# Hopelab

> Hopelab is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Health Care and Wellness. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hopelab
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/hopelab
- Website: http://www.hopelab.org
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HopeLab

Hopelab is a social innovation lab and impact investor advancing entrepreneurs, research, digital health, and solutions that support and empower young people, especially those from historically underserved communities. The organization works to remove systemic barriers to youth mental health and emotional well-being through targeted social impactinvestments, hands-on design and research support for digital innovation, and translational science partnerships. Learn more at hopelab.org.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Hopelab. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Hopelab. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/hopelab?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$11M |
| Series A | $10M–$26M |
| Series C | $40M–$52M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 10 | 50% |
| Wellness | 6 | 30% |
| Fitness | 3 | 15% |
| Medical | 3 | 15% |
| Personal Health | 3 | 15% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 30% |
| Series A | 6 | 30% |
| Series C | 2 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Erin Sietstra | Head of Investments | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erin-sietstra-0f06 |
| Margaret Laws | President and CEO | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/margaret-laws |
| Pam Omidyar | Founder & Board Chair | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pam-omidyar |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nest Health | Nest Health offers medical services that aim to minimize the stress of arranging childcare, making travel arrangements, and leaving home. The company offers a wide range of services to newborns, babies, children, teens, and adults for medical, behavioral, nutrition, and more, enabling patients to get treated at home. | $10M | Series A | Nov 21, 2025 |  |
| Backpack Healthcare | Youme Healthcare is a digital mental health company that focuses on youth, family behavioral, and mental healthcare. | $14M | Series A | May 07, 2024 |  |
| InStride Health | InStride Health provides evidence-based OCD and anxiety treatment to keep kids and teenagers engaged along the way. | $30M | Series B | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| Vita Health | Vytyl Health Management delivers quality mental health care to adolescents and transitional-age youth. The organization firmly believes that connection forms the basis for healing. They recognize the significant challenges ahead but remain steadfast in their conviction that through collaborative efforts, barriers can be overcome, meaningful bondscan be formed, and vital assistance can be extended to those in greatest need. | $22.5M | Series A | Jan 09, 2024 |  |
| Lex | Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second. | $5.6M | Seed | Oct 02, 2023 |  |
| Caraway | Caraway is a digital healthcare company for college women+ that provides integrated mental, reproductive and physical healthcare services. Built with students for students, Caraway arms women+ with the first personalized, equitable and digitally-accessible care solution that prioritizes their needs and concerns. With an unprecedented need formental health resources and new barriers and persistent inequities in women’s+ health, Caraway provides access to trusted, holistic, and compassionate healthcare so women+ can get the care they need when they need it. | $16.8M | Series A | Jun 20, 2023 |  |
| Caraway | Caraway is a digital healthcare company for college women+ that provides integrated mental, reproductive and physical healthcare services. Built with students for students, Caraway arms women+ with the first personalized, equitable and digitally-accessible care solution that prioritizes their needs and concerns. With an unprecedented need formental health resources and new barriers and persistent inequities in women’s+ health, Caraway provides access to trusted, holistic, and compassionate healthcare so women+ can get the care they need when they need it. | $16.8M | Series A | Jun 20, 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 |  |
| Brave Health | Brave Health is an online platform that offers therapy and medication management for psychiatric conditions to improve mental health. | $40M | Series C | Oct 11, 2022 |  |
| InStride Health | InStride Health provides evidence-based OCD and anxiety treatment to keep kids and teenagers engaged along the way. |  |  | Oct 03, 2022 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [7wire Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/7wire-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [.406 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/406-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [OMERS Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/omers-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Mass General Brigham Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mass-general-brigham-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [The Venture Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-venture-collective) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Hopelab invest in?

Hopelab invests primarily in Health Care, Wellness and Fitness startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Hopelab's check size?

Hopelab typically joins rounds of $1M–$11M at Seed, $10M–$26M at Series A and $40M–$52M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Hopelab participates in.

### How do I contact Hopelab?

Public channels for Hopelab 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 Hopelab?

The team at Hopelab includes Erin Sietstra (Head of Investments), Margaret Laws (President and CEO) and Pam Omidyar (Founder & Board Chair). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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