Optum Ventures is the venture capital arm of Optum, a healthcare service company. It invests in early-stage start-ups which utilize data to provide various solutions for the healthcare industry. It has $600 million under management with 14 portfolio companies. It invests in companies that have solutions or products for areas such as behavioral care, healthcare data, opioid use disorder solutions, the use of artificial intelligence for monitoring neurological conditions, and more. Its first venture fund in 2017 raised $250 million and was invested into the healthcare industry.
Timeline
Funded Companies
Buoy HealthBuoy Health is an AI symptom checker and health technology company founded by Nathanael Ren, Adam Lathram, Andrew Le, and Eddie Reyes in 2014.
Boston
RubiconMDRubiconMD is a New York-based company founded by Julien L. Pham, Gil Addo, Carlos Reines and Gilbert Addo.
New York
Mindstrong HealthNeuroscience precision therapy company
Mountain View, California
Palo Alto, California
Kaia healthArtificial Intelligence company
Munich
New York City
IDx TechnologiesIDx is a leading AI diagnostics company on a mission to transform the quality, accessibility, and affordability of healthcare world-wide.
Coralville, Iowa
VimVim is a San Francisco-based company.
San Francisco
LetsGetChecked.comLetsGetChecked.com is a New York City-based company founded in 2015.
People
Kaylyn Alderson
Principal
Larry C. Renfro
Managing Partner
Vijay Barathan
Senior Principal
Further reading
Through new Optum Ventures unit, UnitedHealth Group will invest $250M in digital health startups
Susan Morse
Web
November 29, 2017
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
DHIS Q&A: A.G. Breitenstein, Partner / Optum Ventures
November 27, 2018
Companies
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