Doing Well By Doing Good In Healthcare Benefits
We are a first-of-its-kind venture capital investment firm focused on helping U.S. employers align their healthcare benefit programs with business goals. We drive innovation through investments in early-stage employer benefits partners. Employers who are limited partners participate in this innovation through a venture lens.
By bringing together employers and innovative benefits vendors, we aim to build community that fosters creative benefits programs and promotes transparency between employers and plan members.
Why It Matters
Nearly 45% of all U.S. healthcare spending is through employer-sponsored health plans. This represents over $1 trillion in annual spend, with ⅔ of this being delivered through self-funded employer health plans.
This spend is growing at an unsustainable rate of 2X inflation!
Key Challenges For Employer Sponsored Health Plans (ESHPs)
The lack of innovative benefits programs in the current ESHP environment is due primarily to misaligned incentives and 3rd party middlemen with entrenched self-interests. The resulting lack of transparency between employers and plan members creates several challenges:
Misaligned Incentives
Opaque Data & Analytics
Lack of Targeted, Innovative Programs
Increased Regulatory Oversight
Problems Impacting Businesses Today
By understanding key areas where the workforce is underperforming, as well as the root causes, U.S. employers can deploy benefits programs that specifically address these issues.
Here’s what innovation with healthcare benefits looks like in action:
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Stronger Support for Labor Intensive Jobs
Provide virtual physical therapy to employees in deskless, labor-intensive jobs.
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Better Care for Chronic Conditions
Improve management of employees’ chronic diseases (HIV & diabetes) to reduce medical leave.
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Long-Term ADHD Assistance
Target employees struggling with ADHD by providing long-term support and medical care.
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Smarter Leave Management
Reduce employee time off from FMLA and disability through improved process management.
Redefining Employer-Sponsored Healthcare
We are re-imagining the future state of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans (ESHP) by fostering plan offerings that empower employers with transparency, data, and innovation. The only way to ensure a clear path forward is to create a community that transparently connects employers and benefits program vendors.
Achieved Through Community
Our Goals
Target Employer Priorities
Improve All Employee
Health OutcomesSupport Business Objectives Through Data and Programs
Connecting Stakeholders to Improve Healthcare
We connect benefits innovators with U.S. employers to create transparent, effective healthcare benefits solutions that improve outcomes for all.
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Innovative Benefits Vendors
We bring capital, advisory expertise, and a powerful community to help you gain traction and scale - whether or not you are based in the US. Ensuring your products and go-to-market strategy are aligned with different stakeholder incentives is critical to success.
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Employer-Sponsored Health Plans
Our collective experience will help you make smarter, more strategic benefit program decisions. Every plan is different, but our shared learning can improve decision-making, employee health, and business outcomes.
We’ve sat in your seat. We understand the stakes!
Investment Focus
Fund I invests in early-stage founders with novel benefits solutions that stand to reshape the employer healthcare landscape. Our investments, both with employers and vendors, are intended to create community around solving unmet needs impacting self-funded employer health plans.
We aim to deploy capital and expertise to:
Drive Employer’s Enterprise Value
Improve Healthcare Outcomes for Employer Plan
Transform Benefits Strategies