David Whelan

Co-Founder and General Partner at Town Hall Ventures

📍 New York City Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2025
VC🌍 United States
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Board + Investor
Jun 2025
House Rx is a technology-enabled service company focused on making specialty medication more accessible and affordable. We do so by helping clinics dispense specialty medications to their patients in a medically-integrated way using pharmacist expertise and modern technology. By helping physicians and pharmacists collaborate on patient care, we’re able to improve patient outcomes, lower the cost of care, and create a better experience for patients and their caregivers.
Board Member + Investor
Jun 2023
Thyme Care is a value-based oncology management platform whose mission is to improve the quality of life for people diagnosed with cancer by providing personalized, clinically coordinated care. Thyme Care pairs human guidance with software and analytics to quickly connect members to the right care and provide ongoing support through targeted, evidence-based interventions. Founded by oncology industry veterans and clinicians, the companys approach prioritizes deep provider relationships and integrates with a health plan’s existing infrastructure, coordinating value-driven care that leads to better outcomes, lower costs, and an improved member experience. Backed with venture funding from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), AlleyCorp, Frist Cressey Ventures, Casdin Capital, and Bessemer, Thyme Care partners with health insurance plans and providers to extend the reach of high-quality cancer care through flexible value-based payment arrangements, including risk-based programs. To learn more about how Thyme Care is unlocking high-value care in oncology, visit www.thymecare.com.
Co-Founder, Board Member + Investor
Sep 2021
Empassion Health is a purpose-driven organization developed with the goal of delivering more good days for patients living with an advanced illness. Through partnerships with our expansive and curated provider network, we support the complete care needs of patients in 25 states. We understand that aging is harder for some which is why empowering our provider network to focus on the communities they serve is our top priority.
Investor + Advisor
Jun 2019
Founded in 2013 by Military Veterans, Unite Us is the nation’s premier technology provider for integrating health and community-based care. Our proven product suite is used to proactively identify needs using advanced analytics, coordinate services between sectors in real-time, streamline referral and case management, and facilitate eligibility assessments and reimbursements across government, healthcare, health plans, and community organizations. The first of its kind, our closed-loop referral system prioritizes privacy and dignity and has integrated data and analytics tools used to measure impact, optimize programs, and shape policy. We host the nation’s largest outcomes-focused network built on accountability and trust, delivering more than 1.7M community-based health and economic services dedicated to improving whole-person health. We are your partner for integrating health and human services.
Adviser + Investor
Dec 2017
Cityblock was founded in 2017 as the first tech-driven provider for communities with complex needs. We deliver better care to where it’s needed most, investing upstream in highly personalized, prevention-oriented health and social care to ultimately drive down costs and improve outcomes. Our tech enables scale by bringing together practical information, coordination, and communication for our members and our care teams. We are adamant about building a radically better member experience for people living in lower-income neighborhoods that have never been prioritized. And we won’t be satisfied with anything less than transforming the way that health services are delivered in previously underserved communities across the U.S. Join us! cityblock.com/careers
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2025
Board + Investor
Jun 2025
House Rx is a technology-enabled service company focused on making specialty medication more accessible and affordable. We do so by helping clinics dispense specialty medications to their patients in a medically-integrated way using pharmacist expertise and modern technology. By helping physicians and pharmacists collaborate on patient care, we’re able to improve patient outcomes, lower the cost of care, and create a better experience for patients and their caregivers.
2023
Board Member + Investor
Aug 2023
Connections Health Solutions, LLC is the pioneer of behavioral health crisis care. The Company operates the two largest behavioral health crisis facilities in the nation and provides a range of services to help stabilize and treat people with mental health and substance use diagnoses. Connections’ model emphasizes providing treatment in the least restrictive setting and has demonstrated improved quality and cost savings, including significantly reducing hospital admissions in Medicaid and behavioral health populations. For more information and crisis resources, please visit www.connectionshs.com. We believe that people do best when they dont have to wait a long time to get what they need. As a result, we have created a culture in which we welcome everyone regardless of clinical complexity, provide intervention as quickly as possible, and partner with community support systems to maximize recovery. Our corporate mission is simple: to address any behavioral health need, at any time.
Board Member + Investor
Jun 2023
Thyme Care is a value-based oncology management platform whose mission is to improve the quality of life for people diagnosed with cancer by providing personalized, clinically coordinated care. Thyme Care pairs human guidance with software and analytics to quickly connect members to the right care and provide ongoing support through targeted, evidence-based interventions. Founded by oncology industry veterans and clinicians, the companys approach prioritizes deep provider relationships and integrates with a health plan’s existing infrastructure, coordinating value-driven care that leads to better outcomes, lower costs, and an improved member experience. Backed with venture funding from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), AlleyCorp, Frist Cressey Ventures, Casdin Capital, and Bessemer, Thyme Care partners with health insurance plans and providers to extend the reach of high-quality cancer care through flexible value-based payment arrangements, including risk-based programs. To learn more about how Thyme Care is unlocking high-value care in oncology, visit www.thymecare.com.
2021
Co-Founder, Board Director + Investor
Sep 2021
Were a new kind of healthcare center focused on the unique needs of Hispanic seniors and their families to enable patients to fully live "su vida."
Co-Founder, Board Member + Investor
Sep 2021
Empassion Health is a purpose-driven organization developed with the goal of delivering more good days for patients living with an advanced illness. Through partnerships with our expansive and curated provider network, we support the complete care needs of patients in 25 states. We understand that aging is harder for some which is why empowering our provider network to focus on the communities they serve is our top priority.
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