The Blue Venture Fund
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
The Blue Venture Fund is a strategic investment vehicle that aims to foster innovation within the healthcare system. The Blue Venture Fund invests in emerging healthcare companies that have the potential to improve the quality of care, enhance patient experience, and reduce costs. It seeks to support companies that align with the needs andpriorities of Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) member companies and their policyholders.
- Total investments:
- 101
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 35%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries The Blue Venture Fund invests in
Stages The Blue Venture Fund invests in
Countries The Blue Venture Fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $50k–$14M
- Series A
- $2.4M–$35M
- Series B
- $4M–$38M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 48 (48%)
- Medical 18 (18%)
- Software 14 (14%)
- Wellness 14 (14%)
- Information Technology 11 (11%)
Stage
- Series A 25 (25%)
- Series B 21 (21%)
- Seed 12 (12%)
- Series C 11 (11%)
- Funding Round 6 (6%)
Country
- United States 59 (58%)
- United Kingdom 2 (2%)
- India 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
John Banta
Vice President of Investments; President and Managing Director
|
Vice President of Investments; President and Managing Director | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Health offers a solution that provides mental health care for families. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in New York, United States. | $5.5M / Seed / Nov 12, 2024 | ||
| Humata Health is an AI-enabled deep clinical integration that creates prior authorizations for payers and providers using AI and automation. | $25M / Series A / Jun 20, 2024 | ||
| Tuesday Health empowers lives through supportive care by easing the symptoms and stress of serious illness. | $60M / Series A / May 21, 2024 | ||
| Sempre Health is bringing dynamic pricing to healthcare. This allows patients to afford care for longer, which directly improves clinical outcomes / quality measures while reducing utilization / cost.Patients receive texts like, “If you fill your prescription today, you’ll pay $10. If you wait until next week, this could go back up to$30.”We parse millions of prescription records to identify unique patient behaviors. We use this data to predict and seamlessly deliver the right price for the right patient to every pharmacy in the country. At the same time, we’re generating the first ever real-world dataset on patient price sensitivities and cost behaviors. | $20M / Series B / Sep 13, 2023 | ||
| Octave Bioscience is an early-stage molecular diagnostics company focused on neurodegenerative diseases and conditions. The company was co-founded by Melinda Thomas and William Hagstrom in 2013. Octave Bioscience is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States. | $30M / Series B / Jul 26, 2023 | ||
| Nest Health offers medical services that aim to minimize the stress of arranging childcare, making travel arrangements, and leaving home. The company offers a wide range of services to newborns, babies, children, teens, and adults for medical, behavioral, nutrition, and more, enabling patients to get treated at home. | $15M / Seed / Mar 23, 2023 | ||
| Perspectum delivers cutting-edge digital technologies that help clinicians provide better care for patients with liver disease, diabetes, and cancer. With a strong focus on precision medicine using advanced imaging and genetics, our vision is to empower patients and clinicians through quantitative assessments of health enabling early detection,diagnosis, and targeted treatment. With a diverse team of physicians, biomedical scientists, engineers, and technologists, Perspectum offers a way to manage complex health problems at scale. | $36.9M / Series C / Jan 05, 2023 | ||
| Onc.AI is a software that specializes in clinical oncology, genomics, proteomics, and radiomics. The company develops a comprehensive approach to oncology diagnostics and uses deep learning to derive actionable insights into oncology treatment.It was founded in 2020 by Akshay Nanduri and Salmaan Ahmed and is based in San Carlos, California,United States. | $25M / Series A / Jan 05, 2023 | ||
| Limber Health is enabling the delivery of the world’s leading hybrid model of in-person and digital musculoskeletal (MSK) care. Developed by physical therapists and physicians, Limber Health empowers providers with a complete digital toolkit for Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM), Home Exercise Programs (HEP), Outcomes Collection, MIPS Reporting,and the shift to value-based care. Clinically validated through research conducted at Mayo Clinic and awarded Most Impactful New Technology by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, Limber empowers providers in augmenting in-person clinician visits with digital at-home support to best meet patients where they are. | $16M / Series A / Oct 20, 2022 | ||
| Upward Health is a home-based medical group that specializes in providing care to people with complex needs. It provides insurers with two primary benefits: exceptional care for high-risk, high-need, high-cost members, resulting in high-quality outcomes, and lower costs for providing care to those members. These benefits are provided by the companythrough hands-on, holistic care for the members. | Series B / Sep 13, 2022 | ||
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FAQ
What does The Blue Venture Fund invest in?
The Blue Venture Fund invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 101 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is The Blue Venture Fund's check size?
The Blue Venture Fund typically joins rounds of $50k–$14M at Seed, $2.4M–$35M at Series A and $4M–$38M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds The Blue Venture Fund participates in.
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Who are the partners at The Blue Venture Fund?
The team at The Blue Venture Fund includes John Banta (Vice President of Investments; President and Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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