Monthly Archives: February 2026

Queen City Angels Rebrands as QCA Ventures™

The New Name Reflects Its Evolution into a National Venture Organization

CINCINNATI, Feb. 5, 2026 — Queen City Angels today announced that it has officially rebranded as QCA Ventures™, marking a strategic evolution into a nationally recognized venture organization supporting early-stage founders with capital, expertise, and long-term partnership.

Founded in 2000, QCA Ventures has grown from a small group of local investors into a network of more than 219 accredited members across 25 states. The rebrand reflects the organization’s expanding national footprint, institutional fund platform, and increasingly sophisticated venture operations. “We started with five investors in Cincinnati and have grown into a professionally structured venture organization with national reach,” said Founder and Chairman Tony Shipley. “QCA Ventures reflects who we’ve become — disciplined investors, active mentors, and long-term partners to founders building successful, high-growth companies.”

Proven Track Record of Early-Stage Impact
Since inception, QCA Ventures has:

  • Invested nearly $130 million across 123 portfolio companies
  • Helped attract more than $1 billion in follow-on syndicated capital
  • Supported companies driving innovation, job creation, and strong investor returns

QCA Ventures operates multiple venture funds alongside its direct investment platform. Its latest fund, QCA First Fund VII, was launched in late 2024 and has already invested in 12 companies following the organization’s comprehensive screening and due diligence process. The fund remains open to new accredited investors through 2026. “We measure our success by the success of our founders,” said Michelle Gibbs, QCA Ventures member and co-fund manager of First Fund VII. “The quality of companies we’ve backed through this fund reflects both the strength of today’s entrepreneurial ecosystem and the rigor of our investment process.”

More Than Capital: Hands-On Venture Support
Unlike traditional angel networks, QCA Ventures members actively engage with portfolio companies by providing strategic guidance, board participation, customer introductions, talent connections, and follow-on fundraising support. “Our members invest both capital and time,” said Executive Director Scott Jacobs. “That hands-on involvement is a major differentiator and one of the reasons founders consistently seek out QCA Ventures as a long-term partner.”

Rooted Locally, Investing Nationally
While QCA Ventures maintains strong ties to the Cincinnati entrepreneurial ecosystem, the organization now deploys capital nationally while continuing to support innovation and startup growth in the Queen City.

“Our roots in Cincinnati remain strong,” Shipley added. “At the same time, this rebrand reflects the national scope of our investing activity and the professionalism of our investor community.”

New Brand Identity and Tagline
Along with the name change, QCA Ventures is introducing a new brand identity and tagline:

Capital. Connections. Commitment.
“The tagline captures what makes QCA Ventures unique,” said Mike Halloran, QCA Ventures member and professor at Xavier University’s Williams College of Business. “We provide capital, open doors through meaningful connections, and stay committed to founders from the first check through successful exit.”

About QCA Ventures
QCA Ventures is a group of 219 experienced accredited investors located in 25 states. Investor members include successful entrepreneurs, former C-suite corporate executives, R&D/technical experts and others with related business backgrounds. QCA Ventures operates multiple venture funds supporting high-growth startups across four major industry sectors: in life sciences, IT (B2B SaaS), advanced materials, and advanced manufacturing. QCA Ventures leverages its proprietary Standards + Practices Guide© to educate, train, and mentor both entrepreneurs and its early-stage investor members. QCA Ventures members typically donate approximately 50,000 hours per year in pro-bono mentoring, coaching, and guidance to entrepreneurs with the goal of helping them improve the probability of a successful outcome. Since 2000, QCA Ventures has directly invested over $130 million in 123 portfolio companies. The total capital invested in these companies, including QCA Ventures members’ capital, syndication partners’ capital, follow-on venture capital funds, and venture debt is more than $1 billion. For more information, please visit www.qca.com.

SOURCE QCA Ventures

APEXX Global Announces $10 million Investment from Finch Capital to Accelerate Global Growth

LONDON, Feb. 5, 2026 — APEXX Global, the leading merchant-centric Payment Orchestration Platform, today announced a strategic investment of up to $10 million USD led by Finch Capital, a European growth investor with deep expertise in payments and scaling financial technology players internationally. 

APEXX Global is a multi award-winning Payment Orchestration Platform enabling enterprise merchants to optimise payment performance at scale through a single API. By intelligently routing transactions across the global payments ecosystem, APEXX materially increases acceptance rates, reduces processing costs, and improves unit economics – turning payments from an operational burden into a measurable driver of revenue and margin.

