Pomelo Care, a supplier for ladies and youngsters, has raised $92 million in Sequence C funding to develop its platform past maternity care, the corporate introduced on Thursday.
New York Metropolis-based Pomelo Care presents being pregnant, pediatric, midlife and ladies’s well being help. Sufferers obtain digital 24/7 help by way of the app and acquire entry to a devoted care workforce and customised care plans. It leverages predictive analytics to assist clinicians determine points early and intervene shortly. The corporate works with payers and employers, and serves 25 million lined lives by way of industrial and Medicaid well being plan partnerships.
The Sequence C spherical was led by Stripes and included participation from Andreessen Horowitz, PLUS Capital, Atomico, BoxGroup and SV Angel. The corporate is now valued at $1.7 billion and has raised $171.2 million in complete.
“The facility of Pomelo’s wonderful product is obvious: distinctive affected person satisfaction and robust scientific outcomes exhibiting significant reductions in pregnancy-related problems,” mentioned Ron Shah, associate at Stripes, in a press release. “We consider Pomelo’s clever care platform will energy continued speedy progress and product growth, assembly rising demand from sufferers and payers with a contemporary scientific expertise and best-in-class working metrics.”
The funding will assist carry Pomelo’s mannequin to extra sufferers and serve ladies and youngsters by way of further life levels past being pregnant, in accordance with Marta Bralic Kerns, founder and CEO of Pomelo Care.
“Meaning investing in our scientific groups, expertise platform, and partnerships with well being plans and employers so we are able to serve extra ladies and youngsters with the identical degree of high quality and accountability we ship in the present day,” she added.
The announcement comes after Pomelo not too long ago launched a midlife care program for ladies experiencing perimenopause and menopause. It tackles hormonal, metabolic and psychological well being challenges that come up throughout this era. Early outcomes present an 88% discount in signs in 60 days and 73% of sufferers report a rise in productiveness from this system.
Peer-reviewed research on Pomelo Care additionally present that the corporate has achieved a 6.8-day discount in NICU size of keep, 37% discount in preterm births, 46% discount in emergency room utilization and 718% increased prenatal despair screening and follow-up charges.
Finally, Pomelo Care goals to construct the “new nationwide commonplace for ladies’s and youngsters’s healthcare, changing fragmented, reactive care with proactive, built-in, evidence-based care throughout each life stage,” Kerns mentioned.
“We wish to be sure that whether or not a girl is pregnant, caring for a kid, or navigating menopause, she has entry to a coordinated medical workforce that measurably improves her well being whereas additionally lowering avoidable prices for well being plans and employers by way of fewer ER visits, fewer problems, and higher preventive care,” she mentioned.
Different digital ladies’s well being firms embrace Maven Clinic and Midi Well being.
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