# BIP Ventures

> BIP Ventures is a VC fund in Atlanta backing Software and Health Care. See 71 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Atlanta, United States
- Total investments: 71
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 45%
- Last fund: Jun 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bipventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/bipventures
- Website: https://www.bipventures.vc

BIP Ventures is a VC fund in Atlanta focused on Software and Health Care. BIP Ventures, the North American-focused venture capital division of BIP Capital.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 23 | 32% |
| Health Care | 17 | 24% |
| Medical | 11 | 15% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 10% |
| SaaS | 6 | 8% |

103 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 27% |
| Series A | 15 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 8 | 11% |
| Series B | 5 | 7% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 49 | 69% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Paul Iaffaldano | General Partner | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-iaffaldano |
| Mark Buffington | Managing Partner | 33 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-buffington |
| Mark Flickinger | General Partner and COO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-flickinger |
| Mark Quisao | Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-quisao |
| Paraj Mathur | Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paraj-mathur |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mediafly | Mediafly goes beyond traditional sales enablement capabilities to help companies enable all their revenue teams with content and technology that inspire and engage buyers across the entire buyer journey. Mediafly's Evolved Selling portfolio of products combines content management, learning management, value selling and interactivepresentations capabilities, along with advanced content usage and revenue intelligence analytics to improve sales and marketing strategy and effectiveness. It was founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. |  | Convertible Note | Nov 26, 2025 |  |
| Peregrine Health | Peregrine Health designs, manages, and operates a behavioral health service line. | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 20, 2024 |  |
| Velocity Benefits | Velocity Benefits AI is a plan-building software that provides insurance automation and payment solutions for brokers and general agents. | $1.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 04, 2024 |  |
| Case Status | Case Status operates as a cloud-based, client engagement tool for the legal services industry. It develops an application that provides solutions, including tracking and measuring client happiness, sends updates to clients, and communicates with clients. Andrew Seavers and Lauren Sturdivant founded Case Status in 2017. It has its headquarters inBirmingham, AL. | $19.7M | Series B | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| Korio | Korio is an IRT platform that focuses on industry compliance.Korio integrated the most recent IRT design intelligence into our solution to address the long-standing issues of operational inefficiencies, burdensome manual processes, and poor user experiences. | $5.5M | Series A | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| 1 True Health | 1 True Health is a digital health company revolutionizing Cancer Recovery and Alzheimer’s/Dementia care through our AI Longevity Platform. Our focus is to empower patients and Caregivers to navigate the complexities of the healthcare delivery system and to improve daily task orchestration with personalized, AI-driven support.What makes usdifferent? Today’s digital health applications are built for the doctor, not the patient. Yet only 1% of the patient’s time is spent with their healthcare practitioner. At 1 True Health, our Vertical and Agentic AI Longevity Platform (called trueLongevity™) is focused directly on the patient and assisting them with care plan compliance and daily task orchestration where they spend 99% of their time: At home. We provide a holistic approach to smoothing out the Consumer/Patient side of the Healthcare Delivery System, thus improving their Life Journey.Our AI Longevity Platform is comprised of three (3) applications: trueLink™ (personal health record), trueLife™ (AI Virtual Care Companion), and trueCare™ (patient engagement and outcomes measurement). trueLongevity™ informs, educates, engages, and guides health and wellness actions (task management, medication management, movement, nutrition, sleep quality) and it helps individuals and caregivers manage everyday tasks. It alo has embedded notifications, it provides voice-requested access to available services, it delivers personalized content and it builds a care network around the patient that includes their loved ones. | $800K | Seed | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| Kythera | Kythera Labs, a leading provider, specializes in offering a comprehensive data management and analytics platform designed to process various forms of healthcare data. Leveraging the power of machine learning, Kythera Labs diligently searches for signals within the data to report and predict behavioral patterns of patients, practitioners, healthsystems, and payers.The company plays a crucial role in assisting healthcare information companies in developing enterprise-scale products to cater to their customers' needs. Additionally, Kythera Labs extends its services to diverse healthcare organizations, including hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers, technology companies, and government entities, aiding them in understanding their market performance and individual entities within it.Powered by a cloud-based, machine learning-driven platform, Kythera Labs benefits from a vast sample size of over 300 million US patient-lives. This allows them to provide unparalleled scalability and speed, surpassing other healthcare data and analytics technologies in terms of efficiency. By combining their clients' data with their own, Kythera Labs delivers an exceptional and actionable view of healthcare events with unmatched fidelity and affordability.The experienced team at Kythera Labs has been solving problems for decades, utilizing proven data science concepts and innovative technologies to facilitate decision-making and foster growth for healthcare organizations. Their approach is rooted in humility and curiosity, recognizing that the journey is just as important as the destination. Trust is held in high regard at Kythera Labs, and the team strives to cultivate it every day, understanding its pivotal role in driving innovation. |  | Debt Financing | Nov 07, 2023 |  |
| Kythera | Kythera Labs, a leading provider, specializes in offering a comprehensive data management and analytics platform designed to process various forms of healthcare data. Leveraging the power of machine learning, Kythera Labs diligently searches for signals within the data to report and predict behavioral patterns of patients, practitioners, healthsystems, and payers.The company plays a crucial role in assisting healthcare information companies in developing enterprise-scale products to cater to their customers' needs. Additionally, Kythera Labs extends its services to diverse healthcare organizations, including hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers, technology companies, and government entities, aiding them in understanding their market performance and individual entities within it.Powered by a cloud-based, machine learning-driven platform, Kythera Labs benefits from a vast sample size of over 300 million US patient-lives. This allows them to provide unparalleled scalability and speed, surpassing other healthcare data and analytics technologies in terms of efficiency. By combining their clients' data with their own, Kythera Labs delivers an exceptional and actionable view of healthcare events with unmatched fidelity and affordability.The experienced team at Kythera Labs has been solving problems for decades, utilizing proven data science concepts and innovative technologies to facilitate decision-making and foster growth for healthcare organizations. Their approach is rooted in humility and curiosity, recognizing that the journey is just as important as the destination. Trust is held in high regard at Kythera Labs, and the team strives to cultivate it every day, understanding its pivotal role in driving innovation. | $20M | Series A | Nov 07, 2023 |  |
| Lumu | Lumu is a cybersecurity company that identifies threats and attacks that affect enterprises worldwide. Lumu secures networks by enhancing and augmenting existing defense capabilities, using actionable intelligence. Lumu was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Doral, Florida. | $30M | Series B | Sep 27, 2023 |  |
| Mediafly | Mediafly goes beyond traditional sales enablement capabilities to help companies enable all their revenue teams with content and technology that inspire and engage buyers across the entire buyer journey. Mediafly's Evolved Selling portfolio of products combines content management, learning management, value selling and interactivepresentations capabilities, along with advanced content usage and revenue intelligence analytics to improve sales and marketing strategy and effectiveness. It was founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | $80M |  | Aug 29, 2023 |  |

10 of 71 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BIP Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/panoramic-ventures) — VC Fund, 60 deals together
- [Open Opportunity Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sb-opportunity-fund) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Q Holdings Inc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/q-holdings-inc) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [BIP Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/buckhead-investment-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does BIP Ventures invest in?

BIP Ventures invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Medical startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 71 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 BIP Ventures?

The team at BIP Ventures includes Paul Iaffaldano (General Partner), Mark Buffington (Managing Partner) and Mark Flickinger (General Partner and COO), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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