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.
Headspace specializes in providing mental healthcare, including coaching therapy and psychiatry, as well as meditation mindfulness tools.
Raised $320,853,477.00 from Oxford Finance LLC.
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.
HealthJoy is a healthcare navigation platform that simplifies the healthcare and benefits experience using AI and personalized guidance.
Raised $108,500,000.00 from Clint Jones, EPIC Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners, Brandon Cruz, Health Velocity Capital, CIBC Innovation Banking, Nueterra Capital, Valspring Capital and Endeavour Vision.
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.
Octave provides mental health care that’s both accessible to people and sustainable for providers.
Raised $90,999,998.00 from Greycroft, Avidity Partners, Cigna Ventures, Felicis, Novo Holdings, Health Velocity Capital, Company Ventures and Obvious Ventures.
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.
Torch Dental offers an all-in-one solution to simplify dental supply ordering and inventory management.
Raised $49,521,755.00 from FJ Labs, Bessemer Venture Partners, Raga Partners, Town Hall Ventures, Felicis, FJ Labs, Health Velocity Capital and Tectonic Ventures.
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.
Prolucent Health provides technology and services that empower modern workforce management.
Raised $15,500,000.00 from Northwell Health, UnityPoint Health Ventures, Health Velocity Capital and SpringTide Ventures.
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.
Spero Health is an integrated healthcare services organization specializing in local and affordable outpatient care.
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.
Zipari is a company developing a customer experience platform designed specifically for health insurance.
Raised $45,000,000.00 from Thoma Bravo.
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.
Contessa operates Home Recovery Care, combining all the essential elements of inpatient hospital care in the comfort of patients’ homes.
Raised $59,848,806.00 from Optum Ventures, The Blue Venture Fund, Noro-Moseley Partners, Health Velocity Capital, Deerfield and Martin Ventures.