Frist Cressey Ventures

Frist Cressey Ventures, LLC is a venture capital firm established in 2015 and headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The firm specializes in early and growth stage investments, primarily focusing on the healthcare sector. It aims to accelerate the development of high-potential healthcare enterprises by forming value-added partnerships. Frist Cressey Ventures invests in technology and service businesses that offer innovative solutions to enhance quality of care, system integration, patient outcomes, and overall population health. By collaborating with like-minded entrepreneurs who share similar core values, the firm is dedicated to improving the healthcare landscape.

William Frist

Co-Founder and Partner

Matt Schappell

Principal

Mark Tipps

Partner and COO

Past deals in Health Care

Qualified Health

Seed Round in 2025
Qualified Health is a reliable partner for safely utilizing generative AI in medicine. Qualified Health's infrastructure solution offers safeguards for ongoing algorithm performance monitoring, active AI governance, and developing agents tailored to the healthcare industry. Qualified Health are revolutionizing healthcare in America with top health system partners.

Thyme Care

Series C in 2024
Thyme Care is a healthcare company focused on providing comprehensive oncology care management services. It partners with health plans to deliver an integrated oncology solution that emphasizes whole-person care for cancer patients. By employing a tech-enabled platform, Thyme Care offers personalized support through physician-guided oncology nurses and resource specialists who educate and guide patients throughout their cancer journey. This model generates actionable insights that help healthcare providers identify at-risk patients earlier, facilitating timely access to quality resources and care. Thyme Care aims to enhance the cancer experience through early and ongoing intervention, ensuring that every cancer patient receives the individualized care they need.

Praia Health

Series A in 2024
Praia Health is a cutting-edge consumer platform for health systems that transforms the delivery of personalised health solutions on a large scale, allowing digital transformation.

Memora Health

Venture Round in 2023
Memora Health Inc., founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, develops an enterprise healthcare productivity platform aimed at automating outpatient communication and enhancing care delivery. The company partners with health systems, health plans, and digital health organizations to streamline clinical workflows, allowing clinicians to focus on their primary responsibilities while proactively engaging patients throughout their care journeys. Memora's platform digitizes high-touch processes, intelligently triaging patient-reported data to the relevant care team members and facilitating proactive, two-way communication between patients and providers. By transforming the way care is delivered, Memora Health seeks to make healthcare more actionable, accessible, and continuous.

Carta Healthcare

Series B in 2022
Carta Healthcare, Inc. is a technology company that provides a software-as-a-service platform designed to improve patient care in hospitals. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the platform leverages existing IT data to describe patient journeys and predict potential bottlenecks, such as recovery bed shortages and cancellations. By employing machine learning, Carta Healthcare enables hospitals to personalize care, allowing them to identify past patients with similar profiles and analyze their experiences. This approach enhances the efficiency and quality of healthcare data management by combining artificial intelligence with skilled human expertise, facilitating more effective and cost-efficient data abstraction for health systems.

Hint Health

Series B in 2022
Hint Health Inc. is a technology company that specializes in membership management for direct care providers. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a platform designed to streamline membership administration and billing for healthcare providers, patients, employers, and health plans. Hint Health's services enable organizations to establish and manage their own direct primary care programs, allowing them to compete with traditional insurance models while enhancing the overall healthcare experience. The company's offerings include a range of plans tailored to different organizational needs. Through initiatives such as the Hint Summit, Hint Health fosters collaboration among healthcare professionals, industry leaders, and policy advocates to promote reform in the healthcare system and advocate for direct care as a viable standard for delivering care.

Bicycle Health

Series B in 2022
Bicycle Health is a virtual addiction medicine clinic that helps treat opioid dependence or use disorder. Addiction medicine specialists on the Bicycle Health platform will treat patients and works with the patient's insurance to get reimbursed for their services. The telemedicine-based company uses an interesting model to become an addiction medicine resource that physicians leverage for their patients while maintaining and strengthening their relationship with their patients. Ankit Gupta established it in San Francisco, California in 2017.

Memora Health

Venture Round in 2022
Memora Health Inc., founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, develops an enterprise healthcare productivity platform aimed at automating outpatient communication and enhancing care delivery. The company partners with health systems, health plans, and digital health organizations to streamline clinical workflows, allowing clinicians to focus on their primary responsibilities while proactively engaging patients throughout their care journeys. Memora's platform digitizes high-touch processes, intelligently triaging patient-reported data to the relevant care team members and facilitating proactive, two-way communication between patients and providers. By transforming the way care is delivered, Memora Health seeks to make healthcare more actionable, accessible, and continuous.

Thyme Care

Series A in 2021
Thyme Care is a healthcare company focused on providing comprehensive oncology care management services. It partners with health plans to deliver an integrated oncology solution that emphasizes whole-person care for cancer patients. By employing a tech-enabled platform, Thyme Care offers personalized support through physician-guided oncology nurses and resource specialists who educate and guide patients throughout their cancer journey. This model generates actionable insights that help healthcare providers identify at-risk patients earlier, facilitating timely access to quality resources and care. Thyme Care aims to enhance the cancer experience through early and ongoing intervention, ensuring that every cancer patient receives the individualized care they need.

Vim

Series B in 2021
Vim, Inc. is a healthcare technology company founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California. The company develops a platform that enhances the connection between patients and healthcare providers by offering online services for finding, scheduling, and receiving care. Its solutions include online booking and referral coordination, facilitating seamless communication and data sharing among health plans, patients, and a wide range of medical providers, from independent practitioners to large healthcare systems. Vim's platform integrates with electronic health records, enabling real-time access to patient data and insights at the point of care. By improving connectivity within clinical operations, Vim aims to support the delivery of affordable, high-quality healthcare.

DexCare

Series A in 2021
DexCare is a Seattle-based provider of a platform-as-a-service designed to optimize health system capacity and demand across various lines of care. Established in 2021, the company offers a solution that transforms traditional patient-to-provider relationships into a scalable digital experience. This platform enhances patient access to the appropriate care settings, enabling healthcare institutions to attract new patients, boost revenue, and improve overall satisfaction. Additionally, DexCare's approach leads to significant cost savings while ensuring that patients receive timely and effective care.

Klara

Series A in 2020
Klara’s end-to-end patient engagement platform enables healthcare organizations to easily communicate with patients, provide virtual care, collaborate as a team, and automate many front-desk tasks. Thousands of healthcare teams across more than 40 specialties use Klara to make their workflows more efficient, deliver an exceptional patient experience across the entire care journey, and grow their patient volume.

CareBridge Health

Series B in 2019
CareBridge is a technology and services provider based in Nashville, Tennessee, dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with physical, intellectual, or developmental disabilities who receive home and community-based services. Founded in 2009, the company specializes in assisting health plans and states by offering comprehensive solutions such as electronic visit verification, data aggregation, and 24/7 clinical support. CareBridge focuses on ensuring that Medicaid recipients, as well as those dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, receive the necessary services, equipment, and support to maintain their independence at home. By facilitating continuous communication between patients, their families, and caregivers, CareBridge enhances the quality of care and promotes a supportive environment for those they serve.

Carta Healthcare

Carta Healthcare, Inc. is a technology company that provides a software-as-a-service platform designed to improve patient care in hospitals. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the platform leverages existing IT data to describe patient journeys and predict potential bottlenecks, such as recovery bed shortages and cancellations. By employing machine learning, Carta Healthcare enables hospitals to personalize care, allowing them to identify past patients with similar profiles and analyze their experiences. This approach enhances the efficiency and quality of healthcare data management by combining artificial intelligence with skilled human expertise, facilitating more effective and cost-efficient data abstraction for health systems.
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