Beta Boom is a pre-seed and seed VC fund investing in tenacious founders building startups that are solving impactful problems for society in digital health, fintech, future of work, AI/ML and SMB SaaS verticals. Post-investment, portfolio companies work alongside our growth team on a weekly basis.
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A break from your political feed today... "While fundraising for small and midsize funds may be slow, it’s not boring." Beta Boom was among those smaller funds mentioned that raised in this down cycle, sluggish raise environment. Optimistic for the future. Thanks for the mention, Joanna Glasner! https://lnkd.in/g-nD9abP #vc #fundraising #emergingmanager
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One of my favorite stories of founders breaking the tired old Silicon Valley pattern matching is that of Tope Awotona and the founding of Calendly: https://lnkd.in/eC5vH9Fp Tope pretty much broke every conventional #VC bias: - He was a single #founder, which many VCs shy away from - He was #based in Atlanta, not Silicon Valley - He was a non-technical founder - He was building a solution in an extremely crowded space - He used an off-shore dev shop to build Calendly, not on-staff, U.S.-based engineers - He graduated from University of Georgia - Terry College of Business, not Stanford or an Ivy League university And despite breaking pretty much every Silicon Valley pattern, Tope built a $3B company that serves 20M+ users worldwide! #StartANewPattern #startups #venturecapital #founders
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?? Congratulations to Anne Wanlund and the entire Canopie team on their most recent round of funding that Beta Boom co-led! ?? Canopie helps new and expecting moms from rural and underserved communities get critical mental health care to help them avoid postpartum depression and anxiety. Plus, they give healthcare providers detailed, actionable insights, so insurance and health systems can better serve their moms. We know they are really onto something because they can't keep up with interest or rave reviews. If you love what Canopie is doing, show them some love ?? ?? #healthtech #impact #healthcare
?? Canopie closed our latest round, totaling $3.7 million in seed funding to expand access to critical services for the thousands of expecting mothers we reach every year! ?? Our round was co-led by Beta Boom and Aeroflow Health and includes Sorenson Impact, Luminary Impact Fund, Symphonic Capital, Techstars, and a family office supporting the expansion of mental health care through technology. These investors are mission-aligned while bringing critical operational, growth, and sector expertise to Canopie, focusing on maternal health, mental health, SaaS, and social impact. We are looking forward to using these resources to expand personalized, virtual mental health care covered by insurance and bolstering our solution to address social drivers of health (SDoH) for moms across all levels of risk in the United States. Preventive care is the best medicine for expecting mothers, and we are honored to contribute to that effort with our incredible partners. Our team couldn't be more excited to continue our mission of improving maternal health outcomes and, importantly, bringing joy to motherhood. More exciting updates are on the way – stay tuned!?? Link to our full press release here ?? https://lnkd.in/ePi9NupS Anne Wanlund Scott Sonnone Casey Hite Sergio Paluch Kimmy Paluch Eliza Golden Roady Sydney Paige Thomas Shruti Shah Marci Spector Louise Langheier Martin Schneider KJ Singh Geoff Davis Carl Adams Amanda Minimi
We're thrilled to share our recent investment in Making Space, a company transforming the upskilling and hiring space with an accessible learning platform for Disabled workers driven by employer-specific education! Read more about the founder's story of perseverance and the phenomenal momentum the company is seeing with Fortune 500 corporations.
