| Date | Title | Description |
| 02.09.2025 | Noctrix Health Raises Up To $33.5M in Debt and Equity Funding | Noctrix Health, a Pleasanton, CA-based developer of the Nidra Tonic Motor Activation (TOMAC) therapy for Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS), raised up to $33.5M in debt and equity funding.
Backers included Blue Venture Fund, and Sandbox Clinical ... |
| 27.08.2025 | Debut: $20 Million Raised For AI Ingredient Discovery Platform | Debut, a leader in biotech beauty, has secured $20 million in investment to expedite the development of its proprietary, AI-powered ingredient discovery platform, aiming to advance innovations in skin longevity and expand its formulation bu... |
| 25.06.2024 | Verituity: Verified Payout Platform Company Secures $18.8 Million In Funding | Verituity – a leading provider of verified payout solutions – announced the closing of an $18.8 million funding round led by Sandbox Industries and Forgepoint Capital with the participation of Ardent Venture Partners and MTech Capital. In c... |
| 23.06.2024 | Verituity Secures $18.8M to Enhance B2B, B2C Verified Payout Platform | Verituity, a provider of intelligent, verified payouts solutions, announced the close of an $18.8 million funding round led by Sandbox Industries and Forgepoint Capital with the participation of Ardent Venture Partners and MTech Capital. Ch... |
| 16.06.2024 | Indico Data: $19 Million Closed To Automate Intake Workflows Across Policy Lifecycles | Indico Data, a leading solution for the automating of critical intake workflows across the policy lifecycle, announced the closing of a $19 million funding round with a strategic investment from Guidewire, a platform for Property and Casual... |
| 24.04.2024 | Lumeris: Leading the Charge in Value-Based Care | Lumeris, a St. Louis-based value-based care managed services operator, recently secured $100M in equity growth funding to expand its reach in provider partnerships. Led by CEO Mike Long, Lumeris utilizes AI-powered technology to collaborate... |
| 22.04.2024 | Value-based care strategy company Lumeris secures $100M | Photo: francescoridolfi.com/Getty Images
Lumeris, a value-based care strategy, technology and operations company, announced it secured $100 million in an equity capital raise led by Deerfield Management.
Endeavor Health joined as a new inve... |
| 22.04.2024 | Lumeris Secures $100M to Expand Proven Value-Based Care Solutions | What You Should Know:
– St. Louis-based, privately held Lumeris announced the completion of a $100M equity capital raise.
– The funding round was led by Deerfield Management, a longstanding lender, and new investor Endeavor Health. Existing... |
| 22.03.2023 | ‘It will be a year of bust-ups, roll-ups and M&A’: VC predictions for agrifoodtech investment | [Disclosure: AFN’s parent company is AgFunder.]
At the recent World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco, Cascadia Capital managing director Scott Porter asked a panel of VCs if they thought agrifoodtech investment would improve in ... |
| 12.04.2019 | Alacura Appoints Ken Van Cara as CEO | Alacura Medical Transportation Management, a transportation benefit management provider for healthcare insurance plans, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ken Van Cara as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Van Cara has extensive experience... |
| 22.03.2019 | 11 Under-The-Radar Chicago VCs You Should Know About | In my most-recent Forbes article, I shared about 12 Chicago-based VCs that are behind hot startups both within our region, like G2 Crowd, and beyond, like SpaceX. These firms tend to get a lot of buzz and make national headlines, but they a... |
| 09.11.2018 | Oncology Analytics looks to empower patients to have a voice in their cancer treatment | An interview with Rick Dean, CEO of Oncology Analytics
All healthcare is pretty expensive in the U.S., where even a doctor visit for a something as small as a common cold can run you hundreds of dollars when all is said and done. It's expon... |
| 05.11.2018 | Oncology Analytics Raises $21M to Provide Health Plans With Evidence-Based Analytics for Utilization Management | Oncology Analytics, an Atlanta-based digital health startup that provides health plans, providers and patients with an evidence-based, analytics focused approach to utilization management for oncology, today announced it has raised $21 mill... |
| 05.11.2018 | Oncology Analytics Raises $21 Million Series B Financing Led by Oak HC/FT | Oncology Analytics, a leading technology-enabled service company which provides health plans, providers and patients with an evidence-based, analytics focused approach to utilization management that is purpose-built for oncology, announced ... |
| 21.11.2017 | Co-Working in Every Neighborhood: Chicago's 120+ Shared Work Spaces | Picture this: You’re an entrepreneur with a great idea, a few employees and a whole lot of potential. Now you just need an office.
