Healthworx

Healthworx is a healthcare company founded in 2017 and serves as the corporate venture arm of Carefirst of Maryland, based in Baltimore, Maryland. The organization focuses on enhancing healthcare operations, particularly targeting solutions for underserved populations. Healthworx is dedicated to improving consumer healthcare engagement and ensuring access to care across various settings. By investing in innovative healthcare solutions, the company aims to address critical needs within the healthcare sector and promote better health outcomes for individuals and communities.

Christopher George

Investment Manager

Doba Parushev

Managing Partner

Past deals in Personal Health

Scene Health

Series B in 2023
Scene Health is a mobile health company that focuses on improving patient engagement and medication adherence through innovative technology. Utilizing a smartphone application, patients can video record themselves taking their medication, which allows healthcare providers to assess adherence and interact with patients via a secure web portal. The platform is designed to support various healthcare sectors, including public health departments, clinical trials, hospitals, and managed care organizations, particularly for patients with conditions such as tuberculosis, opioid use disorder, hepatitis C, and diabetes. Scene Health offers customizable reporting to care teams, providing insights from daily video submissions to enhance patient care. The platform is multilingual, functions offline, and has been shown in an NIH-funded study by Johns Hopkins to achieve an average medication adherence rate of 94 percent among participants. Founded in 2008 and based in Baltimore, Maryland, Scene Health continues to advance its mission of empowering patients through technology.

Culina Health

Seed Round in 2022
Culina Health is a personalized nutrition platform that offers tele-nutrition services guided by registered dietitians. The platform aims to assist individuals, particularly those with chronic diseases, by providing accessible and culturally competent nutrition care. By prioritizing individual health needs, Culina Health enables customers to make informed dietary choices and adopt healthier habits, ultimately supporting them in leading a balanced and satisfying life. The company's services are designed to simplify the nutrition care process, making it easier for clients to understand and utilize insurance-covered options for their nutritional needs.

Frame Fertility

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of personalized fertility platform services intended to help people build their families. The company uses a digital counseling platform to understand the individual's or couples' fertility goals, risk tolerance, relationship status, benefits coverage, and financial and other considerations, enabling individuals with tailored educational content and tips and guiding them through the entire fertility journey.

Ryse Health

Seed Round in 2022
Ryse Health is a healthcare platform focused on assisting individuals and families managing chronic diseases, particularly type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic health. Founded in 2021 and based in Arlington, Virginia, the company offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes therapeutics, technology, day-to-day coaching, and analytics. Its platform facilitates both in-person and virtual access to endocrinologists and a full care team, ensuring patients receive continuous support tailored to their needs. Ryse Health aims to alleviate the burdens associated with chronic disease through innovative care solutions.

Health In Her HUE

Seed Round in 2022
Health In Her HUE is a digital platform dedicated to connecting Black women and women of color with culturally competent healthcare providers. The platform offers access to evidence-based health content tailored to the lived experiences of Black women, aiming to address and reduce racial health disparities. By leveraging technology, media, and community support, Health In Her HUE facilitates comfortable communication between women and their healthcare providers, promoting improved health outcomes and fostering a supportive environment for its users.

Scene Health

Series A in 2021
Scene Health is a mobile health company that focuses on improving patient engagement and medication adherence through innovative technology. Utilizing a smartphone application, patients can video record themselves taking their medication, which allows healthcare providers to assess adherence and interact with patients via a secure web portal. The platform is designed to support various healthcare sectors, including public health departments, clinical trials, hospitals, and managed care organizations, particularly for patients with conditions such as tuberculosis, opioid use disorder, hepatitis C, and diabetes. Scene Health offers customizable reporting to care teams, providing insights from daily video submissions to enhance patient care. The platform is multilingual, functions offline, and has been shown in an NIH-funded study by Johns Hopkins to achieve an average medication adherence rate of 94 percent among participants. Founded in 2008 and based in Baltimore, Maryland, Scene Health continues to advance its mission of empowering patients through technology.

WellSet

Seed Round in 2021
Wellset Inc. operates an online platform that helps customers to find, book and recommend wellness practitioners. Wellset Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Pair Team

Seed Round in 2021
Pair Team provides an end-to-end operations platform to automate clinical operations and provide high-touch patient support. The platform monitors health plan and system data to trigger automated workflows that engage patients to schedule clinically impactful visits. Pair Team was founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California.

Live Chair

Seed Round in 2021
Live Chair offers an app that encourages and inspires barbers and their clients to become more aware of their health, catching signs of heart issues by checking their blood pressure, and discussing other potential issues. This requires no extra cost and no extra time for the clients, many of whom have likely not seen a doctor in years. By equipping barbers with tools for checking blood pressure, BMI, and HRA, Live Chair Health is championing an assertive strategy to support African-American men’s long-term health.

Even Health

Seed Round in 2021
Even Health is a behavioral health company building technology platforms that support and strengthen the mental, emotional, and spiritual health of today’s workforce. Even Health is the creator of Cabana, a digital counseling platform that connects healthcare workers from multiple organizations anonymously in professionally moderated group support and Third Room, a virtual reality platform developed in partnership with the US Air Force. Based in Annapolis, MD, Even Health is currently working with our military and healthcare communities, was featured in Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas, and was selected for investment by the coveted 1501 Health startup accelerator run by CareFirst BCBS and LifeBridge Health.
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