Max Ventures

VC New York, United States · Founded 2013

Max Ventures is a day-zero venture capital firm that leads or co-leads early-stage investments, often committing capital before incorporation. They employ a concentrated pre-seed and seed strategy, providing high-touch operational support and incubation to build global successes in digital health, SaaS, and digital commerce.

About Max Ventures

Max Ventures is a small early-stage venture firm with a generalist software thesis and limited public detail on fund size, stage discipline, and check sizes. Treat the firm as a seed and pre-seed participant writing checks plausibly in the $100k to $500k range, typically alongside a larger lead rather than as a round-defining anchor. Healthcare exposure is incidental, most plausible when a founder is building software-shape products with healthcare verticals or applied AI with health applications. Physician founders building horizontal SaaS with health customers or consumer platforms with strong distribution unit economics are the most credible fit. Founders building therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, or capital-intensive clinical programs should not anchor a round on this firm. Geographic posture is most likely US-broad. The realistic entry path is a warm introduction from an existing portfolio founder or a connected angel; the public footprint suggests cold outreach via LinkedIn to a partner with a tightly framed, thesis-relevant note can occasionally produce a meeting. Founders should ask explicitly about reserves, follow-on capacity, and recent deal pace before assuming the firm can support beyond the first check. Treat Max Ventures as a syndicate slot rather than a category lead, and calibrate fundraising plans accordingly.

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Healthcare AI tools backed by Max Ventures

Tools made by companies in Max Ventures's portfolio that we cover in the directory.

K Health
K Health
Patient Intake & Forms
K Health offers an AI-powered symptom checker and virtual primary care, serving as a digital triage tool for patients and health systems, integrating with top health systems to provide 24/7 comprehensive primary care at a lower cost.
Adonis
Adonis
Medical Billing & RCM
Adonis is an AI-powered platform that identifies revenue risk early and automates resolution across denials, delays, and payer friction to transform healthcare billing.
Credo
Elion
EMR / EHR Systems
Credo is a SaaS platform used in value-based care workflows to retrieve longitudinal medical records and produce pre-encounter clinical histories for providers, MSOs, ACOs, and health plans. It provides automated medical record retrieval and consolidation, generates pre-encounter clinical summaries, and supports performance analytics and lifecycle tracking for RAF and HCC activity.
Ember (by Elion)
Elion
Medical Billing & RCM
Ember is an AI-powered revenue cycle management (RCM) platform for healthcare providers that automates medical coding, claims scrubbing, eligibility checks, prior authorization, and denial prevention/appeals. It integrates with EHRs/PMS systems to reduce denials, accelerate payments, and lessen administrative burden.
Entropy (by Elion)
Elion
Medical Billing & RCM
Entropy is an AI platform used in specialty healthcare operations to automate patient intake and revenue cycle workflows. It provides document classification and referral triage, verifies insurance eligibility, and submits and manages prior authorization requests and denial follow-up while supporting human-in-the-loop review for clinical accuracy.
Hyprtask (by Elion)
Elion
Medical Billing & RCM
Hyprtask is an AI-powered automation platform built to manage and execute administrative and revenue cycle workflows for healthcare practices. It automates tasks such as insurance eligibility verification, prior authorizations, patient registration, claims submission, payment posting, AR follow-up, scheduling, and fax or medical records submissions.
Penguin AI (by Elion)
Elion
Medical Billing & RCM
Penguin AI is an AI platform used in provider and payer revenue cycle and prior authorization workflows. It provides task-specific digital workers and pre-trained clinical language models that process prior authorization requests, scrub claims and support billing review, and triage denials while drafting appeals.
PatientGPT
K Health
Patient Engagement & Education
PatientGPT is a clinical AI tool from K Health that integrates with EHRs and patient portals to provide personalized health information and connect patients with care teams, grounded in their individual medical records.

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Team

Ryan Darnell
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
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Sophie Stenbeck
Co-Founder and General Partner
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Matthew Weinberg
General Partner
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