???? Announcing Beta Boom's investment in Making Space's $2M over-subscribed #preseed round! Making Space is an accessible talent acquisition and learning experience platform that develops pathways to employment and career advancement for Disabled talent pools via employer-backed education. Tackling recruitment and retention in a highly competitive market, the Making Space platform is equally beneficial to employers and this massively untapped talent pool. As noted in the announcement below, the company has helped Netflix build a pipeline of disabled graphic designer talent and enabled the hiring of NBCU's first disabled hosts for the upcoming Paralympics! Making Space is led by Keely Cat-Wells, a Disability Rights Advocate and 2024 Presidential Leadership Scholar. Keely previously founded a successful talent management company dedicated to Disabled talent, which was acquired five years later. Keely epitomizes the founder who Beta Boom seeks to back, given her unparalleled insight and leadership to innovate in this space, developed through her lived experience and extensive history of relentless grit. If you'd like to learn more about Making Space, please reach out to me or my partner Sergio Paluch, or connect with?Keely directly! https://lnkd.in/d8V-vkSF #futureofwork #femalefounders #venturecapital
Excited to see our portfolio company Attane Health share its?#FoodIsMedicine 6-month pilot program with UHC Community Plan Kansas?serving over 500 pregnant people with access to groceries, produce, and nutrition coaching. #digitalhealth #healthequity
In January 2024, we launched a Food as Medicine (FIM) pilot program UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Kansas serving over 500 pregnant people with access to groceries, produce, and nutrition coaching for six months. With ~282,000 households categorized as ‘food insecure’, development of nutrition resources is essential to improving maternal and infant health outcomes. “We brought together a team on the ground including Case Management, the Health Forward Foundation, Altruism Media, Inc. (a community based maternal health organization), and the Center for Community Health Evaluation (Kaiser Permanente) to ensure pregnant people and their infants have access to food and nutrition care. Further collaboration is critical to build the evidence needed through data, patient voices and key stakeholders to drive policy change and expand FIM access”, says Emily Brown, CEO of Attane Health. “We recognize the critical role of nutrition in supporting the health of moms and babies. Through this pilot program, we aim to improve access to healthy food and drive more equitable maternal and infant health outcomes across the state.” Lucia Jones, MSN, RN; Social Drivers of Health Manager for UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Kansas? #Medicaid #SDOH #Healthcare #digitalhealth #digitalhealthcare #digitalhealth2024 #digitalhealthleaders #Healthequity #FoodIsMedicine https://bit.ly/3uEyT6d
Thrilled to announce the closing of our $14.5M Fund II! Thank you to all of our phenomenal Limited Partners, including Ally, Pivotal Ventures, Bank of America, and Atento Capital. We are excited to continue backing inspiring founders who are solving meaningful and impactful problems for consumers who have often been ignored in the innovation space in areas such as #digitalhealth, #fintech, #futureofwork, and SMB #SaaS. #Founders, reach out to us via our website if you are building in these areas and based outside Silicon Valley! We value lived experiences over prestigious degrees and are investing up to $350K at the pre-seed and seed stages.
?? Exciting Beta Boom news! We have officially closed Fund II at $14.5M to invest in tenacious #founders solving impactful problems for underserved consumers such as #women, #bipoc, #immigrants, and rural communities: https://lnkd.in/dEHEAafn We love founders who have lived experiences with the problems they are solving, particularly in #healthcare, #fintech, #FutureOfWork, and SMB #SaaS. Importantly, Beta Boom looks beyond Silicon Valley, prestigious diplomas, privilege, and connections, focusing instead on ordinary founders building extraordinary companies. ?? Sergio and I couldn't have done it without the support of our remarkable Limited Partners such as Ally, Pivotal Ventures, Bank of America, and Atento Capital, and inspiring champions, which are too numerous to name here. Truly, there are so many of you who have made this fund possible. Our heartfelt thanks to every single one of you who encouraged us, vouched for us, made connections, and joined us as an LP! Thank you, thank you, thank you ?? ???? #StartANewPattern #womeninvc #impactinvesting
Incredible addition to the portfolio. NOMA AI is helping doctors identify and address complications in real-time! #digitalhealth #healthtech #investing #VC
?? Announcing Beta Boom's recent investment in NOMA AI, which helps doctors and clinicians proactively identify medical complications by analyzing hundreds of real-time and historical patient data via NOMA's machine learning (#ML) model: https://lnkd.in/gbDRFK9y NOMA AI is led by Drs. Salim Malakouti and Gilles Clermont. Dr. Malakouti, CEO, has spent the past 10 years researching and building applications related to predictive modeling and large-scale, real-time data collection for healthcare and clinical settings.?Dr. Clermont, Chief Medical Officer, has been leading AI projects in healthcare for nearly 25 years and is a professor of Critical Care Medicine and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh. If you'd like to learn more about NOMA AI, please reach out to me or my partner Sergio, or connect with Drs. Malakouti and Clermont directly. #AI #machinelearning #healthtech