# Bill Ericson

> Bill Ericson is a Series B investor at Wildcat Venture Partners backing Software and Medical. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Wildcat Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wildcat-venture-partners)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-ericson-34914
- Website: http://wildcat.vc/team/bill-ericson/

Bill Ericson is a Founding Partner and Managing Director at Wildcat where he focuses on investments in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and enterprise software as a service (SaaS) as enablers of digital health, vertical apps, and enterprise and consumer communications. His specific areas of interest include improving the digitalhealth ecosystem to deliver better, more efficient, healthcare, and the role data and machine intelligence can play in virtualizing processes in the healthcare market. Concurrently, he is a Managing Partner of Mohr Davidow Ventures, where he started his venture career.The son of a Foreign Service officer, Bill grew up as a citizen of the world, living in England, Iceland, Korea and Japan, and learned to speak Japanese. Bill’s career role model is Bill Davidow, founder of Mohr Davidow Ventures, for his extraordinary humanity and remarkable business insights. In his spare time, Bill can be found playing electric guitar (wishing he could play like Derek Trucks), and cheering on the Golden State Warriors.Bill has worked with technology entrepreneurs for his entire career, which spans more than two decades. Trained in economics and law, Bill is keenly interested in how technology, social media and big data is transforming society and human interactions. In this light, Bill has contributed to a new curriculum on digital ethics for the Kennedy School of Ethics at his alma mater, Georgetown University. A former attorney, he was an early partner and founder of the Seattle office of Venture Law Group before joining Mohr Davidow Ventures, where he began his venture capital career.Bill received his B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 16% |
| Medical | 3 | 12% |
| Health Care | 3 | 12% |
| Apps | 2 | 8% |
| Big Data | 2 | 8% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 10 | 40% |
| Series A | 5 | 20% |
| Series C | 4 | 16% |
| Seed | 2 | 8% |
| Series F | 2 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 48% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Carrum Health | Healthcare is unreasonably complex and costly. At Carrum Health, they’re applying a common sense approach to simplify the payment model and produce greater value for employers and their employees. They do so by directly connecting progressive self-insured employers to top-quality regional healthcare providers through the industry’s firstcomprehensive bundled payment solution. Their innovative platform reimagines how care is paid for and delivered, improving the value of health benefits for employers and their members. | $45M | Series B | May 30, 2023 |  |
| Carrum Health | Healthcare is unreasonably complex and costly. At Carrum Health, they’re applying a common sense approach to simplify the payment model and produce greater value for employers and their employees. They do so by directly connecting progressive self-insured employers to top-quality regional healthcare providers through the industry’s firstcomprehensive bundled payment solution. Their innovative platform reimagines how care is paid for and delivered, improving the value of health benefits for employers and their members. | $40M | Series A | Jan 07, 2021 |  |
| Splice Machine | Splice Machine is a data platform that offers offline, and batch analysis, and powers intelligent applications for operational workflows.Splice Machine is disrupting the $30 billion traditional database world with the open-source dual-engine RDBMS for mixed operational and analytical workloads, powered by Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark. TheSplice Machine RDBMS executes operational workloads on Apache HBase® and analytical workloads on Apache Spark.Splice Machine makes it easy to develop and create modern, real-time, scalable applications, or to offload operational and analytical workloads from expensive Oracle, Teradata, and Netezza systems. Typical use cases are ETL, operational reporting, or real-time applications. | $9M | Series B | Dec 20, 2017 |  |
| what3words | what3words is the simplest way to talk about location. It has divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares, each with a unique address made from 3 words. Now people can refer to any precise location – a delivery entrance, a picnic spot or a drone landing point – using three simple words. what3words is helping improve businesses around theworld, and paving the way for social and economic progress in developing nations. It can be used via the free mobile app or online map. what3words can also be built into any other app, platform or website, with just a few lines of code. | $300K | Series B | Sep 02, 2017 |  |
| Carrum Health | Healthcare is unreasonably complex and costly. At Carrum Health, they’re applying a common sense approach to simplify the payment model and produce greater value for employers and their employees. They do so by directly connecting progressive self-insured employers to top-quality regional healthcare providers through the industry’s firstcomprehensive bundled payment solution. Their innovative platform reimagines how care is paid for and delivered, improving the value of health benefits for employers and their members. | $6.5M | Seed | May 31, 2017 |  |
| Reach | Reach is a social platform focused on helping people to improve existing friendships and create new ones. Friends build supportive relationships and improve their mental health by completing goals and achieving new status levels together. The company was founded to bring people closer together through technology and data. We believe that honest andauthentic communication among equals is the only antidote to a social world poisoned by the insecurity of likes and follows. Reach is a San Francisco-based, VC-backed startup run by engineers, friends, and dreamers.Reach is a San Francisco-based, VC-backed startup run by engineers, friends, and dreamers. | $1.8M | Seed | Apr 01, 2017 |  |
