Check out today’s featured companies who have recently raised a round of funding, and be sure to check out the full list of past healthcare IT fundings.
Curative Raises $150 Million in Series B Funding to Redefine the Future of Health Insurance
Curative Health Insurance Company, the trailblazing health plan engineered from the ground up to eliminate barriers and actually improve health, today announced it has raised over $150 million in Series B funding. This investment cements Curative’s unicorn status with a valuation of $1.275 billion, and reflects deep conviction in Curative’s breakthrough $0-out-of-pocket health plan, AI-powered member experience, and bold redesign of the traditional insurance model.
Born out of frustration with the status quo, Curative isn’t tweaking around the edges of the traditional BUCA (Blues, United, Cigna, Aetna) system; it’s replacing it. The Curative model is centered on a benefit plan design with $0 out-of-pocket costs (no co-pays, no deductibles, no coinsurance) as long as members complete an annual preventative health visit called the Baseline Visit. By removing financial barriers and taking a proactive approach to health management, Curative has demonstrated results that include a 20% lift in primary care engagement, a 30% reduction in hospitalizations, and a reduction in drug costs of up to 40% within a year of a group joining the plan by keeping members healthier.
A Health Plan Built the Way Healthcare Should Work
“Curative’s mission is to eliminate financial barriers and guide our members at every step of their health journey,” said Fred Turner, CEO and Co-Founder. “This funding validates the disruptive model we’ve built, which leverages AI-driven technology, real human support, and aligned incentives to actually improve outcomes. We’re accelerating the modernization of the member experience, expanding into new markets, and scaling the impact we know the industry desperately needs. The momentum is real, and employers, brokers, and providers are seeing the value of a plan designed with their success in mind.”
Curative has grown rapidly from its launch less than 3 years ago, now serving more than 1,200 employer clients and over 165,000 members, and achieving profitability…
Full release here, originally announced December 2nd, 2025.
Empathy Health Raises $7.6M to Make Sober Sidekick the Standard in Relapse Prevention for Substance Use Disorder Care
Empathy Health Technologies, the makers of the Sober Sidekick platform, today announced a $7.6 million funding round to advance its mission to define relapse prevention as a measurable and system-wide outcome in modern healthcare. The round was led by HealthX Ventures, with participation from Nina Capital, Ikigai Healthcare Funds, American Heart Association Ventures, Suncoast Ventures, Cortado Ventures, and Wilson Sonsini Investment Company, bringing its total funding to $11.4 million. The funding comes as the company grows its global membership and expands enterprise relationships with U.S. payers under value-based care (VBC) models.
Sober Sidekick has experienced significant growth and is now the world’s largest peer-powered substance-use disorder (SUD) recovery platform, with approximately 1.1 million downloads, 145,000+ monthly active users, and more than 2 million peer engagements. The platform leverages both its engaged community and predictive technology that includes its proprietary Empathy Algorithm, which analyzes millions of behavioral signals and language patterns to detect rising relapse risk, re-engage vulnerable members, and activate support at the exact moment it’s needed. When risk emerges, it triggers immediate peer response, a critical factor given that 88% of individuals who self-report relapse on the platform return to re-engage with the community.
This model represents a fundamental departure from traditional, reactive SUD care by focusing on continuous support and measurable prevention rather than episodic treatment alone.
“Recovery has always rewarded people for coming back after they fall,” said Chris Thompson, Founder and CEO at Empathy Health…
Full release here, originally announced December 3rd, 2025.
Artera Secures $65M Growth Investment and Reaches $100M CARR
Artera, combining human and AI agent intelligence to fix patient communications, today announces a $65 million growth investment and a major milestone of reaching $100 million in Contracted Annual Recurring Revenue (CARR) by the end of 2025. Healthcare organizations have used Artera’s AI solutions to engage more than 200 million patients. With over 1,000 healthcare organization customers, including specialty groups, FQHCs, healthcare providers, and federal agencies, Artera supports over 2 billion patient-to-provider communications annually.
Artera will use the $65 million funding to fuel further growth and the adoption of Agentic AI in healthcare. The growth investment included support from existing investors, Lead Edge Capital (lead investor), Jackson Square Ventures, Health Velocity Capital, Heritage Medical Systems, and Summation Health Ventures.
After unveiling virtual agent solutions at Artera’s Customer Conference Heartbeat’24 in September 2024, hundreds of healthcare providers have deployed Artera Agents, including AI Agents, Flows Agents, and Co-Pilots, to save millions of staff hours and fix patient access challenges.
“The race to leverage agentic AI in healthcare will not be won with technology alone; building AI agents is quickly becoming commoditized,” said Guillaume de Zwirek, Co-Founder and CEO at Artera…
Full release here, originally announced December 3rd, 2025.
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