HealthX, Launchpad, and Better Ventures Invest in Agathos
- Andrew Trees
- 10/6/2017
Agathos is excited to announce the closing of a $1.56M seed round led by HealthX Ventures with participation from Launchpad Digital Health and Better Ventures. Learn more about Agathos’ investors and fellow portfolio companies below:
HealthX Ventures is a digital healthcare-focused venture capital fund that supports early, seed stage, high-growth companies in all areas of digital health, including companies who are making healthcare safer, more efficient and more affordable. Based out of Madison, Wisconsin, the firm is investing out of its flagship fund and is led by experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and industry experts who have grown companies and led change across the healthcare system. Agathos joins impressive portfolio companies, such as: Moving Analytics (home-based cardiac rehab), NarrativeDx (patient comments analytics), and Redox (interoperability solution).
Launchpad Digital Health is a fund and accelerator operating at the intersection of mobile, web and healthcare technologies. Based in San Francisco, Launchpad Digital Health partners with entrepreneurs building companies to improve care, lower cost and increase patient convenience. Recent investments include Agathos, Elemeno Health (virtual coach for frontline staff), Amicomed (digital blood pressure platform), Hint (direct care solution), and Limelight Health (employee benefits reimagined).
Better Ventures, based in Oakland, CA, provides funding and support to technology startups building innovative solutions to big and important problems, from work and education to health and sustainability. Given the magnitude of the these problems and the enormous market opportunities they represent, it takes the best and brightest minds armed with the best resources to address them. These are the people they seek to back – entrepreneurs committed to using the tools and methodologies of the modern technology startup to build world-changing companies that make money and do good. Recent investments include: Agathos, Apostrophe (health plan administration), and Iris Plans (virtual advanced care planning). Read Better Venture’s blog post about Agathos.