The healthcare status quo for Medicaid and other underserved patients frequently leaves them in the lurch, said Cityblock Health CEO and cofounder Dr. Toyin Ajayi.
They may have infrequent access to the medical system, hampered by transportation issues or the need to take time off work. Doctors' offices can be busy, and they may not have enough time to address concerns. Meanwhile, racial and...
Cityblock Health, a primary care startup that targets the Medicaid and low-income Medicare populations, has raised $400 million in funding, according to STAT.
The round was led by SoftBank, and it brings the company’s valuation to $5.7 billion, STAT reported. It comes months after the company raised $192 million in a Series C extension funding round.
"We're incredibly proud and grateful that...
Population health startup Cityblock landed $192 million in a Series C extension funding round. This funding builds on the company's $160 million Series C round, which made the startup a member of the unicorn club, and brings the total funding to more than $500 million.
Tiger Global led the round, with participation from Kinnevik AB, Maverick Ventures, General Catalyst, Wellington Management,...
Cityblock, a startup focused on used tech to tackling health disparities, has raised $53.5 million in what it describes as Series B+ funding. Kinnevik AB led the round with participation from AIMS Imprint of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Alphabet, as well as existing investors.
This comes roughly a year after a $63 million Series B funding in April of 2019, and close to two years after the...
Into the Great White North. MDClone, a patient data-focused startup, told MobiHealthNews that it will be debuting its platform in Canada thanks to a new partnership with The Ottawa Hospital. With it, the hospital’s practitioners and researchers will have a synthetic set of patient data that, although statistically comparable to the original, includes no identifiable information so that medical...
This morning Cityblock, a startup focused on addressing socio-economic health disparities through tech, announced that it landed $65 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Redpoint Ventures with participation from 8VC, Echo Health Ventures, StartUp Health, Sidewalk Labs, Thrive Capital, Maverick Ventures, Town Hall Ventures and EmbelmHealth.
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Cityblock, a spinout of...
Distrust in the healthcare system is a major obstacle in providing needed care to some of the most vulnerable populations in the US.
“[M]illions of Americans all across the country … are failed by the healthcare system everyday. Specifically we don’t understand the services that they need,” Iyah Romm, founder and CEO of Cityblock Health, an Alphabet spinout focused on urban-focused public health...
Cityblock Health, the urban-focused public health startup that spun out of Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs in October, has raised $20.8 million in a round led by Maverick Ventures. Thrive Capital and Sidewalk Labs also contributed to the round, as did other unnamed strategic investors. The raise brings Cityblock’s total funding to $23.2 million.
“We started Cityblock with a simple goal: to radically...
Google’s Sidewalk, a subsidiary of Alphabet, is diving into community health after launching Cityblock, a startup focused on reinventing urban health, back in October. Cityblock aims to address the health disparity in lower socio-economic urban communities by providing preventive medicine and access to resources.
“There’s a problem in our cities: whole neighborhoods are sick," Iyah Romm,...
