Current Portfolio Companies

Sonder Health Plans, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia (United States), specializes in offering Medicare Advantage plans tailored for senior citizens in Georgia. The company was inspired by the need to provide comprehensive and cost-effective health insurance solutions specifically designed for this demographic.  

By focusing exclusively on Georgia, Sonder Health Plans targets a substantial market opportunity driven by an aging population in need of affordable health coverage. Sonder Health Plans operates under a value-based model, delivering Medicare Advantage plans that prioritize client needs. Their approach includes a risk insulation strategy for high-cost members, such as vulnerable individuals, achieved through strategic partnerships with vendors offering fixed-cost contracts.  

This strategy allows Sonder Health Plans to optimize revenue while providing essential coverage to higher-risk individuals, distinguishing them from other health insurers in the market. Their mission is to improve the overall health and well-being of their members, making healthcare simple, personal and affordable by delivering on their commitments. 

VII Health, established in Delaware, US while its parent company VII Group is based in Canada, excels in healthcare omnichannel expertise, offering a customer engagement workspace. This platform enhances life sciences by optimizing, personalizing, and broadening AI-driven customer interactions, allowing individuals to access the personal health information of their family members.

It aims to revolutionize patient support and engagement, spanning from disease prevention to treatment management, through tailored and culturally adapted, multilingual solutions. VIIHealth employs a technology-driven service model, utilizing its proprietary AI and personalized video capabilities to enhance customer engagement for healthcare companies. Its primary revenue streams consist of subscription-based digital therapeutic solutions, fee-for-service video content creation and messaging campaigns, and revenue-sharing models for reimbursable digital health products.

By integrating advanced technology with extensive healthcare expertise, VIIHealth strives to revolutionize the interaction between life sciences firms, physicians, patients, and other stakeholders, leading to better outcomes and improved economic efficiency. 

T45 Labs, based in Santa Clara, California, is a medical technology incubator focused on developing minimally invasive technologies that target large addressable markets in the cardiovascular sector. To minimize clinical and commercial risks, T45 Labs pursues a fast-follower strategy to provide higher returns over a shorter period. T45 Fund I is a direct investment vehicle into the portfolio companies of T45 Labs to support the companies’ Series A and Series B financing rounds.

T45 Labs and T45 Fund I leverage a team of accomplished executives and seasoned engineers with numerous years of experience in medical technology investments and development.

UCEA has committed to an investment in T45 Fund I and looks forward to the opportunity to support its impressive portfolio of companies through co-investment in the future.

VahatiCor – developer of a coronary flow reducer for the treatment for angina, due to obstructive and non-obstructive coronary artery disease and heart failure.
NuevoSono – developer of an advanced ultrasound imaging tool for use in minimally invasive surgery.
Advanced NanoTherapies – drug coated balloon technology, licensed from the Clevland Clinic, for the treatment of coronary and peripheral artery disease.
ReCava Medical – device for heart failure management, modulating blood flow to the heart and kidneys.

Intuition Robotics is a pioneering company based in Israel, led by the visionary CEO, Dor Skuler. Intuition Robotics specializes in providing AI-driven companionship solutions for older adults aged 65+ in Central and North America.

With a focus on leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance the lives of older adults, Intuition Robotics is at the forefront of revolutionizing the way we approach companionship and support for seniors. UCEA is impressed by their innovative approach and the positive impact their technology is making in the lives of older individuals.

As an investor, UCEA is excited to support Intuition Robotics in their mission to provide personalized and meaningful companionship solutions that positively impact the daily lives of older adults. We believe in the company’s vision and the value they bring to the aging population, and we look forward to witnessing their continued growth and success in the future.

Bolt OS is the next generation immersive (functions include chatting, sharing, donating and purchasing) television ecosystem. Bolt provides content creators of all sizes with the platform and tools to create an immersive experience for smart televisions and other connected devices. Our tools give content creators the freedom to decide the best commercial model to suit their needs ranging from advertising led to operating subscription based models, to issuing their own digital tokens or even offering e-commerce/product sales options, to support their content creation.Viewers enjoying content on the Bolt platform also stand to benefit from being rewarded for engaging with content (including advertising messages) that they are viewing.

The Bolt OS ecosystem incorporates the Bolt+ content platform, the BoltX wallet and marketplace and BoltChain (Bolt’s proprietary blockchain). Bolt already has major global partners ranging from content owners, to smart television brands to payment/e-commerce service providers) including Bloomberg, HiSense/Vidaa, Vizio-Walmart, Manchester City, Real Madrid amongst many other significant international brands. The Bolt+ platform already has more than ten million installs and is poised for the next stage of growth in 2024. The business is profit generating and is on a strong growth curve.

Kanna Health is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics focused on men’s health and mental health conditions. They recently obtained regulatory clinical approvals (US IND, UK CTA) and have initiated Phase 1 human trials to assess the safety and pharmacokinetics of the lead product. Their lead product candidate, KH-001, is being developed as the first FDA-approved treatment for premature ejaculation, a condition that impacts up to 20% of men. Premature ejaculation has no FDA-approved therapies currently available.

KH-001 is a potent, selective, and rapid-acting serotonin transporter inhibitor intended for on-demand use prior to intercourse. In preclinical studies, KH-001 demonstrated dose-dependent efficacy in delaying ejaculation in a validated animal model, along with a favorable safety profile. Kanna Health has an open IND with the FDA and initiated first-in-human Phase 1 studies in November 2023. With FDA approval, KH-001 is estimated to have peak global sales potential of $2.5-4 billion per year.

