West Health Investment Fund
VC Fund
La Jolla, United States
West Health Investment Fund is a VC fund in La Jolla focused on Health Care and Medical. The West Health Investment Fund was established with a unique mission – to lower health care costs – by providing risk capital for companies with cutting-edge health care technologies and services.The West Health Investment Fund was launched by entrepreneurs and philanthropists, Gary and Mary West. The Wests have committed $100 million to theFund, and they are the sole funders.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries West Health Investment Fund invests in
Stages West Health Investment Fund invests in
Countries West Health Investment Fund invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Shelley Lyford
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 9 (56%)
- Medical 7 (44%)
- Medical Device 5 (31%)
- SaaS 2 (13%)
- Hospital 2 (13%)
Stage
- Funding Round 6 (38%)
- Series C 3 (19%)
- Seed 2 (13%)
- Series A 2 (13%)
- Series D 2 (13%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Shelley Lyford
Chief Operating Officer
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Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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goBalto
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GoBalto is a software platform that develops cloud-based solutions for drug trial sponsors and clinical research organizations. Its products offer drug trial sponsors and clinical research organizations the fastest, easiest possible way to start clinical studies on the web.The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco,California. | $12.1M / Series C / Jan 06, 2015 | |
Airstrip Technologies
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The AirStrip Technologies platform securely delivers critical patient information, including virtual real-time waveform data, directly from hospital monitoring systems to a doctor or nurse's smart phone, laptop or desktop. The platform is completely reusable, scalable and data independent, and can be employed throughout the healthcareenterprise. | $25M / Aug 26, 2014 | |
Sotera Wireless
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Sotera Wireless, Inc. is a medical device company dedicated to the development, marketing and sale of a new generation of comprehensive vital signs monitoring. Sotera’s mission is to improve patient safety by empowering clinicians to detect early signs of deterioration in virtually any care setting and enable early intervention and rapid response,all without limiting the patient’s freedom of movement. | $20.7M / Apr 24, 2014 | |
Reflexion Health
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Reflexion Health, Inc. develops and publishes a prescription software for medical professionals and their patients. It offers a rehab measurement tool to track patient adherence for the prescribed rehab plan. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Diego, California. | $7.5M / Series A / Mar 27, 2014 | |
Svelte Medical Systems
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Svelte Medical Systems (Svelte) is a privately held company focused on delivering novel products in the $5 billion coronary stent market. Its mission is to address key clinical issues in the stent market by improving stent deliverability, reducing cost, and dramatically improving the safety of the device compared to current market products.Sveltehas developed the lowest profile and most deliverable balloon-expandable stent in the market, along with technology to create a non-thrombogenic, non-inflammatory Drug-Eluting Stent (DES). Svelte was started by Robert Fischell, David Fischell, and Tim Fischell in 2007. | $5M / Mar 10, 2014 | |
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goBalto
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GoBalto is a software platform that develops cloud-based solutions for drug trial sponsors and clinical research organizations. Its products offer drug trial sponsors and clinical research organizations the fastest, easiest possible way to start clinical studies on the web.The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco,California. | $5M / Mar 03, 2014 | |
Change Healthcare
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Change Healthcare is an independent healthcare technology providing data and analytics-driven solutions to improve clinical and patient engagement outcomes in the U.S. healthcare system. Through the power of its platform, the company provides data and analytics-driven solutions to improve clinical, financial, administrative, and patient engagementoutcomes in the healthcare system. | $15M / Series D / Aug 13, 2013 | |
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Sotera Wireless
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Sotera Wireless, Inc. is a medical device company dedicated to the development, marketing and sale of a new generation of comprehensive vital signs monitoring. Sotera’s mission is to improve patient safety by empowering clinicians to detect early signs of deterioration in virtually any care setting and enable early intervention and rapid response,all without limiting the patient’s freedom of movement. | $14.8M / Series D / Feb 06, 2013 | |
Healthsense
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Healthsense is a provider of remote monitoring technology solutions for the senior care continuum. With our full range of health and safety monitoring systems, providers are empowered to proactively deliver the highest quality care possible through critical health information. Caregivers reduce costs, increase independence and enhance seniorexperiences when armed with the right information at the right time. | Jan 07, 2013 | |
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goBalto
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GoBalto is a software platform that develops cloud-based solutions for drug trial sponsors and clinical research organizations. Its products offer drug trial sponsors and clinical research organizations the fastest, easiest possible way to start clinical studies on the web.The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco,California. | $12M / Series B / Dec 27, 2012 | |
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What does West Health Investment Fund invest in?
West Health Investment Fund invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Medical Device startups, most often at Funding Round and Series C stage. Most of the 16 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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The team at West Health Investment Fund includes Shelley Lyford (Chief Operating Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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