# Activate Venture Partners

> Activate Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Health Care and Software. See 94 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 94
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 35%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/119359
- Website: https://www.activatevp.com/

Activate Venture Partners is a VC fund in New York focused on Health Care and Software. Activate Venture Partners is early-stage venture capital for high-growth technology companies. Milestone has been successfully investing in software, data, and services companies for over a decade. Software, Internet, and Mobile services businesses that help their customers exploit data assets successfully are in our sweet spot. Milestone is alsoone of the leading venture firms focused on software and data investments in the Digital Health sector. We have backed 17 Digital Health companies, six of which have achieved successful exits, including Medidata's (Nasdaq:MDSO) IPO in 2009.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$5.1M |
| Series A | $1.1M–$9.6M |
| Series B | $2.3M–$13M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 22 | 23% |
| Software | 21 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 16 | 17% |
| Enterprise Software | 9 | 10% |
| Analytics | 8 | 9% |

106 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 28 | 30% |
| Seed | 18 | 19% |
| Series B | 14 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 14 | 15% |
| Series C | 7 | 7% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 61 | 65% |
| Israel | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Avlyn Ashterman-Reece | Administrative Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avlyn-ashterman-reece |
| Edwin A. Goodman | Investment Partner; Investment Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edwin-a-goodman |
| Glen R. Bressner | Co-founder and Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glen-r-bressner |
| Luke Page | VP of Finance | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luke-page |
| Richard J. Dumler | Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-j-dumler |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Inception Point AI | Inception Point is an AI media and content technology company that develops automated voice and video content. | $5.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 29, 2026 |  |
| Triplemoon | Triplemoon is a tech-enabled mental health enterprise, serves children, patients, professionals, and their families. | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Dapt | By unifying time tracking, payroll, and accounting, Dapt is able to provide customers with simplified payroll and accounting, accurate real-time monitoring, actionable insights into profitability, and true job costing for small and medium-sized businesses. Dapt can also provide dashboards, analytics, modeling, and comparison insights. | $1.6M | Seed | Sep 05, 2025 |  |
| Cypris | We make innovation data accessible, understandable and actionable by centralizing technology-driven research to one user-friendly, collaborative platform and providing AI-powered insights from disparate data sets. In doing so, we’re helping R&D and innovation teams accelerate their R&D strategy buildout. Cypris was founded in 2019 and isheadquartered in New York City. | $5.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 28, 2024 |  |
| NovaData Solutions | NovaData Solutions is an InsurTech company offering a platform for automated restoration invoice scraping, auditing, and analysis. The company's platform, called Rest-Assured, leverages advanced data strategies, OCR data capture, and AI learning to drive operational efficiencies, increase the effectiveness of financial anomaly detection, andaccelerate the audit process that enables customers to have automated invoice review, validation, and reconciliation. |  | Series A | Mar 20, 2024 |  |
| Mind and Match | Mind and Match is a two-sided marketplace that connects therapy seekers with licensed mental health professionals practicing teletherapy. The platform supports a variety of insurance plans and offers over 20 different types of therapy. It also provides a PSYPACT directory for prospective clients and facilitates direct contracting betweenindependent mental health professionals and health plans. Additionally, Mind and Match handles recruiting and credentialing for its network of therapists. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| KAID Health | KAID Health offers and specializes in artificial intelligence and natural language processing for healthcare organizations. KAID allows providers and payers to collaborate to achieve their individual clinical, operational, and financial goals, including revenue optimization and bending the cost-curve. |  |  | Dec 18, 2023 |  |
| Cypris | We make innovation data accessible, understandable and actionable by centralizing technology-driven research to one user-friendly, collaborative platform and providing AI-powered insights from disparate data sets. In doing so, we’re helping R&D and innovation teams accelerate their R&D strategy buildout. Cypris was founded in 2019 and isheadquartered in New York City. | $4M | Series A | Jan 19, 2023 |  |
| Connective Health | Connective Health provides a clinical-grade summary along with real-time insights for every patient in the EHR. |  | Seed | Oct 20, 2022 |  |
| CrowdHealth | CrowdHealth is an alternative to health insurance helps people find quality and fairly priced care. CrowdHealth community is designed and funded differently than health insurance plans. It was founded in 2021 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $6.1M | Series A | Aug 08, 2022 |  |

10 of 94 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Activate Venture Partners invest in?

Activate Venture Partners invests primarily in Health Care, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 94 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 Activate Venture Partners's check size?

Activate Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$5.1M at Seed, $1.1M–$9.6M at Series A and $2.3M–$13M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Activate Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Activate Venture Partners?

Public channels for Activate Venture Partners include LinkedIn 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 Activate Venture Partners?

The team at Activate Venture Partners includes Avlyn Ashterman-Reece (Administrative Director), Edwin A. Goodman (Investment Partner; Investment Partner) and Glen R. Bressner (Co-founder and Managing Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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