# Byron Ling

> Byron Ling is a seed investor at K Health (New York) backing Internet and Health Care. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [K Health](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kang-health)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/byron-ling-10b7474/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/byronling1

Byron Ling is a seed investor at K Health in New York focused on Internet and Health Care. Byron Ling is the Partner at Canaan.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 15% |
| Health Care | 2 | 15% |
| Apps | 1 | 8% |
| Elderly | 1 | 8% |
| FinTech | 1 | 8% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 38% |
| Series A | 4 | 31% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Series D | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 54% |
| India | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Barnwell Bio | Barnwell Bio analyzes waste streams for insights into animal health and farm management. | $6M | Seed | Jan 26, 2026 |  |
| Arya Health | Arya helps flex workforce operators get compensation, incentives and rewards right to grow faster, more profitably and with happier workers. | $18.2M | Series A | Oct 29, 2025 |  |
| Voiceops | Your high-volume calls contain the blueprint for business growth, cost reduction, and risk management. Voiceops doesn't just analyze calls - it works alongside your team to automatically implement improvements that most businesses miss.Founded in New York and backed by top-tier investors on both coasts, Voiceops has driven billions ofdollars of revenue and cost-savings for industry leaders in education, financial services, and insurance. Real results: 80% increase in close rates, 98% reduction in compliance violations, 70% reduction in post-call work, 93% reduction in attrition, and 50% reduction in cost per lead.We're a fast-growing AI platform, with customers who have called our AI teammate “stunning” and the most advanced capability they’ve seen “by a landslide” — and we're just getting started. | $5M | Seed | Mar 25, 2025 |  |
| Arya Health | Arya Health is a healthcare workforce automation technology that aims to improve how healthcare firms manage their workers. It uses AI and automation to create bespoke solutions that streamline scheduling, payroll, onboarding, and compliance operations. | $4M | Seed | Sep 24, 2024 |  |
| Arya Health | Arya helps flex workforce operators get compensation, incentives and rewards right to grow faster, more profitably and with happier workers. | $4M | Seed | Sep 24, 2024 |  |
| Jar | Jar is an investment tech startup that allows users to save money by taking spare change from online transactions and investing it in digital gold automatically which can be redeemed anytime or withdrawn easily through UPI. The company was co-founded in 2021 by Nishchay AG and Misbah Ashraf and is based in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $32M | Series A | Feb 03, 2022 |  |
| Jar | Jar is an investment tech startup that allows users to save money by taking spare change from online transactions and investing it in digital gold automatically which can be redeemed anytime or withdrawn easily through UPI. The company was co-founded in 2021 by Nishchay AG and Misbah Ashraf and is based in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $32M | Series A | Feb 03, 2022 |  |
| Mantra Health | Mantra Health is a digital mental healthcare company designed for all university students. Using its proprietary Collaboration Portal, Mantra develops custom, integrated telemental health programs that improve clinical outcomes and reduce time to access care for universities of all sizes. | $22M | Series A | Jan 19, 2022 |  |
| Papa | Papa is a platform that connects college students to senior citizens for companionship and assistance.Its platform connects college and nursing students to older adults who need assistance with transportation, house chores, technology lessons, and other services that enable older adults to stay independent while living securely and happily athome.Papa was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida. | $150M | Series D | Nov 04, 2021 |  |
| Mantra Health | Mantra Health is a digital mental healthcare company designed for all university students. Using its proprietary Collaboration Portal, Mantra develops custom, integrated telemental health programs that improve clinical outcomes and reduce time to access care for universities of all sizes. | $2M | Seed | Apr 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Four Acres Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/four-acres-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Initialized Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/initialized-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ridge Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ridge-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Anchor Capital GP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anchor-capital-ae68) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About K Health

VC Fund · New York, United States

K Health is a data-driven digital primary care app that uses AI to deliver personalized primary care.The AI-powered health platform integrates data and creates a predictive model to enable its user to learn more about their personal wellbeing as well as help them better manage their health by comparing themselves to people with similarcharacteristics–gender, age, symptoms, medical history –through a free symptom tracker. K Health is backed by Mangrove, 14W, Comcast Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Primary Ventures, Max Ventures, The Box Group, GGV Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Kaiser Permanente, LTS Ventures, Atreides Ventures, PICO Partners, Marcy Venture Partners, and other New York and Israeli seed investors.It was founded in 2016 by Adam Singolda, Allon Bloch, Israel Roth, and Ran Shaul and is based in New York, New York.

5 contacts available at K Health.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Allon Bloch | Co-Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allon-bloch |
| Byron Ling | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/byron-ling |
| Edo Paz | VP, Medical | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edo-paz |
| Israel Roth | CTO and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/israel-roth |
| Maya Leventer-Roberts | Sr. Director, Medical | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maya-leventer-roberts |

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## FAQ

### What does Byron Ling invest in?

Byron Ling invests primarily in Internet, Health Care and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 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 Byron Ling last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Byron Ling closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 13 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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