| EmployeeChannel | EmployeeChannel is a leading provider of award-winning mobile apps for employee engagement and communication, enabling HR and Internal Communications teams to boost the impact and effectiveness of employee communication, to create a positive employee experience, and to drive cultural and business outcomes. The EmployeeChannel app extends theknowledge and reach of organizational experts to employees anytime, anywhere and is dedicated to the interactions between an organization and its employees. Employees can find and receive organizational information easier and faster, get personalized responses to requests, and react quickly to time-sensitive events. HR and Internal Communications teams can respond real-time to organizational imperatives and employee needs using behavioral insights from Voice of the Employee analytics. To learn more about the EmployeeChannel app and how it can be used to engage and communicate with employees, please visit www.employeechannelinc.com. | $5M | Series A | Jan 25, 2017 |  |
| Clover Health | Clover Health is a provider of Medicare Advantage health plans to older Americans. The company operates a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) platform to improve the quality of life of its members and physicians. Its platform utilizes patient-centered analytics and a dedicated care management team to identify potential risks and directly providepreventive care, thereby enabling patients and their health care providers to reduce avoidable spending as well as identify and manage chronic diseases.Clover uses sophisticated analytics and custom software to direct its own clinical staff to proactively fill in gaps in the care of its members. | $160M | Series C | May 20, 2016 |  |
| Clover Health | Clover Health is a provider of Medicare Advantage health plans to older Americans. The company operates a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) platform to improve the quality of life of its members and physicians. Its platform utilizes patient-centered analytics and a dedicated care management team to identify potential risks and directly providepreventive care, thereby enabling patients and their health care providers to reduce avoidable spending as well as identify and manage chronic diseases.Clover uses sophisticated analytics and custom software to direct its own clinical staff to proactively fill in gaps in the care of its members. | $35M | Series B | Dec 01, 2015 |  |
| nLIGHT | nLIGHT is a technology company that manufactures next-generation fiber lasers based on the industry-leading diode and fiber technology and vertically integrated global operations. Primary end markets are industrial technology, microfabrication, defense, and medical. The company's semiconductor lasers are the industry’s brightest and operateat unique wavelengths and power combinations. Their high-power continuous wave fiber lasers provide significant advantages over legacy fiber lasers for programmability, serviceability, and reliability. They engage with customers early in the design cycle and use a platform approach to product development to optimize semiconductor and fiber laser solutions to meet customer requirements.nLIGHT was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon. | $25.3M | Series F | Apr 30, 2015 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Northgate Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northgate-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Cross Creek](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cross-creek-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Labrador Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/labrador-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [NGP Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nokia-growth-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Wildcat Venture Partners

VC Fund · San Mateo, United States

Founded in 2015, Wildcat Venture Partners is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early stage technology companies. Wildcat invests in B2B and B2B2C startups leveraging key technologies such as Machine Learning/AI, IoT, and Cloud & Mobility in the following markets: Digital Health, EdTech, Enterprise SaaS andFinTech.The Wildcat team brings decades of entrepreneurial experience, venture experience, and deep domain expertise to help early stage companies effectively navigate through the Traction Gap® and go on to scale.Wildcat’s current investment portfolio includes companies such as: Aceable, Amplero, C3.ai, Carrum Health, Clover Health, GreenFig, LeaseLock, Obo, Ritual, Tuition.io, Vlocity, what3words, and Zebit.

5 contacts available at Wildcat Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bill Davidow | Senior Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-davidow |
| Bill Ericson | Founding Partner and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-ericson |
| Amanda Maestri | Marketing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amanda-maestri |
| Bruce Cleveland | General Partner - Emeritus | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruce-cleveland |
| Bryan Stolle | Founding Partner and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-stolle |

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## FAQ

### What does Bill Ericson invest in?

Bill Ericson invests primarily in Software, Medical and Health Care startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 25 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 Bill Ericson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bill Ericson closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 25 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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