Shawn Ellis

VC at Distributed Ventures

📍 DuPage County, Illinois, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Aug 2024
Prescription drug cash prices and discount card prices are often lower than what is available through traditional pharmacy contracts. RxSaveCard allows employers to access and pay these lower prices, saving money for your company and your employees, without having to change your PBM.
Board Member
Aug 2023
At Pillar, we understand that exceptional talent is the foundation of successful businesses. By recording live interviews, our platform harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to help teams run a faster, better interview process via structured interviews, automated feedback collection, AI interviewer training, and more.
Board Member
Jan 2023
Tuned is the first hearing benefit for employers built to bring hearing health to everyone. Companies use Tuned to customize a hearing benefit that provides employees with holistic hearing health care, as well as access to products that support hearing health, reducing overall healthcare costs and resulting in a healthier workforce.
Board Observer
Jul 2022
Empower your care team to provide the best support to senior living community residents with the Sage unified care platform. Leverage Sage to improve caregivers’ jobs and community outcomes. Because you can’t improve what you can’t measure, Sage also gives you the ability to collect high value data, derive insights, and improve key business metrics.
Board Member
Jun 2022
Where men go to manage their fertility. We are the only digital platform specializing in male fertility that empowers, not just with information, but with actionable steps to improve your overall health and fertility. We Meet You Where You Are Never heard of a semen analysis? That’s okay. Looking for a second opinion? We’ve got you covered. We make it easy and comfortable We get you the answers you need from the comfort and privacy of your own home. Only the best-of-the-best We have assembled a team of the best male fertility specialists in the world – fertility is all we do. We’re the only one-stop-shop Get everything you need, in one place – in-home testing, telehealth evaluations, in-person care and surgical procedures when required.
Investor
Jul 2020
Kindbody is a leading fertility clinic network and global family-building benefits provider for employers offering the full-spectrum of reproductive care from preconception to postpartum through menopause. Kindbody delivers a seamless, integrated experience with superior health outcomes at lower cost, making fertility care more affordable and accessible for all. Kindbody is the trusted employee benefits solution for more than 112 employers covering 2.4 million lives. If you would like to learn more about why companies choose Kindbody to deliver the best patient experience, drive down healthcare costs, attract and keep great talent, and build an inclusive workplace please reach out to solutions@kindbody.com
Board Member
Jan 2020
Wingspan is the first payroll platform purpose-built for contractor management. Our unified platform helps companies save time, improve retention, and stay compliant by automating the contractor lifecycle. Built for contingent work, Wingspan streamlines onboarding, automates payments, handles 1099s, and offers benefits for contractors. To learn why finance and operations leaders are raving about Wingspan, visit https://www.wingspan.app/. Wingspan is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services are provided by Lead Bank, Member FDIC. The Wingspan Visa® Debit Card is issued by Lead Bank pursuant to licensing by Visa® U.S.A. Inc., both only available to eligible commercial entities. Terms and conditions apply.
Board Member
Aug 2019
altumAI’s platform and mobile apps use data and AI to transform how organizations manage safety and prevent injuries. Leveraging multiple data sources and a sophisticated platform that delivers the right information to the right worker at the right time via Sam, the safety bot, altumAI helps organizations reduce the cost and frequency of injuries, ensure compliance, and boost productivity, all while engaging and enabling the workforce.
Investor
Aug 2019
Hound Labs, Inc. is committed to developing ultra-sensitive, automated, and analytical breath technologies that will pave the way to practical and fair solutions for leading public health and safety issues. The Company’s first solutions specifically target THC molecules, limiting cannabis detection to the workday so employers can create testing policies that help balance workplace safety with employee fairness and privacy. Dr. Mike Lynn, emergency room physician, deputy sheriff (reserve), and former venture capitalist, co-founded Hound Labs, Inc. in 2014.
