# Healthbox

> Healthbox is a VC fund in Chicago backing Health Care and Software. See 97 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 97
- Last investment: Nov 2019
- Lead investor: 4%
- Fund size: $35M
- Last fund: Feb 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/healthbox/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/healthbox
- Website: http://www.healthbox.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Healthbox

Healthbox is a VC fund in Chicago focused on Health Care and Software. Healthbox provides advisory services. They help organizations develop their innovative strategies and programs to support exponential improvements in the service and delivery of care.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 76 | 78% |
| Software | 30 | 31% |
| Medical | 25 | 26% |
| Information Technology | 19 | 20% |
| Fitness | 11 | 11% |

95 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 76 | 78% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 5% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 4% |
| Series A | 3 | 3% |
| Angel | 2 | 2% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 77 | 79% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 5% |
| Ireland | 2 | 2% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bernhard Kappe | Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bernhard-kappe |
| Blake Miner | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blake-miner |
| Evan Cohen | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evan-cohen-2 |
| Jeff Ries | Vice President, Fund Management | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-ries |
| Joanna Weinhold | Executive Assistant | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joanna-weinhold |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Huma | Huma is a global health technology company that provides a modular platform to support digital 'hospitals at home' across different disease areas. Its platform combines predictive algorithms, digital biomarkers, and real-world data to advance proactive, predictive care and research.The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered inLondon, England. | $25M | Series B | Nov 05, 2019 |  |
| Trusted | Trusted, Inc. is the leading labor marketplace for healthcare professionals. They match nurses with a range of flexible jobs that meet their preferences and career goals, offer support from a dedicated Clinical Care Team and unmatched insight into compensation and contract details. Their flagship staffing platform, Trusted Works, helps hospitalsmeet one of their single biggest challenges: ensuring that every shift gets filled in an environment where both demand for healthcare services and the cost of labor are increasing exponentially. With Works, facilities can create their own on-demand nursing workforce and access one source of truth for all of their clinical workforce needs, from sourcing and onboarding to ongoing compliance. With predictive insights and recommendations, Works helps hospitals easily react to fluctuations in demand, while its staffing marketplace creates competition to fill open job requisitions with high-quality, active talent from a pre-onboarded network of talent suppliers. Trusted Health is backed by Craft Ventures, Felicis Ventures, StepStone Group and Founder Collective, as well as healthcare innovators like Texas Medical Center and Healthbox. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco. | $20M | Series A | May 06, 2019 |  |
| KelaHealth | KelaHealth Surgical Intelligence Platform delivers patient-specific predictive insights and recommended interventions at key decision points to improve surgical care quality and clinical operations. It is creating a learning ecosystem to improve surgical care outcomes. | $545K | Pre-Seed | Aug 31, 2018 |  |
| NurseGrid | Founded by nurses and technology entrepreneurs, NurseGrid makes integrated, intuitive staffing and communication tools just for nurses and nursing departments. NurseGrid has two products: NurseGrid Mobile & NurseGrid Manager.NurseGrid Mobile is the easiest way for nurses and healthcare workers to manage their complex schedules, connect withcolleagues, and bring more balance to their work lives. More than 300,000 nurses have downloaded NurseGrid to date and the iOS app enjoys a consistent 5 star average rating on the App Store.NurseGrid Manager allows nursing departments to simplify team communication, staffing, and schedule management, making staff and managers happier and more productive. It complements core scheduling systems such as Kronos, API, and McKesson, filling in the critical gap current technologies leave between schedule creation and timekeeping, and giving nurse leaders a cost-saving, nurse-preferred way to manage day to day staffing and scheduling needs.NurseGrid was launched in 2013. | $5.7M |  | Jan 18, 2018 |  |
| EnsoData | EnsoData is a startup that utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze the human body to diagnose health conditions. EnsoData, whose software uses machine learning algorithms to help clinicians score sleep data and diagnose patients with sleep apnea and other disorders, has now realized that dream—and then some. EnsoData's autoscoringalgorithm combines AASM scoring best practices with cutting edge machine learning algorithms that learn and adapt to every single patient. |  |  | Sep 12, 2017 |  |
| Luna Lights | Luna Lights consists of an ultra-thin pressure sensor that detects when a user gets out of bed and immediately turns on small, wireless lights around the home. When the user returns to his or her bed, the sensor turns the lights off automatically. Additionally, a software component collects data regarding the frequency and duration that an adult isout of bed at night. Our system sends a text notification to a caregiver if an older adult is out of bed for an unreasonable amount of time. It also allows caregivers to identify trends in nighttime trips and see which individuals are most at risk for falling. | $382K | Seed | Feb 15, 2017 |  |
| Twiage | Twiage is an award-winning mobile healthcare IT company that provides a novel prehospital triage and care coordination system enabling hospitals and EMS to accelerate life-saving care by reducing the need for antiquated radio communication. | $400K | Angel | Feb 01, 2017 |  |
| TAO Connect | TAO Connect, Inc. is committed to reducing mental health disparities by bringing affordable, effective, and accessible treatment to people who have had limited access in the past. | $1.5M | Series A | Jan 25, 2017 |  |
| Cubii | Fitness Cubed is a health and fitness company that offers Cubii, an under-desk elliptical trainer, which integrates wirelessly with mobile devices and fitness trackers.Cubii facilitates unconscious leg movements, which provide its users with a basic exercise to keep blood flowing through their regular workdays, without causing any distractions.Cubii enables its users to choose the intensity level of their exercise. It comes with a mobile application that tracks their exercise through revolutions, distance, calories, and more. The application connects wirelessly with Cubii and existing fitness tracks. Its users are able to share their progress with their families, friends, and co-workers through social networks. | $650K | Seed | Mar 31, 2016 |  |
| NurseGrid | Founded by nurses and technology entrepreneurs, NurseGrid makes integrated, intuitive staffing and communication tools just for nurses and nursing departments. NurseGrid has two products: NurseGrid Mobile & NurseGrid Manager.NurseGrid Mobile is the easiest way for nurses and healthcare workers to manage their complex schedules, connect withcolleagues, and bring more balance to their work lives. More than 300,000 nurses have downloaded NurseGrid to date and the iOS app enjoys a consistent 5 star average rating on the App Store.NurseGrid Manager allows nursing departments to simplify team communication, staffing, and schedule management, making staff and managers happier and more productive. It complements core scheduling systems such as Kronos, API, and McKesson, filling in the critical gap current technologies leave between schedule creation and timekeeping, and giving nurse leaders a cost-saving, nurse-preferred way to manage day to day staffing and scheduling needs.NurseGrid was launched in 2013. | $2.5M |  | Mar 18, 2016 |  |

10 of 97 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [The Blue Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bluecross-blueshield-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [HCA Healthcare](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hca) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [The Blue Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-blue-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Florida Technology](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institute-for-the-commercialization-of-public-research) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Eurovestech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eurovestech) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Excelerate Health Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/excelerate-health-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Healthbox invest in?

Healthbox invests primarily in Health Care, Software and Medical startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 97 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 Healthbox?

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### Who are the partners at Healthbox?

The team at Healthbox includes Bernhard Kappe (Mentor), Blake Miner (Associate) and Evan Cohen (Principal), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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