7wire Ventures

7wire Ventures is a Chicago-based venture capital firm founded in 2011 that concentrates on early-stage investments in digital health, healthcare IT, mobility-enabled services, and other technology-enabled solutions in the United States. The firm provides funding and operating guidance to portfolio companies to help transform innovative ideas into scalable, world-class businesses. Its approach leverages mobility, connected devices, cloud computing, and analytics to advance sectors such as healthcare and education and to challenge conventional solutions.

Tunde Akinniranye

Analyst

Ted Bernstein

Operating Partner

Robert Garber

Partner

Alyssa Jaffee

Vice President

Dan Michelson

Operating Partner

Thomas Richards

Operating Partner

Rachel Stillman

Senior Associate

Past deals in Health Insurance

HomeThrive

Series B in 2024
HomeThrive offers care management services for elderly individuals, combining digital platforms with expert coaching and personal assistance. It aims to help older adults live independently at home while reducing the burden on family caregivers.

Hippocratic AI

Series A in 2024
Hippocratic AI specializes in developing large language models focused on safety and patient-facing applications within the healthcare sector. Unlike common approaches that rely heavily on internet data, Hippocratic AI prioritizes acquiring evidence-based healthcare content legally to ensure accurate and reliable information.

9amHealth

Series A in 2024
9amHealth is a healthcare service provider that aims to deliver comprehensive medical support for chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. The company offers personalized care plans, prescription medication, at-home lab tests, and unlimited virtual visits, ensuring that patients have direct access to affordable and compassionate care. By redesigning all care elements into a single digital service, 9amHealth caters to the modern realities of patients' lives, making healthcare always available and convenient, even for those without insurance. Its focus on chronic conditions highlights its commitment to improving the health and well-being of customers in the United States.

Folx Health

Series B in 2022
Folx Health is a Boston-based telehealth platform founded in 2020, specializing in digital healthcare services tailored for the LGBTQIA+ community. It offers access to queer and trans clinicians, focusing on gender-affirming hormone therapy, sexual health, and family creation services.

HomeThrive

Series B in 2022
HomeThrive offers care management services for elderly individuals, combining digital platforms with expert coaching and personal assistance. It aims to help older adults live independently at home while reducing the burden on family caregivers.

9amHealth

Series A in 2022
9amHealth is a healthcare service provider that aims to deliver comprehensive medical support for chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. The company offers personalized care plans, prescription medication, at-home lab tests, and unlimited virtual visits, ensuring that patients have direct access to affordable and compassionate care. By redesigning all care elements into a single digital service, 9amHealth caters to the modern realities of patients' lives, making healthcare always available and convenient, even for those without insurance. Its focus on chronic conditions highlights its commitment to improving the health and well-being of customers in the United States.

MedArrive

Series A in 2021
MedArrive operates a SaaS platform that connects healthcare providers with patients in their homes. Its technology integrates clinical data into electronic medical records, facilitates communication, and manages billing. By utilizing an underutilized workforce of EMS professionals, MedArrive improves patient outcomes, fosters self-advocacy, reduces costs for payers and providers, and increases access to quality healthcare.

Transcarent

Series B in 2021
Transcarent is a consumer-directed health and care platform serving employees of self-insured employers and their families. It combines software, technology, health guides, and data science to provide unbiased information, trusted guidance, and access to high-value care. The company connects users with an integrated ecosystem of high-value providers and health services, enabling customers to exercise choice and transparency for addressing a broad range of healthcare challenges.

SameSky Health

Series B in 2020
SameSky Health specializes in multicultural patient engagement solutions. Its platform connects payers, providers, and health systems with diverse Medicare populations, offering multi-channel messaging, care navigation, data insights, and consultancy services to enhance engagement, reduce emergency room visits, and improve healthcare outcomes.

HomeThrive

Series A in 2020
HomeThrive offers care management services for elderly individuals, combining digital platforms with expert coaching and personal assistance. It aims to help older adults live independently at home while reducing the burden on family caregivers.

Transcarent

Series A in 2020
Transcarent is a consumer-directed health and care platform serving employees of self-insured employers and their families. It combines software, technology, health guides, and data science to provide unbiased information, trusted guidance, and access to high-value care. The company connects users with an integrated ecosystem of high-value providers and health services, enabling customers to exercise choice and transparency for addressing a broad range of healthcare challenges.

SchoolCare

Series C in 2019
SchoolCare is a digital health platform that provides free health technology to K-12 public schools, enabling school nurses to deliver effective care and enhance student safety. The company aims to create a unified health record for every family by leveraging pediatric health data within the extensive K-12 school system, which serves as a vital public health infrastructure. SchoolCare's platform captures essential student medical information, including charts, medications, and immunizations, while facilitating communication between schools, families, and healthcare providers. By addressing gaps in traditional care coordination, SchoolCare ensures that crucial care instructions reach school nurses, thereby reducing the risk of inconsistent post-discharge care. Through its innovative approach, SchoolCare seeks to improve health outcomes for children and streamline public school health programs across the United States.

