7wire Ventures
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
7wire Ventures is a VC fund in Chicago focused on Health Care and Medical. The 7wire Ventures’ vision is to use the power of mobility, connected devices, the cloud, and sophisticated analytics to further advance industries like healthcare and education. We like to make a difference in things that matter. The firm was founded on the concept of disrupting the status quo—supporting new ideas, technologies, approaches, and business models for solving society’s most important problems. 7wire Ventures provides funding and operating guidance to companies that challenge the “way things are done.” Through the creation of new businesses, investments in early and growth stage companies, and by complementing funds with insight and experience, we have a track record of transforming great ideas into world-class companies.
- Total investments:
- 88
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
- Fund size:
- $81M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries 7wire Ventures invests in
Stages 7wire Ventures invests in
Countries 7wire Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Series A
- $4M–$25M
- Series B
- $7.5M–$45M
- Series C
- $20M–$105M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 36 (41%)
- Medical 15 (17%)
- Wellness 14 (16%)
- Fitness 5 (6%)
- Medical Device 5 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 25 (28%)
- Series B 19 (22%)
- Series C 10 (11%)
- Seed 9 (10%)
- Series D 4 (5%)
Country
- United States 39 (44%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lee Shapiro
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Co-Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 26 | Find email | |
Robert Garber
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
Alyssa Jaffee
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
David Schonthal
Operating Partner
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Operating Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Glen Tullman
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Co-Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 19 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karoo Health is a leader in tech-enabled value-based cardiovascular care solutions and aims to bring innovative, end-to-end, cardiovascular solutions to patients via partnerships with health plans and self-insured employers. As a patient-first organization, Karoo Health’s mission is to help patients lead their best lives by providing a new paradigmof better cardiology care, at lower cost, than the current system and preventing the progression of cardiovascular disease. | $16.2M / Series A / Jul 20, 2026 | ||
| When Insurance is a technology platform that helps individuals and employers navigate health insurance options during transitions such as job loss or retirement. It connects users with a marketplace of health plans from third-party providers and offers tools to compare and apply for coverage alternatives to COBRA, including personalized guidanceand reimbursement options for premiums. The platform integrates with HR systems to support workforce offboarding, provides concierge support from licensed advisors, and assists with Medicare navigation and healthcare reimbursement benefits. When Insurance operates as an intermediary facilitating access to health insurance choices rather than selling insurance directly. | $10.2M / Series A / Jan 30, 2026 | ||
| WellTheory provides a virtual care platform focused on autoimmune and inflammatory health. It delivers personalized nutrition, lifestyle, and root-cause assessments, then matches each member with a multidisciplinary Care Team including dietitians, health coaches, and support coordinators. The company supports users through live coaching sessions,unlimited messaging, educational content, community connection, and advanced testing as needed. For employer and payer customers, it offers an enterprise solution that integrates with existing benefit systems, handles implementation, communications, and reporting, and aims to reduce autoimmune-related medical spend. | $14M / Series A / Oct 14, 2025 | ||
| Homethrive provides care management and personal assistance services to help older adults live at home with dignity and purpose while reducing the stress, strain, work, and worry for their family members. Homethrive's family caregiving platform, Dari, uniquely integrates their digital assistant for coaching, navigation, and resources withexpert personal interaction and service coordination to help ease the difficult and stressful responsibility of supporting loved ones who are aging or have special needs. | $20M / Series B / Nov 14, 2024 | ||
| Hippocratic AI’s Aim is to develop the safest artificial Health General Intelligence (HGI). greatly enhance healthcare access and boost the scalability of healthcare professionals using the safest artificial Health General Intelligence (HGI), resulting in a more fair system of care for all. | $17M / Series A / Sep 19, 2024 | ||
| PayZen is a healthcare fintech startup that aims to tackle the growing patient payment responsibility problem. The mission-driven company together with its superior technology and a new approach enables patients to pay their out-of-pocket medical bills over time with convenience and transparency. While Medical Providers should be able to focus onproviding healthcare services rather than financial services. The company achieves better financial outcomes for both patients and providers through Smart Medical Payment Plans And Non-Recourse Patient Financing.Ariel Rosenthal, Itzik Cohen, and Tobias Mezger co-founded the company in San Francisco, California in 2019. | $32M / Series B / Aug 13, 2024 | ||
| Truvian disrupts the blood-testing industry by developing an automated, benchtop diagnostic system to provide lab-accurate results.The blood-testing system combines chemistry, immunoassays, and hematology assays in one device. With its 20-minute, single-run wellness panel that requires only several drops of blood, the company aims to cover about40 commonly ordered diagnostic tests, including a lipid panel, metabolic panel, and complete blood cell count. Its dry reagent and optical sensing technologies, which require no refrigeration, can perform a complete blood count, basic metabolic and lipid panel, hemoglobin and glucose tests, thyroid screenings, and liver and kidney function exams. The company also offers Easy Check, a blood-based serologic test Truvian claims can detect the presence of the antibodies effective against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.Dena Marrinucci, Kim Kamdar, Mark Bowles, and Pieter van Rooyen established the San Diego, California-based company in 2015. | $74M / Series D / Jul 17, 2024 | ||
| Transcarent is a consumer-directed health and care platform for employees of self-insured employers and their families. Using a combination of software, technology, health guides, and data science, the company helps consumers with unbiased information, trusted guidance, and access to high-value care. | $126M / Series D / May 02, 2024 | ||
| GroundGame Health provides care delivery including SDOH for economically disadvantaged populations and communities. | $17M / Series A / Apr 30, 2024 | ||
| Summer Health is the first step and ongoing tool for anyone navigating health concerns, offering timely text access to high-quality healthcare professionals who provide expert answers and reliable advice over text. | $11.7M / Series A / Apr 23, 2024 | ||
| See all 88 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does 7wire Ventures invest in?
7wire Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Wellness startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 88 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does 7wire Ventures invest in?
7wire Ventures typically joins rounds of $4M–$25M at Series A, $7.5M–$45M at Series B and $20M–$105M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not 7wire Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds 7wire Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at 7wire Ventures?
The team at 7wire Ventures includes Lee Shapiro (Co-Founder & Managing Partner), Robert Garber (Managing Partner) and Alyssa Jaffee (Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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