# Ben Robbins

> Ben Robbins is a Series A investor at Google Ventures (Cambridge) backing Health Care and Medical. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures)
- Location: Cambridge, United States
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 42%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-robbins-338794a

Ben Robbins is a General Partner at GV and was a Psychiatry Resident at Massachusetts General Hospital. He attended Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School, and Dartmouth College.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 14 | 58% |
| Medical | 5 | 21% |
| Wellness | 5 | 21% |
| Hospital | 2 | 8% |
| Insurance | 2 | 8% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 21% |
| Series C | 5 | 21% |
| Seed | 4 | 17% |
| Series B | 3 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 8% |

8 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| myLaurel | myLaurel operates in the healthcare industry, providing in-home care, telemedicine, and extended follow-up services. The company's primary goal is to reduce the risk of hospitalizations and re-admissions for patients. myLaurel's unique utilization reduction and readmission prevention programs offer a comprehensive solution for patientpopulations. The company also offers acute care solutions in the home setting. myLaurel's services are backed by private equity and the company operates under private ownership. With Ready Responders, patients now have access to quality whole-person care in their homes, 16 hours a day, 365 days a year, and talented individuals are provided the opportunity to work with a rapidly growing, mission-driven company. They are in-network with most major insurance companies in the markets they serve. Ready Responders is backed by leading venture capital firms, including Google Ventures, Founders Fund, Rise of the Rest, and City Lights Capital. |  |  | Nov 06, 2025 |  |
| Nava | Nava is a new kind of benefits brokerage on a mission to bring high-quality, affordable healthcare to employers and their employees. It offers healthcare tools, year-round employee advocacy, and ongoing measurement to monitor and recommend healthcare plans, thus enabling clients to provide the required benefits to their employees while loweringoverall plan cost. | $30M | Series C | Oct 07, 2025 |  |
| myLaurel | myLaurel operates in the healthcare industry, providing in-home care, telemedicine, and extended follow-up services. The company's primary goal is to reduce the risk of hospitalizations and re-admissions for patients. myLaurel's unique utilization reduction and readmission prevention programs offer a comprehensive solution for patientpopulations. The company also offers acute care solutions in the home setting. myLaurel's services are backed by private equity and the company operates under private ownership. With Ready Responders, patients now have access to quality whole-person care in their homes, 16 hours a day, 365 days a year, and talented individuals are provided the opportunity to work with a rapidly growing, mission-driven company. They are in-network with most major insurance companies in the markets they serve. Ready Responders is backed by leading venture capital firms, including Google Ventures, Founders Fund, Rise of the Rest, and City Lights Capital. | $12M |  | Jun 03, 2025 |  |
| Synapticure | Synapticure provides neurodegenerative disease patients with disease specialist and wrap around care, no matter where you live in the US. Founded by patients, we support Dementia, Parkinson's, ALS and more with everyone from on-demand disease-specific neurologists to SLT to 24/7 care coordination and support. | $25M | Series A | Nov 19, 2024 |  |
| Diverge Health | Diverge Health empowers primary care practices to deliver care to underserved patients. | $52.4M | Series A | Oct 31, 2024 |  |
| Rippl Care | Rippl, a mental health organization, is committed to assisting seniors who suffer from dementia and other neurocognitive disorders. | $23M | Series A | Oct 02, 2024 |  |
| Nym | Nym transforms revenue cycle management by fully automating the medical coding process. Our engine deciphers clinical language in patient charts and accurately assigns medical charge codes in seconds and with zero human intervention. By automating medical coding with Nym, healthcare providers can improve coding quality while significantlyreducing the time and cost associated with medical coding. This ultimately ensures clinical and administrative teams can spend more time focused on patient care. | $47M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Guidelight Health | Guidelight Health creates an intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization program for clinical excellence. With a focus on quality, compassion, and evidence-based practices, Guidelight Health is a trusted partner in the journey towards wellness. | $16.4M | Seed | Jun 16, 2023 |  |
| Clever Care Health Plan Inc. | Clever Care Health Plan is a healthcare company that offers medicare advantage health plans to its members. Clever Care Health Plan offers culturally sensitive health care solutions that provide members better access to the services they need, in the language they understand.The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Westminster,California with a second office in Arcadia, CA. | $42M | Series C | Mar 15, 2023 |  |
| Firsthand | Firsthand is a mental health platform that supports underserved people with serious mental illnesses. The company's platform focuses on delivering real outcomes for a population that has historically been underserved, stigmatized, and deprioritized, enabling individuals struggling with serious mental illness (SMI) to engage with the healthcareecosystem.Firsthand was founded in 2021 and is based in New York, United States. | $28.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 03, 2023 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [City Light Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/city-light-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Deerfield Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deerfield-management-4e45) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Dynamic Loop Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dynamic-loop-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Frist Cressey Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frist-cresseyventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Oak HC/FT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oak-hc-ft-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Google Ventures

VC Fund · Mountain View, United States

Google Ventures invests in sectors including life sciences, consumer, enterprise, crypto, climate, and frontier technology. With Alphabet as its sole limited partner, Google Ventures focuses on long-term investments. Its operating partners assist startups in design, equity, diversity & inclusion, talent, and engineering and help them connectwith Google for technology and expertise. Founded in 2009 as Google Ventures, Google Ventures manages over $8 billion in assets with 400 active portfolio companies in North America and Europe. Some notable investments include Uber, Nest, Slack, GitLab, and One Medical. Google Ventures is based in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Cambridge, New York, and London.

5 contacts available at Google Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andy Wheeler | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-wheeler |
| Anika Gupta | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anika-gupta-b105 |
| Anthony Philippakis | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-philippakis |
| Ben Robbins | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-robbins |
| Bethany Tsui | Principal and Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bethany-tsui |

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## FAQ

### What does Ben Robbins invest in?

Ben Robbins invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Wellness startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ben Robbins last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ben Robbins closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 24 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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