John McIlwraith
Co-founder & Managing Director @ Allos Ventures
Cincinnati, United States
John McIlwraith is a Co-founder and Managing Director of Allos Ventures and Blue Chip Venture Company, Cincinnati venture capital firms that have invested in over 120 companies over the past 15 years. John has served on the board of directors of more than 25 of these companies including BlueGill Technologies, Blue Pillar, Inspiris, Juventas,Medhost, Nine Sigma, and Renal Solutions. He is an active member of the Midwest entrepreneurial community, including serving as a founding board member of the Michigan Venture Capital Association. Previously, John was senior vice president of strategic planning and general counsel of Quantum Health Resources, a public healthcare services company that provided drugs and related therapies to patients with rare, chronic diseases. Prior to Quantum, John was a partner with the Jones Day law firm where he co-founded the firm’s Private Ventures practice and represented venture capital firms and early-stage technology companies. John received a B.A. degree from Hillsdale College and a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
- Total investments:
- 26
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
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Industries John McIlwraith invests in
Stages John McIlwraith invests in
Countries John McIlwraith invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (15%)
- Health Care 4 (15%)
- Medical Device 3 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (12%)
- Wireless 2 (8%)
Stage
- Series B 6 (23%)
- Series A 5 (19%)
- Seed 2 (8%)
- Series C 2 (8%)
- Series D 2 (8%)
Country
- United States 10 (38%)
- Japan 1 (4%)
Investments
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| Sift Healthcare brings data science to healthcare payments, integrating machine learning and predictive analytics to reduce insurance denials, maximize patient payments and optimize revenue cycle operations. The company provides insights necessary to accelerate insurance payments, reduce overall denials, increase patient responsibility collections,monitor payer contracts and drive smarter workflows.Sift Healthcare captures insurance claim and patient financial data into a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based and normalized database, providing a single source of truth for around your healthcare payments. By applying multiple data science techniques, Sift also provides comprehensive and integrated recommendations for denials management, payer assessment, patient collections and patient acquisition. | $20M / Series B / May 09, 2024 | ||
| Nichefire is an AI-power marketing analytics company. | Pre-Seed / Jul 01, 2023 | ||
| Raven360 empowers enterprises of all sizes to control intellectual property and other valuable content as it is shared externally. | $8M / Series B / Aug 04, 2022 | ||
| Carefeed's HIPAA secure SaaS platform digitizes any materials senior communities would like to share with their families. | $3M / Seed / Aug 02, 2022 | ||
| Sift Healthcare brings data science to healthcare payments, integrating machine learning and predictive analytics to reduce insurance denials, maximize patient payments and optimize revenue cycle operations. The company provides insights necessary to accelerate insurance payments, reduce overall denials, increase patient responsibility collections,monitor payer contracts and drive smarter workflows.Sift Healthcare captures insurance claim and patient financial data into a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based and normalized database, providing a single source of truth for around your healthcare payments. By applying multiple data science techniques, Sift also provides comprehensive and integrated recommendations for denials management, payer assessment, patient collections and patient acquisition. | $9M / Series A / Jul 15, 2022 | ||
| Rimsys is a world-leading Regulatory Information Management (RIM) software for medical technology companies. Built by and for regulatory affairs professionals, Rimsys digitizes, automates, and creates regulatory order to ensure products adhere to changing global regulations. It is the only holistic RIM software for medical devices, in-vitrodiagnostics, and medical device software that makes it easy to manage global UDI requirements and navigate the pillars of regulatory affairs, including product registration, standards management, essential principles/GSPR, and regulatory intelligence. | $16M / Series A / Dec 02, 2021 | ||
| 7SIGNAL is an enterprise wireless experience monitoring. 7SIGNAL provides a cloud-based platform that continuously monitors wireless networks and identifies elusive performance issues impacting application performance. By taking the “outside-in” approach to monitoring 7SIGNAL has visibility into the edge of any enterprise or home Wi-Fi networkwhere complex device interaction exists, and user experience matters most. The platform maximizes employee productivity, operational efficiency, and network ROI. Designed for the world’s most innovative organizations, educational institutions, healthcare systems, and government agencies, the platform is currently deployed at Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, and large venues globally. | $5M / Series D / Jun 06, 2021 | ||
| Rimsys is a world-leading Regulatory Information Management (RIM) software for medical technology companies. Built by and for regulatory affairs professionals, Rimsys digitizes, automates, and creates regulatory order to ensure products adhere to changing global regulations. It is the only holistic RIM software for medical devices, in-vitrodiagnostics, and medical device software that makes it easy to manage global UDI requirements and navigate the pillars of regulatory affairs, including product registration, standards management, essential principles/GSPR, and regulatory intelligence. | $1.5M / Seed / Aug 18, 2020 | ||
| Maven Machines is a mobile cloud solution for trucking, transportation, and logistics industries. The company offers a modern fleet management solution that streamlines driver safety, real-time telematics, and alerting and automated compliance. It blends IoT sensors, artificial intelligence, software, and wireless communications to provide areal-time platform for both drivers and managers.Maven Machines was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | $7M / Series A / Feb 05, 2020 | ||
| At Blue Pillar, we connect industrial equipment to the internet and serve up the data to manage, monitor, and control equipment and devices so our customers can create flexible, scalable solutions for themselves or their customers. We're energized by the challenge of making the power of Industrial IoT widely accessible. We make things alittle better in a connectivity-centric world where things are a lot harder than they should be. | $2.8M / Series A / Nov 08, 2019 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Allos Ventures
Allos Ventures invests in early-stage B2B software and business services companies in the Midwest. The firm invests in businesses and partners with entrepreneurs to help these companies accelerate growth and build value. Allos Ventures was formed in early 2010 and is based in Carmel, Indiana, United States.
Allos Ventures Contacts
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David Kerr
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John McIlwraith
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Don Aquilano
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Julie Whitehead
CFO
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Victoria Bills
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What does John McIlwraith invest in?
John McIlwraith invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Medical Device startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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