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Iron Prairie Ventures

Iron Prairie Ventures is a female-led venture capitalist firm based in Kansas City, Missouri that invests in tech companies dedicated to automating the industries of construction, manufacturing, infrastructure, and supply chain.

HQ: Kansas City, MO
Leadership: Maggie Kenefake, Founder
Year of Investment: 2022

Bodily

Bodily believes that when it comes to women’s bodies and the physical changes they experience, the things that no one talks about are the ones that need the most attention. Through evidence-based research and design-led products, Bodily makes solutions available for women to live confidently, focusing on birth and pregnancy recovery, and breastfeeding.

HQ: Brooklyn, NY
Leadership: Tovah Haim, Founder
Year of Investment: 2022

Metriport

Metriport makes it easy for digital health companies to access and manage health and medical data. They’re tackling the interoperability problem in healthcare through their full-service, open-source API. From bidirectional EHR interfacing to wearable device integrations, Metriport turbo-charges development speed by bringing it all together and standardizing it.

HQ: San Francisco, CA
Leadership: Dima Goncharov and Colin Elsinga
Founded: 2022
Year of Investment: 2022

October Impact Fund

The October Minority Impact Fund is dedicated to investing in early-stage businesses founded by members of underserved and underrepresented communities, with a focus on Black and other founders of color.

HQ: Leawood, KS
Leadership:
Reggie Jackson, Chairman
Emmanuel Emah-Emeni, Managing Director
Year of Investment: 2022

Grayson Capital

Grayson Capital is a full-service real estate development firm with a focus on multifamily, healthcare and public-private partnerships. They specialize in the entire lifecycle of real estate development, from initial concept, through design and construction, to finance, asset and property management.

HQ: Kansas City, MO
Leadership: Michael Collins, Founder and CEO
Year of Investment: 2022

SquareOffs

SquareOffs was created on the beliefs that there needed to be a better way to collect and consume opinions online, that it’s time that social media is used for good and that there is a cure to the comment chaos that is currently found online. SquareOffs built a platform that elevates, encapsulates, and distributes opinion across the web. They have built a destination for self expression, to give the world a voice, and to display powerful, real-time consensus on events in the world around us.

HQ: Kansas City, KS
Leadership: Jeff Rohr, Founder and CEO
Year of Investment: 2022

Hiram Capital

Hiram Capital represents the emergence of a truly differentiated approach to investing. Their approach is rooted in an unwavering commitment to fostering a culture that positions diversity of thought, background and experiences as an integral part of their decision-making process.

HQ: Leawood, KS
Leadership: Jeremy Goff, CEO, Managing Partner & Co-Founder
Year of Investment: 2021

Abstraction Capital

Abstraction Capital provides early-stage capital for technical founders building technical tools.

HQ: Kansas City, MO
Leadership: Taylor Clauson, Founder and Managing Partner
Year of Investment: 2021

Kill Busy Season

Kill Busy Season is a next-generation talent marketplace. It is hyper-focused on matchmaking (a) high-caliber finance and accounting professionals with (b) high-growth employers.

HQ: Kansas City
Year Company Founded: 2020
Year of Investment: 2021

Lightbeam Health Solutions

Lightbeam Health Solutions delivers a revolutionary model for managing patient populations and associated risk. Lightbeam’s vision is to bring health data into the light through the use of analytics, and to provide the insight and capabilities healthcare clients need to ensure patients receive the right care at the right time. Lightbeam’s platform facilitates end-to-end population health management for ACOs, payers, provider groups, health systems, and other healthcare organizations aspiring to provide superior care at a lower cost.

HQ: Irving, TX
Leadership: Pat Cline, CEO
Year of Investment: 2021

Novel Growth Partners

Novel Growth Partners is a revenue-based financing venture fund that provides flexible capital solutions to early-stage software companies. Novel provides companies growth capital and leverages the operational expertise of its founders and partners to provide tactical sales and marketing support to entrepreneurs via its proprietary Revenue Acceleration Platform. Novel invests in entrepreneurs focused on growing revenue and building a near-term profitable company.