Medisafe

Series B in 2017
Medisafe is a digital platform empowering patients to manage their medications effectively. It leverages data science to personalize patient engagement, improving medication adherence by up to 20% as proven in studies. With nearly 5 million users across various devices and an average app rating of 4.7 stars, Medisafe facilitates medication tracking, reminders, and insights for patients and healthcare providers.

SameSky Health

Series A in 2017
SameSky Health specializes in multicultural patient engagement solutions. Its platform connects payers, providers, and health systems with diverse Medicare populations, offering multi-channel messaging, care navigation, data insights, and consultancy services to enhance engagement, reduce emergency room visits, and improve healthcare outcomes.

SchoolCare

Series B in 2016
SchoolCare is a digital health platform that provides free health technology to K-12 public schools, enabling school nurses to deliver effective care and enhance student safety. The company aims to create a unified health record for every family by leveraging pediatric health data within the extensive K-12 school system, which serves as a vital public health infrastructure. SchoolCare's platform captures essential student medical information, including charts, medications, and immunizations, while facilitating communication between schools, families, and healthcare providers. By addressing gaps in traditional care coordination, SchoolCare ensures that crucial care instructions reach school nurses, thereby reducing the risk of inconsistent post-discharge care. Through its innovative approach, SchoolCare seeks to improve health outcomes for children and streamline public school health programs across the United States.

Zest Health App

Series A in 2015
Zest Health, LLC is a mobile healthcare solution provider based in Chicago, Illinois, incorporated in 2013. The company develops a comprehensive app that empowers users to navigate the healthcare system more effectively. Its platform includes features such as Talk to Me, which provides immediate access to medical experts; Schedule Me, for booking appointments; Inform Me, offering health information similar to WebMD; and Track Me, which stores electronic health records. Zest Health aims to help users make informed healthcare decisions by guiding them in selecting in-network providers, understanding service costs, managing appointments, and addressing claims and billing issues. Serving over 500,000 healthcare consumers, Zest partners with self-insured employers, third-party administrators, insurance brokers, and health plans to enhance access to healthcare resources and support preventative care and disease management programs.

Medisafe

Series A in 2015
Medisafe is a digital platform empowering patients to manage their medications effectively. It leverages data science to personalize patient engagement, improving medication adherence by up to 20% as proven in studies. With nearly 5 million users across various devices and an average app rating of 4.7 stars, Medisafe facilitates medication tracking, reminders, and insights for patients and healthcare providers.

Lightbeam Health Solutions

Series A in 2014
Lightbeam Health Solutions provides population health management software and services for ACOs, payers, large provider groups, health systems, and other healthcare organizations. The platform supports population health with an enterprise data warehouse, analytics, physician engagement, care management, risk stratification, and patient engagement, and offers cloud hosting, data backup, disaster recovery, and security services such as HIPAA risk assessment, security policy assessment, vulnerability analysis, and monitoring. The company also provides consulting including star rating improvement, security and regulatory compliance (HIPAA/HITECH/SOX), contract analysis and negotiation, and ACO consulting, along with health information exchange, data migration, and integration consulting. Additional data management, lockbox services, implementation and training, and system support are offered. Lightbeam collaborates with Quirk Healthcare Solutions and Ingram Micro. Founded in 2012 and based in Irving, Texas.

EosHealth (became Livongo)

Acquisition in 2013
EosHealth, Inc. offers healthcare management programs for individuals, employers, health plans, hospitals, and physicians. It provides a chronic disease management platform that is focused on diabetes. The company delivers personalized health management through real-time information, feedback, and ongoing support that improve the quality of health for employers, patients, and payers. Its programs include devices; free blood glucose meter and supplies; home delivery of supplies; real-time tracking and monitoring; 24/7 online support; one-on-one coaching; personalized meal and exercise plans; and online community. EosHealth, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Zest Health App

Seed Round in 2013
Zest Health, LLC is a mobile healthcare solution provider based in Chicago, Illinois, incorporated in 2013. The company develops a comprehensive app that empowers users to navigate the healthcare system more effectively. Its platform includes features such as Talk to Me, which provides immediate access to medical experts; Schedule Me, for booking appointments; Inform Me, offering health information similar to WebMD; and Track Me, which stores electronic health records. Zest Health aims to help users make informed healthcare decisions by guiding them in selecting in-network providers, understanding service costs, managing appointments, and addressing claims and billing issues. Serving over 500,000 healthcare consumers, Zest partners with self-insured employers, third-party administrators, insurance brokers, and health plans to enhance access to healthcare resources and support preventative care and disease management programs.
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