# The Social Entrepreneurs Fund (TSEF)

> The Social Entrepreneurs Fund (TSEF) is a VC fund backing Health Care. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New City, United States
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Fund size: $14M
- Last fund: Jan 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-social-entrepreneurs'-fund
- Website: http://www.tsef.com/

The Social Entrepreneurs Fund (TSEF) is a VC fund in New City focused on Health Care and FinTech. TSEF invests in software and services designed to help low income communities and organizations that serve them

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$8.5M |
| Series A | $5M–$13M |
| Series B | $553k–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 6 | 18% |
| FinTech | 5 | 15% |
| Software | 5 | 15% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 12% |

75 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 24% |
| Seed | 7 | 21% |
| Series B | 5 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 15% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 9% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 22 | 65% |
| Mexico | 2 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Presser | Associate | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-presser |
| Lara Metcalf | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lara-metcalf |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Twentyeight Health | Twentyeight Health is a mission-driven women’s health platform, increasing access to healthcare services, starting with birth control.The company provides online doctor evaluations for birth control prescriptions, quick home deliveries, and secure messaging with doctors. Twentyeight Health also has sex ed content vetted by doctors so women canlearn about all their options. | $10M | Series A | Jan 07, 2025 |  |
| She Matters | She Matters is a social networking platform dedicated to black women's mental health. | $2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 07, 2024 |  |
| Driver Technologies | Driver is a hardware-free mobile app that allows users to video record their trip while receiving alerts when they are at risk of hitting another car or pedestrian, drifting out of their lane, falling asleep or getting too distracted - all for free. The app will also enable users to control their phone with their voice in order to enable safeconsumption of original and partnership-based: entertainment, news, communications, traffic and augmented reality navigation. | $6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 08, 2023 |  |
| 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. | $20M | Series B | Mar 30, 2023 |  |
| Cushion | At Cushion, our goal is to democratize access to financial help, not just financial advice - enabling consumers to waste less money, save more, and live financially healthier lives. We believe that the future of consumer finance is all about intelligently doing work on behalf of the end user - requiring very little input from, or interaction with,the consumer. Our first offering is a bot that negotiates with banks, on behalf of our customers, to get their bank fees and credit card interest charges waived - a $200 Billion annual problem in the U.S. | $12M | Series A | May 12, 2022 |  |
| Key | At Key, they're creating a world where real estate is a source of prosperity and freedom for everyone. Their patent-pending approach makes urban living possible again, free from the burdens of commuting, cost-prohibitive down payments, and the inflexibility that comes with a 25-year mortgage. | $8.5M | Seed | Mar 08, 2022 |  |
| Mentor Spaces | Mentor Spaces is a mentorship software platform that connects corporate employees to students to support career discovery, navigation and job placement. Used by corporate impact leaders, universities and nonprofits - the platform facilitates career conversations with experts aligned to one’s professional interests and goals. Companies use MentorSpaces to engage employees, cultivate talent pipelines, and improve retention while making measurable social impact. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 29, 2021 |  |
| Aunt Bertha | Aunt Bertha picks up where Uncle Sam leaves off by making it easy to find and apply for government and charitable social service programs. By organizing the world's human service program information, people in need, and the people who help them can find programs in seconds on. They are driving down the cost of administering social serviceprograms by providing a simple way for governments and charities to accept applications online.Aunt Bertha was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $27M | Series D | Jun 02, 2021 |  |
| findhelp | The leading technology for connecting people to social care, findhelp seamlessly operates with existing systems. It includes thousands of up-to-date services available in every zip code, searchable at any time. | $27M | Series D | Jun 02, 2021 |  |
| Driver Technologies | Driver is a hardware-free mobile app that allows users to video record their trip while receiving alerts when they are at risk of hitting another car or pedestrian, drifting out of their lane, falling asleep or getting too distracted - all for free. The app will also enable users to control their phone with their voice in order to enable safeconsumption of original and partnership-based: entertainment, news, communications, traffic and augmented reality navigation. | $8M | Series A | Jun 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does The Social Entrepreneurs Fund (TSEF) invest in?

The Social Entrepreneurs Fund (TSEF) invests primarily in Health Care, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 34 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 Social Entrepreneurs Fund (TSEF)'s check size?

The Social Entrepreneurs Fund (TSEF) typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$8.5M at Seed, $5M–$13M at Series A and $553k–$20M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds The Social Entrepreneurs Fund (TSEF) participates in.

### How do I contact The Social Entrepreneurs Fund (TSEF)?

Public channels for The Social Entrepreneurs Fund (TSEF) include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at The Social Entrepreneurs Fund (TSEF)?

The team at The Social Entrepreneurs Fund (TSEF) includes Michael Presser (Associate) and Lara Metcalf (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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