HQ: Overland Park, KS
Leadership:
Carlos Antequera, Cofounder
Keith Harrington, Cofounder
Year of Investment: 2021

Firebrand

Firebrand was built from the ground up to be the first tier-one seed fund between the coasts. They leverage their top-notch team, network, and approach to find and invest in exceptional founders in the Greater Midwest.

HQ: Kansas City, MO
Leadership:
John Fein, Founder and Managing Partner
Year of Investment: 2020

Homebase

Homebase works with property owners and managers of apartments or student housing to create the ultimate smart living resident experience. It enables building-wide Wi-Fi connectivity, smart access control, and other smart building systems as a managed service.

HQ: Kansas City, MO
Leadership:
Blake Miller, Founder and CEO
Year of Investment: 2020

Patheous Health

Patheous Health is building a new direction in feeding healthcare. Their growth is based on diagnostic and therapeutic innovations that improve outcomes, lower cost and ensure that providers and patients have access to care.

HQ: Leawood, KS
Leadership:
Michael Peck, Founder and CEO
Correy Trupp, COO
Year Company Founded: 2019
Year of Investment: 2020

BrainCheck

BrainCheck is modernizing and democratizing neurocognitive testing to help people of all ages understand what’s happening in their brain. The company offers tablet and web-based cognitive diagnostic aids to physicians and health systems, allowing physicians, including PCPs, to provide highest quality, reliable cognitive care with favorable reimbursement.

Healium

Healium by StoryUP is the world’s first virtual and augmented reality channel powered by brainwaves and heart rate. It allows the user to see their emotions control virtual worlds with their smart watch or brain-sensing headband. In peer-reviewed journals, StoryUP’s patented technology has been shown to reduce anxiety and increase feelings of positivity in as little as four minutes. Healium kits are used worldwide in areas of situational stress.

kēlaHealth

KēlaHealth is a software platform that combines predictive algorithms with high-impact interventions to reduce surgical complications. We use millions of data points to inform each patient’s comprehensive risk profile, then recommend the best interventions to mitigate those risks. By following every surgical journey end-to-end, from prediction and action to outcomes, we continuously improve and inform the surgical quality ecosystem.

HQ: San Francisco, CA
Leadership: Bora Chang, MD
Year Company Founded: 2016
Year of Investment: 2019

MedZero

medZERO is a new employee benefit providing instant 0% loans for families throughout the U.S. who are struggling to pay their healthcare bills. Employees can make payments ranging from $100 to $5,000 for medical, dental, vision, and pharmaceutical needs. medZERO loans are repaid over 6 to 12 months through payroll deductions, and savings of up to 30% are achieved by maximizing the use of health savings accounts.

Movn Health

Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death in the country yet participation and completion rates in cardiac rehab is low. Lack of participation is proven to result in increased hospitalizations and early death. Movn Health is an evidence-based, structured, digital cardiac rehab program that is proven to show the same outcomes as traditional facilities at 3x higher participation rates.

SonarMD

SonarMD is a care coordination and therapeutic optimization solution for high-beta conditions. SonarMD’s clinical staff and technology make it easier for patients and specialists to work together to detect and address worsening symptoms sooner and make the right treatment decisions.

HQ: Chicago, IL
Leadership:
Lawrence R. Kosinski, MD, MBA, Founder and CMO
A.R. Weiler, CEO
Year of Investment: 2019

Spoke Health

Spoke Health helps healthcare organizations deploy and scale new care and payment models to tackle high cost care episodes from “ouch” to “outcome.” The Spoke technology platform powers a healthcare marketplace for high quality, low cost care that significantly reduces medical and administrative costs, enables cost transparency and improves consumer health, satisfaction and peace of mind.

