# Joe Kaiser

> Joe Kaiser is a Series B investor at Mercato Partners backing Health Care. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Mercato Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercato-partners)
- Location: Salt Lake City, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-kaiser-a88a142/

Joe Kaiser is a Series B investor at Mercato Partners in Salt Lake City focused on Health Care and Wellness. Joe Kaiser currently works as the Director for Mercato Partners. He previously worked at Venafi as the Board Observer.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 4 | 57% |
| Wellness | 2 | 29% |
| Insurance | 2 | 29% |
| Employee Benefits | 2 | 29% |
| Dental | 1 | 14% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 43% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Series E | 2 | 29% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vivante Health | Since 2016, Vivante Health has been revolutionizing digestive health and wellness, one person at a time. Our category-defining digital health solutions provide personalized, comprehensive care for people with digestive conditions. Our all-in-one digestive health program GIThrive® combines clinically-backed interactive tech, targeted nutrition, and24/7 personal support to improve digestive disease outcomes, and reduce the cost of care. GIThrive is used by large employers and health plans to reduce the costs of chronic disease, improve employee health, and workplace absenteeism. | $31M | Series B | Sep 20, 2023 |  |
| Cylinder | Founded in 2021 and offered as an employer benefit, Cylinder (formerly Vivante Health) delivers personalized, clinician-backed care to those suffering from digestive issues through its virtual health platform. Cylinder’s tech-forward, human-first program connects members to the right level of support at the right time through an easy interface,bringing the healthcare ecosystem together to align around member needs. Cylinder’s dedicated care teams help members proactively address their gut health from every angle – decreasing costs, reducing absenteeism, and improving their quality of life, at scale. Cylinder’s vision is to create a world where people receive convenient, personalized, and affordable access to the quality digestive healthcare they need to improve their overall health. Learn more at cylinderhealth.com. | $31M | Series B | Sep 20, 2023 |  |
| Paytient | Paytient helps people make better healthcare decisions by improving their ability to pay for care. We do this by bundling or embedding payment solutions like Paytient's Health Payment Account (HPA) or the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan alongside commercial, individual ACA, and Medicare plans. Armed with the power to decide how and whenthey pay for care, our users change their behavior in ways that improve their health and lower costs for everyone, which benefits the plan sponsor. By 2025, Paytient will serve 25M lives and 6,000 enterprise clients including leading employers and payers such as Anthem, Centene, Cigna, R.R. Donnelley, and Hyatt Hotels. The company has earned a 90 NPS and 4.9 stars on Trustpilot. | $33M | Series B | Jan 10, 2023 |  |
| Attain | Attain, founded by a team of data and ad tech veterans, provides access to millions of consumers' consented purchase data marketers can use to precisely target audiences, gather insights and measure performance. | $60M | Series A | Aug 12, 2021 |  |
| Beam | Beam Dental is a digital-first provider of dental benefits for businesses. The company's product experience focuses on ease-of-use and tailored pricing that is fundamentally built on preventive care. Beam incorporates rewards for dental hygiene into policy pricing. | $80M | Series E | Mar 02, 2021 |  |
| Beam | Beam is an employee benefits company that offers dental, vision, life, and disability services. |  | Series E | Mar 02, 2021 |  |
| Ephesoft | Ephesoft’s Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) platform and data enrichment solutions automate document-centric processes to maximize operational efficiency and human productivity for enterprises and the public sector. Using AI, patented machine learning and proprietary classification models, Ephesoft’s customizable and scalable platform turnsany document type into structured, actionable data to accelerate business processes and data-driven decisions. The platform’s APIs and iPaaS connectors allow for fast integrations into other business systems for seamless end-to-end automation. Working with a vast partner ecosystem, Ephesoft has been deployed in the cloud and on-premises to customers around the globe saving costs, improving data accuracy and fueling their digital transformation journey towards hyperautomation. Ephesoft is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., with regional offices throughout the US, EMEA and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit ephesoft.com. |  | Series A | Jul 11, 2017 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [7wire Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/7wire-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Breakout Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakout-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cultivation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cultivation-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Drive Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drive-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Georgian](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/georgian-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Health Catalyst Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/health-catalyst-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Mercato Partners

VC Fund · Salt Lake City, United States

Mercato Partners is a minority growth investor. It seeks high-growth technology and consumer companies with $7 - $50M in annual revenues. These companies are no longer trying to simply prove if a product can work (venture), but are rather raising capital to accelerate marketing and sales efforts (growth). Mercato traditionally writes $7 - $20Minitial checks into companies with a predictable use of proceeds, an experienced management team, and healthy margins. Mercato focuses its sourcing efforts on Southern California, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Texas, and the Midwest.

5 contacts available at Mercato Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Devon Gethers | Investment Analyst | — |
| Joe Kaiser | Director | — |
| Andrew K. Smith | Managing Director of Savory Fund | — |
| Greg Warnock | Co-Founder, Managing Director | — |
| Jake Hansen | Investor | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Joe Kaiser invest in?

Joe Kaiser invests primarily in Health Care, Wellness and Insurance startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 7 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 Joe Kaiser?

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### When did Joe Kaiser last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Joe Kaiser closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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