We Incubate, Accelerate, & Fund Mission-Driven Unicorns
Break the Wheel was founded to drive success for the products, solutions and services critical to positively impact climate change, healthcare, equal opportunity, education and human rights.
A History of Success
Break the Wheel was founded and is operated by serial entrepreneurs and operators that have built, sold and taken public more than 20 companies.
110 m
customers acquired
$15 b
lifetime revenue
Join 6 million + that invest in the future of healthcare, equal rights, education, the environment, climate change and more.
We Incubate, Accelerate and Fund Mission-Driven Unicorns
Break the Wheel was founded to drive success for the products, solutions and services critical to positively impact climate change, healthcare, equal opportunity, education and human rights.
Highly Selective
Our focus is the outcome. Failed companies can’t impact healthcare or climate change and failed investments lose your trust. We do more than just a market SWOT, we spend time with founders to see how they execute, and manage people and money.
Operational Muscle
We assembled a team of operating advisors with diverse experiences and networks. Our Ops lieutenants support each portfolio company with strategic and tactical support across Marketing, Finance, Engineering, User Experience, BI, Sales and more.
Lifetime Commitment
When we take on a company, it is a commitment for the life of that company. We stick with our portfolio companies from launch to the joint mission of positively impacting 1 Billion lives.
OUR WHY
A message from our founder and CEO
Over 20 years ago, I almost lost my mother due to a missed diagnosis of colon cancer. In the last 5 years, my sister found a sign of breast cancer missed just weeks prior in an exam and I went through a year of specialist appointments with no resolution. One of my cofounders and partners had her entire department closed down when the department head was found guilty of sexual harassment and let go - with a payout and confidentiality agreement that let him continue his toxic behavior elsewhere.
I started working on solving the healthcare problem in 2017 and quickly realized that the system was beyond broken and slow, with no aligned interests between insurance carriers, companies and healthcare systems. I started digging into sexual harassment in the workplace in 2018 and found that companies are not interested in a true objective of stopping this toxic behavior, but rather just quietly getting rid of the bad actors in their company.
I grew tired of watching us get bullied into bad healthcare, toxic work environments, a planet on the verge of environmental collapse - as well as other issues. I decided it was time to build a platform that gave us—the people—the small business owner—the tools we needed to impact change in the workplace, in the environment, and more.
Break the Wheel was formed with one purpose, to ensure what is in the best interest of the people succeeds. We source, vet and accelerate mission-driven unicorns - for profit companies that can positively impact 1 billion lives in areas from healthcare to climate, and education to human rights.
David Feinberg Calabrese