Abell Foundation
VC Fund
Baltimore, United States
Abell Foundation is a VC fund in Baltimore focused on Health Care and Medical. The Abell Foundation was inaugurated over a half a century ago, Chairman Harry C. Black and the founding board members set an agenda that allocated grants for schools, hospitals, and human service organizations reaching out to the disadvantaged in the Baltimore community and the region. In the past three decades, the Foundation has sharpened itsfocus to address complex challenges to break through the cycles of urban poverty. Today, the Foundation places the highest priority on creating solutions that are both innovative and will ensure accountability. This is the commitment of The Abell Foundation: to give hope by opening the doors of opportunity to the disenfranchised, knowing that no community can succeed and thrive if those who live on the margins are not included. We invite you to use this website to visit our Publications/Research section where you'll find thought-provoking perspectives on issues affecting the community at large. The Abell Foundation places a priority on supporting efforts that enhance the quality of life in the areas of community development, education, health and human services, criminal justice and addictions, workforce development and to a lesser extent, conservation/environment, and arts and culture. The Foundation is among the largest private foundations in Maryland with assets of more than $314 million.
- Total investments:
- 41
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries Abell Foundation invests in
Stages Abell Foundation invests in
Countries Abell Foundation invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Eileen O'Rourke
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Harry C. Black
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 14 (34%)
- Medical 11 (27%)
- Biotechnology 8 (20%)
- Medical Device 8 (20%)
- Robotics 3 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 15 (37%)
- Series A 10 (24%)
- Grant 4 (10%)
- Funding Round 4 (10%)
- Angel 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Eileen O'Rourke
Chief Financial Officer
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Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Harry C. Black
Founder
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Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Minnowtech
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Minnowtech is an aquaculture technology company, based in Baltimore, MD, that provides a software imaging platform to enable shrimp farmers to estimate shrimp abundance non-invasively with precision. Using Minnowtech’s data-based imaging tool, shrimp farmers optimize the health and growth of their hatcheries, enhancing the harvest of market-sizeshrimp while minimizing risks to juvenile shrimp. With the continued growth of aquaculture worldwide, Minnowtech addresses head-on the industry’s most acute challenge, which is overcoming limitations in how shrimp farmers assess the abundance, growth, and optimal harvest times of their crop. Minnowtech, via its low-cost technology and expert team of marine scientists, helps improve aquaculture farmers’ livelihoods while improving global food security and sustainability of marine environments. | Series A / Feb 26, 2024 | |
Linshom Medical, Inc.
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Linshom is first to deliver continuous respiratory monitoring, including Tidal Volume, to the patient bedside. | $2.2M / Series A / Aug 15, 2023 | |
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Linshom Medical, Inc.
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Linshom is first to deliver continuous respiratory monitoring, including Tidal Volume, to the patient bedside. | $2.2M / Series A / Aug 15, 2023 | |
Marinalife
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Marinalife provides premium content and valuable services for all types of boaters. The Marinalife Cruising Club membership offers boaters access to detailed marina information, travel resources including trip itineraries and destination guides to make their next boating adventure stress-free. In addition, the Marinalife magazine, a quarterlytravel and lifestyle publication, provides boaters with entertaining and useful articles about destinations, marinas, cruising stories, captain's tips and more. | Series A / Jan 25, 2023 | |
North American Wave Engine Corporation
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North American Wave Engine is engaged in the design and development of wave engines for jet wave engines. The company's technology supports recent scientific developments to offer unparalleled levels of Thrust-to-Weight and Thrust-Specific Fuel Consumption without the use of any moving parts. | $3.5M / Seed / Nov 18, 2022 | |
SIMPLi
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SIMPLi is an ethically-sourced ingredients company with a larger mission of tackling a fraudulent international supply chain. SIMPLi works directly with the growing communities in Peru, Greece and other countries to bypass all the middle parties to bring single origin, nutrient-dense ingredients straight to your kitchen. | Seed / Aug 24, 2021 | |
ReGelTec
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ReGelTec provides Biotechnology services. | $4M / Series A / Oct 14, 2020 | |
Spine Align
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Spine Align is developing a portfolio of intraoperative products that both assess and assist with corrective surgeries for spinal alignment. It develops a breakthrough, patent-pending imaging technology that enables on-demand, 3D, full-length measurements of a patient’s spine with a 95% reduction in time and an 80% reduction in radiation exposurecompared to current technologies. | $1.8M / Seed / Sep 14, 2020 | |
NextStep Robotics
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NextStep Robotics provides clinics the ability to offer personalized robotic therapy to patients through adaptive software that provides a personalized assist as needed approach. This is the first ever clinically proven option to effectively treat foot drop. Their robot is easy to use and designed to be run by lower skilled clinic staff freeing uptherapists to focus on more hands modalities. As they collect more data, the software will transition into an AI-based system to assess and assigns training protocols optimized for each patient’s deficit. The improved outcomes will allow clinics to provide reimbursable therapy using existing CPT codes for gait training on a patient base they currently have no treatment for. The device will be registered with the FDA as a Class 1 Exercise Device; and so, it can be sold and used WITHOUT FDA APPROVAL. Allowing NextStep Robotics to immediately generate revenue through: 1) Direct sales/leasing of robots; 2) Subscription to software service; 3) Service contracts. | $500K / Convertible Note / Aug 04, 2020 | |
BurnAlong
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BurnAlong is a personalized wellbeing class and social motivation to help people get the health and wellness they need. BurnAlong delivers personalized corporate wellness classes and social motivation to help employees achieve their health and wellness goals; and companies in turn create great cultures that retain and attract talent. It wasfounded in 2016 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. | $4M / May 06, 2020 | |
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What does Abell Foundation invest in?
Abell Foundation invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 41 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Abell Foundation includes Eileen O'Rourke (Chief Financial Officer) and Harry C. Black (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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