# Ryan Darnell

> Ryan Darnell is a seed investor at Corro (New York) backing Software and Health Care. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Corro](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corro)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-darnell-9728013b

Ryan Darnell is a seed investor at Corro in New York focused on Software and Health Care. Ryan founded Max Ventures in 2013 with the Stenbeck family. Max Ventures is one of the most active early-stage investors on the east coast and primarily focuses on NYC and the Nordics. Ryan has also founded 4 vc-backed tech cos while at Max.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 36% |
| Health Care | 4 | 36% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 18% |
| Art | 1 | 9% |
| Film | 1 | 9% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 55% |
| Series A | 3 | 27% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UnityAI | UnityAI uses AI to enhance the management of hospital beds, optimize resource allocation, and elevate the quality of patient care. | $15M | Series A | Mar 04, 2026 |  |
| Elion | Elion is an independent and authoritative digital health software marketplace. Elion is the trusted source for healthcare builders to discover, evaluate, and select the software they need to run their businesses. The company's mission is to improve healthcare delivery by enabling startups and incumbents alike to make better, faster technologydecisions. | $9.3M | Seed | Aug 06, 2025 |  |
| Hello Patient | AI meets Healthcare Operations Coming soon | $6.3M | Seed | Oct 31, 2024 |  |
| UnityAI | UnityAI uses AI to enhance the management of hospital beds, optimize resource allocation, and elevate the quality of patient care. | $4M | Seed | Feb 20, 2024 |  |
| Certify | CertifyOS is laying the critical data infrastructure making provider data easily accessible for the U.S. healthcare system. We are an API-first, UI agnostic, platform automating the end-to-end provider network management lifecycle. With integrations into 100’s of primary sources, enabling near real-time verification and credentialing forenrollment, CertifyOS is uniquely positioned to be the one-stop shop for all provider networking needs. | $14.5M | Series A | Sep 07, 2022 |  |
| Minerva | Minerva is a developer of a process sharing platform used to help capture and share dynamic workflows for any website. Its product allows users to create clickable instructions on properties they don't own and also supports native experiences through their software development kit (SDK) and browser extension that enable businesses to createdocumentation easily and efficiently.Minerva was founded in 2019 and is based in Brooklyn, New York. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Aug 25, 2020 |  |
| Minerva | Minerva is a developer of a process sharing platform used to help capture and share dynamic workflows for any website. Its product allows users to create clickable instructions on properties they don't own and also supports native experiences through their software development kit (SDK) and browser extension that enable businesses to createdocumentation easily and efficiently.Minerva was founded in 2019 and is based in Brooklyn, New York. | $1.1M | Seed | Aug 25, 2020 |  |
| Porter Road Butcher | Porter Road is a omnichannel whole animal butcher changing the broken food system, by working directly with farmers to offer exceptional, sustainably raised meat direct to consumer.  The company was founded by James Peisker and Chris Carter. | $3.7M | Seed | May 25, 2018 |  |
| Scatter | Scatter brings human likeness into the metaverse.Our first software product, Depthkit, is the most widely used solution for creating volumetric video human holograms. We put real people inside any virtual environment. Our customers include leading interactive media and entertainment companies .Our customers choose Depthkit because it is theeasiest and most affordable way to produce high quality volumetric video content and livestreams with self-serve software and minimal off-the-shelf hardware. Our team of Emmy-award winning creators and technologists have pioneered holographic technology since 2010, with backgrounds from Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon. We are backed by Eniac and Lux Capital. | $3.5M | Seed | Jan 20, 2018 |  |
| Scatter | Scatter brings human likeness into the metaverse.Our first software product, Depthkit, is the most widely used solution for creating volumetric video human holograms. We put real people inside any virtual environment. Our customers include leading interactive media and entertainment companies .Our customers choose Depthkit because it is theeasiest and most affordable way to produce high quality volumetric video content and livestreams with self-serve software and minimal off-the-shelf hardware. Our team of Emmy-award winning creators and technologists have pioneered holographic technology since 2010, with backgrounds from Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon. We are backed by Eniac and Lux Capital. | $1M | Convertible Note | Nov 03, 2016 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Charge Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charge-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Scrub Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scrub-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bling Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bling-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cedars-Sinai Health Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cedars-sinai-health-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Corro

VC Fund · New York, United States

Corro is an e-commerce retail platform that offers horse care products, industry expertise, and horse-inspired stories all under one roof. At Corro, they are taking the complicated out of horse care. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

4 contacts available at Corro.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rodney Drury | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rod-drury |
| Ryan Darnell | Co-Founder & Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-darnell |
| Sophie Stenbeck | Co-Founder and Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sophie-stenbeck |
| Sophie Stenbeck | Co-Founder and Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sophie-stenbeck-de4c |

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## FAQ

### What does Ryan Darnell invest in?

Ryan Darnell invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ryan Darnell last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ryan Darnell closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 11 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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