The investment of up to $10 million USD from Finch Capital follows a period of strong commercial momentum for APEXX Global, marked by significant enterprise merchant wins including Jet2, Iglu.com and Norse Atlantic towards the end of 2025. These customer additions accelerated platform scale and revenue growth, taking the business to the brink of break-even. Finch’s investment will now be used to power APEXX Global’s next phase of growth, supporting continued product innovation and international expansion as demand for intelligent payment orchestration continues to rise.

As part of the investment, Radboud Vlaar, Managing Partner at Finch Capital, will join the APEXX Global Board and assume the role of Chairman, bringing extensive experience supporting Boards and high-growth payments and financial technology businesses.

Finch Capital manages in excess of €500 million in assets under management and has backed more than 50 portfolio companies across Europe and the US, with a strong track record of scaling mission-critical infrastructure platforms in complex, regulated markets.

APEXX Global enables enterprise merchants to access the entire global payments ecosystem through a single, trusted API. Its intelligent routing and optimisation capabilities help merchants improve conversion rates, lower processing costs, and future-proof their payment strategies – without adding complexity or operational overhead.

Radboud Vlaar, Managing Partner at Finch Capital and Chairman of APEXX Global, commented:

 “APEXX Global has built a truly differentiated payment orchestration platform with a clear focus on merchant outcomes. Payments is   a  global, complex, and rapidly evolving space, and APEXX’s ability to intelligently optimise acceptance and cost at scale positions   them exceptionally well. We are excited to partner with the team and support the next phase of international growth in Travel and       beyond.

Peter Keenan, CEO and Co-Founder of APEXX Global, said:

 “Finch Capital brings exactly the combination of payments expertise, international perspective, and growth experience we were     looking for. This investment is a strong validation of our strategy and technology, and Radboud’s appointment as Chairman further   strengthens our leadership as we scale globally. Our focus remains clear: delivering measurable value for merchants by simplifying   payments and driving better outcomes.”

About APEXX GLOBAL (www.apexx.global)

APEXX Global is a multi-award winning global payments orchestration platform that combines acquirers, gateways, shopping carts and Alternative Payments Methods into a single marketplace and one-stop solution for Enterprise/Tier 1 merchants. APEXX builds an integrated and transparent service that manages the authorisation, processing and optimisation of transactions.

APEXX takes an agnostic approach to partnerships, working with many different solutions providers across the payments industry. Our approach creates a more efficient and cost-effective solution that cuts through the complexity of e-payments and leaves behind legacy technology systems. Our mission is to help businesses grow by reducing unnecessary costs, increasing conversion rates and simplifying the payment execution process through advanced payment orchestration.

About Finch Capital (www.finchcapital.com)

Finch Capital is a European growth equity investor backing ambitious teams building the next generation of specialist B2B software, where we focus on 9 sectors in Business and Financial technology. The firm invests in companies typically generating €5–15 million in ARR, supporting them to reach profitable scale and accelerate growth. Finch Capital brings deep sector expertise and a proven hands-on value creation playbook. The firm has backed high growth companies, including AccountsIQ, eFlow, Fourthline, Goodlord, Lavanda, NomuPay, and ZOPA.

ShengShu Technology Completes Series A+ Funding of Over RMB 600 Million

Leveraging Multimodal Foundation Models to Unlock AI Productivity in Digital and Physical Worlds

SINGAPORE, Feb. 5, 2026 — ShengShu Technology has completed a Series A+ funding round of over RMB 600 million. The round was co-led by Zhongguancun Science City and LINK-X CAPITAL, with strategic investments from Wondershare, Visual China Group Co., Ltd., and TRS. Existing investors, including Qiming Venture Partners, Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, G&O, C&D Emerging Industry Equity Investment, and Guowen Hechuang further increased their investment in the round.

Original Model Innovation with Global Leadership

ShengShu Technology was one of the earliest teams globally to conduct research on multimodal generative algorithms. In September 2022, the team introduced the U-ViT architecture. In July 2024, Vidu launched globally, introducing the industry’s first Reference-to-Video capability. Moving beyond conventional text-to-video and image-to-video models, this innovation addresses one of the core challenges in commercial video generation: maintaining multi-entity consistency. Since its launch, ShengShu has continuously released Vidu Q1, Vidu Q2, and Vidu Q3, with each iteration further improving performance across key benchmarks, including consistency, semantic understanding, motion dynamics, stability, and inference speed.