Turns out you’ve hit the the office space jackpot if you’re building a company in Chicago. Over the last few ... |
| 25.08.2017 | AbleTo is the latest mental health startup to get capital | New $36M financing underscores popularity in mental health startup investing
Americans have always had to struggle with various drug addictions: the opioid crisis being the latest substance abuse scare, along with heroin usage, which just h... |
| 12.10.2016 | Health IT startup using analytics to assess pain treatment, costs raises $16.5M | Donahue noted that part of the startup’s mission is to check opioid misuse while supporting evidence-based care, physicians, and patients. Among the services Axial enlists are predictive analytics, a provider dashboard, network performance ... |
| 17.06.2016 | Solera Health raises $4M as it prepares to expand diabetes prevention program marketplace | “We are launching program for large national employers and federal employers
within 10 miles of 90 percent of the U.S. population.”
Schmidt emphasized the need for digital and non digital options to fit the varied base of members and ensure... |
| 08.03.2016 | BlueCross BlueShield’s venture arm leads $7.5M round for Oncology Analytics | This affordability factor is a clear reason why an insurer like BlueCross BlueShield is investing in the startup – as cancer drug costs skyrocket, payers are looking for ways to mitigate the disease’s impact on their bottom line. Software s... |
| 20.01.2016 | AbilTo Launches Tele-Behavioral Program for Substance Use | AbilTo, Inc., a provider of evidence-based behavioral change programs proven to improve medical health and lower cost for high-cost medical populations has announced the addition of its Depression and Substance Use program. The new program ... |
| 22.10.2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 22, 2015 | Numerify closed a $37.5M funding; Poynt raised $28M; Movement Ventures secured $5.5M
Outlearn announced that it has raised $2 million in seed funding from General Catalyst Partners with participation from Paul Sagan, former CEO of Akamai Te... |
| 11.10.2015 | You’re Not In The Valley Anymore | Rick Zullo Contributor
Rick Zullo is vice president of LightBank.
My friend and fellow investor Jon Lehr of Work-Bench recently wrote a piece entitled “7 Lessons Learned in My First 2 Years as a VC.” Jon and I have known each other since be... |
| 14.09.2015 | 10 Chicago VC Firms You Need to Know About | Chicago is usually towards the top of the list when it comes to startup hubs in the United States. It's no surprise that Tech.Co had its first events in that city, (back when we were simply known as Tech Cocktail), providing demo space and ... |
| 20.07.2015 | Axial Healthcare Raises $8M for its Pain Management Solution | Axial Healthcare, Inc., a cloud-based clinical decision support platform for managing the cost and quality of patient care, announced today that it has closed an $8 million Series A round of funding. The round was led by .406 Ventures and L... |
| 20.07.2015 | Axial Healthcare grabs $8 mln | Nashville, TN – July 20, 2015 – Axial Healthcare, Inc., the country’s leading pain care solutions company, announced today that it has closed an $8 million Series A round of financing. The new funding will enable the company to accelerate t... |
| 09.06.2015 | AbilTo Closes $12Million in Series C Funding Led By HLM Venture Partners | New York – June 9, 2015 – AbilTo, Inc., the leading provider of behavioral change programs proven to improve medical health and lower cost for high-cost medical populations, today announced that it has closed a $12million Series C round of ... |
| 09.06.2015 | AbilTo Raises $12M for Evidence-based Behavior Change Programs | AbilTo, Inc., a provider of evidence-based behavioral change programs proven to improve medical health and lower cost for high-cost medical populations has closed a $12 million Series C round of financing. The round was led by HLM Venture P... |
| 03.09.2014 | Axial Healthcare Closes $1.75M Series A Financing | Axial Healthcare, a Nashville, TN-based company that provides of advanced analytics solutions for health insurers, closed a $1.75m Series A financing.
Backers included BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners and Sandbox Industries.
The compan... |
| 17.04.2014 | Healthbox expands with $7M, 3 new services for startups & innovation-hungry providers | First it will bring its accelerator model to hospital systems via a service called Foundry. The goal is to use expertise gleaned from evaluating some 1,500 companies which have applied to the Healthbox accelerators to help healthcare organi... |
| 18.03.2014 | AbilTo Secures $6 Million Series B Funding Led by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners and Sandbox Industries | NEW YORK, NY – March 18, 2014 – AbilTo, Inc., the leading provider of remotely delivered, behavior interventions for high-cost medical populations, announced that it closed a $6 million Series B financing led by BlueCross BlueShield Venture... |
| 18.03.2014 | AbilTo Closes $6M Series B Financing | AbilTo, Inc., a New York, NY-based provider of remotely delivered, behavior interventions for high-cost medical populations, closed a $6m Series B financing.
