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Advancing equity through opportunity, Seae Ventures is an investment firm specializing in early-stage healthcare technology and services companies founded by diverse entrepreneurs including women and those who identify as black, indigenous, and people of color.

Seae Ventures Announces
Strategic Acquisition of Unseen Capital

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The historical approach to funding innovation hasn’t worked for everyone. We’re changing the paradigm.

Jason Robart

Tuoyo Louis, Jason Robart, and Peter Sally

At Seae, we don’t look, sound, or act like a “traditional” venture firm. Founded in 2019, we’re passionately committed to the idea that diverse teams can drive premium returns through innovative solutions. And we’re privileged to work with uniquely bold, disruptive startups that are advancing healthcare, generating strong returns, and saving lives.

​​Our distinct approach to diversity is based on our belief that diverse teams drive higher returns and have a material impact on delivering better health outcomes. Seae’s portfolio is comprised of diverse founders, with women and BIPOC representing a welcome, ever-growing, and long overdue presence.

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Portfolio Diversity

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Women

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BIPOC

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Improved Board Diversity

Our distinct approach to diversity is based on our belief that diverse teams drive higher returns and have a material impact on delivering better health outcomes. Seae’s portfolio is comprised of diverse founders, with women and BIPOC representing a welcome, ever-growing, and long overdue presence:

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Portfolio Diversity

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Women

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BIPOC

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Improved Board Diversity

​​Our distinct approach to diversity is based on our belief that diverse teams drive higher returns and have a material impact on delivering better health outcomes. Seae’s portfolio is comprised of diverse founders, with women and BIPOC representing a welcome, ever-growing, and long overdue presence:

​​Our distinct approach to diversity is based on our belief that diverse teams drive higher returns and have a material impact on delivering better health outcomes. Seae’s portfolio is comprised of diverse founders, with women and BIPOC representing a welcome, ever-growing, and long overdue presence:

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Portfolio Diversity

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BIPOC

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Improved Board Diversity
Arianne Kidder

PartnerArianne brings over 15 years of experience to finance and operations leadership in healthcare and technology ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 organizations. Read more

Healthcare Finance

Venture

Operations

Tuoyo Louis

Co-founder & Managing PartnerTuoyo co-founded Seae in 2019 and is a venture capital investor with a deep commitment to healthcare, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Tuoyo’s experience includes investing and operating roles over the last 18 years. Read more

Venture

Innovation

Healthcare Finance

Leah O`Donnell

Head of Partnerships and Corporate DevelopmentLeah brings over 20 years of both consulting and operations experience working across a range of healthcare and consumer-focused businesses. Read more

Business Development

Venture

Strategy

Jason Robart

Co-founder & Managing PartnerJason co-founded Seae in 2019. Previously he was Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts’ Chief Strategy Officer as well as the President and CEO of Zaffre Investments, a wholly owned subsidiary of BCBSMA. Read more

Healthcare Strategy

Venture

Human Capital

Justin Williams

Principal.Justin joined Seae in 2023. He brings relevant venture capital experience, most recently as an Associate on the life science investment team at Pathway Bioventures. Read more

Venture

Life Sciences

Healthcare Finance

Tricia Brock

CFOTricia has over 20 years of experience in private equity operations, finance and administration. Her areas of responsibility and oversight range from financial reporting, investor relations, process improvement, and human resources.

Healthcare Finance

Venture

Operations

Karlos Bledsoe

PrincipalKarlos joined Seae in 2023. He brings healthcare investing and consulting experience, most recently as a Senior Fellow at the Princeton University Investment Company. Read more @karlos

Venture

Life Sciences

Healthcare Finance

We welcome all entrepreneurs, and particularly those who traditionally have had limited access to capital. We aim to provide thoughtful feedback and targeted introductions, for each founder depending on their needs. No one can, nor should, advance alone.

Leah O’Donnell

We invest in bold visions, solutions, and opportunities.

Investment Themes

  • Women’s Health
  • Mental Health IT
  • Tech-Enabled Services
  • Data Analytics
  • Financial Payment
  • Digital Health
  • Personalized Health/Genomics
  • Artificial Intelligence
altopax

Improving Access to Mental Health Services

Founded
2017
Location
Brooklyn, NY
Website

Altopax is a virtual care company providing online, real-time access to high-quality, highly specialized mental healthcare professionals. Through an innovative remote group therapy platform powered by 3D avatars, Altopax is making clinical group therapy (which is affordable and scalable) a safe, confidential, personalized, and easily accessible option for people seeking treatment who otherwise might not be able to get it.

