Category Archives: Recent Investment

The SWAN Impact Network is pleased to announce an investment in woman-led Hubly Surgical.

Hubly Surgical’s mission is to improve patient outcomes and increase quality of care for surgical procedures, inclusively, across standard and underserved settings.

Hubly Surgical is a cranial and orthopedic platform drilling solution. They are focused on modernizing three verticals: bedside intracranial access, elective neurosurgeries, and elective orthopedic surgeries. Targeting neurosurgeons, their first product utilizing this technology is an integrated electric drill system designed to streamline bedside intracranial access, decrease operating room reliance, and facilitate treatment for emerging indications.

The SWAN Impact Network is pleased to announce a follow-on investment in Binary Bridge.

Binary Bridge is a Public Benefit Company with the mission to improve access to healthcare and increase the quality of care in underserved locations. They accomplish this by providing software solutions for mobile clinics in remote, low-resource areas. BackpackEMR targets medical teams working in rural areas and is fully supported by Binary Bridge. Binary Bridge understands that medical teams are not experts in technology, therefore Binary Bridge continues the support for medical teams to spend their time and resources on the people they are serving.

SWAN made its initial investment in Binary Bridge in 2018.

The SWAN Impact Network is pleased to announce follow-on investments in clean-energy companies Yotta Energy and Clear Flame Engine Technologies.

As a world-wide energy shortage is poised to hit the U.S. this winter, Yotta Energy has raised $13 million to scale its unique, modular energy storage and microgrid technology, specifically designed to transform buildings into self-generating power plants. Led by WIND Ventures, the Series A round also includes follow-on investors Doral Energy-Tech Ventures, Riverstone Ventures, and returning investors, EDP Ventures, and SWAN Impact Network. Overall, the funding will allow Yotta Energy to expand product deployments in the U.S. and Latin America, increase company employment, open up energy generation revenue for commercial flat-roof buildings, and help North and South America meet decarbonization goals. The round brings the company’s total funding to $20 million.

SWAN previously invested in Yotta Solar in 2019.

ClearFlame Engine Technologies, a startup dedicated to the development of net-zero engine technology, announced today that it has secured $17 million in Series A financing, which will enable commercialization of the company’s innovative engine technology for the long-haul trucking, agriculture and power generation sectors. The financing was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures with participation from Mercuria, John Deere, Clean Energy Venture and the SWAN Impact Network.

The SWAN Impact Network is pleased to announce that it led an investment in Sonnest. Sonnest is transforming cardiac ultrasound. Their Electrast™ is the first electrically sensitive imaging agent for assessing and monitoring the perfusion, structure, and function of the heart, allowing low cost ultrasound procedures to provide information only previously available from much higher cost scans.  Electrast™ is a contrast agent that activates with ultrasound and the heart’s local electric field if the heart tissue is perfused and viable. Sonnest allows Doctors to:

• Analyze better data, faster. Cardiac perfusion data in point of care setting.
• Diagnose- No cath lab needed. Most cost-effective diagnosis without harmful radiation.
• Respond – Triage and treat. Improve patient care and outcomes confidently.