The round was led by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners and Sandbox Industries,... |
| 05.09.2013 | ZeOmega Closes $21.5M Growth Equity Financing | ZeOmega Inc., a Frisco, Texas-based provider of software solutions for population healthcare management, closed a $21.5m growth equity financing.
The round was led by Bregal Sagemount, with participation from existing investors BlueCross Bl... |
| 28.08.2013 | DoggyLoot Raises $2.5M in Series A Funding | DoggyLoot, a Chicago, IL-based online retailer of pet products, raised $2.5m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Origin Ventures with participation from Sandbox Industries via its Sandbox Advantage Fund.
The company intends to use the... |
| 19.07.2013 | What’s special about the 3 biotechs in the top 10 for Q2 venture investments? | But let’s look a little more closely at the those three biotechnology companies and what they say about what is drawing investor attention. Two of the three provide valuable services to other life science companies. The third has a heart fa... |
| 05.04.2013 | EveryMove Raises $3.5M in Series A-1 Funding | EveryMove, a Seattle, WA-based company that offers rewards programs for their health, raised $3.5m in Series A-1 funding.
Backers included BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, Sandbox Industries, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska... |
| 13.02.2013 | Scout Can Wirelessly Protect Your Groovy, Wood-Panelled Bachelor Pad | Scout is a wireless security system that starts at $120 and is completely removable. The handsomely-designed units can protect windows and doors in your home and you can program reactions to various events including and up to calling the po... |
| 18.10.2012 | Why, when and how to approach a strategic investor for a healthcare startup | Before Medtronic acquired Ardian in 2010, it led a $47 million series C round for the company. Boston Scientific led an $11 million round for Intelect Medical two years before buying it for $78 million. According to some investors, these ki... |
| 20.08.2012 | Patientco Closes $3.75M Series A Funding | Patientco, an Atlanta, GA-based healthcare expense management solution for patients and healthcare providers, has closed a $3.75m Series A funding.
The round was led by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners and Sandbox Industries.
The compa... |
| 14.08.2012 | CakeStyle Raises $1M in Seed Funding | CakeStyle, a Chicago, IL-based virtual styling service that sends clothing and accessories to customer’s homes, has raised $1m in seed funding.
The round was led by Sandbox Industries’ Sandbox Advantage Fund.
The company intends to use the ... |
| 16.07.2012 | Health Incubator Boom Driven by Demand, Says Healthbox’s Jenna Rose | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Startup incubators have been multiplying so fast there’s talk of a bubble, and there’s no sign of slowdown anytime soon. Jenna Rose says the growth is justified and has come f... |
| 24.04.2012 | Betaworks With A Twist: Sandbox Brings Its Startup Foundry To San Francisco | Sandbox Industries isn’t easy to describe in a few words. The Chicago-based company has its hands in quite a few pots; it’s both a startup foundry and a venture capital firm focused on building and investing in seed-stage software and consu... |
| 16.02.2012 | Lost Crates Relaunches Subscription Service, Ships Designer Goods By Mail | Lost Crates, a subscription service that previously focused on boutique stationery goods (as if there was a demand for such a thing!), is today announcing its relaunch and expansion into several new verticals. The company is one of many in ... |
| 14.02.2012 | Lab42 Taps Social Networks For Market Research, Raises (Almost) $1M | Lab42, a startup that helps agencies and other businesses conduct market research, says it has raised “just under” $1 million in funding.
President Gauri Sharma pitches Lab42’s services (which involve targeted surveys conducted over social ... |
| 13.02.2012 | On a mission from God — VentureBeat and DEMO heading to Chicago to find hot companies | As our DEMO world tour rolls on, we continue to add more stops along the way. Next up is Chicago where we’ll be on February 27.
