Chris Kager, MD MBA

Neurosurgeon / Investor / Screenwriter

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2023
VC🌍 United States
12
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6
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2
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2
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9y
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Oct 2023
Our company is focused on maintaining neurological intactment of our population undergoing any form of Brain Injury. US Marine Corps funded NeuroIntacts first cooling technology. US Granted Patent: System and method for cooling the brain of a human subject
Vice President Strategy, Seed Investor
Feb 2021
GenHydro's renewable energy technology is the world's first truly scaleable on-demand power generator.
Private Investor
Aug 2019
LifeBrand is the #1 World Leader in AI Social Media Detection LifeBrand’s mission is to empower all social media users to reach their full potential by maintaining a meaningful digital presence. Our AI powered software and user dashboard makes it simple to curate a powerful personal brand by bringing potentially unprofessional or harmful posts to users attention. With ease, users can keep, edit or delete questionable posts that may not represent who they are today. We believe in social media that supports the reputation, digital footprint and network you want to maintain! Additionally, LifeBrand has developed a Social Media Awareness and Accountability Certification (SMAA) for individuals and companies to better learn responsible social media use. Our software in conjunction with our certifications will help protect your personal brand along with your companies reputation. - Easily check Twitter, Instagram & Facebook posts (TikTok Coming Soon) - Over 5 million posts cleaned - FCRA & EEOC compliant - Safe, secure, & private!
Private Investor, Chief Medical Advisor
Aug 2019
EVERMIND⁣™ is a natural-source, plant-based cognitive elixir (functional beverage), formulated to provide mindful focus, productivity, and long-term brain health. ⁣Compliment of immediate and long-term benefits in a single, good-for-you indulgence with repeatable, ritualistic usage occasions. Founder/physician-led company. Product efficacy validated by Penn State academic studies.
Investor
Jun 2019
OmegaSkin utilizes a soybean plant-based protein, spun into a mesh patch or scaffold, generating an extracellular matrix for wound closure. The dressing is applied directly into and adheres to the wound bed, absorbs the wound exudate, and provides a structure that supports native tissue healing. Our plant-based dressing provides a readily available, off-the-shelf solution that has been seen to promote wound closure with less scarring in preclinical trials1. OmegaSkin is completely derived from natural plant-based proteins, unlike other autologous skin substitutes, produced from bovine, porcine, or cadaverous sources that are restricted from the use by millions of potential global patients due to religious or cultural beliefs. OmegaSkin is electrospun into standard or custom-sized sheets for shelf storage and immediate application.
Private Investor
May 2019
Sustainable Chemistry Powered by the Sun™ Phytonix Corporation is an award-winning industrial biotechnology company headquartered in North Carolina, with development laboratories in Sweden, Colorado, Nova Scotia and Vancouver, Canada. The Company is commercializing a globally patented carbon dioxide utilization (CDU) process that leverages photosynthesis to eliminate and directly convert CO2 emissions from industrial sources into biobased chemicals and fuels. Our initial product is n-butanol, which currently sells at a wholesale price of approximately $9.00 /gallon in the industrial chemical market. We also can produce isobutanol and are developing 1-octonol production capability. Phytonix management estimates that its process will enable it to produce n-butanol for about $2.50/gallon - about 50% of the cost of the incumbent producers fossil-based production which uses propylene, a petroleum derivative, as feedstock. This will make Phytonix the worlds low-cost producer of butanol. The world industrial chemical market for butanol is about $11 billion per year, of which about $2.4 billion per year is sold in the United States. The Companys carbon-negative butanol production process replaces an existing fossil-based, carbon-intensive process currently employed by some of the world’s largest chemical companies. For every 138 gallons of n-butanol produced, the Phytonix process eliminates one tonne of CO2 feedstock via conversion, creating oxygen as the byproduct. Phytonixs solar chemical plants will be co-located at industrial facilities emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide. These include industrial manufacturing plants, desalinization installations, power generation facilities, chemical production facilities, natural gas compression stations, combined heat and power generation facilities, oil refineries, steel and aluminum refineries, cement plants, industrial chemical fermentation facilities and breweries.
Private Investor
Nov 2018
NeuroFlow helps risk-bearing healthcare organizations improve outcomes and cost of care in complex populations by surfacing and supporting behavioral health needs that typically go undetected and under-addressed. Across payors, providers, and the federal government, NeuroFlow’s scalable technology and analytics capabilities empower organizations with actionable intelligence from real-time data collection and risk stratification, enabling them to manage populations in a financially sustainable way. Powered by deep expertise in whole-person care, NeuroFlow offers a path to risk predictability and proactive care that helps overcome the systemic challenges in today’s healthcare ecosystem.