Investor
May 2019
Convr empowers commercial P&C insurance carriers with digital end-to-end underwriting management powered with a patented-AI decisioning engine that transforms the underwriting experience. Carriers of all sizes, including many of the top 10 carriers, trust Convr to help them transform their underwriting experience with straight-through processing and more complete data to make better decisions. Convr’s Underwriting Command Center brings together data, discovery, and decisioning intelligence through its patented machine learning algorithm engine so leading carriers are able to reduce application questions by over 70% and increase underwriting productivity by up to 10x.
Investor
Jan 2019
quip is the oral care company designing and delivering products, advice and professional services to make oral health more simple, accessible, and enjoyable — starting with a better electric toothbrush. As the first to market direct-to-consumer oral care subscription service — with fresh supplies delivered every three months for $5 with free shipping worldwide, oral care advice sent straight to hundreds of thousands of consumers, and a bidirectional tech platform currently in development to connect users with a large dental professional network — quip is working to elevate every part of the oral care experience for everyone.
Board Member
Dec 2018
Personalized, clinician-backed care for the full spectrum of digestive issues, delivered through our virtual health platform as an employer-sponsored benefit.
Board Member
Oct 2018
Axio is the leader in SaaS-based cyber management software, which empowers security leaders to build and optimize security programs and quantify risk in financial terms. Axio360 is the only cyber risk management platform to align security leaders, business leaders, and Boards of Directors around a single source of truth about their most critical corporate risks. Since 2016, Axio has been a trusted partner to many of the world’s leading critical infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, and financial services companies, helping drive better visibility and decision-making about cybersecurity priorities and investments. For more information visit axio.com
Investor
Oct 2018
The modern solution for the insurance application and renewal process. Turn your traditionally cumbersome insurance application process into a simple, Turbo-Tax like experience, making it fast, collaborative, and easy, saving you and your clients’ time and money while minimizing E&O exposure.
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Board Observer
Oct 2018
Nubundle makes it easy for employers of all sizes to provide an affordable family planning and fertility benefit to their employees. Employees will get access to a family planning concierge, preferred access and pricing at top clinics, lower-priced medications, and additional “just in time” payment options. Employers can chose from a voluntary benefit, to partial or full insurance for costs related to fertility procedures, medications, and related services. These plans are highly customizable, giving employers (from startups to multinational corporations) the ability to choose coverage amounts and other plan features based on their specific needs.
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2024
Board Member
Aug 2024
Prescription drug cash prices and discount card prices are often lower than what is available through traditional pharmacy contracts. RxSaveCard allows employers to access and pay these lower prices, saving money for your company and your employees, without having to change your PBM.
2023
Board Member
Aug 2023
At Pillar, we understand that exceptional talent is the foundation of successful businesses. By recording live interviews, our platform harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to help teams run a faster, better interview process via structured interviews, automated feedback collection, AI interviewer training, and more.
Board Member
Jan 2023
Tuned is the first hearing benefit for employers built to bring hearing health to everyone. Companies use Tuned to customize a hearing benefit that provides employees with holistic hearing health care, as well as access to products that support hearing health, reducing overall healthcare costs and resulting in a healthier workforce.
2022
Board Observer
Jul 2022
Empower your care team to provide the best support to senior living community residents with the Sage unified care platform. Leverage Sage to improve caregivers’ jobs and community outcomes. Because you can’t improve what you can’t measure, Sage also gives you the ability to collect high value data, derive insights, and improve key business metrics.
Board Member
Jun 2022
Where men go to manage their fertility. We are the only digital platform specializing in male fertility that empowers, not just with information, but with actionable steps to improve your overall health and fertility. We Meet You Where You Are Never heard of a semen analysis? That’s okay. Looking for a second opinion? We’ve got you covered. We make it easy and comfortable We get you the answers you need from the comfort and privacy of your own home. Only the best-of-the-best We have assembled a team of the best male fertility specialists in the world – fertility is all we do. We’re the only one-stop-shop Get everything you need, in one place – in-home testing, telehealth evaluations, in-person care and surgical procedures when required.
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