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Meet the Definity Health Team Our Board - Committed to building an improved healthcare experience. Our Management - Dedicated to creating a better health benefit. Partners & Investors - Sharing the belief that the time for change is now. |
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In April 2000,
Definity Health launched a groundbreaking health benefit. The company has received
64 million through two rounds of investor funding.
Definity Health's well-known investors share
our belief that change is needed and that providing a better healthcare
experience is essential. Alta Partners. Alta Partners, founded in February 1996, is a venture capital partnership investing in information technologies and life sciences companies. Our partnership combines capital and experience with exceptional entrepreneurial talent to achieve investing success. Alta is a successor to Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. (BEDCO), a premier venture capital firm established in 1979. During its almost twenty years of existence, BEDCO invested more than $700 million in over 200 companies in the U.S. and overseas. Brightstone Capital. Brightstone Capital was formed in 1985 as a venture capital investment management company and since inception, has managed ten venture funds and invested in over 90 Minnesota businesses. Brightstone Capital leverages its many relationships with established industry contacts, financial investment partners and academic research institutions to help entrepreneurs build successful companies. Many of these companies continue to generate jobs and income for the local economy as well as provide above average returns for the limited partners of the various Brightstone funds. Merrill
Lynch Ventures. Merrill Lynch Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary
of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., is the General Partner and Investment
Advisor to limited partnerships formed exclusively for investment
by employees of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., its subsidiaries
and affiliates. To date, Merrill Lynch Ventures has served as the
General Partner and Investment Advisor for nine partnerships. The
partnerships seek minority interest positions, primarily, in privately
offered equity investments in both US and non-U.S. issuers. Investments
may include securities issued in conjunction with leveraged buyouts,
financing of companies in an early stage of development, investments
in growth equities, real estate ventures, and transactions involving
financial restructuring or reorganization. Psilos.
Founded in 1998, Psilos is a private venture capital firm specializing
in investments in early-stage to pre-IPO healthcare services, digital
media and Internet companies, and especially companies at the intersection
of these dynamic industries. The firm applies the significant entrepreneurial,
operating and investment experience of its principals, advisory
board members and strategic partners to help its portfolio companies
establish themselves in the market and build their long-term growth
potential. |
