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Kal Vepuri

Founder of Hero

United States

Overview 

Kal Vepuri is the Founder & CEO of Hero, a successful startup in the United States. With a background in founding Brainchild Holdings and investing in various companies like ClassPass and SeatGeek, he has a proven track record of building and supporting successful ventures in the tech industry.

Work Experience 

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Hero

  • Founder & CEO

    2018 - Current

    Automated, in-home medication and supplement management. Hero-enabled healthcare providers grow high quality, high growth, profitable remote care management programs.

Modern medication management at home.

Raised $12,000,000.00 from BoxGroup, Company Ventures, Brainchild Holdings, Tectonic Capital, Refactor, Third Kind Venture Capital and Naval Ravikant.

herohealth.com
BH

Brainchild Holdings

  • Founder

    2009

    Personal investments. Primarily direct investments in (pre)seed stage vertical AI, marketplaces, networks and saas in fintech, healthcare services, enterprise/SMB and consumer. Occasional LP investments in sub $100MM pre-seed, seed and Series A funds. Directly seeded 15 unicorns, 2 decacorns with 11 IPOs including Gusto, Docker, DuckDuckGo, Sweetgreen ($SG), Astranis, Arcadia, Warby Parker ($WRBY), Oscar ($OSCR), ClassPass (Mindbody), Harry’s, SeatGeek, Hero, Reformation (Permira), Mirror ($LULU), Algorand ($ALGO), Stacks ($STX), Tagomi ($COIN), Dataminr, Bolt, MakerBot ($SSYS), SmartThings (Samsung), Artsy, Heyday, Breadless and others. Venture/growth stage investor in Facebook, Uber, Pinterest ($PINS), Coinbase ($COIN), Datadog, Peloton, Deliveroo, Trulia ($Z), Color Health, Filecoin ($FIL), and XPO Logistics ($XPO). Early advisor to Tagomi ($COIN), Dataminr, Bolt, Sweetgreen ($SG), Heyday, and Breadless.

Telecom, Web Hosting, Games

  • Student, Engineer, Founder

    1997 - 2009

Healthcare private equity

  • Investor

    2006 - 2009

    Late stage healthcare leveraged buyouts.

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Bain & Company

  • Associate Consultant

    2004 - 2006

Education 

Investments 

Fruitful

Series A

Total funding: $25M

Loveseat.com

Series A

Total funding: $7.1M

Travelplaylist

Seed

Total funding: $3M

Eight Sleep

Angel

Total funding: $150M

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