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fika.vc

Investments

68

Portfolio Exits

8

Funds

3

About Fika Ventures

Fika Ventures is a boutique seed fund that invests in founders solving meaningful, systemic problems through the use of data, related AI-enabled technologies, and automation.

Headquarters Location

1950 Sawtelle Boulevard Suite 183

Los Angeles, California, 90025,

United States

650-556-4776

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Clinical pathways are the currency of health tech

Jul 27, 2023

Aaron SzekelContributor Aaron Szekel is a venture partner at Fika Ventures. As healthcare becomes more entrenched in the digital revolution, the need for an approved set of protocols for care delivery — clinical pathways — is becoming increasingly critical. Clinical pathways, as defined by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia , are the “standardization of care that translates guidelines and/or evidence into localized infrastructure and processes.” These processes have significant financial implications, as they can decrease payer (insurance) denials, allow providers to enroll in performance-based reimbursement, or help resource-constrained provider systems better allocate financial resources. These financial benefits, coupled with current macroeconomic forces — the struggle for profitability in hospital systems, the rise of team-based care (via non-physicians), the challenges of utilization management at scale for insurance companies, and strict legislation around patient communication and healthcare systems interoperability requirements — have paved the way for pathways to become the de facto operating system for healthcare. Pathways provide a currency for patients, providers, payers, and technology companies to prove a return on investment (ROI), both clinically and financially. Ultimately, this has created a unique opportunity for emerging and legacy healthcare companies to build around pathways, leveraging new datasets, delivering novel reimbursement models, preparing for and complying with new transparency and interoperability legislation, and utilizing advanced AI to provide personalized understanding and delivery of information. Data is the driver of pathway’s success in clinical and operational settings In the past, national guidelines dictated decisions made all the way down to the local level. Now, local, and even personalized, evidence-based pathways are driving decisions, thanks to the ability to access, create, and analyze new datasets. Access to data, standardization of data rights, and the utilization of HIPAA-compliant collaboration tools, such as Datavant , will continue to improve compliance and create a more democratized, fine-tuned system of analysis for personalized pathways. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), under advisement from several healthcare companies, is now implementing an approved format for hospital charges as single machine readable files (MRFs), which will be leveraged to standardize all charge information. With the ability to access, create and analyze new datasets, personalized, evidence-based pathways are driving more healthcare decisions. This will allow both large (national) and small (local) providers to access previously unavailable data that can then be used to enhance care coordination and delivery, promote quality improvement, advance research, and increase ROI. We spoke with Eric Leroux and Dan Imler, emergency department MDs and the co-founders of clinical pathways startup Curbside , about the ability to utilize new data models in the transition from the national to the local level for clinical logic creation. They pointed out that while nationalized datasets have a role to play in insight generation, “the clinical and financial responsibility of point-of-care decision making is still inherently local . . . decisions must be governed there to have any real impact,” especially in value-based care constructs. As more companies like Curbside and AvoMD work to bridge the gap between art (no guidelines) and science ( NCCN guidelines ) when creating pathways, we expect more investment in startups that focus on the intersection of digital health and fintech as evidenced-based pathways and localized reimbursement engines become more necessary. Reimbursement models Pathways have evolved as a “cornerstone of future reimbursement methodologies and quality efforts,” as described by Dr. Robin Zon in ASCO Connection . They can help providers avoid “time-consuming prior authorization and appeals with payers,” and capture “stage and molecular data for a more refined risk adjustment.” Today, clinical pathways can be used for reimbursement via a number of models, from value-based care (VBC) to legacy fee-for-service (FFS). For example, CMS uses clinical pathways to create a benchmark for cost and quality in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). Providers who can provide care at a lower cost than the benchmark and who can meet certain quality standards are eligible for shared savings.

Fika Ventures Investments

68 Investments

Fika Ventures has made 68 investments. Their latest investment was in Bowery Valuation as part of their Series B - II on July 7, 2023.

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Fika Ventures Investments Activity

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Date

Round

Company

Amount

New?

Co-Investors

Sources

7/18/2023

Series B - II

Bowery Valuation

$16.3M

No

3

5/18/2023

Series B

BuildOps

$50M

No

6

3/15/2023

Seed VC

Payabli

$8M

Yes

4

1/24/2023

Series A

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$99M

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10

10/27/2022

Seed VC

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$99M

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10

Date

7/18/2023

5/18/2023

3/15/2023

1/24/2023

10/27/2022

Round

Series B - II

Series B

Seed VC

Series A

Seed VC

Company

Bowery Valuation

BuildOps

Payabli

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Amount

$16.3M

$50M

$8M

$99M

$99M

New?

No

No

Yes

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Co-Investors

Sources

3

6

4

10

10

Fika Ventures Portfolio Exits

8 Portfolio Exits

Fika Ventures has 8 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Formative on June 30, 2023.

Date

Exit

Companies

Valuation
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Acquirer

Sources

6/30/2023

Acquired

$99M

1

6/27/2023

Acquired

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10

4/25/2023

Acquired

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10

1/24/2023

Acquired

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10

4/28/2022

Acquired

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10

Date

6/30/2023

6/27/2023

4/25/2023

1/24/2023

4/28/2022

Exit

Acquired

Acquired

Acquired

Acquired

Acquired

Companies

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Valuation

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$99M

$99M

Acquirer

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Sources

1

10

10

10

10

Fika Ventures Fund History

3 Fund Histories

Fika Ventures has 3 funds, including Fika Ventures II.

Closing Date

Fund

Fund Type

Status

Amount

Sources

5/23/2019

Fika Ventures II

Early-Stage Venture Capital

Closed

$76.35M

2

2/15/2017

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$99M

10

Fika Ventures - A

10

Closing Date

5/23/2019

2/15/2017

Fund

Fika Ventures II

Fika Ventures

Fika Ventures - A

Fund Type

Early-Stage Venture Capital

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Status

Closed

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Amount

$76.35M

$99M

Sources

2

10

10

Fika Ventures Team

2 Team Members

Fika Ventures has 2 team members, including current General Partner, Eva Ho.

Name

Work History

Title

Status

Eva Ho

General Partner

Current

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