Kristin Baker Spohn

Investor, Builder

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
11
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Portfolio

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Investor, Board Member
Nov 2021
Little Otter is a pediatric mental health company that focuses on the mental health of young children and their families. Founded by world-renowned child psychiatrist (and mother of four) Dr. Helen Egger and entrepreneur Rebecca Egger, Little Otter’s mission is to bring expert care for children’s mental health to every home. Just like a pediatrician who cares for a child’s physical health, Little Otter cares for all aspects of a child’s mental health, along with their family’s mental health and wellbeing. Through proprietary assessments and quarterly mental health check-ups for each child and their family, Little Otter provides personalized, virtual care and an integrated care team to support healthy emotional development and treat emerging emotional and behavioral challenges.
Investor, Board Member
Dec 2020
We’ve helped companies like Best Buy, Louis Vuitton, IKEA, and many others make waiting in line a thing of the past. With Waitwhile, businesses have saved 200 million customers more than 10,000 years of waiting in line… and counting. Waitwhile It lets customers line up virtually using their phone and get notified via text message when it’s their turn. It solves all aspects of queuing - from letting guests check in online, showing wait times and keeping everyone informed via SMS and email. Plus, a powerful API to integrate with. Waitwhile provides the world's most intelligent queue management system. It’s used by thousands of businesses across 100+ countries, including restaurants, barbershops, salons, universities, hospitals, any many others. Any business managing guest queues see big improvements in yield and customer satisfaction from using Waitwhile over paper waitlists, expensive coasters/pagers or other offline tools, which are still the norm for over 90M SMBs. Waitwhile lets hosts add and manage guests in your a customizable waitlist queue and keep guests informed via SMS and email. Guests can follow the wait in real-time and are notified automatically based on predicted wait when its time to return. Guests and hosts can communicate via two-way email and texting and Waitwhile uses natural language processing to inform hosts of expected delays and cancellations. Waitwhile uses predictive analytics to estimate wait times (up to 30% more effective than humans). Businesses get actionable insights about yield and no-show patterns, quote time efficiency and recommendations for staffing (e.g. by busy hours and days). They also get a CRM solution to identify loyal customers and target them with promotions. Waitwhile is located out of San Francisco and trusted by brands like Mercedes-Benz, Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, LinkedIn, Tribeca Film Festival, Ubisoft, Nokia, State of Colorado, Midstate Hospital, Nevada State College and Texas University.
Investor, Board Member
Jan 2020
Founded in 2018, Wheel stands at the forefront of health technology, driving the evolution of healthcare for tomorrow. Wheels platform offers AI-assisted patient experiences, tailored care programs, and top-tier clinicians, enabling seamless nationwide care at an unprecedented scale. Having facilitated millions of patient visits, Wheel collaborates with a diverse client base of life sciences, payers, digital health, and retail customers including Amazon Clinic and GoodRx. Discover more at wheel.com.
Investor
Jan 2019
Viz.ai is the leader in building and deploying AI-powered Care Pathways and helping doctors do their work. The Viz Platform is deployed in 2,000 hospitals across the United States and trusted by many of the leading life sciences companies. The platform uniquely combines real-time, multimodal clinical data with deep clinician engagement to detect disease earlier, coordinate care teams, and help ensure patients receive the right treatment faster. Viz.ai was the first company to be awarded CMS reimbursement for AI and is ranked the #1 Healthcare AI Platform by hospitals and health systems in the Black Book Research survey. For more information, visit Viz.ai.
Investor
Mar 2018
Modern Health is the comprehensive global mental health solution offering employees access to one-on-one, group, and self-serve digital resources for their emotional, professional, social, financial, and physical well-being needs - all within a single platform. Whether someone wants to proactively manage stress or treat depression, Modern Health guides people to the right care at the right time. Modern Health empowers companies to help all their employees be the best version of themselves and believes in meeting people wherever they are in their mental health journey. Modern Health is backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, John Doerr, Y Combinator, and Battery Ventures and has raised more than $170 million in less than two years with a valuation of $1.17 billion, making Modern Health the fastest entirely female-founded company in the U.S. to reach Unicorn status.
Investor
2018
Carrot Fertility is the leading global fertility care platform, serving people of every age, race, income, sex, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, and geography. Get a quick demo and briefing about how modern companies use Carrot to drive down healthcare costs, attract and retain top talent, and build cultures of inclusion. Were standing by to help you achieve your HR and People team goals. lets@get-carrot.com Want to join our team? Were hiring. Check out our careers page here: https://www.get-carrot.com/company/careers
Board Member
Dec 2017
Simplee is now part of Flywire
Board Member
Dec 2017
