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    HC9 Ventures

    Woodstock, United StatesFounded 2021
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    Healthcare

    HC9 Ventures is a healthcare-focused venture capital firm that partners with founders to scale and monetize emerging value-added healthcare businesses by providing capital and industry expertise. The firm invests in early-stage healthcare software and services companies, drawing on a community of over 125 healthcare leaders as its exclusive source of capital.

    84% of their portfolio is in Healthcare. Deal activity decreased year-over-year (2 deals in the last 12 months vs 3 prior). Their most common stage is series-a (53% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $19.0M (across 16 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    10

    Fund Size

    —

    Top Stage

    Series A

    Last 12 Mo

    2

    Team

    CF

    Charlie Falcone

    General Partner

    RL

    Richard Lungen

    General Partner

    HC

    Helen Ciesielski

    Principal

    MK

    Michael Kaushansky

    Head of Growth & Strategy

    BC

    Bob Clerici

    Fund Operations

    HH

    Hayley Hovious

    Head of Network and Community

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    19 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Optura logoOpturaSeries A$17.5MMay 2026
    Optura logoOpturaSeries A$17.5MJan 2026
    Optura logoOpturaSeed—Jan 2026
    Optura AI logoOptura AISeries A$17.5MJan 2026
    Optura logoOpturaSeries A$17.5MJan 2026
    Reema Health logoReema HealthSeries B$19MDec 2025
    Optura logoOpturaSeed—Jan 2025
    Reema Health logoReema HealthSeries A$7.5MOct 2024
    XP Health logoXP HealthSeries B$33.2MSep 2024
    XP Health logoXP HealthSeries B$33.2MSep 2024
    XP Health logoXP HealthSeries B$33.2MJan 2024
    Laguna Health logoLaguna HealthSeries A$15MMay 2023
    XP Health logoXP HealthSeries A$17.1MSep 2022
    Psych Hub logoPsych HubUnknown$16MAug 2022
    XP Health logoXP HealthSeries A$17.1MJan 2022
    XP Health logoXP HealthSeries A$17.1MJan 2021
    Gather Health logoGather HealthSeries A$15M—
    Forge Health logoForge HealthGrowth$11M—
    Optura AI logoOptura AISeed——

    Top Co-Investors

    Valor Equity Partners6 shared
    American Family Ventures5 shared
    Salesforce Ventures4 shared
    Matrix Partners4 shared
    Susa Ventures4 shared
    Plug and Play Tech Center3 shared
    ManchesterStory Group3 shared
    SemperVirens Venture Capital3 shared
    QED Investors3 shared
    Village Global2 shared
    Core Innovation Capital2 shared
    GSR Ventures2 shared
    MaC Venture Capital2 shared
    Canvas Prime1 shared
    Frist Cressey Ventures1 shared
    Emerson Collective1 shared
    Maverick Ventures1 shared
    Khosla Ventures1 shared
    LRVHealth1 shared
    Optum Ventures1 shared

    Last updated: 7 October 2026