# Steve Barsh

> Steve Barsh is a non-equity assistance investor at NASA backing Health Care. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NASA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nasa)
- Location: Philadelphia, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Apr 2020
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebarsh
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/sbarsh
- Website: http://www.barshbits.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/720900776

Steve Barsh is a managing partner at Dreamit Ventures. He attended the University of Michigan from 1983 to 1987.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 9 | 64% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 29% |
| mHealth | 3 | 21% |
| Software | 3 | 21% |
| SaaS | 2 | 14% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Non-equity Assistance | 6 | 43% |
| Seed | 5 | 36% |
| Series A | 2 | 14% |
| Angel | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 93% |
| Israel | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Intellihealth | Intellihealth offers a clinically proven medical obesity treatment approach that is three times more effective than lifestyle intervention alone. Our flagship product, Evolve, enables medical providers to offer effective medical obesity treatment to new and existing patients, both via telehealth and in person. More information and a productdemonstration can be found at www.intellihealth.co |  | Non-equity Assistance | Apr 07, 2020 |  |
| Asparia | Asparia designs and develops custom EHR embedded solutions for pratices and healthcare organizations. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Apr 07, 2020 |  |
| Stel Life | Healthcare leaders are struggling with the reality of the digital divide and integrating hundreds of point solutions across the care continuum. With Stel, patients don’t require Wi-Fi, smartphones, or tech-literacy to connect with their care teams. Patients use health devices near a Stel Node. Stel passively and securely connects the device data totheir care team’s Electronic Health Records (EHR) or preferred platform without risking Protected Health Information (PHI) or complicated workflows. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Apr 07, 2020 |  |
| Healytics | Healytics offers a platform that works with health systems to integrate patient genomes into electronic health record systems.It offers enterprise-wide, specialty-agnostic, and secured at the cell level, the Healytics platform makes each patient’s genetic data available and actionable to every clinician.In 2016, Peter Chakales established it inCockeysville, Maryland. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Apr 07, 2020 |  |
| Oort | Oort is an identity threat detection and response platform for enterprise security. With over 60% of security breaches involving the abuse of valid identity credentials, identity is the new perimeter, and organizations can no longer defend it with people alone. Oort enables cybersecurity and IT professionals to easily see and secure their identityand access management (IAM) program with a SaaS platform that takes just minutes to deploy and reduces identity vulnerabilities at scale. Oort is a fully remote startup based in Boston, MA, and is backed by leading investors including Bain Capital Ventures, 645 Ventures, and First Star Ventures. Visit us at oort.io to learn more or to start your free 30-day trial of Oort. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Apr 07, 2020 |  |
| System Surveyor | System Surveyor is SaaS platform that enables multi-party collaboration to streamline planning, sales, installation, and maintenance of electronic physical security, audio-visual, fire alarms, building automation, network infrastructure, and IT systems, collectively representing a $1T market. Used by system contractors and enterprise systemmanagers in business, government, and educational environments, System Surveyor reduces system design time by 50% and enables seamless system life-cycle management from conception to end of life, and all of the iterations in between. For system contractors, System Surveyor provides a true customer engagement platform to improve the customer experience, improve sales, and yield a monthly ROI of more than 20x. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Apr 07, 2020 |  |
| MedAware | MedAware provides innovative solutions that save lives, improve patient safety, and significantly reduce healthcare costs.MedAware’s patent-pending technology uses big data analytics and machine learning algorithms to analyze large scale data of electronic medical records, and learn automatically how physicians treat patients in real lifescenarios. With MedAware, healthcare providers, payers, and pharmacy chains can leverage their big data to identify and eliminate a wide range of prescription errors and provide better risk management.Founded in 2012, MedAware is based in Raanana, Israel. | $8M | Series A | Aug 16, 2017 |  |
| Keriton Inc | Every year around 500,000 infants are admitted to one of the 1,100+ Neonatal ICUs (NICUs) across US. While mother's breast milk is important for all newborns, it is vital for the survival of these fragile patients. However, despite its critical role, the current state of breast milk management in NICUs is extremely manual, labor-intensive anderror prone. Keriton is working with Penn Medicine to develop a new gold-standard for breast milk management. With end-to-end process automation and validation, Keriton's HIPAA-compliant SaaS suite significantly lowers the nurses’ time spent on breast milk management, reduces errors and automatically generates an audit trail for the process. The Keriton suite also aims to improve expression of breast milk in lactating NICU mothers by enhancing their pumping experience, which has been empirically linked to improved clinical outcomes. Keriton delivers on all 3 aspects of AHA's triple goals i.e. improved outcomes, reduced cost and better patient engagement with a possible ROI of $4.5M per average sized NICU. | $1M | Seed | Feb 16, 2017 |  |
| MPOWER Financing | MPOWER is a US-based lender offering student loans to international students studying in the US or Canada without requiring a co-signer, collateral, or US credit history because our proprietary credit algorithm focuses on future potential.MPOWER disburses payments directly to the university on behalf of the students to pay for tuition oruniversity-sponsored services like housing, meal plans, or health insurance. Students start paying back the loan within 6 months after graduation. The loan comes with interest discounts, free personal finance education courses, credit-building, and a job placement service for the students. | $6M | Series A | Oct 26, 2016 |  |
| Wellth | Our healthcare system assumes we make decisions based on what is best for us. But it’s not that simple. Everyday stressors often cloud our judgement as to what’s best in the long run. For people with chronic conditions, this can make healthy habit formation difficult. Wellth is a venture-backed digital health company that improves adherence inchronic disease populations. Using the science of behavioral economics—combined with an appreciation for human nature—we uncover and address the unique obstacles that prevent people with chronic conditions from improving patient outcomes. Our program goes beyond current efforts to boost adherence with technology, reminders, and coaching solutions using contingency management and loss aversion to create motivation, behavior change and improve population health at scale.In addition to our RCT-proven outcomes, our easy-to-use mobile platform experience has been proven by health plans, providers, and other organizations to empower members with the incentives and support system they need to establish new healthy habits. Key outcomes for members include improved med and care plan adherence, reduction in readmissions, hospitalizations, and ED utilization, improved PDC, and more. Learn more at www.wellthapp.com. | $2M | Seed | May 25, 2016 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Dreamit Healthtech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dreamit-health) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BioAdvance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bioadvance) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Dorm Room Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dorm-room-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Dreamit Securetech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dreamit-securetech) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1776 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1776-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [37 Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/37-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About NASA

