Congratulations to Springbank portfolio company Guardoc Health on announcing their most recent funding in Axios! This company, built by nurses for nurses, tackles the problem of reducing burdensome non-patient facing work for nurses while increasing compliance which can both improve patient outcomes and increase payments to healthcare institutions. Why now? We’ve all seen the statistics about nursing burnout. More than 30% say they may leave direct patient care within the next year. By the year 2030, 42 out of 50 states in the U.S. will experience nursing staff shortages. Care worker burnout and labor shortages is an economy-wide problem. This is the workforce we all rely on to care for those we love the most – and who allow us to stay in our jobs. In addition to their direct clinical work, over-burdened nurses have primary responsibility for the compliance audits required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. As the largest payer in the US healthcare system, CMS covers well over 100M+ patients who have 4.7B healthcare encounters each year that must be audited for compliance. Errors can result in care delivery mistakes that put patients at risk. For instance, with patient data living across so many systems, think of a patient with a severe allergy to penicillin whose chart was not updated with this information. A nurse without this historical data may treat a patient with this medicine, all because of a charting error. Errors also result in slowed or paused reimbursement (on average $40B per year across the industry) which puts facilities and nurses wages at risk. The current tech stack for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and other healthcare entities has not kept pace with the enormous growth in the system. And with 10,000 Americans turning 65 every day, we desperately need to modernize these systems to support the increased healthcare interactions of an aging population. Guardoc is the first AI-powered SaaS platform to integrate with disparate EHRs to identify real-time errors, discrepancies, and gaps in clinical charting, enabling timely corrections and risk mitigation. Guardoc’s CEO, Hadassah Backman, has unique insight into the problem as a career nurse who previously ran a manual clinical compliance consulting firm – until she realized that she could automate much of the painstaking work that she and her distributed team of nurses was doing. It was immediately clear that Hadassah was a total force with original product insights, a deep network within the buyer community and the ability to partner well with top Israeli NLP engineers to build out tools that seamlessly fit into nurses’ daily workflows. The early results from Guardoc’s beta facilities are exciting. Average charting errors per nurse were reduced by 50%, with errors that could affect patient outcomes reduced by 86%. Onwards! https://lnkd.in/dvdxSet5
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Courtney Leimkuhler
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Janna Meyrowitz Turner
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Congratulations to our friend and advisor Sarah Leary!
I’m thrilled to share that I’m returning to Nextdoor as the Head of Marketing, Community and Global Business Operations (CMO/CBO). Just as I felt when we started Nextdoor in 2010, I am inspired by the power of neighbors and local communities to be there for one another and enrich each other's lives. With over 90 million neighbors (!) around the world on Nextdoor, there are so many opportunities ahead. I'm eager to work with the talented and dedicated teams across the company to realize all these possibilities. Onward! 🪃🏠💚🚀 Read more: https://lnkd.in/eRyXuvFK #Nextdoor #Community #Neighbors #ReturningNeighbor #Boomerang #CoFounder #FounderMentality
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Congratulations to Carefull on this award. Building in this space is hard and critically important.
We are excited to share that Carefull won the Best as-a-Service Solution award in the 2024 FinTech Futures #BankingTechAwardsUSA! This award is given annually to the software and services provider that has the most comprehensive functionality and fully realized suite of features while also delivering measurable improvements for users. Winning this award demonstrates our dedication to serving banking institutions large and small to protect their older customers from fraud, scams and money mistakes while forging relationships with their next generation of customers. The segment of customer we serve is both the most valuable and, more importantly, the most vulnerable -- making Carefull a crucial part of any bank's tech stack. If you are a bank and want to learn how we can protect your older customers, find us here: https://lnkd.in/eusVcJhg #BankingTechAwardsUSA #FinTech Futures
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Our co-founders Courtney Leimkuhler and Elana Berkowitz were invited to join the first-ever National Child Care Summit in Washington DC last week.
What a day in DC last week: The first ever National Child Care Innovation Summit hosted by Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo. Core to our investment thesis at Springbank is that massive social and demographic changes are making areas of the economy formerly viewed as "Women's Issues," very obviously "Everyone Issues." That was plain to see in the full day attendee list which included the C-suite of UPS, Etsy, Micron Technology, Intel Corporation, Suffolk Construction, as well as the Governors of Indiana, Colorado, and Massachusetts ALL calling childcare a critical economic and labor force issue (specifically not a women's issue). Also underlining the criticality of childcare to economic prosperity: Secretary Raimondo announced that the Census will now explicitly ask questions about child care in the next round! Elana Berkowitz and I were thrilled to be a part of the Summit and to see so many allies in this work -- both old and new.
