Pioneer Fund

Pioneer Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that makes early-stage investments across a wide range of sectors, including consumer products and services, financial services, information technology, advanced manufacturing, blockchain, life sciences, gaming, artificial intelligence and machine learning, construction technology, education technology, fintech, agriculture technology, advertising technology, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, legal technology, oncology, pet technology, real estate technology, ride-hailing, SaaS and supply chain technology. The firm benefits from a network of more than 420 Y Combinator alumni, enabling it to identify and support YC-backed startups.

Lior Abraham

Venture Partner

Wayne Anderson

Venture Partner

Jon Armstrong

Venture Partner

Tamara Bain

Venture Partner

Kate Bambino

Venture Partner

Past deals in Health Care

Mdhub

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Mdhub is a technology company specializing in mental health. It offers a clinical AI assistant designed for mental health clinicians, automating the creation of structured clinical notes, patient summaries, and treatment plans. This streamlines administrative tasks, potentially saving clinicians up to two hours per day. The platform adheres to HIPAA's data processing and storage protocols, ensuring the security and privacy of patient information. By reducing manual documentation, Mdhub enables clinicians to focus more on patient treatment and care.

Syntra

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Syntra develops an EHR platform that streamlines billing, records, and follow-ups, helping doctors automate tasks.

Granza Bio

Seed Round in 2024
Granza Bio is a biotechnology company focused on developing innovative cancer therapies that leverage the human immune system. The company has created a therapeutics platform designed to target cancer cells specifically, minimizing unwanted toxicity and adverse side effects associated with traditional treatments. This approach seeks to enhance the effectiveness of cancer care, allowing physicians to provide patients with safer and more efficient treatment options for autoimmune diseases and cancers. Granza Bio aims to improve patient outcomes by harnessing the body's natural defenses in the fight against malignancies.

Radar Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2024
Radar Therapeutics is a pioneering company specializing in precision-expressed mRNA-based therapeutics designed to combat pathogenic cells by targeting their unique transcriptional signatures. The company has developed advanced ribonucleic acid sensing technology, which incorporates control elements for creating rationally designed, precise, and programmable therapies. This innovative approach allows for the targeting of previously undruggable therapeutic targets, enabling healthcare professionals to administer treatments that can either eliminate or reprogram specific pathogenic cells effectively. Through its groundbreaking advancements, Radar Therapeutics aims to provide novel solutions for complex diseases, fundamentally changing the landscape of therapeutic development.

Catena Biosciences

Seed Round in 2024
Catena Biosciences specializes in biotechnology, offering protein conjugation services for building biological structures and facilitating medical research. Its proprietary technology enables the attachment of proteins with high selectivity, supporting innovation in autoimmune disorders, oncology, and vaccine development.

Kabilah

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Kabilah is a technology company specializing in healthcare software development. It focuses on enhancing patient outcomes in hospitals by streamlining the shift change process among nurses. The company's core product is an AI-powered digital assistant that replaces traditional paper reports, facilitating efficient and accurate communication of critical patient information between nurses. This improves collaboration and care delivery, contributing positively to patient outcomes.

Intelliga Health

Seed Round in 2023
Intelliga Health is an artificial intelligence company focused on optimizing insurance workflows for medical practices. Its platform automates the process of insurance authorization appeals by analyzing previous successful appeals to generate personalized appeal letters for healthcare providers. This approach not only saves time for medical professionals but also increases the likelihood of successful authorization for necessary treatments. In addition to managing appeal processes, Intelliga Health’s platform monitors technical infrastructure and ensures compliance, providing a comprehensive solution that enhances operational efficiency within healthcare settings.

AOA

Seed Round in 2023
AOA, based in Boston, New York, and London, is a female-led company focused on developing innovative cancer diagnostics specifically for women's health. The company is dedicated to creating the first accurate early-stage liquid biopsy test for ovarian cancer, which aims to enhance clinical practices, reduce patient mortality, and offer cost savings for healthcare payers. Utilizing an artificial intelligence-enabled platform, AOA's technology analyzes tumor marker gangliosides to facilitate the early detection of ovarian cancer. This approach not only helps healthcare providers implement more effective treatment strategies but also ensures that patients can access life-saving treatments sooner and at a more affordable cost.

