# The Roux Institute Techstars Accelerator

> The Roux Institute Techstars Accelerator is a VC fund backing Software and Health Care. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Portland, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Sep 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.techstars.com/accelerators/the-roux-institute

The Roux Institute Techstars Accelerator is a VC fund in Portland focused on Software and Health Care. Roux Institute Techstars works with startups that builds products in various areas of artificial intelligence, life sciences, and data, and analytics.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 40% |
| Health Care | 4 | 40% |
| Wellness | 3 | 30% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 30% |
| Payments | 2 | 20% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 90% |
| Seed | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Phase Zero | Phase Zero is a patient relationship management platform for providers in health and wellness. Our HIPAA-compliant platform provides the building blocks to deliver a virtual-first experience. We help healthcare organizations digitize and automate their patient onboarding experience to improve patient satisfaction and outcomes. |  | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2022 |  |
| Circa | Circa develops an online payment platform that offers the community an easy way to collect rent through payment innovation. Its platform also makes it easier for properties to collect rent by giving residents more choice and control over their monthly expenses using flexible payments, credit reporting, and arrears planning. | $422K | Pre-Seed | Sep 14, 2021 |  |
| Omnic.AI | Omnic.AI is an AI platform for gaming designed to help users game smarter. The self-service platform uses computer vision and deep learning techniques to help everyday gamers, pros, and content creators replace hours of manual work, anecdotal theory, and intuition with automation and personalized data-driven insights. Omnic.AI was founded in 2021by MIT alumnus and former nuclear engineer Shaun Meredith and former Apple director Chuck Goldman. | $870K | Pre-Seed | Sep 14, 2021 |  |
| Wishroute | Wishroute helps D2C companies proactively and personally support customers with a human “accountability buddy," driving increased conversion, engagement and retention. We enable companies to add human-supported daily SMS conversations to their platforms, designed to help people build healthy habits around the product they signed up for,increasing motivation and, in turn, preventing drop-off. We leverage AI to turn our human support guides into superhumans, with the ability to handle any scale and deliver a positive ROI. |  | Seed | Sep 13, 2021 |  |
| ListedB | ListedB is the Black community's only social booking app for beauty and wellness services. They use photos and videos to showcase the distinct culture of Black barbershops and salons on the internet. ListedB helps professionals maximize revenue by finding new clients and automating appointment scheduling, while also allowing clients todiscover new styles and find local professionals. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Sep 13, 2021 |  |
| MCSquared Health | MCSquared Health simplifies the medical billing process so patients and providers can focus on what's most important: care.We have has the expertise to understand why America’s complex and expensive health care system can make it frustrating for patients to make payments.Our mission is to radically simplify and modernize the way in whichAmericans pay for their health care. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Sep 13, 2021 |  |
| Attenex | Panel-as-a-Service Marketing Insights for Challenger Brands | $120K | Pre-Seed | Sep 13, 2021 |  |
| Group B Labs | Group B Labs is a Techstars-backed startup that invented the world's most advanced baby bottle, bubbe, which underpins a cutting-edge ecosystem of feeding data collection, software, and services. Using our patented technologies, bubbe keeps breastmilk or formula cold for hours and then, at the push of a button, warms it to a perfect feedingtemperature within 2 minutes, without developing heat-gradients or hot-spots. Portable and battery-powered, bubbe also automatically collects valuable feeding data (e.g. volume consumed, feeding duration, temperature, feeding time, etc...) that it transmits wirelessly to a mobile device for convenient viewing, analysis, and communication to a healthcare provider. Bubbe bottle, software, and services are redefining the baby feeding experience and making parents’ lives radically easier in the process, whether at home, in the middle of the night, or on-the-go. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Sep 13, 2021 |  |
| breathing.ai | Breathing.ai is a digital health social enterprise that integrates healthy habits effortlessly into the daily screen interactions. The first patented product is a browser extension. It offers short and simple break reminders and color filters, scientifically studied popular exercises, to reduce stress and improve performance with optional vitalsign detection via webcam and machine learning. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 13, 2021 |  |
| Eskuad | At Eskuad, it's our mission to help natural resources squads without access to traditional communication networks save time and resources by providing access to our platform anywhere and anytime, even while disconnected. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Sep 13, 2021 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Amplify.LA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-la) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GTMfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gtmfund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Koa Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/koa-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Neu Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neu-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does The Roux Institute Techstars Accelerator invest in?

The Roux Institute Techstars Accelerator invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Wellness startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 10 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 The Roux Institute Techstars Accelerator last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for The Roux Institute Techstars Accelerator closed in Sep 2021. Shizune tracks 10 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?

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