Dreamit Ventures Announces Spring 2020 Cohort, Kicks Off Its First Fully Virtual Program

 

The venture fund launched a completely virtual program with a focus on helping 13 Urbantech, Healthtech, and Securetech startups with business development, customer growth, and capital raising in a time of economic uncertainty. 

Dreamit Ventures, an early-stage venture fund and growth-focused program for startups with early product-market fit, announced its latest batch of startups and kicked off its completely virtual Securetech, Urbantech, and Healthtech programs.  

Dreamit works with top healthcare, cybersecurity, and urban technology startups, providing access to extensive customer, industry, and investor networks during its 14-week program. 

Since 2008, Dreamit has worked with over 350 companies. In 2019 Dreamit saw over $600 million in exits of companies that got their start at Dreamit, including LevelUp (acquired by GrubHub), Trendkite (acquired by Cision), and Adaptly (acquired by Accenture). Other well-known Dreamit startups include SeatGeek, HouseParty, Wellth, Biomeme, Tissue Analytics, Redox, Eko Devices, Raxar, Cherre, Elevate, and many others. View Dreamit’s full portfolio here. 

Dreamit is an industry leader known for providing expertise in pressure testing, scaling, business development, and fundraising. Startups in the three programs partner, pilot, and sell to some of the largest corporations in the world and meet with top-tier investors.

The Dreamit team is already working closely with its new cohort of B2B startups on issues related to surviving and thriving during an economic downturn. “We’re adjusting to a new normal,” states Steve Barsh, Managing Partner at Dreamit. “During the best of times, building startups is not easy. During difficult times, it’s even harder and startups must be on their “A” game at all times. Dreamit’s extensive coaching, pressure testing, and both Customer and Investor Sprints are more important than ever to a startup’s success. Dreamit’s core team have all successfully built companies and been through downturns and can help guide startups during challenging times.” 

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Dreamit had already structured much of its program to increase startup flexibility around participating on a remote basis. “This pandemic is accelerating a trend in more and more startups utilizing remote workforces and closing sales with virtual demos,” states Barsh. “As a global program, we have built a platform and processes to enable startups from different parts of the world to participate in our programs and have a very rich experience.” 

Securetech Startups

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Hideez
Redwood City, CA
Redwood City, CA

Hideez solves the stolen login credentials problem using its flagship product The Hideez Security Key. It differentiates itself from other hardware key solutions by including an embedded password vault, which enables organizations to make the transition from a password-based to password-less world. Hideez also provides an Enterprise Manager for administering keys in a large enterprise deployment.

Redwood City, CA
i2Chain
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA

i2Chain is a SaaS platform allowing companies to securely share sensitive documents with anyone within or outside the organization. i2Chain enables mortgage companies, banks, accounting firms, hospitals, and others to safely share their customers’ PII, IP, and PHI with co-processing entities in compliance with GDPR, CCPA privacy regulations.

San Francisco, CA
Oort
Boston, MA
Boston, MA

Oort is an identity threat detection and response platform. Oort automatically identifies vulnerable user accounts and triggers alerts related to behavioral anomalies, best practices, or policies not being followed. Oort also identifies inactive, overactive, overprivileged, or unusual behavior to reduce the identity attack surface and prevent account takeover before it happens.

Boston, MA
SystemSurveyor
Austin, TX
Austin, TX

System Surveyor is a B2B SaaS platform and marketplace that connects physical security IoT product manufacturers and systems integrators. Using intelligent features System Surveyor streamlines cumbersome planning, design, procurement and implementation; it cuts project timelines from weeks to days, improving margins and profitability across the supply chain.

Austin, TX

Healthtech Startups

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Asparia
Saratoga, CA
Saratoga, CA

Asparia enables providers to deliver scalable, individualized patient engagement through an automated SMS messaging platform that fully integrates with the EHR. The platform unburdens hospital staff by automatically recognizing and prompting patients with actionable appointment reminders and interactive care notifications from vaccines to colonoscopies while enabling self-scheduling.

Saratoga, CA
Elemeno Health
Oakland, CA
Oakland, CA

Elemeno understands that reducing procedure technique variability by frontline clinicians is key to better outcomes. The mobile-based point of care microlearning platform transforms your system’s best practices into one minute on demand videos, checklists, and decision guides. Customizable by team, this just-in-time insight is digestible, actionable, and proven to reduce care variation, errors, and overutilization.

Oakland, CA
Enhatch
Hoboken, NJ
Hoboken, NJ

Enhatch’s (acquired) Intelligent Surgery platform powers the design and delivery of standard and personalized surgical implants including pre-operative planning for robotic surgery. The platform ingests CT, MRI, and X-Ray imaging data to generate 3-D models, which in turn matches patients with an optimally designed surgical approach and implant. This saves surgeons’ time while dramatically reducing inventory, logistics, and processing costs.

Hoboken, NJ
Intellihealth
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA

Intellihealth empowers providers to deliver proven, effective, evidence-based weight management treatment at scale by leveraging a combination of analytics, patient engagement, and pharmacotherapy. The platform, backed by peer-reviewed science and clinical validation, empowers providers to set up and enhance effective obesity weight management care programs and support their overweight patient populations with proven results.

San Francisco, CA
Stel
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia, PA

Stel’s universal connection hub allows remote health monitoring devices deployed in a patient’s home to automatically share data to a provider’s health record without any involvement from the patient or the provider. The hub seamlessly syncs devices like scales, blood pressure cuffs, or wearables so providers can rapidly stand up Remote Patient Monitoring programs through instant and frictionless connection to their patients. The solution simplifies remote care plan adherence and has been proven to both reduce readmissions and length of stay.

Philadelphia, PA

Urbantech Startups

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CoFi
Alpine, UT
Alpine, UT

Construction lenders historically struggle to develop new loan opportunities cost-effectively. Leveraging CoFi, lenders increase construction loan deal flow by 50% driven by developer and contractor demand to get faster access to timely construction progress payments. CoFi reduces construction payment processing time by over 90% from an industry average of 74 days to 5 days enabling developers and lenders to greatly streamline cash flow.

Alpine, UT
KettleSpace
New York, NY
New York, NY

KettleSpace takes under-utilized assets such as restaurants in their off-hours, empty hotel lobbies, or unused event spaces and turns them into a network of on-demand workspaces, serving a market of tens of millions of remote workers in the U.S. Significantly asset lighter than traditional coworking, KettleSpace costs a lot less, scales a lot faster, and is poised to capture a large share of the $15B US coworking market as well, especially with increased employer appreciation of remote work solutions.

New York, NY

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