The recently released Vidu Q3 is the world’s first video model built for storytelling. It supports 16-second synchronized audio-video generation, native 1080p output, advanced cinematic language, precise shot transitions, multilingual text rendering, and multi-language output.

According to the latest rankings from AI benchmarking authority Artificial Analysis, Vidu Q3 ranked No.1 in China and No.2 globally. The model placed ahead of several leading international video generation platforms, positioning Vidu among the world’s top-tier solutions. Artificial Analysis data also indicates that Vidu Q2 maintains the fastest generation speed globally among commercial-grade content generation models.

In December 2025, ShengShu Technology open-sourced its TurboDiffusion framework, enabling a 5-second video to be generated in just 1.9 seconds on a single RTX 5090 GPU, improving video generation efficiency by 100 to 200 times.

Expanding Commercial Adoption

ShengShu Technology has established a comprehensive product ecosystem built around Vidu, including Vidu MaaS, Vidu SaaS, Vidu App and Vidu Agent, serving content creators and industry clients globally. In 2025, the company achieved more than 10× growth in both users and revenue. Vidu is now widely used by creators, studios, and enterprises in over 200 countries and regions worldwide for content production.

In film and entertainment, including animation, short drama, and feature production, Vidu works with over 90% of industry stakeholders across content owners, tool providers, and production studios. Clients and partners include Tencent Animation & Comics, China Literature, CCTV Animation, iQIYI, Jiangxi Film Group, Mango TV, Soy Sauce Animation, and JuriLu.

Vidu continues to expand across leading companies in internet and smart hardware sectors. Customers include ByteDance, SAMSUNG, Wondershare, TAL Education Group, Alipay, and HONOR, with applications spanning content production, marketing asset creation, and interactive product innovation.

In advertising, Vidu has become a preferred solution for leading brands, agencies, and platform operators, working with JD.com, Alibaba 1688, Amazon, Meituan, Focus Media, BlueFocus, L’Oréal, and Anta. The platform supports large-scale and reliable AI video production for commercial campaigns.

In gaming, Vidu has been deployed in core scenarios such as game advertising and scene generation, serving companies including Lilith Games, 37 Interactive Entertainment, SeaArt, and Tanwan Games, enhancing content production efficiency and interactive experiences.

Internationally, Vidu continues to gain traction among global creators and enterprise clients, including Pollo AI, PhotoGrid, OpenArt, Hubx, Fal.ai, Eachlabs, Freepik and GensPark. Its applications span creative tools, commercial production, and platform-level services, with additional adoption across education, broadcasting, and cultural tourism sectors.

Looking Ahead

“ShengShu Technology began with a strong foundation in algorithm research and continues to push the boundaries of core model innovation. Among leading international multimodal foundation models, Vidu has established clear differentiation and strong competitive advantages. From research breakthroughs to large-scale commercialization, we believe multimodal foundation models will become a next-generation production paradigm and a transformative force in productivity, reshaping global content workflows and industry structures. ShengShu will remain technology-driven and value-oriented, advancing product and commercial strategies to unlock the full potential of multimodal AI for the global content ecosystem,” said Yihang Luo, CEO of ShengShu Technology.

“The ceiling for multimodal video models is exceptionally high. Beyond powering digital content creation and interaction, they have the potential to evolve into true world models that understand the underlying structures of reality and support end-to-end machine decision-making. As AI continues to mature in the digital world, ShengShu aims to push its boundaries further, expanding from digital deployment toward deeper integration with the physical world,” said Jun Zhu, Founder and Chief Scientist of ShengShu Technology.

SOURCE ShengShu Technology

NAVER D2SF Invests in AI Workflow Automation Platform ‘CNAPS.AI’

– Optimized for multi-AI model environments, creating the most efficient workflows using the latest AI models

– Pursuing intelligence mapping for automatic generation of optimal workflows by connecting and combining AI models

SEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 4, 2026 — NAVER D2SF, NAVER’s in-house corporate venture arm, has invested in [CNAPS.AI] a company that developed an automated AI workflow automation platform. This seed round marks CNAPS.AI’s first institutional funding since its founding in October 2025, led by NAVER D2SF, with participation from Bluepoint Partners, Laguna Investment, and Joyakdol Fund.

CNAPS.AI has developed a studio that connects various AI models to quickly generate the best outputs. Ultimately, the company aims to achieve intelligence mapping—where users simply input their desired task and the system automatically builds the optimal workflow by determining which AI models to connect and how to combine them with performance and cost in mind.

