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Steve Nelson

Co-Founder at Carbon, Inc.

📍 Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2025
VC🌍 United States
10
Total investments
5
Early stage
1
Mid stage
0
Late stage
12y
Years active

Portfolio

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Board Member
Jun 2024
IntoValue connects self-insured employers directly to high-value providers practicing whole person health to improve the employee healthcare experience, clinical outcomes, health disparities, and bend the healthcare cost trend. As senior healthcare leaders in finance, care delivery, government programs, advanced primary care, direct-to-employer contracting and benefits, and traditional health insurance, we have deep healthcare expertise. IntoValue combines innovations in whole person care, employee engagement, with data analytics to improve employee health and reduce health disparities - all as end-to-end solutions.
Board Member
Dec 2023
Heartland Whole Health Institutes purpose is to lower costs, improve quality, and broaden access to health care in the Heartland by catalyzing new delivery models, using whole health principles, that can be replicated to disrupt the national health care system.
Founding Board Member
Sep 2022
Founded in 2021 by philanthropist Alice Walton, the School of Medicine, (formerly named Whole Health School of Medicine and Health Sciences), will offer a four-year, medical degree-granting program that integrates conventional medicine with holistic principles and self-care practices. Taught by leading medical practitioners and scientific minds, the first-of-its-kind medical school will help students rise to the health challenges of the 21st century with a focus on mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health and will include an attached clinic for clinical training in these concepts. The School of Medicine seeks to be a national medical school with the goal of welcoming its inaugural class in 2025, pending programmatic and institutional accreditation.
early stageHigher Education
Board Member
Aug 2020
ZealCare empowers individuals with complex chronic diseases to live the life they want. Our whole-person, tech-enabled disease management company partners with accountable care organizations and health systems to offer the next-gen approach to care for their most complex patients. ZealCares product suite, powered by high-touch, hyper-personalized programs, delivers meaningful outcomes and cost savings through lasting behavior change using the powerful combination of personalized health care, integrative health coaching, and peer-to-peer support. The company was founded in 2020 by Dr. Ralph Snyderman, coined the "father of personalized medicine" by the Association of American Medical Colleges, and Dr. Connor Drake. ZealCare is led by Maureen OConnor, health care entrepreneur and former Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina executive. To learn more, please visit www.zealcare.com.
Investor and Board Member
Jan 2020
Malibu Mylk is a plant-based allergen-free mylk. At Malibu Mylk we are all about simple, clean ingredients that will help you feel your very best. Our mylk is completely allergen-free: no dairy, no nuts, no gluten, no soy. We start with purified water and add organic flaxseed and a pinch of pink Himalayan salt. We use no preservatives or artificial flavors. Not only is our mylk great to drink on its own, is fabulous with coffee, in smoothies or cereal. Our mylk is filled with fiber, so you can forgo that morning flax oil or sprinkle of flax seed in your oatmeal, because youll be getting the nutrients from Malibu Mylk!
early stageFood & Beverages
Co-Lead Investor and Board Member
Dec 2017
The AI landscape is dominated by solutions that sacrifice integrity for power. We refuse to compromise. We’re on a mission to make trustworthy AI the global standard. To advance this mission, we’ve launched an open source alternative to black box AI called Howso Engine. It’s an auditable ML framework that brings groundbreaking explainability and performance to AI. We’ve also built an enterprise synthetic data platform atop Engine called Howso Synthesizer. It’s a solution that helps companies train AI/ML models with accurate, private, and auditable data. Howso Engine and Synthesizer are only the beginning, but they are already being used by global financial institutions, health care systems, and governments across the world. We’re building high-performance AI that you can trust. Howso (formerly “Diveplane”) was co-founded by Dr. Mike Capps, Dr. Chris Hazard, and Mike Resnick in 2017. In September 2023, the company renamed the company alongside the release of the open source version of Engine in a critical step towards meaningful social impact.
Co-Lead Investor and Board Member
Sep 2015
We sift through 50 billion mobile ad requests daily, leveraging advanced AI & machine learning algorithms to hypertarget app install ads for our clients. To date, Sift Media has served 250 billion mobile ads and delivered 100 million app installs for thousands of advertisers. Sift Media’s DemandScale platform was named to the AppsFlyer Performance Index 14. Backed by $3.25 million in venture capital from investors including Wakefield Group, Piedmont Capital, Alerion Ventures, and IDEA Fund Partners, Sift Media ranked #414 on Deloitte's 2021 Technology Fast 500 and #1655 on the 2021 Inc. 5000.
Experience · 13 entries
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Investments (10)
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Board (9)
2025
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Founding Investor and Founding Advisor
Apr 2025
2024
Board Member
Jun 2024
IntoValue connects self-insured employers directly to high-value providers practicing whole person health to improve the employee healthcare experience, clinical outcomes, health disparities, and bend the healthcare cost trend. As senior healthcare leaders in finance, care delivery, government programs, advanced primary care, direct-to-employer contracting and benefits, and traditional health insurance, we have deep healthcare expertise. IntoValue combines innovations in whole person care, employee engagement, with data analytics to improve employee health and reduce health disparities - all as end-to-end solutions.
2023
Board Member
Dec 2023
Heartland Whole Health Institutes purpose is to lower costs, improve quality, and broaden access to health care in the Heartland by catalyzing new delivery models, using whole health principles, that can be replicated to disrupt the national health care system.
2022
Founding Board Member
Sep 2022
Founded in 2021 by philanthropist Alice Walton, the School of Medicine, (formerly named Whole Health School of Medicine and Health Sciences), will offer a four-year, medical degree-granting program that integrates conventional medicine with holistic principles and self-care practices. Taught by leading medical practitioners and scientific minds, the first-of-its-kind medical school will help students rise to the health challenges of the 21st century with a focus on mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health and will include an attached clinic for clinical training in these concepts. The School of Medicine seeks to be a national medical school with the goal of welcoming its inaugural class in 2025, pending programmatic and institutional accreditation.
early stageHigher Education
2020
Board Member
Aug 2020
ZealCare empowers individuals with complex chronic diseases to live the life they want. Our whole-person, tech-enabled disease management company partners with accountable care organizations and health systems to offer the next-gen approach to care for their most complex patients. ZealCares product suite, powered by high-touch, hyper-personalized programs, delivers meaningful outcomes and cost savings through lasting behavior change using the powerful combination of personalized health care, integrative health coaching, and peer-to-peer support. The company was founded in 2020 by Dr. Ralph Snyderman, coined the "father of personalized medicine" by the Association of American Medical Colleges, and Dr. Connor Drake. ZealCare is led by Maureen OConnor, health care entrepreneur and former Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina executive. To learn more, please visit www.zealcare.com.
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