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Headwater Ventures
Venture capital
Headwater Ventures is an investment firm focused on the modernization of health and care. It backs pre-seed and seed teams building software infrastructure and intelligence for healthcare administration, clinical safety, and financial workflows.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordshealthtechhealthcare administrationinteroperabilityprior authorizationaicare delivery
Your fit with Headwater Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsHeadwater Ventures lists 40 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (88%), Fintech (5%) and AI & Machine Learning (2%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Matchstick Ventures and Flare Capital Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Headwater Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Headwater Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 40. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 77th | 39 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 64th | 5% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 95th | 88% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 5 |
| Matchstick Ventures | 4 |
| Flare Capital Partners | 3 |
| Groove Capital | 3 |
| SemperVirens Venture Capital | 3 |
| City Light | 2 |
| Ensemble Innovation Ventures | 2 |
| Floating Point | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3998%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company13%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 88% | 15% |
| Fintech | 5% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 2% | 18% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 2% | 6% |
| Education | 2% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Headwater Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Headwater Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 13 May 2026 | Seed | |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Headwater Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Headwater Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
40 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anchor orchestrates non-medical benefits for dual-eligible members within existing care management workflows. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Automate Clinic is a virtual multi-specialty medical group that provides online care with AI built in from the start. | Healthcare & Biotech | Dec 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Credo Health is the AI-powered SaaS platform helping physicians, MSOs, ACOs, and health plans diagnose and treat patients. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cured provides AI-powered healthcare marketing solutions to drive better outcomes and revenue growth | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Defiant Health helps patients with breast cancer get diagnosed and treated quickly and effectively | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company automates the prior authorization lifecycle and predicts medication coverage for prescribers using insurance AI. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Elion provides a platform for health IT decision makers to discover, compare, and evaluate healthcare technology products. | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides clinical infrastructure for consumer apps, including a care stack with features such as telehealth, pharmacy, and messaging. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ferrum Health provides a platform for clinical AI governance and deployment in healthcare | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Fincura provides a financial operating system for healthcare practices to automate insurance claims and payments | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Gather Health provides primary care to adults 65 and older on Medicare. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Glass Health develops and provides clinical artificial intelligence tools for healthcare applications | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Gratia Health transforms frontline caregiver engagement into action with real-time recognition, healthy competition, and personal connections | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Helm Health provides a platform for health plans and carriers to build dynamic copay products for members | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Dune Health transforms daily health data into personalized care that evolves with the patient. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Mirza matches, verifies, and enrolls people in public benefits and keeps them covered as eligibility rules and verification requirements change | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Pops helps individuals figure out their health insurance, including Medicare and Individual & Family Plans | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Josi Health provides online autism and ADHD diagnosis and therapy services | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Koda Health creates Advance Care Plans to ensure users' wishes are honored and their family is taken care of during medical emergencies. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Medzoomer delivers prescriptions on demand | Healthcare & BiotechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- headwater.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 11 Dec 2025
- Companies checked
- 40
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