The company is focused on addressing challenges in multi-AI model environments. In the current multi-AI model landscape, where high-performance AI models are released in rapid succession, finding the optimal model takes significant time. Notably, one of the main reasons AI projects fail is the excessive time and cost required to explore optimal models and integrate the right models into a cohesive workflow.

Launched in early 2026, CNAPS.AI’s first product supports and connects over 50 popular AI models for text and image generation, drawing interest from the e-commerce, entertainment, and content industries. The company regularly adds the latest AI models to its platform and plans to expand its AI model support to include additional modalities, such as voice, video, and 3D, through future updates.

CNAPS.AI’s cofounding team, which includes CEO Innfarn Yoo, has accumulated experience at NVIDIA, Google Research, and global gaming companies. Their extensive background in AI R&D and commercialization is one of the company’s key strengths.

Yang Sang-hwan, Head of NAVER D2SF, stated, “We expect CNAPS.AI to ultimately evolve into an intelligence map optimized for users’ needs and contexts.” He added, “NAVER D2SF will continue to discover and invest in bold entrepreneurs who pioneer new standards and approaches in the evolving AI landscape, supporting their growth.” 

About NAVER D2SF

[NAVER D2SF] is NAVER’s in-house corporate venture arm, supporting sustainable growth by collaborating with startups. Founded in 1999, NAVER has maintained its position as Korea’s leading search engine for over 20 years and operates across commerce, content, fintech, and cloud services. Under the technological vision of D2 (For Developers, By Developers), NAVER is actively developing new technologies and global partnerships to grow as a leading tech company.

To learn more, visit https://d2sf.naver.com/en 

SOURCE NAVER

NAVER D2SF Invests in Cashmere, a Data Infrastructure Platform Bridging Premium Content and AI

– Turning Premium Content into AI-Native Data, Setting a New Standard for Licensing
– Helping Publishers Diversify Revenue and Providing AI Companies with Premium Data

SEONGNAM-SI, South Korea, Feb. 4, 2026 — NAVER D2SF, NAVER’s in-house corporate venture capital arm, has invested in Cashmere (https://cashmere.io/), a data infrastructure platform bridging premium content and the AI ecosystem. Cashmere’s $5M seed round was led by Reach Capital, with participation from NAVER D2SF, Founders Future, Fortitude Ventures, and global content distributor Ingram Content Group.

Cashmere is a platform that connects premium content publishers with AI companies. Built on its proprietary OmniPub infrastructure, Cashmere enables tocken-level access control, rights management, usage tracking, and revenue settlement for premium content. This allows publishers to protect their intellectual property while unlocking new and diversified revenue streams.

For AI companies, Cashmere provides access to scarce, authoritative content beyond widely available web-crawled data. This helps improve the quality, reliability, and differentiation of AI services. By converting premium content into legally compliant AI-native data, Cashmere ensures AI models are grounded in trusted information rather than unverified sources.

Cashmere has already partnered with leading global publishers, including John Wiley & Sons and Harvard Business Publishing, and works with AI companies such as Perplexity. NAVER D2SF plans to explore opportunities for collaboration between NAVER and Cashmere’s platform, leveraging its experience as Korea’s top search engine for over 25 years.

About NAVER D2SF

NAVER D2SF is NAVER’s corporate venture arm, supporting sustainable growth by collaborating with startups. Founded in 1999, NAVER has maintained its position as Korea’s leading search engine for over 20 years and operates across commerce, content, fintech, and cloud services. Under the technological vision of D2 (For Developers, By Developers), NAVER is actively developing new technologies and global partnerships to grow as a leading tech company.

To learn more, visit https://d2sf.naver.com/en

SOURCE NAVER

Startups Building the Future of National Security to Compete for $100K Costanoa Investment at MIT-Harvard Conference

Pitch Competition Will Award Early-Stage Startup a SAFE Investment from Costanoa

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4, 2026Costanoa, a leading early-stage venture capital firm, is sponsoring the 2026 Innovation Showcase pitch competition at the fifth annual MIT–Harvard Technology and National Security Conference taking place on April 4, 2026.

As part of its sponsorship, Costanoa will award a $100,000 SAFE investment to the winning startup, recognizing exceptional early-stage companies developing technologies critical to national security, defense, and global resilience. Costanoa is a leading investor in over a dozen national security startups, including Cape, Hidden Level, Muon Space, Vannevar Labs and more.

The annual conference, hosted jointly by MIT and Harvard Business School, convenes more than 800 leaders from government, venture capital, defense, academia, and industry to examine the intersection of technology and national security. This year’s theme, “Acta Non Verba: Innovating for the Frontlines,” focuses on the technologies, startups, investors and government leaders working to turn bold ideas into operational impact. Tickets for the conference are available here.

