# Digital Health Ventures

> Digital Health Ventures is a VC fund in Berlin backing Health Care and Fitness. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dhv---digital-health-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/dh_ventures
- Website: http://www.dhventures.de/en
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/digitalhealthventures

Digital Health Ventures (DHV) is a sector-focused Venture Capital Fund based in Berlin. They are experienced early-stage investors with a track record that includes several strong European healthcare innovators. Our mission is to build a sustainable Digital Health ecosystem. They actively support portfolio entrepreneurs and leverage our networks intech and healthcare. They work together closely and find joint solutions. They invest in startups which will play a significant role in healthcare and that want a strong partner during this journey.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.2M–$2.5M |
| Series A | $9M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 7 | 78% |
| Fitness | 4 | 44% |
| Wellness | 3 | 33% |
| Apps | 2 | 22% |
| Health Insurance | 2 | 22% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 4 | 44% |
| Denmark | 2 | 22% |
| France | 1 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Guido Hegener | Managing Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guido-hegener |
| Laura Jänicke | Public Relations / Team-Assistant | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laura-janicke |
| Min-Sung Sean Kim | Managing Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/min-sung-sean-kim |
| Ulli Jendrik Koop | Founder & Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ulli-koop |
| Joon Kang | Associate | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joon-kang-b76b |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Handl Health | Handl Health is a technology platform transforming how health plans are evaluated, designed and managed. By unifying healthcare pricing, utilization, benefit and quality data into a single analytical and operational layer, Handl empowers brokers, carriers and third-party administrators to build flexible, cost-effective health benefits. Handl’stechnology delivers the infrastructure, analytics and insights needed to power the next generation of alternative health plans. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 24, 2024 |  |
| Wefight | Wefight is an open door for patients treated outside clinical settings. It makes it possible to offer services and facilitates the collect of data in real life. Our goal: to secure patients at home and save time for care teams. | $11.8M | Series A | Sep 14, 2021 |  |
| Liva Healthcare | Liva Healthcare is an innovative digital health coaching platform for scalable lifestyle and disease management.Winner of 'Health IT Firm of the Year' at the HealthInvestor Awards 2018 and 'Healthtech Innovators of the Year - Europe' at the Global Health & Pharma Awards 2018, Liva Healthcare is used by public healthcare,private insurance and pharma companies including NHS England and AXA PPP Healthcare.Liva Healthcare’s platform facilitates ongoing personalized health coaching through an intuitive app, building a strong bond between coach, GP, and patient. Its focus lies on tackling chronic illnesses, such as Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and heart disease by driving behavior change.The app is multilingual across several languages, proven to work efficiently across all socio-economic backgrounds, and is capable of engaging groups normally hard to reach. It is based upon nine to 18 months of continuous patient engagement to make new habits and behaviors stick. One coach can manage 500 patients per year simultaneously without the loss of patient outcomes.Implementation time from the get-go is normally within weeks and the platform is available as a white-label SaaS platform or as a turn-key solution, dependent on client specifications.Liva Healthcare has offices in Copenhagen, Denmark, and London, UK. | $30.2M | Series B | Jan 06, 2021 |  |
| DrugStars | DrugStars is a Copenhagen-based company that provides a mobile medicine tracker. | $2.6M |  | Mar 29, 2019 |  |
| Liva Healthcare | Liva Healthcare is an innovative digital health coaching platform for scalable lifestyle and disease management.Winner of 'Health IT Firm of the Year' at the HealthInvestor Awards 2018 and 'Healthtech Innovators of the Year - Europe' at the Global Health & Pharma Awards 2018, Liva Healthcare is used by public healthcare,private insurance and pharma companies including NHS England and AXA PPP Healthcare.Liva Healthcare’s platform facilitates ongoing personalized health coaching through an intuitive app, building a strong bond between coach, GP, and patient. Its focus lies on tackling chronic illnesses, such as Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and heart disease by driving behavior change.The app is multilingual across several languages, proven to work efficiently across all socio-economic backgrounds, and is capable of engaging groups normally hard to reach. It is based upon nine to 18 months of continuous patient engagement to make new habits and behaviors stick. One coach can manage 500 patients per year simultaneously without the loss of patient outcomes.Implementation time from the get-go is normally within weeks and the platform is available as a white-label SaaS platform or as a turn-key solution, dependent on client specifications.Liva Healthcare has offices in Copenhagen, Denmark, and London, UK. | $9M | Series A | Mar 14, 2019 |  |
| Pflegetiger (Caretiger GmbH) | Pflegetiger offers in-home care for elderly people in Berlin. |  | Series A | Oct 23, 2017 |  |
| Selfapy | Selfapy offers a therapy support tool that helps recognize negative patterns of thought and train new behavior. Selfapy is your guided, self-help online course against depression with a personal psychologist as a companion. |  | Seed | Jun 17, 2016 |  |
| YAS.life | YAS.life develops digital health services for health insurance companies, insurance companies and corporate health management companies.Our Mission: Change Habits! We support users and employees in permanently integrating health-conscious behaviour into their everyday lives. We have already successfully positioned ourselves in our target marketwith our motivation app YAS. | $2.2M | Seed | Apr 01, 2016 |  |
| TeleClinic | TeleClinic's vision is to provide everyone with a full first-stop-shop for all health related questions. First and foremost, this means guaranteeing first-class medical care at all times. They want to do that with the help of digital possibilities and they work on that every day. |  | Seed |  |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Digital Health Ventures invest in?

Digital Health Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Fitness and Wellness startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Digital Health Ventures's check size?

Digital Health Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$2.5M at Seed and $9M–$12M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Digital Health Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Digital Health Ventures?

Public channels for Digital Health Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Digital Health Ventures?

The team at Digital Health Ventures includes Guido Hegener (Managing Partner), Laura Jänicke (Public Relations / Team-Assistant) and Min-Sung Sean Kim (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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