Current portfolio companies include cybersecurity providers Forescout Technologies, Cato Networks, and Exabeam; future of work - focused companies Crew, Gusto, Chime, and The Muse; and digital
health startups such as Vida Health, Grokker, and Solv.
Fund I investments include cybersecurity providers Forescout Technologies, Cato Networks, and Exabeam, future of work - focused companies Crew, Gusto, Chime, and The Muse, and digital
health startups such as Vida Health, Grokker, and Solv.
Not exact matches
Understated fonts like these work brilliantly for
startups in industries that involve consumer interaction,
such as
health and wellness companies.
Some
startups —
such as Toronto - based Shift
Health and its tablet - based multi-language admission forms — are aiming to improve hospital workflow through software.
Competition:
Startups must compete against all the existing reproductive
health care options available,
such as primary care physicians and alternative telemedicine solutions.
While some
startups,
such as Taskrabbit, have attempted to address some of the inequity invovled in being a contract worker, for example by setting a wage floor of $ 11.20 an hour — higher than the proposed national minimum wage of $ 10.10 — and providing some discounts for
health care and transportation, contractors clearly need a lot more.
With that in mind, Bruno launched Hometeam, a homecare technology
startup that pairs older adults — many of whom suffer from diseases
such as Parkinson's, dementia, or multiple sclerosis — with in - home
health aides.
Within the Jumpstart Ventures portfolio, we have
health - related
startups such as Healthfinch and Swipesense, which are taking on one of the biggest areas for opportunity within healthcare: compliance.
In 2016, the FDA teamed up with Flatiron
Health, a $ 1.2 billion New York - based healthcare technology
startup that collects clinical data from cancer patients —
such as what medications a patient has taken and how he or she has responded to them.
Thanks to bold self - revelations from some top names in the industry, greater media coverage (
such as this award - winning story from Inc. magazine by Jessica Bruder) and, sadly, the tragic loss of several members of the
startup community to suicide, the curtain that once completely walled off founders» mental
health struggles is starting to crack open.
Many of the new women's
health care
startups,
such as Modern Fertility and Future Family, let women order hormone - based fertility tests without having to see a doctor first and then deliver the results directly to them.
In addition, many of our companies are graduates of top accelerators
such as Techstars, Rock
Health, and Boom
Startup.
While this excludes a great number of
startups, you still may be able to find grants for certain services that benefit the public —
such as expanding a child care or
health services business.
As
such,
health - centric beauty
startups are more inclined to adopt blockchain technology early on.