# HLM Venture Partners

> HLM Venture Partners is a VC fund in Boston backing Health Care and Medical. See 127 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 127
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last fund: May 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hlm-venture-partners
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/hlmvp
- Website: http://www.hlmvp.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HLM-Venture-Partners-130441216984151

HLM Venture Partners is a proven, successful venture capital health care investor. Over 60 privately held health care companies have benefited from their expertise, resources and commitment. Emerging health care companies can be confident that HLM Venture Partners' longevity, integrity and reputation will be invaluable assets as they worktogether to transform their innovative ideas into market-leading businesses.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 57 | 45% |
| Medical | 17 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 15 | 12% |
| Software | 14 | 11% |
| Biotechnology | 13 | 10% |

78 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 28 | 22% |
| Funding Round | 25 | 20% |
| Series B | 18 | 14% |
| Series D | 16 | 13% |
| Series A | 13 | 10% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 71 | 56% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Denmark | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Nicholson | Entrepreneur in Residence | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-nicholson-3 |
| Ed Cahill | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-cahill |
| Enrico Picozza | Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enrico-picozza |
| Mike Wong | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-wong-2 |
| Peter Grua | Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-grua |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tebra | Tebra provide independent healthcare practices with digital tools and support to thrive in a new era of healthcare.Tebra is to unlock better healthcare for every patient by getting your independent practice the right technology and support to thrive. In an industry marked by broken, disparate parts, and overstuffed with processes, we aredeveloping a single system that can truly be the backbone of practice success. | $250M | Private Equity | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| Unified Growth Partners | A tech-enabled distribution management organization building robust multi-channel distribution capabilities for the broad retail market with a focus on healthcare products and services.Led by health and financial services industry experts with a comprehensive understanding of the health plan ecosystem including plan design, value-based care,consumerism and distribution. At Unified Growth Partners, we build value for brokers, agents, health plans and most importantly healthcare consumers. Guiding them to make the most appropriate decisions for their families. Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Ancillary, Medicaid, Financial, etc. | $8.6M | Series A | Apr 14, 2025 |  |
| Wayspring | axialHealthcare connects patients, providers, and health plans with an end-to-end platform that covers the entire substance use spectrum. Our high-tech, high-touch approach mends fractured ecosystems, identifies at-risk patients, and provides timely, interactive tools for clinical decision-making. For patients with substance use disorder, we offera clear path with continuity of care. | $45M |  | May 21, 2024 |  |
| Wayspring | axialHealthcare connects patients, providers, and health plans with an end-to-end platform that covers the entire substance use spectrum. Our high-tech, high-touch approach mends fractured ecosystems, identifies at-risk patients, and provides timely, interactive tools for clinical decision-making. For patients with substance use disorder, we offera clear path with continuity of care. | $45M | Series D | May 21, 2024 |  |
| HealthEC | HealthEC develops and delivers end-to-end technology solutions for exchanging healthcare information and managing population health in the United States and internationally. It offers a Population Health Management platform that integrates various critical components of a care management program into a single integrated platform from patientattribution through care coordination and analytics for payers, providers, and employers. HealthEC's solutions include ACO in a Box, an ACO solution suite that integrates population management, disease management, case management, and patient engagement functionality into a scalable solution; transformation consulting/practice transformation strategies; and Physician Quality Reporting System, a reporting program that uses a combination of incentive payments and negative payment adjustments to promote the reporting of quality information by eligible professionals. It also provides Provider Management solution that features provider setup/configuration, user management, role management and Roles based access; claims and beneficiary management solution that offers electronic data exchange for providers to transmit and receive electronic data to and from health plans; 3D analytics, such as delivering actionable insights, measure and monitor ACO performance, clinical reporting, quality/risk reporting, and population reporting; audits and reporting, including population health/ACO reporting, PQRS/GPRO reporting, and MU reporting; risk stratification and utilization; and revenue cycle management solutions. Arthur Kapoor founded IGI Health in 1997 that became HealthEC in November 2013, with its headquarters in Edison, New Jersey with additional offices in Indiana and India. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 24, 2023 |  |
| Yuvo Health | Yuvo provides health centers with the resources they need. The company provides administrative and managed-care contracting services to federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) empowering them to unlock revenue streams through value-based care, enabling health centers and their patients to enjoy the benefits without assuming risk, burning outstaff, or drowning in data. | $20.2M | Series A | Jun 07, 2023 |  |
| Censinet | Censinet fundamentally redefines the way vendor risk is managed in healthcare. Unlike other solutions, Censinet not only streamlines and simplifies workflows, but also standardizes risk questions with breadth and accuracy of risk ratings. Only Censinet was developed exclusively by and for healthcare providers, which makes Censinet the first andonly Collaborative Cloud Platform for Vendor Risk Management. | $9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 11, 2023 |  |
| Array Behavioral Care | Array Behavioral Care telepsychiatry service provider with a mission to transform access to quality and timely behavioral health care. | $25M | Series C | Jan 09, 2023 |  |
| Hazel Health | Hazel Health is a healthcare company that improves the health and well-being of students by increasing access to healthcare.It partners with schools and nurses, supporting student health to keep them healthy and ready to learn. With Hazel, students can talk with a doctor over the video, and get the care they need whether they are at home or inschool. Its doctors provide treatment for a wide range of conditions. They can prescribe over-the-counter medicine at school with parent approval, or call in prescriptions. | $51.5M | Series C | Oct 27, 2022 |  |
| Tebra | Tebra provide independent healthcare practices with digital tools and support to thrive in a new era of healthcare.Tebra is to unlock better healthcare for every patient by getting your independent practice the right technology and support to thrive. In an industry marked by broken, disparate parts, and overstuffed with processes, we aredeveloping a single system that can truly be the backbone of practice success. | $72M | Series B | Jul 07, 2022 |  |

10 of 127 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does HLM Venture Partners invest in?

HLM Venture Partners invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Information Technology startups, most often at Series C and Funding Round stage. Most of the 127 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 HLM Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at HLM Venture Partners?

The team at HLM Venture Partners includes Chris Nicholson (Entrepreneur in Residence), Ed Cahill (Managing Partner) and Enrico Picozza (Partner), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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