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The Fund Betting That the Poorest ZIP Codes Are the Best Returns
Andy Slavitt ran Medicare. Now he runs a $1.4 billion fund arguing that the patients Wall Street ignores are where the money is - and the math, so far, agrees.
Percipio Health
Percipio Health is a Plano, Texas company that turns an ordinary smartphone into a whole-person health monitor, using AI to read vision- and voice-based biomarkers - vitals, medication adherence, brain health and social determinants - without any dedicated medical devices. Founded by digital-health veterans Eric Rock and David Lucas, the team behind Vivify Health and MEDHOST, the platform helps health plans and providers catch rising-risk and high-risk patients earlier and manage large populations at lower cost. It launched publicly in January 2025 alongside a $20M Series A led by UPMC Enterprises, WAVE Ventures and Labcorp.
EatWell Meal Kits
EatWell is a Boston-based social-impact startup that turns meal kits into a healthcare intervention. Founded by Harvard School of Public Health students, it produces prescription meal kits - fresh ingredients plus fast, culturally relevant recipes designed by a Michelin-trained chef - that healthcare providers and insurers prescribe to patients facing food insecurity and chronic disease. Kits are made in Dorchester at CommonWealth Kitchen by production staff hired from the communities EatWell serves, and are reimbursed through MassHealth ACO Flexible Services and health-system partnerships under the growing 'Food is Medicine' model.
Ounce of Care
Ounce of Care (brand name: Ounce) is a New York-based company building the tech-enabled resident services layer for affordable housing. It embeds on-site Community Navigators and virtual care teams inside apartment communities, then uses its Ounce Hub platform to enroll residents in public benefits like SNAP and Medicaid, coordinate health and social services, and run educational programming. The result is a rare win-win: residents get stability and support, and property owners get better retention, occupancy, and asset performance.
Radial
Radial (Radial Analytics, Inc.) is a Concord, Massachusetts healthcare technology company that builds AI-driven decision support software for value-based care. Its flagship platform, Smart Placement, uses machine learning and natural language processing to help hospitals, health plans, and accountable care organizations decide - in real time - which patients can safely recover at home instead of in a skilled nursing facility after a hospital stay. Founded in 2014 by former Locately co-founders Thaddeus Fulford-Jones and Eric Weiss alongside physician Anant Vasudevan, Radial applies 'nudge theory' at clinical crossroads moments to lower costs and improve outcomes without overriding clinician judgment.
Surgo Health
Surgo Health is a Washington, DC-based Public Benefit Corporation building healthcare's universal 'Why Engine' - an AI-powered platform that decodes the beliefs, biases, and barriers driving human health decisions. By combining behavioral science, data science, and machine learning, its products (BehavioralPulse, Mosaic, Derin, and EchoHER) help life sciences companies, payers, providers, and public-sector organizations understand the people behind the patients and design more effective, human-centered care.
Jon Carter
Jon Carter is the CEO and Founder of Prado, an Austin-based technology platform that connects physicians, nutrition providers, and food businesses to make food function as medicine — unlocking $170 billion in pre-tax HSA/FSA dollars for medically tailored meals. Before Prado, Carter built a career spanning digital product leadership at Union Bank and Live Nation (where he ran eCommerce for 600+ artist brands including Jay-Z and Madonna), and CEO of Snap Kitchen. His father died from type 2 diabetes, and that loss transformed into a professional mission: eliminate the friction preventing food from operating as healthcare.
Rachel Munsie
Rachel Munsie is the CEO and co-founder of Ounce of Care (Ounce), a tech-enabled resident services platform that connects people living in affordable housing to public benefits, health and social care coordination, and community programming. A former Goldman Sachs banker and private equity investor who left MIT Sloan to help build home-health startup Tomorrow Health, she launched Ounce to close the gap between where people live and the care they can actually reach. In October 2023 the company raised $5.2M in seed funding led by Meridian Street Capital and Flare Capital, with backers including Chelsea Clinton's Metrodora Ventures, Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta, and Unite Us co-founder Taylor Justice.
Accompany Health
Accompany Health is a Bethesda, Maryland-based healthcare company building integrated primary, behavioral, and social care for low-income patients with complex medical needs. Founded in 2022 and publicly launched in January 2024 with $56 million in Series A funding, the company pairs a proprietary care-model technology platform with at-home and virtual visits, 24/7 support, and help navigating benefits like Medicaid and SNAP. It aims to be the kind of patient-centered, dignified care system that high-need, under-resourced patients rarely get.
CareHarmony
CareHarmony is a Brentwood, Tennessee healthcare technology and services company that helps hospitals, health systems, and ACOs run preventative care programs - chronic care management, remote patient monitoring, annual wellness visits, and transitional care management - between office visits. It pairs clinical care teams with its CareBlocks machine-learning technology (delivered through the Symphony platform) to enrich clinical and claims data with social-determinant signals, target interventions, and scale care to populations roughly ten times larger than traditional staffing allows, all at zero upfront cost to its provider partners.