Innovation Showcase: Applications Now Open
The Innovation Showcase serves as a forum for emerging companies building solutions for modern national security challenges and will be judged by leaders across venture and defense, including Greg Sands, Founder & Managing Partner at Costanoa, and John Doyle, Founder & CEO of Cape. Five standout finalists will pitch their startups during the conference for a chance to win:

  • A term sheet for a $100K SAFE investment from Costanoa for first place
  • Additional non-dilutive grants from Common Mission Project for first ($5K), second ($3K), third place ($1K), and crowd favorite ($1K).
  • Selected startups will also receive two complimentary tickets to the conference.

To be eligible, startups must meet the following criteria:

  • Pre-Seed to Seed
  • Focused on national security, defense, and other real-world operational challenges

If you are an eligible startup interested in participating in the Innovation Showcase, please apply here. The deadline to submit your application is February 27, 2026 at 5 pm ET on. Finalists will be notified by March 6, 2026.

Past Innovation Showcase winners include John Maslin of Vulcan Elements, which subsequently raised over $1B in federal and private capital, and Rehydrate, a defense tech startup building next-generation solutions for logistics, sustainment, and operational resilience in contested environments.

About Costanoa
Costanoa exists to elevate founders building companies of consequence. We lead investments from formation through Series A in Applied AI, AI Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, National Security, and Fintech. With $2.5B AUM, we’re boutique by design—making fewer investments to deliver deeper expertise and operational support when it matters most: the early, defining stages of growth. We have been recognized as one of America’s Top Venture Capital Firms by TIME and named to a top 4 Seed-Stage firm on Inc.’s Founder-Friendly Investors list. For more information, please visit www.costanoa.vc.

SOURCE Costanoa Ventures

Feltsense Raises $5.1M to Launch Agentic Founders That Build and Scale Startups From Zero

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4, 2026 — Feltsense Holdings, Inc. today announced it has raised $5.1 million in seed funding to build AI agents that function as fully autonomous founders – capable of ideating products, building them, and taking them to market without human intervention.

The round was led by Draper Associates, with participation from Precursor Ventures, Liquid2 Ventures, Matt Schlicht (creator of Moltbook), Jager McConnell (founder of Crunchbase), and Peter Green (founder of Republic).

“As no-code tools proliferate and infrastructure for every part of the entrepreneurial process becomes automated, agentic founders are the natural evolution,” said Marik Hazan, CEO of Feltsense. “With the launch of Moltbook and agents now working together to build companies, this future is inevitable. We’re just accelerating it.”

Feltsense’s AI founders will autonomously identify market opportunities, build products, and acquire customers. Some will work on pre-assigned ideas; others will discover opportunities independently. Feltsense retains ownership of the companies created, though the agentic founders can raise external capital by exchanging equity stakes.

“We believe Feltsense will overtake Y Combinator as the most valuable creator of startups,” Hazan said.

The company plans to scale rapidly, ultimately launching fleets of tens of thousands of agentic founders to capture the long tail of entrepreneurship – opportunities too niche or numerous for human founders to pursue.

Hazan previously launched the first venture firm investing in psychedelic therapeutics and headed growth for Y Combinator’s preferred marketing agency, Bell Curve, where he led growth for Segment, Clearbit, Envoy, and Lambda Labs.

The funding will be used primarily for hiring and product development.

For more information or press inquiries, contact [email protected] or visit feltsense.com.

SOURCE Feltsense Holdings, Inc.

SENAI raises $6.2M to launch real-time intelligence for threats hiding in online video content

When a security incident unfolds, the first signals often surface as videos posted from the ground, before official reports arrive. Online platforms are saturated with real-time footage, but the volume makes continuous monitoring and analysis nearly impossible. Even with platform moderation in place, uploads move faster than human review, and by the time analysts flag high-risk material, it has often already spread. As video-first platforms play a growing role in security threats and influence operations, governments face a gap: videos become a dominant signal, yet remain difficult to analyze at scale.

Founded less than a year ago, SENAI is building the global standard for OVINT (Online Video Intelligence), establishing a new intelligence discipline for the front lines of social media warfare. Unlike traditional open-source intelligence, OVINT treats video as the primary source, capturing live behavior rather than just text and static media. SENAI helps governments and intelligence agencies track fast-moving videos on social platforms, turning fragmented content into organized, clear insights. Using AI models that analyze video, audio, text, and location signals, the platform maps what is happening and where in real time, allowing teams to respond as events unfold.