We know Chicago has turned into a hive of startup talent, so it seemed like the logical place to go to meet up-a... |
| 22.12.2011 | Early-stage companies to get funding from Healthbox program | That’s good news across the board for healthcare entrepreneurs. It’s no secret that the venture funding community takes a “herd” approach to investing. Once a few brave souls inject some new money into a given sector, others stampede in to ... |
| 20.12.2011 | Healthbox: Chicago’s New Health-Focused Startup Accelerator Debuts Its Inaugural Batch | Is healthcare the industry that represents the next big opportunity for startups? Many are starting to believe it is, especially considering the fact that U.S. healthcare is currently a $2 trillion business. With technology beginning to pla... |
| 04.09.2011 | doggyloot Raises Funding from Sandbox Ventures | doggyloot, a Chicago, IL-based daily deals site for dog owners, has raised funding from Sandbox Ventures, the venture fund of business incubator and venture capital firm Sandbox Industries.
The company intends to use the funds, whose amount... |
| 22.08.2011 | Healthbox Opens Applications for Healthcare Startups | Healthbox, a Chicago-based business accelerator for healthcare startups, opened applications to the program, set to begin in January 2012.
Founded by Sandbox Industries Managing Director Nina Nashif, Healthbox is a 3-month program, which wi... |
| 25.02.2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Chicago | Holding down the proverbial fort for the mid-west, Chicago, the Windy City, is the third largest city in the U.S. and the most populous city that doesn’t sit on an ocean coast. The city, which does, however, rest on the shore of Lake Michig... |
| 07.01.2010 | Bloom Health and RedBrick: What’s the deal? | Promoted
Telemedicine’s potential to provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable
Teladoc Health Head of R&D Yulun Wang highlights the impact of virtual care in underserved populations around the globe through the World Telehealth ... |
| 22.06.2009 | Chicago’s Initiate Systems offers new data management product for payers | Promoted
Covid-19’s terrible toll on diabetes patients. What can be done?
The public health crisis has undermined the economy and made people with chronic conditions more vulnerable and stressed. Learn more with a new report from Omada Heal... |
| 17.02.2009 | Phreesia raises $11.6M to make waiting-room clipboards obsolete | Phreesia, maker of electronic tablets to replace those pesky intake clipboards at doctors’ offices, announced today that it brought in $11.6 million in a round led by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners and Sandbox Industries. This brings... |
| - | BlueCross BlueShield’s venture arm leads $7.5M round for Oncology Analytics | Florida cancer management startup Oncology Analytics just closed a $7.5 million investment round, led by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners.
The startup’s software links physicians that treat cancer patients with information that’s meant... |
| - | Bloom Health and RedBrick: What’s the deal? | MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA — Maybe I’ve been a journalist too long, but when a former top executive at one start-up starts a similar start-up and even poaches some of the talent, I smell trouble.
At least that’s what I assumed when Bloom Health... |
| - | Early-stage companies to get funding from Healthbox program | Funding for the healthcare information technology sector saw robust growth in the third quarter of 2011.
According to data culled by Mercom Capital Group, venture capital funding for healthcare IT firms grew by leaps and bounds for the thir... |
| - | Why, when and how to approach a strategic investor for a healthcare startup | Before Medtronic acquired Ardian in 2010, it led a $47 million series C round for the company. Boston Scientific led an $11 million round for Intelect Medical two years before buying it for $78 million. According to some investors, these ki... |
| - | Chicago’s Initiate Systems offers new data management product for payers | CHICAGO, Illinois — Initiate Systems, a data management company, has released a new product that attempts to streamline claims processing.
Initiate’s strength is gathering data across multiple systems. The new Initiate Payer Data Management... |
| - | Health IT startup using analytics to assess pain treatment, costs raises $16.5M | Axial Healthcare’s Axial Practice tool
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published guidelines earlier this year in a bid to reduce opioid dependence sparking a mixed bag of support and outrage. The challenge to find ways to eas... |
| - | Healthbox expands with $7M, 3 new services for startups & innovation-hungry providers | Healthbox is combining $7 million in new funding with learning from the seven startup accelerator programs it’s run over the last two years to expand its offerings for entrepreneurs and provider organizations.
“We started with the issue of ... |
| - | What’s special about the 3 biotechs in the top 10 for Q2 venture investments? | Cellular engineering, precision medicine, and using G protein-coupled receptors to treat heart failure and other conditions. That’s the focus of the three biotechnology companies that made the top 10 for venture investment deals last quarte... |
| - | Solera Health raises $4M as it prepares to expand diabetes prevention program marketplace | Solera Health, a digital health business that has built a marketplace of diabetes prevention programs, which the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid recently agreed to reimburse, has raised a $4 million Series A1 round led by a new investor. ... |
