# Chrysalis Ventures

> Chrysalis Ventures is a VC fund backing Health Care and Software. See 79 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Louisville, United States
- Total investments: 79
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Fund size: $175M
- Last fund: Nov 2008
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/chrysalis-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ChrysalisVC
- Website: http://www.chrysalisventures.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chrysalis-Ventures/116620501716162

Chrysalis Ventures is a source of equity capital for young growth companies in the "under-ventured" Midwest and South. Chrysalis invests primarily in early-stage and expansion-stage companies in healthcare services and technology, media and communications, and business services.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 21 | 27% |
| Software | 15 | 19% |
| Medical | 8 | 10% |
| Internet | 8 | 10% |
| Analytics | 5 | 6% |

63 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 19 | 24% |
| Funding Round | 18 | 23% |
| Series C | 13 | 16% |
| Series A | 12 | 15% |
| Seed | 5 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 40 | 51% |
| Canada | 2 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Doug Cobb | Entrepreneur-in-Residence | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doug-cobb |
| Jan Bruce | Entrepreneur-in-Residence | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-bruce-6227 |
| John Willmoth | Venture Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-willmoth |
| Mike Shea | Entrepreneur-in-Residence | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-shea |
| Richard Vance | Operating Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-vance |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Altitude | Altitude is the AI-powered platform for the clinical workforce. | $6.9M | Seed | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| Vesta Healthcare | Vesta Healthcare is an industry-leading technology and clinical services organization, dedicated to connecting caregiver insights to the rest of the care team. Vesta Healthcare proactively identifies the need for additional resources in the home and provides 24/7 telehealth support for caregivers and care recipients, with a focus on high-need,frail senior populations. Vesta partners with home care agencies, health plans and providers to create value-based population health programs that emphasize clinical quality, improved health outcomes and personalized engagement. Vesta Healthcare is headquartered in New York, NY. | $55M | Series C | Mar 13, 2024 |  |
| BehaVR | BehaVR creates digital therapeutics for behavioral health using Virtual Reality. We focus at the intersection of behavioral health and chronic disease, building skills of stress resilience, emotional regulation and self-efficacy, helping people better cope with their conditions, be more adherent to care plans, and improve their overall health. | $13M | Series B | Dec 13, 2022 |  |
| Embold Health | Embold Health offers healthcare advocacy services that enhance decision-making through comprehensive data analysis. The company utilizes insights from insurers and government programs to provide users with valuable information about healthcare options. By integrating conversational AI technology, Embold Health assists individuals in identifyingsuitable healthcare providers, streamlining the process of finding care. The organization focuses on delivering performance data that helps users select physicians based on their specific healthcare needs. This approach aims to improve the overall quality of care while managing costs effectively. | $23M | Series B | Mar 16, 2022 |  |
| Swift Medical | Swift Medical is a digital wound care technology to improve the prevention, treatment, and management of wounds. From Capture to Claim: The world's most advanced and comprehensive wound care management software for the healthcare enterprise. Precise, consistent measurement, instant documentation and wound progression images with a smartphone. | $34.9M | Series B | Jul 15, 2021 |  |
| Votive Health | Votive Health is a technology-enabled network manager delivering complex care at home for people facing serious illnesses. Founded in 2020, the company is based in San Luis Obispo, California, United States. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 28, 2021 |  |
| Lucina Health | Lucina Health is a data-driven, enterprise SaaS company that delivers the leading women’s maternity analytics platform to innovative health plans, Medicaid providers and public entities. Lucina Health identifies women at-risk of preterm birth, usually within the first trimester, with personalized health improvement resources, making it easy forcare managers to complete actions that optimize the health and well-being of women to improve birth outcomes and to create healthier communities over time. | $2M | Seed | Mar 25, 2019 |  |
| meQuilibrium | meQuilibrium offers individuals and employees online stress management solutions and measurements. It is the only clinically validated resilience platform leveraging behavioral psychology, neuroscience, and analytics to deliver transformative insights that change lives and businesses. | $7M | Series C | Aug 14, 2018 |  |
| AlayaCare | AlayaCare is a start-up that delivers an end-to-end home health care software platform and hardware ecosystem.The platform allows home care agencies to deliver mixed telehealth/visiting health solutions enabling empowered patients to live better while driving down the cost of care. The founders are a proven team of entrepreneurs who havefounded, scaled, and sold two mobile software businesses. AlayaCare aims to provide a solution to a market mired in legacy software and suboptimal business processes. In doing so, it delivers better outcomes for the patient, better tools for the providers, and better economics for the payers. It promotes an open culture where every team member has the obligation to dissent, but the obligation to always keep the big picture in mind. Through its association with The Madiro Fund, the company also contributes its solution free of charge to NGOs working in the developing world who are seeking to leverage mobile technology to improve the lives of those less fortunate.Adrian Schauer and Neil Grunberg launched the company in Montréal, Quebec in 2014. | $13.8M | Series B | Aug 07, 2018 |  |
| EdjAnalytics | EdjAnalytics is a developer of predictive modeling techniques intended to businesses in data analytics. The company's techniques offer a decision model that gathers business and organizational context for a specific decision and identify all of the possible outcomes based on an existing data set, enabling companies in multiple areas, such ashealthcare, education, athletics, and commodities markets to make better and more impactful decisions. | $2.2M | Seed | Mar 08, 2018 |  |

10 of 79 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Arboretum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arboretum-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Claritas Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claritas-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [SSM Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ssm-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Richland Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richland-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Clayton Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clayton-associates) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Oxford Bioscience Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oxford-bioscience-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Chrysalis Ventures invest in?

Chrysalis Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Software and Medical startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 79 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Chrysalis Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Chrysalis Ventures?

The team at Chrysalis Ventures includes Doug Cobb (Entrepreneur-in-Residence), Jan Bruce (Entrepreneur-in-Residence) and John Willmoth (Venture Partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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