# Rittenhouse Ventures

> Rittenhouse Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Health Care. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Philadelphia, United States
- Total investments: 28
- Last investment: Aug 2020
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/emerald-stage2-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/rittenhousevc
- Website: https://rittenhouseventures.com

Rittenhouse Ventures is a Philadelphia-based early-stage venture fund that invests in capital-efficient emerging technology companies across Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic region. Rittenhouse invests in small (generally $1 to $3 million) financing rounds of early-stage information technology companies that utilize emerging technologies to createcompelling business opportunities. While the Fund invests across the information technology spectrum, it has a primary vertical focus on Healthcare Information Technology and Pharmaceutical IT. It also invests in Technology-Enabled Services companies focused on other verticals including Financial Services Information Technology and Outsourced Business Services.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 32% |
| Health Care | 9 | 32% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 25% |
| Analytics | 5 | 18% |
| SaaS | 4 | 14% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 11 | 39% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 21% |
| Series B | 5 | 18% |
| Seed | 3 | 11% |
| Series C | 2 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bruce Luehrs | Founder , Managing Partner | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruce-luehrs |
| Jayson Tischler | Principal | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jayson-tischler |
| Saul Richter | Founder & Managing Partner | 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saul-richter |
| Britton H. Murdoch | Fund Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/britton-h-murdoch |
| Justin Hanley | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-hanley |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cecelia Health | Cecelia Health is tech-enabled diabetes and chronic disease management company that combines technology with expert clinical coaching. It aims to transform the lives and health outcomes of people with diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic conditions. Cecelia Health helps people with chronic conditions adhere to theirmedications and related nutrition, health, and wellness programs. During COVID-19, Cecelia Health has also been offering telehealth support to patients.It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, United States. | $13M | Series B | Aug 13, 2020 |  |
| VIDA Intelligence | AI-powered clinical imaging intelligence for drug development. We make imaging a strategic asset: faster trials, stronger evidence, more confident decisions. | $11M | Series C | Mar 12, 2020 |  |
| SquareFoot | SquareFoot serves companies that are looking for their next office and care deeply about finding the right next home. Growing companies require flexible lease options, a stress-free process, and transparency throughout the leasing journey. SquareFoot provides a seamless experience supported by easy-to-use technology and a highly responsive team ofreal estate professionals working to match specific client needs with a strong knowledge of what the market has to offer at any given moment. | $7M | Series A | Apr 18, 2018 |  |
| Inpensa | Inpensa is focused on helping corporate executives make better investments through strategic plannig, ROI analysis and benefits realization. ​ Inpensa is an innovative SaaS Technology company focused on delivering solutions to organizations to better define project spend through strategic planning and prioritization, review and analyze via businesscase management, and track the value received even beyond the life of the investment.Inpensa was founded by thought leaders (who were practioners) from leading Fortune 500 Firms. The team collectively brings an array of expertise in various fields including Financial Management, Project Portfolio Management, Enterprise Cost Optimiztion and others. The solutions developed at Inpensa is purpose built to solve complex problems in streamlined and simple way. | $5M | Series A | Mar 01, 2018 |  |
| Energage | Clued-in leaders know that the best workplace culture wins. They prioritize culture day in and day out, and they use it as a competitive advantage. But these Top Workplaces are standouts. More often, organizations try to win in spite of their culture.For the past 13 years, Energage has researched what separates Top Workplaces from the rest. Theyhave studied more than 17 million employee survey responses from over 50,000 organizations. They have figured out what great looks like, and know how to win with culture.The Energage platform combines research, neuroscience principles, and expert guidance to help organizations unleash performance and realize the full potential of the workforce — both at speed and scale. Using the Energage suite, organizations are reducing turnover costs, raising productivity, improving teamwork, and increasing ROI by as much as 30 percent. | $15M |  | Oct 04, 2017 |  |
| Haystack Informatics | Haystack Informatics, spun out from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, is a digital health company that helps leading health systems monitor patient privacy and improve operational efficiency. Using activity log data from electronic health records (EHR) systems, our technology makes sense of the interactions that exist between health systememployees and patients, identifying anomalous activity patterns and guiding towards the most impactful areas for EHR and staff optimization. |  |  | Aug 15, 2017 |  |
| Piano | Piano helps organizations understand and influence customer behavior by putting the power of insights and logic into the hands of their employees. The Piano Analytics and Activation Platform measures thousands of customer data points and acquires first-party data to more deeply engage users and then serve relevant content and experiences based ontheir unique behaviors and profiles.Using this powerful end-to-end platform, Piano’s clients have achieved more scale, engagement and revenue by expanding the lifecycle and value of every digital interaction. Piano’s global customer base includes IBM, CNBC, Nielsen, The Wall Street Journal, NBC Sports, Gannett, The Telegraph, the BBC, Kirin Holdings and more.Piano has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing, innovative technology companies in the world by Red Herring, World Economic Forum and Deloitte, received Product of the Year from the Business Intelligence Group and won Data Management Solution of the Year from Data Breakthrough. For more information, visit piano.io. |  |  | Jun 15, 2017 |  |
| VIDA Intelligence | AI-powered clinical imaging intelligence for drug development. We make imaging a strategic asset: faster trials, stronger evidence, more confident decisions. | $5.1M | Series B | Dec 20, 2016 |  |
| SquareFoot | SquareFoot serves companies that are looking for their next office and care deeply about finding the right next home. Growing companies require flexible lease options, a stress-free process, and transparency throughout the leasing journey. SquareFoot provides a seamless experience supported by easy-to-use technology and a highly responsive team ofreal estate professionals working to match specific client needs with a strong knowledge of what the market has to offer at any given moment. | $3.9M |  | Nov 17, 2016 |  |
| WealthHub Solutions | "Where there is unity there is always victory.” So said sage 1st century writer Publilius Syrus. And we concur. WealthHub, the industry award-winning suite of applications, is all about integration that leads to leverage and scale. We bring together the industry’s most advanced applications into one simple, cloud-based environment that fuelsproductivity and enhances client centricity for today’s trust companies, banking and financial advisors, attorneys and family offices. | $1.6M | Seed | Sep 24, 2016 |  |

10 of 28 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Rittenhouse Ventures invest in?

Rittenhouse Ventures invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 28 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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### Who are the partners at Rittenhouse Ventures?

The team at Rittenhouse Ventures includes Bruce Luehrs (Founder , Managing Partner), Jayson Tischler (Principal) and Saul Richter (Founder & Managing Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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