Glooko enhances health outcomes of people with diabetes through personalized, intelligent, connected care platforms. Our proven technologies make lives better by revolutionizing the connection between patients and providers, as well as driving patient engagement and adherence via digital insights. Glooko solutions are globally deployed in more than 30 countries, 10,000+ clinical locations and integrated with over 200 devices.
Board Member
Dec 2017
Propeller Health is a precision digital health company on a mission to uplift every person living with chronic disease so they can take control of their health and live a better life. We power motivating, care-connected patient journeys and unify value for all stakeholders – providers, payers, pharma, and other healthcare and life sciences organizations. The Propeller Platform includes FDA-cleared and CE-marked medical devices, consumer apps, support and coaching, and secure access to clinical data for provider monitoring. Our precision approach is designed to motivate behavior change and track patient adherence with the goals of enabling medication optimization and helping predict costly exacerbations. In more than 150 peer-reviewed abstracts and publications, our digital-first chronic respiratory care platform has demonstrated improved quality of life and clinical outcomes while lowering healthcare costs. As a wholly owned subsidiary of ResMed, Propeller brings broad respiratory care expertise, digital therapeutic coverage, and scale globally.
Experience · 17 entries
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Investments (11)
Founder (1)
Board (6)
2023
General Partner
Sep 2023
Were a growth-stage investor tailor made for startups on a trajectory to IPO. Our vision is bold and our team is nimble, and we are backed by the might of a sophisticated global investor (www.bamfunds.com) with $15B AUM.
Co-founder & Managing Partner
Sep 2023
BAM Corner Point is an early growth (Series B-D) enterprise technology focused venture capital firm, built in partnership with Balyasny Asset Management. The firm is led by Managing Partners Rashmi Gopinath and Kristin Baker Spohn, experienced investors with deep domain expertise, proven track records and extensive operating backgrounds. We build strong partnerships with founders and take a thesis-driven research approach to investing built on the multi-decade technical, operating and investing experience of the founding team. We leverage and build proprietary data science and AI tools to identify opportunities and offer unmatched value to our portfolio companies.
2021
Investor, Board Member
Nov 2021
Little Otter is a pediatric mental health company that focuses on the mental health of young children and their families. Founded by world-renowned child psychiatrist (and mother of four) Dr. Helen Egger and entrepreneur Rebecca Egger, Little Otter’s mission is to bring expert care for children’s mental health to every home. Just like a pediatrician who cares for a child’s physical health, Little Otter cares for all aspects of a child’s mental health, along with their family’s mental health and wellbeing. Through proprietary assessments and quarterly mental health check-ups for each child and their family, Little Otter provides personalized, virtual care and an integrated care team to support healthy emotional development and treat emerging emotional and behavioral challenges.
2020
Investor, Board Member
Dec 2020
We’ve helped companies like Best Buy, Louis Vuitton, IKEA, and many others make waiting in line a thing of the past. With Waitwhile, businesses have saved 200 million customers more than 10,000 years of waiting in line… and counting. Waitwhile It lets customers line up virtually using their phone and get notified via text message when it’s their turn. It solves all aspects of queuing - from letting guests check in online, showing wait times and keeping everyone informed via SMS and email. Plus, a powerful API to integrate with. Waitwhile provides the world's most intelligent queue management system. It’s used by thousands of businesses across 100+ countries, including restaurants, barbershops, salons, universities, hospitals, any many others. Any business managing guest queues see big improvements in yield and customer satisfaction from using Waitwhile over paper waitlists, expensive coasters/pagers or other offline tools, which are still the norm for over 90M SMBs. Waitwhile lets hosts add and manage guests in your a customizable waitlist queue and keep guests informed via SMS and email. Guests can follow the wait in real-time and are notified automatically based on predicted wait when its time to return. Guests and hosts can communicate via two-way email and texting and Waitwhile uses natural language processing to inform hosts of expected delays and cancellations. Waitwhile uses predictive analytics to estimate wait times (up to 30% more effective than humans). Businesses get actionable insights about yield and no-show patterns, quote time efficiency and recommendations for staffing (e.g. by busy hours and days). They also get a CRM solution to identify loyal customers and target them with promotions. Waitwhile is located out of San Francisco and trusted by brands like Mercedes-Benz, Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, LinkedIn, Tribeca Film Festival, Ubisoft, Nokia, State of Colorado, Midstate Hospital, Nevada State College and Texas University.
Investor, Board Member
Jan 2020
Founded in 2018, Wheel stands at the forefront of health technology, driving the evolution of healthcare for tomorrow. Wheels platform offers AI-assisted patient experiences, tailored care programs, and top-tier clinicians, enabling seamless nationwide care at an unprecedented scale. Having facilitated millions of patient visits, Wheel collaborates with a diverse client base of life sciences, payers, digital health, and retail customers including Amazon Clinic and GoodRx. Discover more at wheel.com.
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