Virtual primary care provider K Health announced it secured $50 million in an equity funding round.
Claure Group led the round with participation from Pablo Legorreta, the founder and CEO of Royalty Pharma. Existing investors Valor Equity Partners, Mangrove Capital Partners and Atreides Management LP also joined the round.
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K Health is an AI-enabled virtual care provider that offers...
Direct-to-consumer virtual health company Hims & Hers Health announced its plans to grow its Medical Advisory Board from five members to 15 members. The new members come from an array of medical specialties including urology, mental health and infectious disease.
This news comes roughly a year after the company went public through a SPAC merger. Since listing on the New York Stock Exchange,...
Hydrogen Health, a startup born out of a venture between K Health, Blackstone Growth and Anthem, unveiled a new virtual primary care product aimed at self-insured employers and insurers.
The New York-based company is also expanding its diagnosis and management services to treat more chronic conditions. The service employs K Health’s artificial intelligence and a network of clinicians to offer...
Virtual primary care provider K Health is looking to the mental health space with the acquisition of Trusst, a behavioral health app that connects users to on-demand, text-based therapy.
Clients are able to download Trusst’s app and fill in the state that they are seeking care in. Next, customers can fill out a profile about the type of care they are seeking and fill in payment information. The...
Boost Mobile has added a new sign-on perk for subscribers of its Unlimited Plus plan: free virtual healthcare services through K Health.
The partnership between Boost Mobile and K Health gives the wireless provider’s customers and immediate families access to a range of telehealth care. K Health’s platform offers a text-based artificial intelligence-enabled symptom checker, virtual primary care,...
Digital health startup K Health, in collaboration with and with backing from Blackstone Growth and Anthem, is launching a new joint venture aimed at increasing access to healthcare while making it more affordable.
Called Hydrogen Health, the new company will use K Health’s artificial intelligence technology to create digital healthcare solutions to the employer and consumer markets. It hopes to...
K Health, a startup combining a free symptom checker with text-based telehealth and virtual primary care, has announced $132 million Series E – its third major raise within the course of a year.
GGV Capital, Valor Equity Partners and Kaiser Permanente pension fund headlined the raise, with GGV Managing Partner Hans Tung and Valor founder and CEO Antonio Gracias joining K Health's board. Other...
A new peer-reviewed study testing the coverage, accuracy and safety of eight online symptom assessment apps has found that the performance of apps varies widely, with only a handful performing close to the levels of human general practitioners (GPs).
Published today in BMJ Open, the study is the first of its kind to be published since 2015 and was conducted by a team of doctors and scientists led...
This morning Medable, a digital platform focused on decentralizing clinical trials for the life science industry, announced a whopping $91 million Series C funding. The new round was led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from GSR Ventures, PPD, Inc and Streamline Ventures.
In total the digital health company has raked in $136 million. The Palo Alto, California-based startup has created a...
K Health, a free symptom checking app with optional paid telehealth features, announced this morning a $48 million Series C round led by 14W and Mangrove Capital. Anthem, Lerer Hippeau, Primary Ventures and other unnamed backers also contributed.
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Using a dataset comprised of physician notes, lab results, treatments, prescriptions, prior visits and other anonymized interactions, K...