Private Investor
Sep 2018
As a Philly-founded Certified B Corporation, we are dedicated to improving your lives and communities through responsible, respectful food choices. We’ve set out to make good choices easier by producing fresh, chef-crafted food in jars. We start by using only whole food ingredients that are locally sourced when possible, to deliver goodness that you can taste in every jar. Our patent-pending packaging technique protects freshness without preservatives – about 2x more than any comparable product. This allows us to provide a restaurant-quality experience in a convenient pre-packaged jars. Our jars are then safety sealed and are intentionally designed to live on – they are durable for reuse or they can be recycled. Our salads can be fully mixed right inside our jars – simply shake for 12 seconds or less to create those perfect bites, without any extra effort, spills, or packaging waste. After enjoying your meal, simply scan the QR Code on the jar and pledge to repurpose, reuse, or recycle your jar. For every pledge we receive, we will make a donation to a feed someone in need from the local community. Simply Good Jars embraces a sustainable business model that empowers everyday people to make a real impact. We strongly believe that together we can enjoy amazing food options, reduce food insecurity in our communities, and reduce the amount of plastic waste being sent to landfills. Eat Well. Feel Good. Waste Less. Get in touch with our team by emailing us at info@simplygoodjars.com
Private Investor
Aug 2018
Holla Spirits is distilled spirits company dedicated to creating innovative spirits that resonate with next generation consumers. The company provides higher quality spirits, using mindful ingredients, while giving back to causes they believe in. Founded by two childhood friends, the pair trained under industry veteran Riannon Walsh; founder of the Whiskies of the World Expo in San Francisco, learning to make spirits themselves. The company is the recipient of Gold medals in the San Francisco World Spirits Competition and Las Vegas Global Spirits Awards, along with Silver medals from the San Francisco World Spirits Competition and Wine & Spirits Wholesalers Association. The prestigious F. Paul Pacult Ultimate Spirits Challenge also awarded HOLLA® 93 points, with accolades “excellent, highly recommended.” The brand may be found in distinguished accounts such as Hershey Entertainment, Penn National Gaming, Ballys, Total Wine, BevMax, goPuff, Las Vegas casinos, and more. Holla Spirits is a certified Disability Owned Business Enterprise by DisabilityIN. Learn more at https://diversepoweredbrands.com.
Investor
Jan 2017
RePipe4710 offers a folded plastic pipe to rehabilitate Americas failing water mains. The United States has 880,000 miles of pressurized pipe that delivers the countrys drinking water. These mains are nearly all at the end of their useful life and leak over 2 trillion gallons
mid stageUtilities
Investor
2017
==Dineable shut down operations as of April 2022. Thank you to all of our partners, customers, and supporters over the years!== 🎉 We connect people through food, beverage, and virtual/hybrid events 🥂 💃🕺Ask us about corporate engagement events and corporate gifts #remotework
early stageFood & Beverages
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2023
Investor
Oct 2023
Our company is focused on maintaining neurological intactment of our population undergoing any form of Brain Injury. US Marine Corps funded NeuroIntacts first cooling technology. US Granted Patent: System and method for cooling the brain of a human subject
2021
Vice President Strategy, Seed Investor
Feb 2021
GenHydro's renewable energy technology is the world's first truly scaleable on-demand power generator.
Director of Clinical Strategic Partnerships
Jan 2021
Torque3 is being developed to help stroke survivors significantly improve their recovery outcomes by combining deeply immersive simulations and advanced robotics to help the brain create new neural pathways.
2019
Private Investor
Aug 2019
LifeBrand is the #1 World Leader in AI Social Media Detection LifeBrand’s mission is to empower all social media users to reach their full potential by maintaining a meaningful digital presence. Our AI powered software and user dashboard makes it simple to curate a powerful personal brand by bringing potentially unprofessional or harmful posts to users attention. With ease, users can keep, edit or delete questionable posts that may not represent who they are today. We believe in social media that supports the reputation, digital footprint and network you want to maintain! Additionally, LifeBrand has developed a Social Media Awareness and Accountability Certification (SMAA) for individuals and companies to better learn responsible social media use. Our software in conjunction with our certifications will help protect your personal brand along with your companies reputation. - Easily check Twitter, Instagram & Facebook posts (TikTok Coming Soon) - Over 5 million posts cleaned - FCRA & EEOC compliant - Safe, secure, & private!
Private Investor, Chief Medical Advisor
Aug 2019
EVERMIND⁣™ is a natural-source, plant-based cognitive elixir (functional beverage), formulated to provide mindful focus, productivity, and long-term brain health. ⁣Compliment of immediate and long-term benefits in a single, good-for-you indulgence with repeatable, ritualistic usage occasions. Founder/physician-led company. Product efficacy validated by Penn State academic studies.
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