BWV Investing In Buffalo Company Revolutionizing Social CareBy Jim Aroune and Dan Miner

Brown and White Ventures announced Monday July 14, 2025 it will invest $200,000 in wellconnected, a four-year old Buffalo, New York based startup whose “allco” platform gives social care agencies a standardized way to perform intake, case management, data collection and referrals.

Many different nonprofits align into one standardized system under wellconnected platform, ‘allco.' It turns inefficient ad hoc networks into engines of true collaboration.

The investment by Brown and White Ventures is seed funding for wellconnected which will support the national rollout of “allco.”

The platform has made major integrations with social care systems in New York, New Jersey, West Virginia and Illinois and positioned “allco” as a disruptive force dedicated to improving U.S. social care.

“We find it compelling how welllconnected and “allco” tackle the long-standing fragmentation of social services in our country. We’re proud to be investing in a company positioned to become the digital infrastructure for social care in the United States,” said Jim Aroune, General Partner at Brown and White Ventures.

“We’re grateful to the team at Brown and White Ventures for understanding the scope of vision as we pursue this very important mission,” wellconnected founder and CEO Duane Conners said. “wellconnected is bringing deeply necessary change that brings structured data and real-time analytics to the American social safety net so that we can provide quality resources and service to community members who need it most.”

Conners reports “allco’s” primary clients include: non-profit organizations, public sector agencies and health insurers. The platform can also serve municipal governments engaged in delivering social care services, including housing support, food assistance, re-entry programming for formerly incarcerated individuals, mental health counseling and employment services.

"By backing wellconnected, Brown and White Ventures sees an opportunity to make good on our Franciscan mission to promote compassionate service, respect and peace in our investments," Aroune said.

In 2021, Conners and Jamie Bono founded "allco." One of the platform's first partners was 211 Western New York, which received funding from Launch NY and Buffalo Innovative Seed Company.

While wellconnected would land contracts in New Jersey and West Virginia, it was the closing of a five-year pilot program contract with the city of Chicago and Cook County, Illinois that doubled the company's revenue in 2024.