SENAI spent the last year operating in live environments, working with government agencies across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. While government remains the company’s primary market today, SENAI’s dual-use architecture is already attracting interest from enterprise customers, as shown by a deal with a U.S. client. The company plans to expand its enterprise offering in 2026.

SENAI is led by a team of intelligence professionals with extensive backgrounds across the sector. The company recently welcomed Michel Berdah as Chief Revenue Officer and Partner, bringing over a decade of senior leadership experience to support SENAI’s growth. 

“Video has become the primary signal shaping narratives, influence, and security outcomes,” says David Allouche-Levinsky, Co-Founder and CEO of SENAI. “SENAI was built to support decision-makers protecting the West against this new level of influence. As misinformation spreads at scale, SENAI helps intelligence and law enforcement agencies intervene earlier, before false narratives harden into public belief or drive real-world consequences.”

“What impressed us about SENAI was the team’s deep intelligence background, its execution discipline, and the way they identified a significant gap in intelligence,” says Emma Lipski, Partner at 10D Ventures. “SENAI is already addressing these urgent challenges for government agencies and tier-one customers worldwide, not merely running experiments, and that real-world impact is what sold us.”

About SENAI

SENAI develops AI-driven Online Video Intelligence solutions for governments and intelligence agencies, specializing in large-scale analysis of open-source video across next-generation platforms. The company’s mission is to define the standards, technology, and operational frameworks for Online Video Intelligence over the coming decade.

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Chamber Raises $60 Million in Series A Funding to Drive the Future of Cardiology Value-Based Care

Led by Frist Cressey Ventures, with investments from General Catalyst and other prominent investors, the round enables Chamber to continue to scale rapidly nationwide

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2026 — Chamber today announced it has raised $60 million in Series A funding to support cardiologists and health plans in managing patients with heart disease under value-based care models. The round was led by Frist Cressey Ventures, with participation from existing investors General Catalyst, AlleyCorp, American Family Ventures, and Company Ventures, as well as strategic participation from Optum Ventures, Healthworx Ventures, and additional investment from Black Opal Ventures. The financing also includes debt from HSBC Innovation Banking.

The Series A funding will be used to expand partnerships with health plans and cardiology practices, grow into additional markets, and continue building Chamber’s clinical, operational, and technology teams.

“Chamber is focused on building the infrastructure that helps cardiologists succeed in value-based care, supports more predictable performance for health plans, and ultimately delivers a better experience for patients with heart disease” said George Aloth, Co-Founder and CEO of Chamber.

Chamber partners with both payers and cardiologists to support value-based care programs focused on the long-term management of cardiovascular disease. Its cardiology-focused data and intelligence platform, designed to support clinicians within existing workflows, integrates workflow-native AI to prioritize high-risk patients, identify gaps in guideline-directed therapy, and reduce manual chart review. This combined with Chamber’s operational infrastructure helps reduce preventable complications and hospital use, improve patient experience, and provide health plans with clearer visibility into cardiovascular performance and total cost of care.

“Cardiovascular care generates enormous amounts of data, but clinicians don’t need more data but rather a clearer signal,” said Sameer Sheth, M.D., Co-Founder, President & CMO of Chamber.

Cardiovascular disease remains one of the largest drivers of healthcare cost and utilization in the U.S. Cardiologists are increasingly responsible for older, higher-risk patients, yet often lack timely data and support outside of office visits. These gaps contribute to delayed interventions, missed follow-ups, avoidable hospitalizations, and rising costs that traditional fee-for-service care was not designed to address.

“At FCV, we invest in companies transforming care delivery in healthcare’s most consequential areas, and Chamber exemplifies that mission. Cardiovascular disease is the largest driver of U.S. healthcare spend, yet care delivery remains fragmented and fee-for-service–driven. The Chamber platform brings value-based care to cardiology, delivering better outcomes and improved quality of life for patients and their families.”

Chamber currently supports patients through multiple payer partnerships and works with a network of more than 500 cardiologists across seven states, with plans for continued national expansion.

For more information, visit www.chambercardio.com.

About Chamber 
Chamber is dedicated to supporting cardiology practices through technology-enabled delivery. Co-founded by healthcare industry leaders George Aloth, Dr. Sameer Sheth, and Dr. Jeffrey De Flavio, Chamber empowers cardiologists to thrive in a value-based care, ensuring improved patient outcomes and increased practice success.

SOURCE Chamber Cardio