At Wildwood, we invest in companies that help people live healthier, more active and more connected lives. Companies that will improve human flourishing in the world today. This Fall we made three new investments, and each one takes on a part of that mission that most of the market has overlooked: recovery at work, independence at home, and getting moving when you’d honestly rather not. Here’s a little about each company and why we’re excited to be working with them.

Sobrynth: making work a place where recovery is possible

Substance use touches nearly every workplace, but very few employers have a real way to support the people dealing with it. For most companies, the benefit stops at an EAP phone number. Sobrynth is an employee benefits platform that helps employers, including Fortune 500 companies, build a sober-friendly workforce. Through its SOBRPath program, employees get help finding the right care and ongoing support from peers who have been through recovery themselves.

Founder and CEO Marin Nelson created Sobrynth after years excelling at Salesforce, and together with COO Hallie Corbett she has built something employers are actively asking for. This fall the team was invited to the White House for “Recovery Friendly Workplaces: A Call to Action,” a National Recovery Month event hosted by the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Enterprise customers have been knocking on their door, not just from an HR tech standpoint, but also from an OSHA and safety perspective.

Wildwood led Sobrynth’s round, and our team works closely with Marin and Hallie on product and capital strategy as they grow.

Lotus: a cursor for the real world

Lotus makes a ring you wear on your finger that lets you control the lights, fans, outlets and doors around you, along with a switch cover that installs without any rewiring. There’s no app to open, no Wi-Fi to set up and no electrician to call. It sounds rather rudimentary, but founder and CEO Dhaval Patel, who came from Apple, built Lotus first for the people who need it most: people living with physical or intellectual and developmental disabilities, and older adults who want to keep living in their own homes. For Lotus’ patients, these small indicators of autonomy in their daily life is huge.

What stood out to us is that Lotus has found a way to reach those people at scale. Medicaid’s home and community based services programs already pay for assistive technology like this, because helping someone stay independent at home costs far less than institutional care. A pilot in New York led to a signed Medicaid contract and approvals in 11 more states, and Lotus already sells to 64 institutional customers, including universities, hospitals and senior living operators, across 35 states. Along the way the ring has been featured in Wired and at TechCrunch Disrupt and won a 2026 Red Dot Award for design.

Throughout diligence, we were consistently impressed by how Dhaval showed up to meetings and walked us through what he was building, often without a deck or slides. He has a rare way of explaining deep technical work so that those of us without an engineering background come away really understanding it. That clarity comes from how much he cares about the problem. We also kept hearing great things about Dhaval from other investors, which is always a strong signal that a founder is fully committed to the work.

Thank you to the Aging Innovation Fund from Castellan Group for leading the round, and congratulations to the whole Lotus team.

We Hate Exercise: built for everyone the name describes

Most people know they should move more. Very few get the support to actually do it, especially when they’re also managing depression, anxiety, high blood pressure or prediabetes. We Hate Exercise helps those patients get moving between doctor’s visits with 1:1 coaching, an accountability partner and a Pledge Pot that puts a little money on the line. Providers can refer a patient in under 90 seconds and bill for the program through remote therapeutic monitoring, so it fits into the way clinics already work.

The early results are hard to ignore. In pilots independently evaluated by National Jewish Health, 90% of patients kept moving for the full 13 weeks, compared with the 30 to 50% you’d usually expect. Positive depression screens dropped from 60% to 11%, and anxiety screens from 90% to 44%. In January, WHE launches a pilot with the Colorado Health Foundation across five primary care clinics and 250 patients, with Colorado Medicaid as a partner.

Founder Dr. Sam Monson is an integrated behavioral health psychologist who spent 16 years at Denver Health and helped lead Colorado’s work on making integrated care financially sustainable. She knows this problem from the inside and has lived experience of why exercise and movement changed her life. Wildwood is leading WHE’s traditional equity round and Sam is employing an alternative strategy to bring in philanthropic capital through equity-based PRI investing as well. Sam is speaking publicly about this strategy with partners around the Front Range – check out her work and speaking engagements through her LinkedIn posts.

What ties them together

These are three very different products, but they share an idea we care a lot about: health is mostly built in everyday life, at work, at home and in the weeks between appointments. Each of these founders found a way to meet people there, and each found a payer, whether that’s an employer, Medicaid or a health system, that already has a good reason to care.

We’re grateful to Marin, Hallie, Dhaval and Sam for letting us be part of what they’re building, and we can’t wait to share more as they grow.