# Aberdare Ventures

> Aberdare Ventures is a VC fund backing Health Care and Biotechnology. See 76 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 76
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 9%
- Fund size: $130M
- Last fund: Jul 2005
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aberdare-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/AberdareVenture
- Website: http://www.aberdare.com

Aberdare Ventures is a venture firm that focuses on a limited number of entrepreneurial teams committed to building leading healthcare technology companies. They limit their commitments in the belief that their involvement can increase the probability of success for their portfolio companies and generate greater returns for their investors.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 29 | 38% |
| Biotechnology | 21 | 28% |
| Medical | 14 | 18% |
| Pharmaceutical | 11 | 14% |
| Medical Device | 9 | 12% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 18 | 24% |
| Series C | 11 | 14% |
| Series A | 10 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 10 | 13% |
| Seed | 7 | 9% |

10 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christina Fong | Controller | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christina-fong |
| Judy Stralka | Administrator | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/judy-stralka |
| Maureen Valentini | Bookkeeper | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maureen-valentini |
| Mohit Kaushal | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mohit-kaushal |
| Paul Klingenstein | Managing Partner | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-klingenstein |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gravie | Gravie is a health benefits platform that offers insurance services. Their software products include Comfort and Ichra. Gravie designed health benefits to help employers control costs. They take a defined contribution approach, to employers set a fixed budget each year. | $150M | Private Equity | Jun 01, 2025 |  |
| Cricket Health | Cricket Health is a specialty kidney care provider of integrated nephrology and dialysis care for people with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Cricket Health delivers world-class, technology-enabled multidisciplinary care both in-person and virtually to achieve the best outcomes possible for patients and the bestvalue for partners, keeping patients healthy and out of the hospital, accelerating access to transplant, and increasing home dialysis adoption. We are committed to aligning the success of our company with those of our partners and the patients whom we serve. Learn more at www.crickethealth.com and follow us @crickethealth | $24M | Series A | Sep 05, 2018 |  |
| MC10 | MC10, Inc. extends human capabilities through virtually invisible and conformal electronics. They reshape rigid, conventional electronics into thin, flexible devices that can stretch, bend and twist seamlessly with their bodies and the natural world. It combines breakthrough technology with innovative engineering to develop products that advancethe quality of life. The company's end-to-end system designed for In-Home and In-Clinic Study Execution. Its proprietary BioStamp system wearable health tech creates comfortable, discreet sensors that can be applied anywhere on the body for targeted data collection. With location-specific sensing capabilities, BioStamp sensors are able to retrieve real-world data about muscle activation and movement. | $10M |  | Aug 20, 2018 |  |
| Gravia | Gravie is a health insurance marketplace designed to help consumers choose and buy insurance, pay for it, and manage all health care expenses in one place. Gravie specializes in the fields of health insurance, health care, and employer benefits. | $14.1M | Series C | Jul 19, 2017 |  |
| Realeve | Realeve develops miniaturized neurostimulation devices designed to set a new standard in treating severe headache. It focuses on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of autonomic disorders, particularly severe headache. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $43.2M | Series D | Jun 25, 2015 |  |
| Jiff | Jiff is a venture-backed, Mountain View-based technology company that is reinventing healthcare, one employee at a time. It builds customized mobile and web experiences that connect company benefits and incentives design to healthy employee behaviors using the wearables and apps that they all know and love.The company was founded in 2010 and isheadquartered in Mountain View, California. | $23.3M | Series C | May 21, 2015 |  |
| Realeve | Realeve develops miniaturized neurostimulation devices designed to set a new standard in treating severe headache. It focuses on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of autonomic disorders, particularly severe headache. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $38M | Series D | May 12, 2015 |  |
| Gravia | Gravie is a health insurance marketplace designed to help consumers choose and buy insurance, pay for it, and manage all health care expenses in one place. Gravie specializes in the fields of health insurance, health care, and employer benefits. | $12.5M | Series B | Apr 17, 2015 |  |
| goBalto | GoBalto is a software platform that develops cloud-based solutions for drug trial sponsors and clinical research organizations. Its products offer drug trial sponsors and clinical research organizations the fastest, easiest possible way to start clinical studies on the web.The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco,California. | $12.1M | Series C | Jan 06, 2015 |  |
| Jiff | Jiff is a venture-backed, Mountain View-based technology company that is reinventing healthcare, one employee at a time. It builds customized mobile and web experiences that connect company benefits and incentives design to healthy employee behaviors using the wearables and apps that they all know and love.The company was founded in 2010 and isheadquartered in Mountain View, California. | $18.3M | Series B | Sep 23, 2014 |  |

10 of 76 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bay City Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bay-city-capital) — VC Fund, 17 deals together
- [InterWest Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/interwest-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Mayo Clinic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mayoclinic) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [MPM Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mpm-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [New Leaf Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-leaf-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Aberdare Ventures invest in?

Aberdare Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and Medical startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 76 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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### Who are the partners at Aberdare Ventures?

The team at Aberdare Ventures includes Christina Fong (Controller), Judy Stralka (Administrator) and Maureen Valentini (Bookkeeper), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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