WellBrain

WellBrain enables physicians and hospital systems to use evidence based non-opiate modalities such as mindfulness and other solutions in a B2B2C software-as-a-service model. Providers use iPads for tracking various inputs on patient’s health, movement, depression and anxiety and other factors to provide custom treatments or guided meditations in a physician tracked app for patients to use at home on smartphones.

Spinal Simplicity

Spinal Simplicity is a revenue stage medical device company focused on the design, development, and commercialization of innovative spinal and orthopedic implants. Spinal Simplicity is dedicated to providing minimally invasive spinal and orthopedic tools that significantly improve patient outcomes.

HQ: Overland Park, KS
Leadership: Todd Moseley, CEO
Year Company Founded: 2008
Year of Investment: 2018

IVX Health

IVX Health is a rapidly growing provider of low-cost, consumer-centric infusion centers serving patients on high-cost specialty biologics with diseases such as Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriasis, Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Multiple Sclerosis, severe Asthma, Lupus, and others. The company’s facilities are located in Class A retail settings near where patients live and work, have a medical spa/concierge look and feel, and provide best in class, retail-like administrative services to support patients and referring physicians.

HQ: Brentwood, TN
Leadership:
Doug Ghertner, CEO
William Seibels, CFO
Year Company Founded: 2012
Year of Investment: 2017

Muve Health

Muve Health provides a focused collection of surgical and recovery services, including single-fee total joint replacement. With a focus on early mobilization, the start-to-finish outpatient program offers minimally invasive surgical techniques that reduce operation and recovery time for patients. Dedicated physical therapy teams work to ease the transition home and return patients to normal activity as soon as possible.

HQ: Leawood, KS
Leadership: Rod Carbonell, CEO
Year Company Founded: 2015
Year of Investment: 2015

HealthJoy

HealthJoy is an all-in-one cost containment and guidance platform that helps employees make better healthcare decisions. The platform brings together medical professionals, advocates, Rx savings, an artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant, and more into an easy-to-use app that employees love. HealthJoy works for companies of all size, from 50 to 50,000 employees, both self-funded and fully-insured.

HQ: Chicago, IL
Leadership:
Justin Holland, Co-Founder and CEO
Doug Morse-Schindler, Co-Founder and President
Year Company Founded: 2014
Year of Investment: 2018

Monument Healthcare Development

A national healthcare real estate development firm, Monument transforms the way physicians do business, care for patients, and manage their property investments. Monument creates investment opportunities through effectively designed, high-quality healthcare facilities that contribute to improved outcomes.

HQ: Leawood, KS
Year Company Founded: 2010
Year of Investment: 2010

Open Prairie Ventures

Open Prairie, based in the heartland of America with headquarters in Effingham, Illinois, is a multi-faceted private equity fund management firm with deep roots in agriculture and rural America. The Open Prairie team has consistently focused on facilitating capital accessibility in underserved markets and has managed investment portfolios ranging from technology-based venture capital to farmland.

HQ: Effingham, IL
Leadership:
J.M. “Jim” Schultz, Founder and Managing Partner
Patrick Morand, President
Year of Investment: 2010

CareSignal

CareSignal provides patient engagement and monitoring tools to identify patients whose health is worsening in the community. Their standardized, evidence-based SMS text messages and IVR phone calls collect patient symptoms for 24 chronic and behavioral health conditions, while advanced algorithms risk stratify patient-reported data to identify at-risk patients. Clinical teams receive alerts for at-risk patients, providing actionable data that enables proactive care to improve health outcomes and prevent avoidable emergency department visits.

Acquired by Lightbeam Health Solutions, Inc. in 2021

Casetabs

Acquired by HST Pathways in 2020

TheraWe Connect

Acquired by Rethink First in 2020

Triggr Health

Acquired by SonarMD in 2019

in2itive Business Solutions

Acquired by Konza Valley Capital, Inc. in 2017

PT Partners

Acquired by Peak Sport and Spine in 2017