Grant Blevins Promoted to Associate

We are pleased to announce the promotion of Grant Blevins to Associate at FCA Venture Partners. 

Grant originally joined the firm full-time in the fall of 2014 as an Analyst. He will continue to support the firm in deal sourcing, research initiatives, due diligence, representation at industry conferences and events, and investor communications. Grant has also been a valuable resource to FCA's current portfolio companies by providing ongoing support from potential investor and customer introductions, operational best practices research, and more. 

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How metric-driven decisions can bring 'revolutionary' innovation back to healthcare

Julie Schulz, MD, MPH, and vice president of research and insights at Chicago-based Procured Health, sees the innovation gap firsthand. She says it occurred because hospitals have historically paid for "evolutionary rather than revolutionary" innovation. "Manufacturers can continue getting away with adding a new bell or whistle every six months because hospitals will continue to pay premiums for that," she says.

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BBH Capital Partners Completes Recapitalization of Haven Behavioral Healthcare

Haven, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, is a leading provider of specialized inpatient psychiatric stabilization and treatment services to a growing population of older adults with acute psychiatric issues, including depression, anxiety, psychosis or other severe behavioral problems. The Company operates six acute psychiatric facilities in five states, including geriatric and adult psychiatric units and partial hospitalization programs. Haven is well-positioned to benefit from an increased focus on behavioral health treatment as well as the rapidly growing geriatric population in the U.S.

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MediQuire CEO Klaus Koenigshausen Featured in World Economic Forum... Forget genes: it’s your zip code that influences your health

Improving health outcomes in low-income populations is crucial to slowing rising healthcare costs in developed countries. Significant efforts have gone into driving productivity of hospitals and physicians, implementing checklists to standardize care for populations, and using historical cost data to forecast high-cost patients. Despite these efforts, we are not significantly better off today than we were 10 years ago, and overstretched healthcare budgets, especially for the low income, elderly and disabled, are threatening the financial stability of government balance sheets for generations to come. So, what are we missing?

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Procured Health Raises $10 Million in New Funding From Heritage Group and Health Insight Capital

Procured Health (Procured), a provider of data-driven technologies that improve patient care while also eliminating wasteful spending, announced today it has secured additional funding from healthcare industry investors, led by Heritage Group, a venture-capital firm backed by some of the nation's leading healthcare companies, and with participation from Health Insight Capital, a subsidiary of HCA.

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Leading Video Creation Marketplace, StudioNow, Signs Multi-Year Deal with Yelp

StudioNow, the leader in providing scalable video solutions for big brands, announced today its partnership with Yelp Inc., the San Francisco-based company that helps people find great local businesses. With a network of more than 10,000 highly-curated and vetted video professionals, StudioNow will provide on-demand video creation at an affordable price to the businesses that advertise on Yelp. 

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