Digital specialty care firm Summus raises $19.5M and extra digital well being fundings

Digital specialty care platform Summus introduced it secured $19.5 million in funding, bringing its complete increase to $70 million. 

Summus presents employers, well being plans, hospitals and well being techniques, and medical teams and networks a digital care platform centered on specialty care, together with peer-to-peer options that enable major care and in-plan specialist suppliers entry to a specialist community. 

The corporate will use the funds to scale its progress and innovation.

Final yr, the New York-based firm obtained a $22 million strategic funding from the Glenstone Basis and Danaher Company’s cofounder and govt committee chairman Mitchell Rales. 

It secured $21 million in a Collection B spherical lower than a yr earlier than. 

Wholesome getting older platform Daring introduced it secured $17 million in Collection A funding led by Rethink Influence, bringing its complete increase to $27 million. 

Samsung Subsequent participated within the spherical alongside current traders Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Well being, Primetime Companions, GingerBread Capital and Khosla Ventures.

Jenny Abramson, founder and managing companion of Rethink Influence, will be a part of Daring’s board of administrators. 

Daring companions with Medicare plans and suppliers to supply members digital train applications aimed toward stopping falls, growing bodily exercise and lowering musculoskeletal ache and incapacity. 

The funds will probably be used to develop the corporate’s train choices and help its enlargement with nationwide and regional supplier teams and Medicare plans. 

“Daring is on the forefront of a brand new paradigm in preventive well being look after older adults that’s based in deep empathy for members and an intensive understanding of cutting-edge well being science,” Abramson mentioned in a press release. “Because the nation’s inhabitants continues to age and Medicare prices balloon, we desperately want revolutionary, evidence-based options like Daring that meet individuals the place they’re and drive worth throughout the healthcare system, from members to suppliers to payers.”