Ellie Wheeler We’re thrilled to announce our latest investment in AHARA, a personalized nutrition solution that aims to revolutionize how we approach optimal health. AHARA, derived from the Sanskrit word for nourishment, is the brainchild of accomplished nutritionist Dr. Melina Jampolis and serial tech entrepreneur Julie Wainwright. …

Commitments to New Core Venture, Growth, and Other Funds Bring Total Capital Raised Since Inception to Over $3 Billion Today, Greycroft announced the closing of more than $1 billion of capital commitments across new funds. The firm’s two flagship vehicles, Greycroft Partners VII and Greycroft Growth IV, closed on over…

Brentt Baltimore My introduction to the Bobsled team happened as they closed their seed round. Bobsled’s value proposition at the time, “data distribution as a service,” made sense — enterprise demand for external data had skyrocketed, yet the way in which it was shared was still an error-prone, time-intensive process…

The manufacturing sector is a core engine of economic growth in the US, representing more than $2.35T in spend and greater than 10% of US GDP. It’s estimated that each $1 invested in the manufacturing sector added $2.79 of value to the broader US economy. Because of this, industrial automation…

Our team saw a big influx of questions from our portfolio companies about generative AI broadly and LLMs specifically in the past few months as companies looked to be early adopters. This led to many great discussions with these management teams and other leaders in the space who have implemented…

This past fall, UnitedHealth closed on its $13B acquisition of Change Healthcare, after clearing a Department of Justice suit to block the merger on antitrust concerns. …

To state the obvious: 2022 has been a hard year for digital health companies. Markets pivoted to prioritizing profitability over growth, pummeling public and private companies alike. As the economy has worsened, layoffs have rippled across the startup ecosystem, including within digital health. …

“How do I land an early contract with a payor?” is a frequent question we hear and discuss. As many digital health startups plan to treat high acuity conditions and offer complex care, many seek out payor reimbursement early. We’ve gathered case studies and commentary from a handful of scaling…

As public markets sell off and gloom replaces the euphoric optimism of 2021, some have come to question the sustainability of venture-backed digital health (here and here, for instance). …