Rachel Rhodes

Rachel Rhodes is an osteopathic physician at Telemed2U and a Sacramento-based solo angel writing under-$25k checks at pre-seed and seed in mental and behavioral health and digital health, with no AI flag. The very small check size positions her as a friends-and-family-style angel rather than a programmatic investor, and her clinical operating role at Telemed2U suggests her angel activity is opportunistic and tied to her clinical and telehealth networks. Founders building telehealth, behavioral health, mental health platforms, or telemedicine-adjacent care delivery where her clinical-physician perspective adds advisory value are the natural fit. She is the wrong audience for biotech, devices, B2B healthcare software, AI-heavy plays, or anything outside her clinical-telehealth lane. The under-$25k check size means founders should think of her as a clinical-advisor-with-check rather than a meaningful capital source, and her real value to a cap table is the clinical-physician credibility and telehealth network access. Outreach via LinkedIn is the primary channel; warm introductions through the telehealth clinical community, Telemed2U networks, or osteopathic physician associations help. Without a website, Twitter, or published thesis, founders should treat this as a small clinical-advisor angel rather than a primary capital target. Best deployed as a clinical co-signer on a friends-and-family round; deprioritize for any larger seed.