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That's a wrap on NYC TECH WEEK by a16z! We had an amazing time co-hosting four events. A huge thank you to all the fantastic operators and investors who participated in the various events throughout the week. We kicked off NYTW, hosting an intimate All Raise breakfast for 20 NYC female GPs. Thanks to Hayley Bay Barna Barna from First Round Capital Round for co-hosting and Bloomberg Tech anchor Caroline Hyde for stopping by to share some wisdom. On Monday evening we teamed up with our friends at Bessemer Venture Partners, BBG Ventures, Alpaca VC, Dorm Room Fund, Correlation Ventures, and PsyMed Ventures to celebrate the tech scene in Brooklyn. Together, we enjoyed cocktails and conversations with Brooklyn founders and funders at the iconic Refinery at Domino Sugar Factory in South Williamsburg. On Tuesday, we delved into why building startups across social and economic infrastructure is venture-scale and defensible. We heard from Nikita Singareddy at Fortuna Health about Medicaid innovation and Matt Donahue at Kodex on the public safety data layer. Elise King and Manu Sharma also shared valuable insights from the investing side. Special thanks to Youssef (AlleyCorp) and Manu (Tusk Venture Partners) for co-hosting and to Savills for hosting us! We concluded the week with the second annual Fierce Female Founders Lunch. The engaging panel discussion on securing capital in the current venture environment featured Jenny Fielding of Everywhere Ventures, Jillian Williams of Cowboy Ventures, our very own Elana Berkowitz and Agatha Kluk, and Sonia R. Farber of Perkins Coie LLP. If you're a founder in New York or building a company aligned with our thesis, we would love to meet you.
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Emerging manager friends: Make sure to check out the application for the RAISE Global Summit in October. It is a great event with even better people!
🚀 We are now accepting GP applications for the 9th annual RAISE Global Summit, where 300+ LPs meet emerging managers at the Golden Gate Club in Presidio in San Francisco. We encourage all emerging managers to apply to attend what has become the industry's premier gathering of forward-thinking limited partners and emerging fund managers. https://hubs.la/Q02yr2TS0
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Springbank reposted this
An oldie but a goodie: rewatch our webinar with Courtney Leimkuhler, current founding partner Springbank and former CFO of Marsh, as they discuss the future of family-friendly benefits. Post pandemic, 50% of employees say family-friendly policies are a top priority and 70% of employers believe workplaces need stronger family focused offerings. This is a must watch for our benefit broker community to understand how paid maternity and paternity leave factors into existing packages. https://lnkd.in/eXBybGfY #parento #benefitbrokers #webinar #parentalleave #paidleave
Broker Buzz: Making Room for Paid Parental Leave and Family Benefits
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We are thrilled to recognize several of our members that have been recognized by ImpactAssets 50! This recognition is a testament to their unwavering commitment to impact investing with authenticity and integrity. A huge congratulations to all of our recognized members: - 1st Course Capital - Achieve Partners - AiiM Partners - Amplify Capital - Apis & Heritage Capital Partners - Arborview Capital - Avesta Fund - Better Ventures - Community Investment Management - Clean Energy Ventures - Closed Loop Partners - Core Innovation Capital - DBL Partners - Ecosystem Integrity Fund - HCAP Partners - Impact Engine - JFFVentures - Learn Capital - Lime Rock New Energy - Maycomb Capital - Mission Driven Finance™ - Regeneration.VC - Renewal Funds - Rethink Capital Partners - SJF Ventures - Springbank Collective - Trailhead Capital - VoLo Earth Ventures - Zeal Capital Partners Keep up the great work! #ImpactInvesting #Sustainability #ImpactAssets50 #InvestingWithPurpose
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“While we’ve seen abundant investment in tools designed to assist software developers and free up time for them to focus on the more challenging parts of their jobs, there has been far less investment in technology that could assist construction workers, the service sector, teachers, nurses, or other care workers. Many of these jobs are ripe for innovation, and responsible AI technology could bring more good than harm in assisting parts of our workforce that are stretched to the breaking point.” Elana Berkowitz and Courtney Leimkuhler of Springbank VC urge investors to fund AI and technological innovation that will help the struggling care economy and its workers in the United States: https://lnkd.in/eR_8Pbhj Learn more about the ways AI can be developed and deployed responsibly to help workers in an in-depth series of articles from the Ford Foundation: https://lnkd.in/gw-uziGT #artificialintelligence #MakeTechWork #workers #technology
How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers (SSIR)
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Outdoor activities, play, and community building are more important than ever in our age of screens and mental health challenges. Our latest investment Rec underscores the urgent need to modernize how families interact with and enjoy our public spaces. We got excited about Rec for so many reasons: 1. A huge problem. Parents have wasted infinite hours registering their kids for activities, sometimes in person with paper and pen, with websites that break and require refreshing at midnight. We need a modern system that meets the needs of working parents. According to JAMA Pediatrics, one-fifth of the negative effects of screen time on daily living skills of young children can be mediated by increasing outdoor playtime, which also increases kids’ socialization skills. We’re all in for anything that makes it easier to get outdoors. 2. The right team. Birju Kadakia and Rachel Williams are passionate, thoughtful, and tenacious founders with the right experiences at Uber, Masterclass, and The Athletic to make booking a tennis court or a kids after-school activity as easy as ordering dinner online. 3. The kind of cities we want to live in. By facilitating easier access to outdoor recreation by upgrading government software experiences and bringing under-utilized physical assets online, we're not only fostering healthier lifestyles but also paving the way for more inclusive and engaged communities. 4. Enormous market opportunity. Global recreation and leisure spending topped $975B in 2022 and is growing 14% YoY. The 91k municipal governments in the U.S. manage over 10M courts, parks and other spaces and 47% of Americans already have a relationship with their Parks and Rec Department. Big congrats to our friends at Rec for officially announcing what they are bringing to communities and families and for their oversubscribed seed round led by NFX. We are excited to be on this journey with them. https://lnkd.in/gYiGw8Jz
Rec emerges from stealth to modernize Parks & Rec management and booking | TechCrunch
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