Shawn Ellis
EVP & MD @ NFP Ventures
Chicago, United States
Shawn Ellis is a seed investor at NFP Ventures in Chicago focused on Health Care and FinTech. Shawn Ellis is the Managing Partner at Distributed Ventures.
- Total investments:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
Last updated:
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Industries Shawn Ellis invests in
Stages Shawn Ellis invests in
Countries Shawn Ellis invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 7 (23%)
- FinTech 5 (17%)
- InsurTech 4 (13%)
- Insurance 4 (13%)
- Financial Services 4 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (33%)
- Series A 6 (20%)
- Series B 4 (13%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (7%)
- Convertible Note 2 (7%)
Country
- United States 19 (63%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Focal saves financial advisors 8+ hours per week by automating time-consuming tasks before, during, and after meetings. Focal is the only AI meeting management solution purpose-built for financial advisors that offers enterprise-grade security and data controls on Microsoft's most secure infrastructure. | $5M / Seed / Oct 09, 2025 | ||
| Posterity Health educate, engage, and encourage couples to approach the conception process together as an integrated unit. Posterity Health is the only digital male fertility platform that empowers men to learn about their partner's fertility and take action. | $17M / Series A / Feb 18, 2025 | ||
| Rx Save Card is an innovative pharmacy benefit solution that allows businesses and employees to integrate an assortment of cost-cutting initiatives into one integrated navigation and payment experience. | $1.7M / Pre-Seed / Aug 14, 2024 | ||
| Posterity Health educate, engage, and encourage couples to approach the conception process together as an integrated unit. Posterity Health is the only digital male fertility platform that empowers men to learn about their partner's fertility and take action. | $6M / Seed / May 29, 2024 | ||
| Tuned changes the model for hearing healthcare: from a reactive, hearing-aids focused approach, to a proactive approach that includes wellcare and early interventions. Tuned empowers employers to deliver inclusive hearing health care to employees, across all hearing abilities. Tuned supports the care with comprehensive product options to supporthearing health, freeing employers from the need to evaluate thousands of headset and software combinations. Today, 1.4 million people can access Tuned through employer benefits and services such as LEON. Tuned is a private company headquartered in New York City, with audiologists across the United States and worldwide. For more information www.tunedcare.com | $3.2M / Seed / Feb 23, 2024 | ||
| Presta provides digital lending infrastructure for the banking industry. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. | $3.3M / Pre-Seed / Mar 29, 2023 | ||
| Tuned changes the model for hearing healthcare: from a reactive, hearing-aids focused approach, to a proactive approach that includes wellcare and early interventions. Tuned empowers employers to deliver inclusive hearing health care to employees, across all hearing abilities. Tuned supports the care with comprehensive product options to supporthearing health, freeing employers from the need to evaluate thousands of headset and software combinations. Today, 1.4 million people can access Tuned through employer benefits and services such as LEON. Tuned is a private company headquartered in New York City, with audiologists across the United States and worldwide. For more information www.tunedcare.com | $3.5M / Seed / Feb 08, 2023 | ||
| Posterity Health educate, engage, and encourage couples to approach the conception process together as an integrated unit. Posterity Health is the only digital male fertility platform that empowers men to learn about their partner's fertility and take action. | $7.5M / Seed / Jan 17, 2023 | ||
| Axio helps organizations understand cyber exposure, calculate risk, and make data-driven decisions that improve their security and risk posture and accelerate the maturity of an organization’s capability to manage cyber risk. A business can quantify cyber risk and measure your cyber resiliency by determining the effectiveness and cost and of yourcyber risk capabilities, assessing if they are reasonable and optimal for an organization, and determining what other controls (not just technologies) need to be put in place. Axio provides all stakeholders with a common framework to proactively manage cyber risk, in terms that the entire organization can understand. CISOs can now explain what they do, how they do it, and what it means with regards to overall cyber risk for the business. Risk officers can optimize their insurance portfolio and invest in the specific types of cyber insurance and limits that protect their business. Board members and executive leadership can now be confident in their cyber strategy and their ability to achieve and sustain resiliency. Axio delivers cyber resilience optimization. | $23M / Series B / Aug 04, 2022 | ||
| Posterity Health educate, engage, and encourage couples to approach the conception process together as an integrated unit. Posterity Health is the only digital male fertility platform that empowers men to learn about their partner's fertility and take action. | $9.7M / Seed / Jul 12, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About NFP Ventures
NFP Ventures' mission is to find, fund and work successfully with visionary entrepreneurs, applying NFP’s expertise to facilitate long-term success. Typically, the firm targets companies seeking Seed to Series B investments that can benefit from NFP's distribution, human capital and other unique assets to accelerate their growth.
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What does Shawn Ellis invest in?
Shawn Ellis invests primarily in Health Care, FinTech and InsurTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 30 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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