note of a prior $50M financing on 03/07/2013. Hortonworks develops and supports a Hadoop distribution aimed at data analytics and application in operations and transaction‑based systems. The company spun out of Yahoo! in 2011 and is a chief contributor to Hadoop 2.0 and Apache Hadoop YARN. Its business model revolves around a close association with Apache Hadoop as a data platform. Hortonworks faces competition from peers such as Cloudera and MapR, as well as startups like Datameer and Karmasphere and enterprise players including IBM and EMC. The company raised $50 million in new financing to accelerate growth and product development. The fundraising was reported as a sign of investor confidence as the Hadoop market expands and analytics adoption increases.