Funding profile · Veterinary care delivery

VetPronto

A Y Combinator company that could not raise an institutional round and went to the crowd instead. Three Regulation Crowdfunding filings, one portal total, one acquisition below what the buyer had just raised, and a revenue line reported as zero.

$362.7KRaised on Wefunder from 636 investors, portal-reported
$1.3MTotal raised by Nov 2017, as reported by TechCrunch
$1.0MMaximum offering on the Form C, against a $50,000 minimum
$398.9KNet loss for fiscal 2016, down from $602,419

Data as of September 23, 2026. Company-reported figures are labeled.

Rounds at a glance

When Round Amount Investors Source
2014 Bootstrapped, then friends and family Not disclosed Founders, friends and family TechCrunch
Winter 2015 Y Combinator W15 Not disclosed Y Combinator TechCrunch
Before 2016 Milestone the pitch page calls a seed round $500,000 Not named Company-stated
Sep to Nov 2016 Regulation Crowdfunding, SAFEs at $1.00 $50,000 min, $1,000,000 max Wefunder Portal LLC Form C
Closed Same offering, per the portal $362,718 636 investors Portal-stated
By Nov 2017 Cumulative capital raised About $1.3M Not itemized TechCrunch
Nov 2, 2017 Acquired by Vetted PetCare Undisclosed, cash below $3.3M plus equity Vetted, backed by Amplify LA, Sterling.VC, Foundation Capital TechCrunch

What the filings show

VetPronto – Mobile Veterinarians Inc. · Form C · filed Sep 9, 2016

Security
SAFE, $1.00 per unit, 50,000 units
Offered
$50,000 minimum, $1,000,000 maximum
Deadline
March 8, 2017
Portal
Wefunder Portal LLC, CIK 0001670254, CRD 283503, 3.0 percent of a successful raise
Employees
7
FY2015
Assets $266,801 · cash $260,071 · revenue $0.00 · COGS $435,194 · net loss $602,419
FY2014
Assets $85,834 · revenue $0.00 · COGS $23,760 · net loss $13,510
Related persons
Joe Waltman (CEO); Soren Berg (co-founder)
Filing
SEC EDGAR, CIK 0001681978, Delaware, May 21, 2014

Form C/A · filed Nov 3, 2016

Change
“Changed deadline date to November 10th and include updated business plan and transcripts for video.”
New deadline
November 10, 2016, four months earlier than the original
Terms
Unchanged
Related persons
Soren Berg (CTO)
File number
020-22988

Form C-AR · filed May 2, 2017

Period
Fiscal year ended December 31, 2016
Employees
7
FY2016
Assets $340,375.54 · cash $332,798 · revenue $0.00 · COGS $728,722 · net loss $398,861
Related persons
Joe Waltman (CEO); Katherine van Ekert (COO)
Filing
SEC EDGAR, CIK 0001681978

Reading the filings

  1. The average check was about $570.$362,718 across 636 investors divides to $570.31 each. That is a retail crowd, not a syndicate. Vetted raised $3.3 million from named venture firms in the same period, roughly nine times VetPronto’s entire crowdfunding total.
  2. The offering closed early, not late.The September 2016 Form C set a deadline of March 8, 2017. The November 3, 2016 amendment moved it to November 10, 2016, pulling it in by four months mid-raise. Reg CF permits an earlier close with notice, so the move is legal; it is also the opposite of what an offering with momentum does.
  3. Revenue is reported as zero in all three years.Every filing reports $0.00 of revenue for 2014, 2015 and 2016 while reporting cost of goods sold of $23,760, $435,194 and $728,722. The offering page advertised 35 percent gross margins, 15 percent compounded monthly revenue growth and 3,500 customers. The likeliest reading is that revenue was entered in the cost of goods sold field. No amendment corrected it.
  4. Losses narrowed while cash rose.Net loss fell 34 percent, from $602,419 to $398,861, and year end cash rose from $260,071 to $332,798. The crowdfunding money closed inside that window, so the cash line reflects the raise more than operations.
  5. The required follow-on filings are missing.One annual report, for 2016. No Form C-U progress update and no Form C-TR terminating the reporting obligation, even after the November 2017 acquisition. The EDGAR file simply stops.
  6. No Form D was ever filed.A records pull on September 23, 2026 found no Form D under the company name and no Regulation D vehicle formed around it. The earlier money, including the $500,000 seed the pitch page claims, either moved under Section 4(a)(2) or was never noticed. The founder’s account fits: he wrote that they never convinced a professional investor to take a significant stake or sit on the board, and no outside director appears on any filing.

Commercial signals

Signal Detail Source type
Pricing $129 per house call in Jan 2015, plus $99 diagnostics and $25 vaccines capped at $60. A flat $150 per call by Dec 2016. Veterinarians paid a flat $100 per call. Independent
Scale Over 300 appointments by Jan 2015. 3,500 customers and 50 plus veterinary professionals in two markets by the 2016 offering. About 10,000 combined customers after the acquisition. Company and portal
Footprint Fifteen metros listed at the sale. Co-founder van Ekert later recalled 13 states at peak. Accounts differ
Regulation California Business and Professions Code 4853 requires premises registration under a responsible licensee manager and does not authorize a non-veterinary corporation to furnish veterinary services. Public record
Exit Acquired Nov 2, 2017. The buyer shut down in late Feb 2020. The founder called the outcome “not a happy ending for shareholders or founders” in May 2020. Independent
Clinical evidence No FDA record, trial, NIH or NSF award, or indexed paper. Not found

What to watch

  • Nothing further from this issuer. The EDGAR file has been static since May 2017.
  • Whether the 636 Wefunder investors were ever told what their SAFEs became. No Form C-U or C-TR was filed.
  • Capital in the category since: The Vets raised $40 million in January 2022, merged with BetterVet in October 2024, and canceled all appointments on July 21, 2025. HomewardVet closed on April 30, 2026.
  • Bond Vet raised $170 million from Warburg Pincus in October 2021 and merged with Small Door in July 2026.

The VetPronto story on Healthcare DiscoveryHealthcare Discovery

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Sources

  1. Public recordForm C, VetPronto – Mobile Veterinarians Inc., CIK 0001681978SEC · Sep 9, 2016
  2. Public recordForm C/ASEC · Nov 3, 2016
  3. Public recordForm C-AR, fiscal 2016SEC · May 2, 2017
  4. Public recordBusiness and Professions Code section 4853California Legislature · Jan 1, 2025
  5. IndependentVetted buys VetPronto in yet more on-demand consolidationTechCrunch · Nov 2, 2017
  6. IndependentVetPronto Brings Veterinary House Calls To San FranciscoTechCrunch · Jan 16, 2015
  7. IndependentVetPronto wants to make it easier to care for your petsDigital Trends · Dec 4, 2016
  8. IndependentVetted Shuts DownMy Dog Is A Robot · Mar 2, 2020
  9. IndependentThe Vets cancels all appointments amid apparent closureVIN News Service · Jul 23, 2025
  10. IndependentHomewardVet closes, only seven months after launchVIN News Service · May 1, 2026
  11. CompanyVetPronto offering page and pitchWefunder · archived 2016, accessed Sep 23, 2026
  12. FounderVetPronto is being euthanizedJoe Waltman on Medium · May 21, 2020

Compiled from SEC and other public records and published reports as of September 23, 2026. Form C notices report offerings under Regulation Crowdfunding; amounts reflect the filing date and the portal’s own reporting. Healthcare Venture Capital Fund holds no position in VetPronto. This page is not an offer to sell or a recommendation to buy any security.