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Saurabh Bhansali

Partner at Health Velocity Capital

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder and Managing Partner

    2017 - Current

    Health Velocity Capital invests in growth stage healthcare software and services companies. Spanning three decades as investors, entrepreneurs, and operators, our principals have invested in and helped build some of healthcare's most impactful innovators -- companies that became industry leaders and that created entirely new markets. For more information, please visit www.healthvelocitycapital.com.

  • Board Observer

    2019

    Headspace Health is the world’s leading providers of digital, on-demand behavioral health. FKA Ginger. Merged with Headspace in 2021.

  • Board Member

    2020

    HealthJoy gives employees and their families access to all their benefits in one mobile app that is powered by artificial intelligence, human healthcare concierge, and on-demand doctors. If you can send a text, you can use HealthJoy to navigate healthcare and benefits like an expert.

  • Board Member

    2020

    Octave offers behavioral therapy provided by certified coaches, licensed psychologists, and psychiatric nurse practitioners, leveraging a step-care model, in a highly consumer-centric, “One Medical” like manner. Care is delivered in brick-and-mortar clinics and through engaging and outcomes-driven technology and telehealth.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Torch Technology simplifies supply and equipment ordering for dentists through an easy-to-use online platform. The online ordering platform enables price transparency and recommendations for products swaps that provide substantial cost savings.

  • Board Observer

    2021

    Prolucent Health is the leading provider of enterprise-wide healthcare workforce optimization software and services. Prolucent offers the industry's only end-to-end platform that integrates full-time, part-time and contingent labor recruitment and management to help health systems and other healthcare organization better control their labor costs.

  • Board Observer

    2018

    Spero Health is an integrated healthcare services organization specializing in local and affordable outpatient care for individuals suffering from substance use disorder.

  • Board Observer

    2019 - 2024

    Zipari provides a software platform for health plans’ member, broker, provider and employer portals and for health plans’ call centers that is powered by a robust underlying, integrated customer relationship management (CRM) technology. The CRM functionality brings together traditionally siloed data into a single interface for both members as well as customer service representatives and layers in personalized next-best actions and recommendations to optimize member health. The CRM technology also provides a common member, employer, provider, and broker experience and reduces administrative costs in the process. Zipari’s technology unites traditionally disjointed member-facing interactions and workflows across a health plan’s sales and marketing, clinical, and service center organizations. Majority recap by Thoma Bravo in 2020. Acquired by mPulse in 2024.

  • Board Member

    2018 - 2022

    Jvion offers an AI-driven clinical decision support solution that improves patient outcomes, lowers the cost of care, and addresses challenges across various healthcare market segments. Acquired by Lightbeam Health Solutions in 2022.

  • Board Observer

    2018 - 2021

    Contessa is the leader and pioneer of Home Recovery Care, a risk-based model that combines all the essential elements of inpatient hospital care in the comfort of patients’ homes. Acquired by Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) in 2021.

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