True innovation
benefits everyone.
Equally.
True innovation
benefits everyone.
Equally.
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.
The historical approach to funding innovation hasn’t worked for everyone. We’re changing the paradigm.”
Jason Robart
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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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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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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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 @arianne
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 @tuoyo
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 @leah
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 @jason
Healthcare Strategy
Venture
Human Capital
Justin Williams
Senior Associate.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 @justin
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
- Cayaba
- Clinify Health
- Functional Fluidics
- Goalsetter
- Health In Her Hue
- Hurdle
- Iterative Scopes
- Kiyatec
- MD Ally
- Movn Health
- MyMeds
- Needed
- Script See
- Silver Bills
- Sym
- Tia
- Twentyeight Health
Improving Access to Mental Health Services
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
Co-founder & CMO
Co-founder & CEO
Expanding Maternity Health Access and Services
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
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & CPO
Co-founder & Senior Clinical Advisor
Providing Value-Based Care to Underserved Communities
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
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & CTO
Improving Quality of Life for Sickle Cell Disease Patients
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
MD/Founder & CEO
Promoting Financial Literacy to Achieve Financial Freedom
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
Founder & CEO
Creating Better Outcomes by Establishing Trust
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
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & CPO
Making Culturally Competent Mental Health Easily Accessible
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
Co-founder & CEO
Optimizing Detection and Diagnosis through AI
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
Founder & CEO
Preventing Disease Progression through Advanced Detection
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
Co-founder & CEO
Ensuring Equitable Access through Telemedicine Software
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
Co-founder & CEO
Improving Adherence and Outcomes through Accessible Technology
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
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & President
Driving Better Adherence and Outcomes through Medication Management
MyMeds is the developer of a real-time data exchange platform intended to connect patients, caregivers, providers, and payors to improve and drive medication adherence. The platform also educates patients through curated news about their health conditions and enables them to chat with a pharmacist.
Founders
Founder & CEO
Addressing Nutrient Deficiencies in Pregnant Women
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
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & CEO
Tech-enabled Medication Reconciliation to Prevent Contraindication
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
Providing Financial Oversight for Senior Citizens and Caregivers
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
Founder, CEO & General Counsel
Facilitating Digital Health Adoption through Compliance Automation
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
Co-founder
Co-founder
Co-founder
Female-Focused Care that Improves Access, Outcomes, and Experiences
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
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & COO
High-quality, discrete, hassle-free healthcare.
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
Co-founder & CEO
Amy Fan
Co-founder & President
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.