Zarminali Health, a multispecialty pediatric practice group, has launched with $40 million in seed funding led by General Catalyst, which includes a venture debt facility. 

WHAT IT DOES

The Chicago-based hybrid care company, founded in July of this year, integrates technology, specialists and services to provide outpatient coordinated pediatric primary and specialty care. 

The company will use the funds to fulfill its go-to-market strategy and support opening physical locations. 

"Zarminali is taking a hybrid, modern approach to care, so they will have physical practices for in-person visits with primary care clinicians and specialists on a single care team, alongside urgent care locations as well as telemedicine and async texting for non-urgent, low-acuity questions. They are based in Chicago, but the first practice is in Michigan, and they are building out a national footprint from there," a company spokesperson told MobiHealthNews via email. 

MARKET SNAPSHOT

Other digital health companies addressing pediatric health include virtual primary care company TytoCare, which partners with health systems to bring its AI-enabled Pro Smart Clinics to school clinics. Its offering allows clinicians to conduct urgent, primary and specialist care remotely.  

Pediatric teletherapy company DotCom Therapy is another player in the space, as are Parallel Learning, a digital behavioral health startup focused on children with learning differences, and pediatric digital mental health company Little Otter.

In August, Woebot Health, maker of an AI-powered mental health chatbot, announced it signed a three-year agreement with Ohio-based nonprofit pediatric healthcare system Akron Children's to provide pediatric mental health support to adolescents 13 to 17 years.