VC Fund · Washington, United States

NASA's vision is to reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind.President Dwight D. Eisenhower established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1958, partially in response to the Soviet Union's launch of the first artificial satellite the previous year. NASA grewout of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), which had been researching flight technology for more than 40 years.President John F. Kennedy focused NASA and the nation on sending astronauts to the moon by the end of the 1960s. Through the Mercury and Gemini projects, NASA developed the technology and skills it needed for the journey. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first of 12 men to walk on the moon, meeting Kennedy's challenge.Meanwhile, NASA was continuing the aeronautics research pioneered by NACA. It also conducted purely scientific research and worked on developing applications for space technology, combining both pursuits in developing the first weather and communications satellites.After Apollo, NASA focused on creating a reusable ship to provide regular access to space: the space shuttle. First launched in 1981, the space shuttle flew more than 130 successful flights before retiring in 2011. In 2000, the United States and Russia established permanent human presence in space aboard the International Space Station, a multinational project representing the work of 16 nations.NASA also has continued its scientific research. In 1997, Mars Pathfinder became the first in a fleet of spacecraft that will explore Mars in the next decade, as we try to determine if life ever existed there. The Terra and Aqua satellites are flagships of a different fleet, this one in Earth orbit, designed to help us understand how our home world is changing. NASA's aeronautics teams are focused on improved aircraft travel that is safer and cleaner.Throughout its history, NASA has conducted or funded research that has led to numerous improvements to life here on Earth.

5 contacts available at NASA.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bo Naasz | System Capability Lead for Rendezvous & Capture | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bo-naasz |
| Cindy Chin | NASA Datanaut & Mentor, Office of the CIO, Technology & Innovation | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cindy-chin |
| Davide Venturelli | Quantum Computing Lead, Science Operations Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/davide-venturelli |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dwight-d-eisenhower |
| Gaudy Bezos-O’Connor | Deputy Project Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaudy-bezos-o-connor |

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## FAQ

### What does Steve Barsh invest in?

Steve Barsh invests primarily in Health Care, Information Technology and mHealth startups, most often at Non-equity Assistance and Seed stage. Most of the 14 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 Steve Barsh's check size?

Steve Barsh typically joins rounds of $1M–$2M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Steve Barsh participates in.

### When did Steve Barsh last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Steve Barsh closed in Apr 2020. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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