Founders

Dr. Alvi Azad

Dr. Alvi Azad

Co-founder & CMO

Narmeen Azad

Narmeen Azad

Co-founder & CEO

tia

Expanding Maternity Health Access and Services

Founded
2020
Location
Philadelphia, PA
Website

Cayaba Care is a maternal health company offering community-based clinical services via technology-enabled multidisciplinary care teams. Cayaba Care provides care coordination, benefit sign-up, routine maternity care in the prenatal and postpartum period, mental health/counseling, breastfeeding support, and patient education.

Founders

Dr. Mary Fleming

Dr. Mary Fleming

Co-founder & Chief Medical Officer

clinify health

Providing Value-Based Care to Underserved Communities

Founded
2019
Location
Chicago, IL

Clinify Health’s cloud-based technology helps independent physicians serving underrepresented communities optimize decision making at the point of care and achieve financial stability, through alternative payment arrangements that promote healthier communities and more robust medical practices.

Founders

Nathan Pelzer

Nathan Pelzer

Co-founder & CEO

Eric Peebles

Eric Peebles

Co-founder & CTO

functional fluids

Improving Quality of Life for Sickle Cell Disease Patients

Founded
2014
Location
Detroit, MI

Functional Fluidics is a technology-enabled diagnostics company commercializing the gold standard for assessment of red blood cell health. The company’s main offering is two complementary tests that measure mechanical fragility and flow adhesion. These two assays are novel and proprietary and provide important information about the disease state of Sickle Cell patients.

Founders

Patrick Hines

Patrick Hines

MD/Founder & CEO

goalsetter

Promoting Financial Literacy to Achieve Financial Freedom

Founded
2014
Location
Brooklyn, NY
Website

Goalsetter is the first family finance app to provide an education-first saving and investing experience with a financial literacy curriculum that is offered through age-appropriate gamification tools and pop-culture-driven content to engage users of all ages. Goalsetter also partners with banks and financial institutions to offer white-label solutions and provides Fortune 1000 companies with employee benefits solutions that help them and their families become financially healthy.

Founders

Tanya Van Court

Tanya Van Court

Founder & CEO

Healthcare In Her Hue

Creating Better Outcomes by Establishing Trust

Founded
2018
Location
Bronx, NY

Health In Her HUE is the trusted digital health and wellness platform that connects women of color to culturally competent healthcare providers via asynchronous and synchronous telehealth consults, while offering health content, connections, and community. Patients of color have better health outcomes when treated by providers who they can trust to see their humanity, listen to them, and take their concerns seriously.

Founders

Ashlee Wisdom

Ashlee Wisdom

Founder & CEO

Hurdle

Making Culturally Competent Mental Health Easily Accessible

Founded
2018
Location
Washington, DC

Hurdle is a digital health platform that provides culturally sensitive teletherapy services targeted to traditionally underserved communities with an initial focus on the mental health needs of Black men. The company’s multifaceted platform offers one-on-one teletherapy, a self-care mobile app, and wellness workshops that are crucial in addressing these communities’ ever-growing mental health issues.

Founders

Kevin Dedner

Kevin Dedner

Co-founder & CEO

Iterative Scopes

Optimizing Detection and Diagnosis through AI

Founded
2017
Location
Boston, MA

Iterative Scopes provides gastroenterology AI toolkits designed to provide real-time actionable insights to providers. These computer-aided detection and diagnostic tools – powered by computer vision and machine learning technology – enable gastroenterologists to detect and classify lesions in real time and provide doctors with access to deep neural networks that can help improve patient outcomes.

Founders

Jon Ng, MBBS

Jon Ng, MBBS

Founder & CEO

kiyatec

Preventing Disease Progression through Advanced Detection

Founded
2007
Location
Greenville, SC
Website

Kiyatec has developed an advanced 3D cell culture technology designed to predict patient response to therapies before the treatment begins. The company’s technology utilizes patients’ own living tumor cells to create phenotypic 3D cell-based models for drug response profiling and analyzing cell-material interactions, enabling medical practitioners to isolate effective treatments for cancer patients.

Founders

Eric Perreault

Eric Perreault

CEO

Ensuring Equitable Access through Telemedicine Software

Founded
2018
Location
New York, NY
Website

MD Ally’s telehealth emergency care platform offers unprecedented ease of access between public safety practitioners and providers. This breakthrough technology offers nonemergency 911 telemedicine software that enables EMS to triage the patients to virtual care instead of dispatching costly emergency services, enabling patients to avail on-demand telemedicine and emergency care.

Founders

Shanel Fields

Shanel Fields

Co-founder & CEO

Improving Adherence and Outcomes through Accessible Technology

Founded
2013
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Website

Moving Analytics has created a virtual care management platform intended to help clinicians implement virtual cardiac rehab and other secondary prevention programs. This platform uses a system for remote chronic care management that allows hospitals to deliver cardiac rehabilitation, enabling medical practitioners to improve patient outcomes, reduce readmissions, and empower the effective and efficient delivery of quality care to patients.

