About Excelerate Health Ventures
Excelerate Health Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2013. It is primarily based out of Research Triangle Park, United States. As of Sep 2024, Excelerate Health Ventures has invested in 22 companies. It primarily invests in Series A round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to HealthTech and Life Sciences. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series C round of BEKHealth Overall, Excelerate Health Ventures portfolio has seen 1 IPO and 6 acquisitions including key companies like NurseGrid, Careport and Premier Research. A lot of funds co-invest with Excelerate Health Ventures, with names like Boston Millennia Partners sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Excelerate Health Ventures has team of 18 people including 3 partners.Key Metrics
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Series A, Seed & 1 more
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Excelerate Health Ventures' List of Top Investments
Excelerate Health Ventures has a portfolio of 22 companies. Their most notable investments are in BEKHealth and NurseGrid.Their portfolio spans across and United States. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, HealthTech, Life Sciences and 1 other sectors, across stages such as Series A, Seed and 1 more. Here is the list of top investments by Excelerate Health Ventures:_1578553150054.png?format=webp&height=120&width=120){kind=logo}
1. Ride Health
Ride Health is a provider of transportation solutions for patients. It allows users to schedule their rides based on their preferred time & location. Healthcare organizations can track ride activity, performance, and patient satisfaction to understand progress.
Key facts about Ride Health
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $31.7M
- Employee Count: 72 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: Western Alliance Bank, Activate Venture Partners and 12 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Nov 12, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. NurseGrid
NurseGrid is the web and app-based solution for integrated staffing and communication between nurses and nursing departments. The platform has features that include scheduling staff (a regular, on-call, charge, and more). Nurses can see who they work with during every shift. Users are allowed to add up to eight different color-coded worksites. The platform allows users to set expiration reminders for their credentials and finds colleagues to swap shifts with. The company has developed two products known as NurseGrid mobile for the nurses and NurseGride Manager for the hospital administration for staff scheduling.
Key facts about NurseGrid
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: Portland (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $9.36M
- Employee Count: 12 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: Toba Capital, Excelerate Health Ventures and 5 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jan 18, 2018, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
3. Careport
Provider of cloud-based post-acute care coordination platform for hospitals. The platform coordinates post-acute care delivery by networking patients with post-hospital treatment and education during recovery. Patients can search for post-hospital care providers and book using the software. The software enables hospitals to evaluate and manage patients through customized treatment plans. Patients are provided with optimized care guides with the cloud-based EHR integration, connect with physicians for referrals, and get provider performance metrics.
Key facts about Careport
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: Boston (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $5.4M
- Employee Count: 80 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: Elefund, Dashfire and 15 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, May 29, 2015, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
4. Jumo Health
Jumo Health develops educational resources for patients and clinical trial solutions for researchers. The contents on the platform are written by the staff of doctors, peer-reviewed by leading specialists, and endorsed by patient association and advocacy groups and cover a wide range of therapeutic areas, including rare diseases. The platform assists researchers to approach partici[ants for clinical trial and address the patient recruitment process. The company uses visual aids and study protocol for the clinical trial recruitment process.
Key facts about Jumo Health
- Founded Year: 2009
- Location: New Haven (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $12.5M
- Employee Count: 90 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: Excelerate Health Ventures, Ariadne Capital and 3 Others
- Latest Funding Round: PE, Aug 19, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Premier Research offers clinical trial support services to specialty biotech and pharma companies. The company claims to have unparalleled experience in analgesia which spans more than 835 trials and includes every NSAID painkiller sold today. The company also claims to have conducted more than 150 CNS studies, and 140 oncology studies. It has also tracked over 30 rare diseases with over 90 trials conducted in the category. They offer the entire gamut of clinical trial services ranging from clinical monitoring/project management to medical writing and quality assurance.
Key facts about Premier Research
- Founded Year: 1989
- Location: Durham (United States)
- Stage: Public
- Employee Count: 2,886 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: HarbourVest Partners, Metalmark Capital and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: PE, Oct 17, 2016, $*****
- Highlight: Public
Excelerate Health Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Excelerate Health Ventures has invested in 22 companies over the last 11 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in S2N and most recent follow-on round was in BEKHealth.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
2023 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Excelerate Health Ventures' Investments by Stage
Excelerate Health Ventures has made 10 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $5.64M, 4 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $3.2M and 1 investment in Series B stage with an average round size of $16.2M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series A | 10 |
Seed | 4 |
Series B | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Excelerate Health Ventures' Investments by Sector
Excelerate Health Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, HealthTech, Vertical SaaS, Life Sciences and Healthcare. Notably, it has invested in 17 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 16 Tech companies, 14 Software companies and at least 11 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 12 |
HealthTech | 12 |
Vertical SaaS | 9 |
Life Sciences | 4 |
Healthcare | 3 |
Others | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Excelerate Health Ventures' Investments by Geography
Excelerate Health Ventures has made most investments in United States (15).Excelerate Health Ventures' recent investments
Excelerate Health Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Excelerate Health Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Sep 06, 2024 | United States | Series C | 5753 | ||
Aug 23, 2024 | United States | Series A | 4090 | [+1] | |
May 10, 2024 | United States | Series A | 5802 | ||
Oct 10, 2023 | United States | Seed | 4402 | ||
Oct 05, 2023 | United States | Seed | 5941 |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Excelerate Health Ventures' Portfolio
1 of Excelerate Health Ventures' portfolio company became public - Premier Research.Here are Excelerate Health Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | 4247 |
Acquired companies in Excelerate Health Ventures' Portfolio
6 companies from Excelerate Health Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Diameter Health in Aug 2022 by Availity for $*****.Here are Excelerate Health Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aug 09, 2022 | Feb 24, 2016 | Seed | 5308 | |
Nov 09, 2021 | Mar 12, 2015 | Series A | 5703 | |
Jul 20, 2021 | - | - | 7301 | |
Oct 13, 2020 | May 29, 2015 | Series A | 5672 | |
Feb 01, 2019 | Jun 22, 2015 | Seed | 2391 |
Team profile of Excelerate Health Ventures
Excelerate Health Ventures has a team of 18 members including 3 Partners located in United States. Excelerate Health Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of top team members in Excelerate Health Ventures:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | - | - | ||
Partner | Durham | - | ||
Partner | - | - |
Co-investors of Excelerate Health Ventures
Over the past 11 years, 66 investors have co-invested in Excelerate Health Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Excelerate Health Ventures: Activate Venture Partners, Newark Venture Partners and 7 others have invested in rounds before Excelerate Health Ventures. There is 1 company where Activate Venture Partners has invested before Excelerate Health Ventures and 1 company where Newark Venture Partners has invested before Excelerate Health Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Excelerate Health Ventures: 35 investors entered a company along with Excelerate Health Ventures. These include investors like Boston Millennia Partners (4 companies).
- Invested after Excelerate Health Ventures: A total of 22 investors have invested in Excelerate Health Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Hatteras Venture Partners (3 companies), Western Alliance Bank (1 company) and Toba Capital (1 company).
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