Knowtex

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Knowtex is a clinical workflow platform that automates administrative tasks in healthcare. It uses artificial intelligence and voice technology to capture conversations during patient visits, analyze discussions to extract relevant medical information, and generate detailed visit notes with billing code suggestions and order entries. The platform aims to improve organizational efficiency, ensure visits are billed at the appropriate level of service, and streamline documentation by converting medical conversations into accurate records. By reducing manual administrative work, Knowtex helps healthcare professionals save time and maintain thorough, compliant patient documentation.

Medplum

Seed Round in 2022
Medplum offers an open-source developer platform designed to simplify healthcare application development. It focuses on streamlining workflow automation, secure data storage, and providing UI components tailored for healthcare.

Forcyte Biotechnologies

Venture Round in 2022
Forcyte Biotechnologies specializes in providing drug developers and researchers access to cellular force generation at the single-cell level, offering a new class of cell-based assays that evaluate single-cell contractility. Services include end-to-end solutions and consumables.

Intellect

Series A in 2022
Intellect Company Pte. Ltd., established in 2019 and based in Singapore, operates a psychological mental health platform designed to enhance mental well-being. The platform integrates technology and human interaction to provide accessible support for individuals facing various challenges such as procrastination, low self-esteem, and anxiety. Through its app, Intellect offers digitized therapy programs developed by leading psychologists and behavioral experts, helping users to redevelop traits, habits, and behaviors. The company's mission is to lower barriers to mental health support, creating a straightforward and effective journey for users to address personality flaws and improve their overall confidence and social skills.

Infiuss Health

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2018, Infiuss Health specializes in decentralizing clinical trials. Its platform facilitates remote participant screening, recruitment, engagement, electronic consent, and follow-up.

AOA

Seed Round in 2021
AOA, based in Boston, New York, and London, is a female-led company focused on developing innovative cancer diagnostics specifically for women's health. The company is dedicated to creating the first accurate early-stage liquid biopsy test for ovarian cancer, which aims to enhance clinical practices, reduce patient mortality, and offer cost savings for healthcare payers. Utilizing an artificial intelligence-enabled platform, AOA's technology analyzes tumor marker gangliosides to facilitate the early detection of ovarian cancer. This approach not only helps healthcare providers implement more effective treatment strategies but also ensures that patients can access life-saving treatments sooner and at a more affordable cost.

Evry Health

Series A in 2021
Evry Health is a healthcare company based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2017. It focuses on making healthcare affordable and accessible by providing specialized employee health insurance services. The company offers expanded benefits, including enhanced coverage with lower premiums, concierge care, and a range of additional advantages. By doing so, Evry Health aims to enable employees to save on healthcare costs and achieve a return on investment during health emergencies.

Forcyte Biotechnologies

Seed Round in 2021
Forcyte Biotechnologies specializes in providing drug developers and researchers access to cellular force generation at the single-cell level, offering a new class of cell-based assays that evaluate single-cell contractility. Services include end-to-end solutions and consumables.

Biobot Analytics

Seed Round in 2018
Biobot Analytics, Inc. is a wastewater epidemiology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2017. It specializes in transforming wastewater infrastructure into public health observatories through innovative technology that analyzes sewage for health-related data. By deploying proprietary sampling devices and spatial analytics, Biobot measures various health threats, including infectious diseases, antibiotic resistance, and drug consumption patterns. The company's Opioid Consumption Monitoring Program specifically estimates opioid use in urban areas by analyzing wastewater. This approach generates anonymized public health data that is independent of traditional hospital reporting systems, allowing for rapid adaptability to emerging public health threats. Biobot Analytics offers its insights as a service, providing government officials with actionable data to prioritize interventions and address public health challenges effectively.

Catena Biosciences

Catena Biosciences specializes in biotechnology, offering protein conjugation services for building biological structures and facilitating medical research. Its proprietary technology enables the attachment of proteins with high selectivity, supporting innovation in autoimmune disorders, oncology, and vaccine development.
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