In addition to KH-001 for premature ejaculation, Kanna Health is developing a pipeline of proprietary kanna alkaloid-based compounds for rapid-acting treatment of mood disorders like anxiety and depression.

The goal is to do for premature ejaculation what Viagra did to revolutionize erectile dysfunction treatment. The team of repeat founders are raising an insider-led, pre-Series A convertible note, that is already half-filled.

Chakra Growth Fund is a fund advancing cleantech and alternative energy solutions uniquely tailored for Indian communities’ needs. Rather than prioritizing investments maximizing financial returns alone, Chakra partners with Indian tech enterprises striving for positive local impact alongside global influence. Their patient funding model empowers companies to benefit society and the planet while still achieving profitability. We chose to invest because Chakra’s emphasis on responsible innovation mirrors our own values.

Additionally, Chakra Fund II, the latest vehicle from Riso Capital building on their successful first fund. With Fund I generating results of 2.7x returns and 107% IRR, Fund II aims to scale up by targeting more mature Indian companies ready for rapid expansion capital, aiming for 5-7x returns. Areas of focus include electric mobility, agriculture technology, battery tech and more – strategic sectors riding the momentum of India’s development. With our emerging market investment experience and Riso’s results and pipeline, we see Fund II as a compelling opportunity to support India’s continued equitable growth.

Chakra has an impressive portfolio of companies that we can support through co-investment. These companies include:
1. Altergo – Provides performance insights for electric vehicles and energy storage systems.
2. Ambee – Delivers real-time pollution and emissions insights to reduce climate change risks.
3. SupplyNote – Facilitates supply chain operations and data insights for retailers, service providers, and suppliers.

As the world’s fastest-expanding major economy, India presents vast possibilities in EV, battery technology, agri-tech and beyond. We invested in Chakra based on Riso’s proven capacity to identify winners in this explosive environment and accelerate their impact.

OpenDrives was founded in 2011 to provide innovative software solutions for managing and storing data across diverse IT environments, including on-premises and multi-cloud. Their flexible and scalable architecture enables media companies to easily handle massive video files. By integrating disparate systems, OpenDrives allows seamless data movement to wherever it is needed, reducing reliance on any one hardware vendor.

We invested in OpenDrives because of their proven track record in meeting the demanding broadcast workflows of major global events, for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, OpenDrives enabled Fox Sports’ coverage to leverage lightning-fast technology. With marquee US sports and media clients such as Fox News, NFL, and Madison Square Garden, OpenDrives has demonstrated the ability to support top-tier organizations.

Given OpenDrives’ successes in the US, we believe there is significant potential to expand their footprint internationally. Our expertise in both European and UK sports and technology markets can facilitate OpenDrives’ entry and growth in these regions. With Joao as the brand ambassador, we can support OpenDrives fully in their expansion of key clients, especially given their agility, and scalability as a provider of data management for large global events. Through our relationships and their product, we are working proactively with OpenDrives’ on additions to their international sales strategy, where we aim to collectively drive rapid expansion into Europe and the UK.

Rather than taking a passive role, we pursue an active investment strategy aimed at amplifying the positive impact of our portfolio companies. For example, our Chairman recently joined the Board of Directors of AMLO Biosciences, one of our investments focused on expanding access to early cancer screening. He guides commercialization as AMLO looks to bring its potentially life-saving diagnostic solutions to more high-risk populations in Australia, New Zealand and beyond.

With skin cancer and melanoma rates dangerously high in these countries, we believe AMLO’s innovations could have immense life-saving potential through early detection. Yet making such screening ubiquitously available requires navigating complex regulatory systems. Leveraging decades of healthcare investment experience, we are keen on leveraging time, expertise and networks to help expedite AMLO’s global expansion. Our goal is ensuring equitable delivery of AMLO’s tests to the many communities worldwide where earlier cancer diagnosis can dramatically improve survival outcomes.

Additionally, our team is actively utilizing our extensive European relationships and connections to facilitate AMLO’s vital R&D partnerships across the EU. We take an hands-on approach to linking AMLO with major cancer research hubs where we have the relationships to accelerate its product development and clinical trials. We pursue these active measures because we share AMLO’s mission – not just seeking returns, but seeking to save lives by expanding access to early screening globally.

Through Obsidian Sports Finance Limited, the UCEA Group offers financing for a wide range of sports. The COVID pandemic had a negative impact on all sports clubs with the closure of stadia and falling gate receipts. Obsidian has been working with European football clubs to provide financing to help them recover to pre-pandemic levels. These include innovative products such as squad value financing, as well as player transfer receivables and stadium financing. Given our origins we have excellent connections with all the major Portuguese football clubs as well as the English Premier League.

The UCEA Group can trace its origins to the energy sector, and renewable energy development and sustainability are firmly within our investment strategy, as well as our Family Office counterparts. We have brokered the sale of several energy assets, and we regularly provide expert advice on energy investment and cleantech through our advisory board to many other families. UCEA has significant information on the demand from institutional investors and families in this space.

‘People and Planet’, is a familiar term underpinning many families’ investment strategy. Biotechnology, and the desire to benefit humankind through the financing of medical advances, is a key investment theme for us. Our involvement is not limited to sourcing cutting edge biotechnology solutions but also through Qomo Consultancy we are involved in the incubation of promising candidate companies in the UK, promoting a fostering innovative healthcare.

We have significant interest from family offices for medical devices and innovation in the healthcare space. We offer a range of cutting-edge medical devices that are poised to generate global sales and our advisory board coaches the innovators of new healthcare equipment on how best to approach other family offices and UHNWIs for investment.