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Dreamit Ventures

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Dreamit is a venture fund that invests in startups ready to scale in Healthtech and Securetech.

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Dreamit, Dreamit Ventures, Dreamit Urbantech, Dreamit Healthtech, Dreamit Securetech

founded date

01.01.2007

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IPO status

Private

Description

Dreamit Ventures is a New York-based accelerator investment firm that partners with startups in the business products, business services, consumer products, consumer services, healthcare, cybersecurity, and real estate technology sectors. They specialize in Healthtech and Securetech startups with revenue or pilots that are ready to scale. Dreamit offers founders the opportunity to meet with potential customers and partners on Customer Sprints® and pitch leading venture firms during Investor Sprints®. They provide hands-on coaching and access to a vast network of experienced alumni and advisors. Dreamit has partnered and helped grow over 320 startups, including LevelUp, Trendkite, SeatGeek, HouseParty, Adaptly, Wellth, Biomeme, Tissue Analytics, Redox, Eko Devices, NestEgg, Cylera, and Elevate.
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Dreamit Urbantech

Dreamit Urbantech

Dreamit Ventures is a venture fund that invests in real estate tech, proptech & construction tech startups.

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Investment Banking and Brokerage Services

Subsector

Asset Managers and Custodians

Location

New York, NY, USA

count Of Investments

17
Dreamit Securetech

Dreamit Securetech

Dreamit Ventures invests in cybersecurity, anti-fraud, risk & compliance, and physical security startups.

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Investment Banking and Brokerage Services

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Asset Managers and Custodians

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Cyber Security, Security, Risk Management

Location

New York, NY, USA

count Of Investments

11

count Of Exists

2
Dreamit Healthtech

Dreamit Healthtech

Dreamit Ventures is a venture fund that invests in digital health, medical device, and diagnostic startups.

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Investment Banking and Brokerage Services

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Asset Managers and Custodians

Location

New York, NY, USA

count Of Investments

50

count Of Exists

7
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Location

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Subsector

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Keywords

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Location

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Subsector

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Location

London, UK

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total raised

$26.12M

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count Of Exists

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Subsector

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Subsector

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Michael Levinson
Michael Levinson

Michael Levinson

Mike is an entrepreneur, executive and active angel investor. Most recently, Mike is co-founded and is the managing partner of DreamIt Ventures, a pre-seed venture fund. Mike has also recently co-founded a business collaboration Saas platform called WizeHive. Earlier, Mike co-founded PTS Learning Systems, a company focused on corporate computer training and electronic performance support tools and software. Mike grew the company into a highly profitable international organization with over 200 employees and revenues of $30 million and sold it in 1999. Since selling PTS, Mike co-founded a number of companies including LegalEdge Software, the 3E Institute, and The Academy of Manayunk, where he currently serves on the Board. Mike has also invested in over a dozen technology companies as an angel investor. Mike was graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with an Economics/Accounting degree, obtained his CPA certificate in Pennsylvania, and was graduated from Villanova Law School with a JD.

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WizeHive
WizeHive

Michael Levinson

Steve Welch
Steve Welch

Steve Welch

Steve Welch is a co-founder and Managing Partner at DreamIt Ventures overseeing programs in Austin and Philadelphia. He is the Founder and CEO of KinderTown, the Education App Store for parents with children 3-6 and an active angel investor. KinderTown is currently one of the fastest growing EdTech companies. The founder of Mitos Technologies at the age of 23, Steve lead Mitos to develop six marketable patents all directed at improving biotech companies efficiency in manufacturing. Mitos successfully to Parker Hannifin (NYSE: PH)—an S&P 500 company – in 2007. Selected as a member of the Philadelphia Business Journal’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008; Steve was awarded the prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship to build bridges internationally in early stage startup communities in 2009, and most recently published a book about entrepreneurship, “We are all Born Entrepreneurs.” Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Penn State.

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Restore Hyper Wellness
Restore Hyper Wellness

count Of Investments

1

count Of Exists

1

Steve Welch

David Bookspan
David Bookspan

David Bookspan

David has impacted hundreds of successful businesses as a founder, investor, and board member. He is the founder and director of Monetate, the global leader in easy-to-use, multichannel personalization software for brands across the globe. Looking to help startups launch and gain prominence in their markets, he founded Dreamit, a Philadelphia-based accelerator and venture capital fund that’s launched hundreds of companies like SeatGeek, Level Up, and Meerkat. He started his entrepreneurial career as the founder and CEO of MarketSpan, Inc. which was successfully acquired and rebranded as LexisNexis Courtlink. Prior to founding MarketSpan, David served as a litigation partner with Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, LLP in Philadelphia. He received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and graduated from Vassar College (A.B. with honors). A sought-after speaker about entrepreneurialism in tech, David is passionate about growing Philly’s tech community with a focus on high quality of life.

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Amino Payments
Amino Payments

David Bookspan

Elliot Menschik
Elliot Menschik

Elliot Menschik

Elliot Menschik joined eResilience as Chief Digital Officer in 2020. Elliot is a physician/engineer/hacker turned serial entrepreneur and investor. He is a managing director of DreamIt Health, a program that invests in and accelerates the development of pre-seed healthtech ideas/teams/companies. He is co-founder of Venturef0rth, a campus in Philadelphia for tech startups and an entity dedicated to doing whatever it takes to make it easier for early-stage companies to succeed. He also serves on the Penn faculty where he teaches a crash course in entrepreneurship for engineers and scientists aspiring to create companies that take their tech to market. Elliot was previously the founder and CEO of HxTechnologies, a pioneer in health information exchange which he sold to MEDecision in May 2009. Following the acquisition, he served as General Manager at MEDecision with responsibility for building new lines of business around health information exchange (HIE), electronic health record (EHR), personal health record (PHR) and telehealth products and services. On the academic side, Elliot is the author and inventor of multiple patents and patents pending. He’s been an oft-invited speaker on the subject of imaging and health information exchange and is the author of numerous peer-reviewed papers ranging from medical informatics to computational neuroscience. He’s been the principal investigator for a number of grants from the National Institutes of Health that funded HxTechnologies in its earliest days and has also led research on the economics of fragmented healthcare delivery nationwide. An NIH Fellow in the Medical Scientist Training Program, Elliot received an MD and PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine following his work on memory function and Alzheimer’s disease developing and exploring massively-parallel computer models of the brain.

 He holds MSE and BSEE degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University following work on microchip design.

current job

Resilience
Resilience

Elliot Menschik

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Stephen Gray

Stephen Gray

Partner

Nate Kharrl

Nate Kharrl

Securetech Spring 2021

Michael Phipps

Michael Phipps

Entrepreneur - Healthtech Spring 2020

Peter Verrillo

Peter Verrillo

Entrepreneur - Healthtech Spring 2020

Mehlam Shakir

Managing director

Steve Barsh

Steve Barsh

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Dustin Carpio

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Suzanne Garber

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