Cold Start Ventures
VC Fund
New York, United States
Cold Start Ventures is a VC fund in New York focused on Health Care and Medical. Cold Start is a venture builder that incubates and funds mission-oriented companies.
- Total investments:
- 36
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Cold Start Ventures invests in
Stages Cold Start Ventures invests in
Countries Cold Start Ventures invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 15 (42%)
- Medical 5 (14%)
- Software 4 (11%)
- Information Technology 4 (11%)
- FinTech 3 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 19 (53%)
- Series A 8 (22%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (8%)
- Series B 3 (8%)
- Funding Round 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 28 (78%)
- Germany 1 (3%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Amit Khanna
General Counsel, Cold Start
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General Counsel, Cold Start | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Michael Ragheb
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Yury Yakubchyk
Chairman & Founder
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Chairman & Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mental Health, Healthcare, Substance Use Disorder, Digital Health | Pre-Seed / Oct 30, 2023 | ||
| Careerist is an ed-fintech platform that trains job seekers for tech careers (in QA, Sales, Support & more), finances them and automates their job hunting. Community colleges are declining because people now prefer acquiring specific hard skills rather than general ones, and they seek fast training programs that can be completed in months,rather than years. Traditional financial institutions have failed to provide adequate support to underserved communities that have significant potential (approximately 45 million people in the U.S. lack access to or are underserved by traditional credit products). We have developed a unique approach to qualifying these individuals, providing them with more financial protection against potential failures.Techcrunch: "Edtech meets SaaS in Careerist’s job placement learning platform. The startup trains job seekers through live and self-paced training taught by third-party tutors. The adaptive learning software is meant to help candidates prep for tech interviews. Once a candidate is well equipped, Careerist uses automation to help them apply for jobs." | $8M / Series A / Mar 29, 2023 | ||
| Commons Clinic is a multi-specialty clinic that provides healthcare treatment to patients. The company's clinic offers comprehensive specialty and surgical care programs for pain, orthopedics, women's health, and men's health, enabling patients to avail improved and efficient medical care.The company was founded in 2021 and isbased in Austin, Texas. | $5M / Seed / Oct 01, 2022 | ||
| Hopscotch is a technology company for in-person and virtual pediatric behavioral healthcare. It aims to simplify and expedite access to behavioral health services for children, teenagers, and their families. The company offers advanced administrative support, content, and interactive tools that address common behavioral issues for mental healthprofessionals. Hopscotch provides providers with the infrastructure needed to deliver quality care, allowing them to make sessions as interactive as possible, and allowing them to focus on providing unparalleled care to children and families. They can be change agents by taking a modernized approach that leverages technology to build toward preventative behavioral healthcare when and where it is most needed. | $8M / Seed / Sep 13, 2022 | ||
| Ascend Homes helps families through the homeownership process. Ascend Homes enable renters to co-invest in the homes they rent and to participate in the financial upside of the home through net rental profits. | $2.7M / Seed / Aug 01, 2022 | ||
| Lottie is to empower care seekers and to lead the global transformation to modern and sustainable care. | $3.4M / Seed / Jan 07, 2022 | ||
| Polymer is a data governance and privacy platform for third-party SaaS applications such as Slack, Dropbox, Gdrive, Zendesk, Zapier, and many others. This protects against data loss and cyber breaches. The solution provides a single pane of glass to configure, permission, and track usage of sensitive data across the organization to become PII,PHI,HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA compliant. | $4M / Seed / Dec 13, 2021 | ||
| NuBrakes provides ultra-convenient, affordable mobile brake repairs right where the vehicle is parked. Whether the office, home, or apartment.In March of 2019, they launched NuBrakes, and today the company has provided convenient and affordable brake repair to thousands of Customers throughout Atlanta, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Nashville, andHouston. | $9M / Series A / Dec 01, 2021 | ||
| Better Health is a support and supplies platform built on peer-to-peer connection. The supported chronic conditions include ostomy, chronic wounds, diabetes, chronic retention, and incontinence. Better Health is trusted by healthcare payers and providers to deliver peer support, education, and medical supplies to drive engagement and adherence,improve outcomes, and lower the cost of care. The result is reduced overutilization, improved mental health, and a 98% customer satisfaction rating. Co-founded by Naama Stauber Breckler and Adam Breckler, Better Health operates in 48 states and serves the members of top payers, including Medicare, Medicaid, Cigna, Humana, Florida Blue, and Oscar, among others. To learn more, visit joinbetter.com. | $10M / Series A / Oct 13, 2021 | ||
| We’re on a mission to fundamentally transform mental healthcare accessibility. Grow Therapy empowers therapists to launch and grow thriving in-network private practices. We’re creating game-changing technology to build America’s biggest behavioral healthcare group and ensure that anyone can afford quality mental healthcare. With the mass increasein depression and anxiety from the pandemic, the need for accessibility is more important than ever. To make our vision for mental healthcare a reality, we’re building a team of entrepreneurs and mission-driven go-getters. Our founders come from Harvard Medical School, Stripe, and Blackstone, and are champions of balancing bold ambitions with a culture that promotes holistic well-being. Since launching in 2020, Grow has raised over $15M from top VCs and angel investors, including leaders from SignalFire, Village Global, Airbnb, Nurx, PatientPing, and Blackstone. | $15M / Series A / Sep 23, 2021 | ||
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FAQ
What does Cold Start Ventures invest in?
Cold Start Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 36 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 Cold Start Ventures?
The team at Cold Start Ventures includes Amit Khanna (General Counsel, Cold Start), Michael Ragheb (Managing Partner) and Yury Yakubchyk (Chairman & Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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