D.C.-based maternal mental health startup Seven Starling has raised $10.9 million in an oversubscribed round to expand its virtual care services — which include supporting postpartum, early parenthood, infertility, miscarriage and loss and other experiences — further across the country.
San Francisco women’s health-focused venture firm RH Capital led the round and existing investors Menlo Park, California's Pear VC; San Francisco’s Expa; Santa Monica, California’s Magnify Ventures; Palo Alto, California’s Emerson Collective; and Emeryville, California’s Inflect Health also took part.
Emerson Collective is led by Laurene Powell Jobs, who is an investor in D.C.'s Monumental Sports & Entertainment, the owner of the Washington Wizards, Capitals, Mystics and other sports ventures. Emerson counts The Atlantic magazine, which is based in the District, among its holdings.
D.C.’s Zeal Capital Partners — which launched its health equity vertical in 2023 — Palo Alto’s Ulu Ventures; Venice, California’s Fiore Ventures; Arlington-based the March of Dimes; Lake Oswego, Oregon’s Rogue Venture Partners; Seattle’s Graham & Walker; and San Francisco’s Wisdom Ventures invested in Seven Starling for the first time with this round.
Seven Starling CEO Tina Beilinson Keshani, a former Warby Parker senior manager for strategy and corporate development, started the company with her Harvard Business School classmates Julia Cole and Sophia Richter in 2020. Cole is now the company’s chief people officer and Richter is its COO.
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