ConcertoCare Raises $105M For At-Home Senior Care

Companies that deliver care outside of traditional settings are continuing to attract eye-popping amounts of fresh capital, with ConcertoCare recently raising a $105M Series B round to scale its operations across the US.

Concerto is a value-based provider of at-home comprehensive care for seniors “with unmet health and social needs.” The company’s model incorporates medical, behavioral, and social determinants of health to help improve outcomes from multiple angles

  • To help serve medically complex populations, Concerto enlists interdisciplinary care teams of physicians, pharmacists, behavioralists, and social workers to meet with patients either in-person or virtually.
  • These teams are equipped with a proprietary Patient3D decision support platform that assists with identifying the next best action for each patient, as well as a range of connected devices that enable the remote management of chronic conditions.
  • The Series B pushed Concerto’s funding total to $149.5M and will help it launch its Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) later this year while expanding into new US markets outside of the 8 states it already serves.
  • Alongside the funding news, Concerto announced the acquisition of Crown Health, a home-based primary care provider serving the Pacific Northwest. The move aligns with Concerto’s 2021 merger with primary care provider, Perfect Health.

The Takeaway

ConcertoCare’s differentiator is its full-stack approach to improving outcomes for the country’s most medically complex seniors. According to Concerto, less than 5% of patients accounted for half of US healthcare expenditures in 2018, and these are the same patients the company is seeking to help. Concerto’s value-based approach could be a piece of the puzzle for successfully managing this vulnerable population, especially with 88% of seniors preferring to receive care in their home.

League Raises $95M To Scale Health OS

Healthcare navigation platform League recently completed a $95M Series C round to support the scaling of its Health OS platform-as-a-service solution, which aims to be the digital infrastructure for an integrated health ecosystem.

  • Health OS enables payors, providers, and employers to build their own comprehensive healthcare consumer experiences with a secure and interoperable foundation. 
  • The platform is built on the FHIR standard and leverages the Google Cloud Healthcare API to tie together data from EHRs, wearables, and third-party partners to create personalized “digital front doors” for patients.
  • League reports that hundreds of companies ranging from Humana to Shopify have adopted Health OS to ensure employees can quickly access the services that they need, helping them to feel supported in managing their health while performing at their best.
  • The company attributes its success to the fact that it allows its clients to keep up with rising consumer expectations for healthcare convenience without having to invest the labor and resources to create a homegrown solution.

IPO Rumors

The latest raise pushed League’s total funding to $205M, and the announcement seems to hint that future funding could come from the public markets. The round’s lead investor, TDM Growth Partners, stated that it understands “the scaling journey of pre-IPO companies and what it takes to transition them successfully to the public markets.”

Although no timeline was given for an IPO, TDM made similar investments in AllBirds and Slack less than a year prior to them going public, so it wouldn’t be too surprising if League was following a similar tempo.

Calm Acquires Ripple, Appoints New CEO

Wellness company Calm announced the acquisition of Ripple Health Group as it becomes the latest meditation app developer to set its sights on the healthcare market.

While the terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, Ripple’s CEO David Ko will now serve as Calm’s co-CEO alongside Calm co-founder Michael Smith.

  • Calm’s app provides users with audio content that helps them reduce stress, improve sleep, or strengthen their overall mental fitness. Calm’s 100M downloads make it the most popular meditation app of all time.
  • Ripple is the developer of a pair of apps that aim to reduce the burden of caregiving. Care Memo allows patients to communicate with their care teams, while LikePaper helps users organize medical information and set reminders.
  • Following the acquisition, the Ripple team will focus on building Calm Health, an upcoming employer solution designed to support employee mental health that will replace Calm for Business after its launch later this year.
  • Calm Health will include “content, community, and coaching to drive outcomes across the full spectrum of mental healthcare,” building on the lessons learned from Calm for Business, which covers over 20M lives.

The Takeaway
Unlike Headspace and Ginger’s merger from late last year, which aimed to reach the meditation app’s large user base with additional teletherapy services, Calm’s acquisition of Ripple was geared more towards obtaining talent than existing products. The Ripple team and the appointment of Ko as CEO should help to accelerate Calm’s push into the mental health space, and Calm Health is now a core focus of the company’s product roadmap.

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