Valor Ventures Leads Seed Financing for Acuity Behavioral Health
Atlanta, GA, February 18, 2025 – Acuity Behavioral Health (Acuity) has successfully secured seed financing to accelerate its growth and innovation, as well as support and expand Acuity's ongoing mission to improve the quality of care in inpatient psychiatric and behavioral healthcare.
Acuity's platform includes the Behavioral Health Acuity Index (BHAI), a revolutionary data model that provides a rapid and accurate measurement of patient acuity, and Acuity Insights, a comprehensive AI analytics solution that supports nurse managers in their efforts to improve care, reduce safety risks, and address the increasingly acute status of mental health patients.
"Valor’s interest in Acuity is primarily due to Acuity’s platform. Directly informed by live integration to all key data elements of the EHR on all patient, Acuity delivers its validated machine-learning algorithm to create the first objective standard of care for clinical operations in behavioral healthcare," said Gary Peat, General Partner of Valor Ventures.. "Built and validated by a consortium of leading inpatient behavioral healthcare providers across the nation (who are now customers), Acuity’s solution is completely unique and game changing. It delivers greater clinical consistency with objective care standards, improves outcomes for patients by better aligning staffing with acuity, and it improves satisfaction and safety for staff, as it is the first objective-standards method of measuring acuity for clinical operations, compliance, and reimbursement.”
With this investment Acuity is expanding its core team, including the addition of veteran healthcare leader and cofounder of Relatient, Kevin Montgomery, who will serve as the Company’s Chief operating Officer. “Mental health challenges are something we will all encounter, whether through a friend, family member, or ourselves, said Kevin, “Understanding and measuring how the care provided by facilities affects a patient's well-being is a significant step forward in ensuring both safe and effective treatment. I am proud to be involved with a company such as Acuity that is at the forefront of driving meaningful change in this area.”
About Valor Ventures: Headquartered in Atlanta, Valor Ventures leads investments in seed-stage B2B AI and SaaS software companies rooted in the South. Learn more at valor.vc.
About Acuity Behavioral Health: Acuity Health, created by and for behavioral health providers, has developed a series of clinical operations solutions to improve the quality of care provided by inpatient psychiatry and behavioral healthcare. Created with the nation's leading behavioral health experts, Acuity’s BHAI solution is the first validated standard for patient acuity and workforce utilization for psychiatric facilities. To learn more, please click here Our Company or follow Acuity on LinkedIn .