# The Blue Venture Fund

> The Blue Venture Fund is a VC fund backing Health Care and Medical. See 117 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 117
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 35%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-blue-venture-fund
- Website: https://www.blueventurefund.com

The Blue Venture Fund is a strategic investment vehicle that aims to foster innovation within the healthcare system. The Blue Venture Fund invests in emerging healthcare companies that have the potential to improve the quality of care, enhance patient experience, and reduce costs. It seeks to support companies that align with the needs andpriorities of Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) member companies and their policyholders.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2.6M–$25M |
| Series B | $4M–$38M |
| Series C | $12M–$64M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 51 | 44% |
| Medical | 20 | 17% |
| Wellness | 16 | 14% |
| Software | 13 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 9% |

65 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 28 | 24% |
| Series B | 22 | 19% |
| Series C | 15 | 13% |
| Seed | 12 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 7% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 63 | 54% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| India | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John Banta | Vice President of Investments; President and Managing Director | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-banta |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Big Health | Big Health is a digital therapeutics company that operates a digital healthcare portal to offer fully-automated and highly personalized digital therapeutics and behavioral programs for mental health issues. Its portal offers an online personalized medicine-care and prepares a sleep improvement program in consultation with medical professionals thatenable individuals to overcome their sleep-related disorders in an efficient manner. | $23.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 12, 2026 |  |
| Origin | Origin provides physical therapy services. They focus on pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, and sexual health. They also offer physical therapy for the pelvic floor and the whole body. |  | Series B | Jan 28, 2026 |  |
| Nest Health | Nest Health offers medical services that aim to minimize the stress of arranging childcare, making travel arrangements, and leaving home. The company offers a wide range of services to newborns, babies, children, teens, and adults for medical, behavioral, nutrition, and more, enabling patients to get treated at home. | $10M | Series A | Nov 21, 2025 |  |
| Daymark Health | Daymark Health is a cancer care company that focuses on providing in-home and virtual supportive care to cancer patients in collaboration with health plans. The company offers a wide range of supportive care services, including behavioral health care and social support, aimed at meeting the comprehensive needs of cancer patients. Daymark Healthconnects primary care physicians, oncologists, and other care teams to create a seamless and supportive experience for patients, leveraging both virtual and home-based care methodologies. | $20M | Series A | Sep 25, 2025 |  |
| Octave | Octave Bioscience is an early-stage molecular diagnostics company focused on neurodegenerative diseases and conditions. The company was co-founded by Melinda Thomas and William Hagstrom in 2013. Octave Bioscience is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States. | $35.6M | Series C | Sep 04, 2025 |  |
| Noctrix Health | Noctrix Health is an early-stage medical device company that focuses on developing a revolutionary therapy for a chronic illness. | $33.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 29, 2025 |  |
| Nest Health | Nest Health offers medical services that aim to minimize the stress of arranging childcare, making travel arrangements, and leaving home. The company offers a wide range of services to newborns, babies, children, teens, and adults for medical, behavioral, nutrition, and more, enabling patients to get treated at home. | $12.5M | Series A | Aug 25, 2025 |  |
| Ultromics | Ultromics develops AI-powered software solutions to assist in cardiovascular disease diagnosis through echocardiography. The company provides platforms that support clinicians in interpreting echocardiogram data by applying machine learning to detect patterns and abnormalities that may indicate heart conditions. Ultromics offers its flagshipproduct, EchoGo, which automates the analysis of echocardiograms and delivers quantitative reports on cardiac function and structure. The software integrates with existing clinical workflows and is designed to enhance decision-making consistency while reducing variability in scan interpretation. Ultromics focuses on leveraging data-driven approaches to support early detection of conditions such as heart failure and coronary artery disease. Its technology is built on research collaborations and large-scale clinical datasets, aiming to improve diagnostic outcomes and support clinical efficiency. | $55M | Series C | Jul 31, 2025 |  |
| PinkDx | PinkDx is a biotechnology company. | $5M | Series A | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| Upward Health | Upward Health is a home-based medical group that specializes in providing care to people with complex needs. It provides insurers with two primary benefits: exceptional care for high-risk, high-need, high-cost members, resulting in high-quality outcomes, and lower costs for providing care to those members. These benefits are provided by the companythrough hands-on, holistic care for the members. |  | Series C | Jan 16, 2025 |  |

10 of 117 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [The Blue Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bluecross-blueshield-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 102 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does The Blue Venture Fund invest in?

The Blue Venture Fund invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Wellness startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 117 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 The Blue Venture Fund's check size?

The Blue Venture Fund typically joins rounds of $2.6M–$25M at Series A, $4M–$38M at Series B and $12M–$64M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds The Blue Venture Fund participates in.

### How do I contact The Blue Venture Fund?

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### Who are the partners at The Blue Venture Fund?

The team at The Blue Venture Fund includes John Banta (Vice President of Investments; President and Managing Director). 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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