Founders

Harsh Vathsangam

Co-founder & CEO

Ade Adesanya

Co-founder & President

Driving Better Adherence and Outcomes through Medication Management

Founded
2012
Location
Minneapolis, MN
Website

MyMeds delivers real-time actionable insights faster than anyone. Our platforms are powered by Actual Intelligence™ that is proven to improve health outcomes and lower total cost of care, driving successful results for Stars and other value-based care initiatives.

Founders

Raj Shah, MD

Founder & CEO

NEEDED

Addressing Nutrient Deficiencies in Pregnant Women

Founded
2017
Location
Los Angeles, CA

Needed provides pregnancy and family dietary supplements and related services to empower real nourishment in women before, during, and after pregnancy. The company offers practitioner-supported and mama-centric nutrition products, education, and community, helping women to experience optimal nourishment through better identification of their nutrition needs and supplements that truly work in meeting those common needs.

Founders

Ryan Woodbury

Ryan Woodbury

Co-founder & CEO

Julie Sawaya

Julie Sawaya

Co-founder & CEO

Script See

Tech-enabled Medication Reconciliation to Prevent Contraindication

Founded
2020
Location
Irvine, CA

Gaps in medication histories and prescriptions create life-threatening issues for patients around the globe. ScriptSee’s innovative AI-driven platform addresses these gaps and enables providers and pharmacists to conduct comprehensive and seamless medication reconciliations and thereby avoid medical contraindications and unnecessary and costly hospital readmissions.

Founders

Nitin Bagrecha

CEO

Long Nguyen

Co-founder

Silver Bills

Providing Financial Oversight for Senior Citizens and Caregivers

Founded
2014
Location
New Rochelle, NY
Website

SilverBills has developed bill-paying technology intended to take over the burden of paying bills for seniors. The company’s technology receives clients’ bills electronically, scrutinizes and pays them, employs technology-based secure systems to alleviate the hassles of daily money management, and charges an economical, flat monthly fee, enabling elderly Americans and their families to live in their homes without the stress and anxiety that often accompanies paying bills.

Founders

Marci Lobel-Esrig, Esq.

Marci Lobel-Esrig, Esq.

Founder, CEO & General Counsel

sym

Facilitating Digital Health Adoption through Compliance Automation

Founded
2020
Location
Boston, MA
Website

Sym is a workflow automation platform that empowers engineering teams to build the perfect security and privacy controls. A code-first developer platform providing the building blocks to automate the repetitive privacy and data security workflows that so many software companies deal with: manage requests for access to systems, collect evidence of adherence, and then create the necessary reports demonstrating compliance for SOC-2, GDPR, HITRUST, and HIPAA.

Founders

Jon Bass

Jon Bass

Co-founder

Adam Buggia

Adam Buggia

Co-founder

Yasyf Mohamedali

Yasyf Mohamedali

Co-founder

tia

Female-Focused Care that Improves Access, Outcomes, and Experiences

Founded
2016
Location
San Francisco, CA
Website

Tia is a full-service women’s healthcare platform offering a new, women-centric model of care with a blend of in-person and virtual services. The company has built a personalized healthcare model by fusing OB/GYN, primary care, mental health, and evidence-based wellness services into an integrative experience that is convenient, collaborative, and focused on prevention.

Founders

Carolyn Witte

Carolyn Witte

Co-founder & CEO

Felicity Yost

Felicity Yost

Co-founder & COO

tia

High-quality, discrete, hassle-free healthcare.

Founded
2018
Location
New York NY

Twentyeight Health’s mission is to empower individuals with trusted information, affordable access and convenience for their reproductive and sexual health.  They have built a platform that delivers sexual health information, education, telehealth, medication delivery and on-demand guidance, particularly to women in underserved communities. 

Founders

Bruno Van Tuykom

Bruno Van Tuykom

Co-founder & CEO

We’re curating an ecosystem of like-minded investors and partners who have both the means and the desire to make a material change.

Arianne Kidder

Seae’s ability to attract investors from across the healthcare, financial services, and nonprofit sectors stems from our deep industry investing and operating experience, our proven track record of nurturing early-stage startups, and our ability to deliver financial returns. It’s this uniquely collaborative framework that enables our investors to create a lasting impact and bring to life the change they envision.

Made up of
11
Payors, Health Systems, Pharma
 
4
Financial Services Firms
 
9
Foundations
Resulting in:
85M
Access to Covered Lives
$
200B
Claims Processed Annually