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Mastering the Money Game: The Basics of Startup Finances
While there is not just one path to successful business building, nor are there ever guarantees in the endeavor, businesses that weather the storm and stand the test of time have this in common: robust financial planning practices. In this blog post, we share five fundamentals and an extremely useful technique, “Back Casting.”
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Spotlight on Consumer-Directed Technologies:
7wireVentures 2024 Digital Health Predictions
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7wireVentures Presents:
Top of the Ladder Featuring Parsley Health Founder and CEO Dr. Robin Berzin
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Empowering Underserved Americans: Revolutionizing Medicaid Care Through Digital Health Solutions
Embedded within the intricate framework of American healthcare, Medicaid is the country’s largest insurer, providing essential support to 28% of Americans (up from 18% in 2010). Its financial footprint drives 44% more expenditure than the commercial sector, amounting to $728B in annual health expenses.
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Announcing the Close of 7wireVentures’ Newest Investment Vehicle: A $217M + Growth & Opportunity Fund
We are pleased to announce that 7wireVentures has raised our latest investment vehicle, a $217M Growth & Opportunity Fund (GO Fund). The new capital will help our team support high-potential companies from our existing portfolio as they advance to later stages of funding, as well as to invest in other compelling Series B and C companies. The closing of our GO Fund brings the Firm’s AUM to over $500M.
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7wireVentures Presents: Top of the Ladder Featuring David Schonthal, 7wireVentures, Operating Partner
David Schonthal has been an entrepreneur, investor, and innovation-leader in the healthcare world for over 20 years. He is an award-winning Professor of Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of Management and the author of the bestselling book, “The Human Element: Overcoming the Resistance That Awaits New Ideas”. In short, he is a man of many hats – all of which work to enrich and inform his role as Operating Partner at 7wireVentures.
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Vivante continues to advance digestive care with its $31M Series B fundraising to power its next chapter of growth
Vivante Health, a digital digestive health solution that uniquely addresses the main challenges consumers with Gastrointestinal (GI) conditions face through personalized clinical care, announced a $31M equity financing Series B led by Mercato Partners.
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Home is Where the Health Is: How Digital Health Can Make the Home a True Consumer-Centered Medical Home
Though there has been significant progress in advancing healthcare into the home, with a notable acceleration over the past few years driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are still very much in the starting blocks of the journey to make the home a true consumer-centered medical home.
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7wireVentures Presents: Top of the Ladder Featuring HomeThrive Co-Founders & Co-CEOs Dave Jacobs & David Greenberg
For Homethrive’s two founders, Dave Jacobs and David Greenberg (colloquially and warmly known as “The Daves”), the experience of caregiving for family members while working represented a major challenge. They found a confusing, hard to navigate system and even after taking countless days off work and spending long hours on the phone, they couldn’t find the answers they needed. They knew there had to be a better way – not just for them, but also for the over 50M Americans that are serving as caregivers to their loved ones today. Thus, in partnership with the 7wireVentures team, Homethrive was Hatched in 2018.
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Closing the Gender Healthcare Gap
How Digital Health Can Transform Care for 50% of the World’s Population
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Tom Richards To Join 7wireVentures As Operating Partner
Following a prolific 38-year career at Cigna, Richards brings his extensive health plan and employer expertise to 7wireVentures, helping drive enhanced growth across the firm’s portfolio
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Dan Michelson to Join 7wireVentures as Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Former Strata CEO and Top Healthcare Technology Leader to Focus on Helping Portfolio Companies Grow and Scale
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NOCD deepens relationship with Cigna through a new $34 million financing round
Furthering both organizations’ commitment to ending the global OCD crisis
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Spotlight on Consumer-Directed Technologies:
7wireVentures 2023 Digital Health Predictions
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7wireVentures and United States of Care Announce:
NourishedRx as the Recipient of the 2022 Thomas J. Main Ignite Award
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Our Investment in Override
We are delighted to announce that 7wireVentures has led an investment in Override as part of the company’s $3.5M Seed financing round.
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7wireVentures Deepens Relationship with PayZen, Leading The Company’s $20M Equity Financing
We are excited to announce that 7wireVentures has led a $20M equity financing round in our portfolio company PayZen.
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We Are Hiring
As 7wire continues seeks to expand our investments in promising digital health entrepreneurs, we are also looking to grow our team! We are officially kicking off our search for an Investment Team Member!
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Our Investment in FOLX Health
We are proud to announce that 7wireVentures has led an investment in FOLX Health as part of the company’s $30M Series B financing round.
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7wireVentures Presents
Top of the Ladder Featuring Caraway Co-Founder Lori Evans Bernstein
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Addressing The Nation’s Leading Cause of Death
How Digital Health Can Unclog America’s Heart Health Problem
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Announcing the Newest 7wireVentures Hatch Company- Caraway
Today, 7wireVentures portfolio company Caraway has officially emerged from stealth!
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How Health Tech Companies Can Grow and Thrive
Lee Shapiro talks with Get-to-Market Health about growth, sales, and the importance of leadership in healthcare startups.
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Forbes: Entrepreneurs, Focus On The Right Stuff
Lee Shapiro shares some key lessons he's learned from working with healthcare entrepreneurs.
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Our Investment in 9am.health
We’re excited to announce our investment in 9am.health — the first direct-to-consumer virtual diabetes clinic — as part of their $16M Series A round
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Is VC funding in healthcare startups drying up?
7wireVentures partner Alyssa Jaffee joined other investors at MedCity News’s INVEST conference to chat on the future of venture capital
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Fortune: Stop asking women how we manage work-life balance. Most of us don’t
Read Alyssa Jaffee's, partner at 7wireVentures, article in Fortune on the expectations and reality of working mothers
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Top of the Ladder With MedArrive Co-Founders
A chat with MedArrive Co-Founders Dan Trigub & Inna Plumb on their founding journey, company culture during a pandemic, and more.
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Our Investment in Vivante Health
We're leading an investment in Vivante Heath, an industry-leading platform helping consumers manage gastrointestinal disorders
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Addressing Our Healthcare System’s Pain Points
How digital health is combatting the opioid epidemic and transforming chronic pain management
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How digital health can help retailers become a one stop shop
7wireVentures Partner Alyssa Jaffee shares her thoughts on how retailers can leverage their footprints in local communities
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Alyssa Jaffee on A Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy Podcast
Alyssa Jaffee joins Eugene Borukhovich and Jim Joyce on A Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy podcast
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Kicking Off 7wireVentures's 2022 MBA Summer Internship
We’re excited to officially kick off recruiting for our 2022 MBA Summer Internship Program
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This Week in Health IT: Lee Shapiro, Managing Partner
7wireVentures Managing Partner Lee Shapiro joined the This Week in Health IT podcast to share his predictions for 2022, trends in care access, and more
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Insurers test the waters with ‘telebehavioral’ health platforms
7wireVentures Partner Robert Garber comments on how payers can incorporate virtual mental health to increase access to care and improve consumer experience
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The Prescription For Digital Health Success In 2022
Lee Shapiro, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at 7wireVentures, discusses opportunities for healthcare entrepreneurs to deliver transformational experiences
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