This year was our most active investing year ever—we are reaching scale, and yet we’re just getting started. Catherine Casey Nanda and Amon Anderson look back on 2024 and where they see hope going into the new year. https://lnkd.in/duckqcCa
Acumen America
风险投资与私募股权管理人
San Francisco，California 1,077 位关注者
Investing in Health and Economic Justice for a New America
关于我们
Acumen America backs entrepreneurs building innovative solutions to the urgent challenges of unequal workforce development, health inequities, and financial instability.
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www.acumenamerica.org
Acumen America的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 风险投资与私募股权管理人
- 规模
- 2-10 人
- 总部
- San Francisco，California
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- 非营利机构
- 创立
- 2016
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US，California，San Francisco
Acumen America员工
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A glimpse of our first-ever CEO Summit. https://lnkd.in/e562cxVY
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The Medicaid Innovation Collaborative (MIC), a program of Acumen America, is excited to announce the launch of our 2025 cohort in Colorado, New Mexico, and Virginia. With the help of ecosystem partners, MIC will facilitate partnerships between state Medicaid leaders, health plans and innovators to address key social determinants of health - Food & Nutrition Insecurity, Housing Insecurity & Quality, and Transportation Services. In March 2025, the MIC will be launching an application to identify tech-enabled solutions that have the potential to address food, housing and transportation challenges for low-income Americans. These solutions can meaningfully improve access, quality, and coordination of care, but many are currently underutilized within Medicaid populations. Selected solutions will engage with state and health plan leaders and decision makers at the MIC Innovation Showcase in June 2025, leading to future pilot opportunities funded by MIC. Visit our website to learn more and stay tuned for more information! https://lnkd.in/diygac3P #Medicaid #MedicaidDirectors #HealthEquity #HealthcareInnovation #SocialDeterminants #SDOH #MIC #InnovationChallenge
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Proud to see our portfolio company?Boulder Care's?addiction telemedicine work?highlighted in?Nick Kristof's?recent?The New York Times?column: "We also need more addiction telemedicine, which can cut treatment costs, allow people to avoid wait lists and particularly help those in rural areas. Stephanie Strong, a co-founder of a telehealth company called Boulder Care, says that with a simple phone call, it can get people into treatment immediately. Telemedicine options were widely introduced during Covid and should be made permanent and broadened." Read the whole article here: https://lnkd.in/gYZ3SK64
We’re grateful to Nick Kristoff for putting a spotlight on the barriers to addiction care in his latest piece in The New York Times. Despite being decades into an overdose crisis, 3 out of 4 people who need treatment for their substance use still do not receive it. Life-saving medications like buprenorphine and methadone remain scarce. Unless we make treatment easier to access than dangerously potent opioids like fentanyl, we have no chance at making a dent in this crisis. If you or a loved one needs addiction care, you can download our app or call 866-901-4860 to enroll over the phone.
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Congratulations to our portfolio?company?Esusu?for their acquisition of?Celeri, a?leading AI-powered fraud prevention software provider for the residential housing industry. Fraud is prevalent in the rental industry where one in 10 rental applicants submits false documents, and 93% of property managers reported fraud incidents in the last year. This partnership will help Esusu solve a major pain point for property owners and continue to foster a more fair and transparent American housing market. https://lnkd.in/ej9htsDV
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We are excited to reconnect with our healthcare colleagues and partners at the upcoming JP Morgan Healthcare Conference and health-tech events in San Francisco next week! Our MIC team (Veenu Aulakh and Madhu Gupta) will be attending several events, including: SF Healthcare AI Founder & VC Networking, J.P. Morgan Health Innovators Reception on 1/13; HealthTech4Medicaid (HT4M) Forum on 1/14; Women in VC @ JPM on 1/15. If you’re attending any of these events, be sure to stop by and say hello. We look connecting with our friends in healthcare.
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Our portfolio company?Twentyeight Health?just announced a $10 million Series A, which will help them scale access to affordable reproductive healthcare across America. Congrats to Bruno Van Tuykom,?we can't wait to watch you effect real systems change.
Exciting News! We’re thrilled to share that?Twentyeight Health?has announced its $10M Series A funding?and new partnerships with leading?Medicaid insurers—a huge step toward expanding access to essential healthcare! At Twentyeight Health, our mission is to make?affordable, convenient, and stigma-free?reproductive and sexual care available to all. This milestone brings us even closer to that vision, ensuring more people—especially those in underserved communities—get the care they deserve. A big thank you to our team, partners, and supporters who make this possible. Read more in?Axios: https://lnkd.in/eYyBM-Dp #HealthcareForAll #ReproductiveHealth #TwentyeightHealth #HealthcareAccess
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I'm so excited to be a part of this Transform Finance event this week. And I'm incredibly lucky to be in conversation with three brilliant leaders advancing economic mobility through employee ownership--Alison Lingane, Julie Menter and Priya Parrish.
??We're looking forward to our next webinar on Thursday, December 12th at 11am PT / 2pm ET to share the latest in-depth research into employee ownership investing opportunities, which we conducted with the Ownership Capital Lab! ??Julie Menter and Alison Lingane will share the key insights from the research. ??Experienced investors in employee ownership Priya Parrish, Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Impact Engine and Amon Anderson, Managing Director at Acumen America will also join to share their practical experience and advice. ??Register now! https://lnkd.in/gA_xADqP
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Black women have preterm births—babies born before 37 weeks—at a 51% higher rate than other American women.?Alexis Cobbins, MSW?writes about the ways we can ensure that birthing women of color receive better care. https://lnkd.in/e3eCMTAv
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In the last year, we’ve invested in two companies working to address the behavioral health needs of people on Medicaid:?Flourish Health and?Arise.?Here's how they’re doing it.?https://lnkd.in/dgfttxx9?