Al Wiegman
Head Fresenius Medical Care Ventures GMBH at Fresenius Medical Care North America
Boston, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
Head Fresenius Medical Care Ventures GMBH
2018 - Current
Board Member
2019
Board Member
2018
SafeRide Health is a healthcare technology platform developer that aims to simplify medical services.
Raised $2,750,001.00 from Meridian Street Capital, Bonfire Ventures, Sands Capital Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, Hill City Capital, Fresenius Medical Care, CareFirst, Primetime Partners, Healthworx and Fry’s Path Capital.
Board Member
2018
Board Member
2018
Board Member
2016 - 2017
Aktana provides CRM suggestions and decision support for global pharmaceutical sales and marketing teams. Data-fueled suggestions and insights are delivered within a sales professional’s existing CRM workflow, assisting in better decision-making. Aktana serves an entire life sciences organization by helping to coordinate multichannel marketing initiatives and facilitating learning via reporting on which program elements are most successful for which customers. Aktana is headquartered in San Francisco, and has offices in New York, Tokyo and San Diego.
Board Member
2015 - 2017
Zipnosis is the first virtual care solution that empowers health systems to launch their own branded virtual care service line staffed with their own clinicians—maximizing the clinician's time and ensuring clinically appropriate patient outcomes. Zipnosis guides health systems through clinical, marketing, compliance and operations workflows, and guarantees launch of their virtual care programs in just 60 days. Zipnosis' white-labeled software integrates with a health system's electronic medical record and patient portal, and allows health systems to serve both existing and new patients.
Zipnosis is a hospital and healthcare company that specializes in online diagnosis and triage, telehealth, and virtual care.
Raised $24,750,009.00 from Hyde Park Venture Partners, Omphalos Venture, Safeguard Scientifics, Arthur Ventures, Fairview Health Services, Ascension Ventures and Waterline Ventures.
Chairman of the Board
2014 - 2017
InfoBionic is an emerging digital health company focused on creating superior patient monitoring solutions for chronic disease management with an initial market focus on cardiac arrhythmias. InfoBionic’s MoMe® Kardia system will empower physicians with control to transform the efficiency with which they manage cardiac arrhythmia detection and monitoring processes for their patients. Leveraging a comprehensive, cloud-based remote patient monitoring platform—the first and only of its kind—InfoBionic delivers on-demand, actionable monitoring data and analytics directly to the physicians themselves. The MoMe Kardia 3-in-1 device streams continuous electrocardiogram, respiration and motion data to the cloud for analysis and delivers automated reporting to any mobile device, tablet or web-based portal where physicians can access and interact with the data they need, in the detail they want—anytime, anywhere.
InfoBionic is the leading Virtual Telemetry Platform with connected devices manufactured in the US
Raised $151,440,166.00 from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Excel Venture Management and Mayo Clinic.
Senior Vice President and Managing Director
2013 - 2017
Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE:SFE) provides capital and relevant expertise to fuel the growth of technology-driven businesses in healthcare, financial services and digital media. Safeguard targets companies that are capitalizing on the next wave of enabling technologies with a particular focus on the Internet of Everything, enhanced security and predictive analytics. Safeguard typically deploys between $5 million and $25 million over the course of its partnership with a company, initially investing in a Series A or B Round and opportunistically in a Seed Round. Safeguard has a distinguished track record of fostering innovation and building market leaders that spans more than six decades.
Safeguard Scientifics provides capital and operational support to growth-stage health care and technology companies.
Raised $75,000,000.00 from HPS Investment Partners.
Board Member
2015 - 2017
Aventura is the leading provider of awareness computing for the healthcare industry. For decades, clinicians have had to adapt their workflow to the limitations of computers; with Aventura, computers can now adapt to how clinicians work. Through its patented technology, Aventura delivers awareness of a user’s identity and role, their location within a facility, what device they are working on, and what patient they are treating. Based on this awareness, Aventura immediately delivers a virtual desktop and dynamically provisions the applications and exact screens a user needs to care for that particular patient, eliminating wasteful clicks and keystrokes. As a result, Aventura helps customers achieve their important initiatives in the areas of EHR adoption and Meaningful Use requirements, PHI security, mobility, and cost containment. Aventura is headquartered in Denver with offices in Marlborough, MA.