Cityblock Health
Cityblock Health is a New York-based, technology-driven healthcare company that delivers integrated primary care, behavioral health, and social services to Medicaid and dually eligible (Medicare-Medicaid) members in underserved communities. Spun out of Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs in 2017, Cityblock pairs neighborhood-based care teams with a custom care-management platform to treat the whole person - medical needs alongside housing, food, and other social drivers of health - under value-based, risk-sharing contracts with health plans. It serves more than 100,000 members across over ten states.
evermore
evermore (formerly Soda Health) is a healthcare technology company that administers Smart Benefits, connecting people to the products and services they need - healthy food, OTC medications, transportation and more - when they need them. Its Smart Benefits Operating System adjudicates purchases at the item level in real time across more than 70,000 retail locations, helping Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and commercial payers manage supplemental benefits, close care gaps and improve outcomes. The company rebranded from Soda Health to evermore in October 2025 after closing an oversubscribed $50M Series B led by General Catalyst.
Colby Takeda
Colby Takeda is the co-founder and CEO of Pear Suite, a digital health company that gives community health workers the software, billing tools, and data infrastructure to be recognized as a foundational part of the healthcare system. A fourth-generation Japanese American from O'ahu, registered community health worker, and former senior living executive, he built Pear Suite during the pandemic on Google Sheets and Typeform before turning it into a care navigation platform that supports thousands of frontline workers. In October 2025 the company raised a $7.6 million Series A led by Rock Health Capital to expand its reach into Medicaid and Medicare markets.
Pear Suite
Pear Suite is a digital health company that equips community health workers (CHWs), promotores, doulas, and the community-based organizations they work for with an AI-powered care navigation platform. The software helps frontline workers document visits, track clients, address social determinants of health, and bill health plans, while connecting them into a national provider network that handles contracting, clinical, and claims infrastructure so community-based care can finally get reimbursed sustainably.
PolicyMap
PolicyMap is a Philadelphia-based cloud mapping and data analytics platform that lets anyone build custom maps, reports, and dashboards from more than 75,000 curated indicators drawn from 170-plus public and proprietary sources - no GIS expertise required. Spun out of the Reinvestment Fund, it serves banks, universities, hospitals, governments, and nonprofits that need to turn place-based data into decisions about housing, health, lending, and community investment.
Maggie McCullough
Maggie McCullough is the CEO and founder of PolicyMap, the Philadelphia-based mapping and data-visualization platform she launched in 2008. A former White House budget-office staffer turned housing researcher, she built PolicyMap after struggling to fit maps and data into her own policy work, betting that anyone should be able to make a map as easily as they shop online. The platform now serves universities, banks, health systems, nonprofits and governments, layering thousands of public and proprietary datasets into one searchable map. In December 2023 the company closed a $3 million Series A led by its former parent, the Reinvestment Fund.
SafeRide Health
SafeRide Health is a technology and services company rebuilding non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) for Medicaid and Medicare Advantage populations. Founded in 2016 by brothers Robbins and Whit Schrader with Ben Salter, SafeRide pairs proprietary scheduling and dispatch software with a nationwide network of 600+ credentialed transport providers and rideshare partners to get vulnerable patients to the right care at the right time. The company now delivers more than one million rides per month across all 50 states and has been profitable since 2024.
Robby Knight
Robby Knight is the co-founder and CEO of evermore (formerly Soda Health), a healthtech company that turns supplemental health benefits into a Smart Benefits platform connecting Medicare Advantage members, health plans, and retailers like CVS, Walgreens, and Kroger. A social worker by training who spent nearly eight years architecting consumer health at Walmart, Knight built the company on a simple frustration: people's first-order needs (food, OTC medicine, transportation) were being met through a patchwork of inefficient programs. evermore has raised roughly $100 million, including a $50M Series B led by General Catalyst in December 2024.
Toyin Ajayi
Toyin Ajayi is a board-certified family medicine physician and the co-founder and CEO of Cityblock Health, a New York-based company that builds neighborhood-rooted care for Medicaid and dually eligible patients - the people most health systems treat last. She co-founded the company out of Google's Sidewalk Labs in 2017, took the CEO seat in 2022, and has grown it into a roughly $6 billion business serving hundreds of thousands of members. Trained at Stanford, Cambridge, and King's College London, she practiced in safety-net hospitals and ran a clinic in Sierra Leone before deciding the system itself needed rebuilding. Her current obsession: making the most vulnerable patients the proving ground for AI in medicine.
Molina Healthcare
Molina Healthcare is a Fortune 500 managed care company headquartered in Long Beach, California, that provides government-sponsored health insurance - chiefly Medicaid, Medicare, and ACA Marketplace plans - to low-income and underserved Americans. Founded in 1980 by emergency-room physician Dr. C. David Molina, it grew from a single clinic in Wilmington into a multi-state insurer covering roughly 5.8 million members across some 20 states, with about $43 billion in 2025 premium revenue.