Solutions that do more than move the needle
We activate our expertise to drive success for founders through one-on-one guidance, and community collaboration.
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Health
and equity
Our founders solve urgent healthcare issues like high ED readmission rates, challenges in women’s fertility, chronic conditions, and clinical mental health disorders with solutions that change the standard for the often-overlooked.
Productivity and
connectivity
We partner with founders working to bring modern software and automation to Main Street — helping them to operate more efficiently, grow sustainably, and build trust with every customer interaction.
Rising end
user costs
The problem
we solve for.
We replace inertia with results
And leverage innovation to cut costs for the communities that need it most.
Critical returns
Venture capital began with admirable intentions. As a vessel for the game-changers to move the needle for real people and communities across the world. It gave innovators a vital path to connect with the critical capital they needed to turn their ideas into tangible solutions for humanities’ real problems.
That is the VC
we honor at Dria.
Drawing from a deep understanding of our society’s history — and how impact has previously been measured — we operate from a place of undecorated truth. Where others are inclined to look away, we dig deeper to find the root causes of difficult and daunting problems, and seek out answers in the form of actionable ideas. That’s where we find our game-changers. Our strategy is meticulously crafted to fund, support, and ensure their success.
By partnering early with seed-stage funding and continuing deep collaboration post first check, we directly impact the growth of solutions, uniquely positioned to solve the urgent issues drastically affecting our communities, families, and humanity as a whole.
Complex problems like clinically high-risk cardiovascular disease, delayed childbirth and infertility treatment costs, inequities in access to healthcare for elderly and remote communities, and massive gaps in the use of data and billing systems for healthcare companies, as well as inefficiencies in Main Street industries — including manufacturing, small businesses, and traditional sectors — due to underinvestment in productivity-enhancing technologies, cost the U.S. economy over $1 trillion annually in lost potential. This gap continues to widen despite advancements in other sectors. We know this is the result of patchwork solutions that address hurdles we can easily see, but not the ones we cannot.
We are building a network of inventors, advisors, operators, and investors that act with that knowledge.
Through ongoing work that includes helping founders build diverse, impactful teams from the start, to a deep bench of targeted advisors that understand the intricacies of turning a profit without losing sight of purpose, we deliver multi-tier returns to our founders, so they can deliver positive outcomes to our communities, our fund, and our future. With a strategic emphasis on bringing technology to cities often overlooked in favor of well-resourced locations, we make revitalization a focal point for the private sector — an approach historically burdened to public projects and efforts battling uphill against limited resources and funding.
We aren’t here to just move the needle or change the conversation.
We’re here to be a turning point in history.
About the founder
My background spans over 10 years of investing across early and growth stage companies. Prior to founding Dria, I was an investor at General Catalyst, a venture capital firm with over $30Bn in AUM. I served as a board observer for multiple companies including Livongo (sold to Teladoc for $18.5Bn), Samsara (IPO), Audius, and Grammarly. I’m perhaps most well-regarded for helping spearhead the Livongo IPO, the largest digital health IPO at the time, and developing the crypto thesis at the firm. I have also invested in and supported companies such as Pulley, Mina Protocol, Celo, Bitwise, Commure, and Stripe. I consider myself both a business-operator and a creative, which is why I lead with both empathy and drive. I graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Economics and Music, and Harvard Business School with a MBA. In my spare time, I enjoy playing acoustic guitar, discovering new indie R&B, reading mysteries, and traveling.
If you are a founder building to solve a high cost problem, whether that’s in healthcare, productivity, or even fintech, I would love to hear from you.
Memphis
to Mars
A life-long commitment to learning
Insights, experiences, and discoveries directly from Dria’s founder, Megan Maloney.
Memphis to Mars
