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Fabric M&A, Microsoft Superintelligence, and the Longevity Blueprint
November 10, 2025
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“Consumers have been conditioned for virtual care. They’ve been working over Zoom, using DTC apps, and spending a ton of time on video calls. The pandemic was an inflection point, and people are ready for new healthcare experiences.”
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Fabric CEO Aniq Rahman
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Fabric is back at it again with its fifth acquisition in less than three years, picking up telehealth provider UCM Digital Health to round out its virtual care portfolio.
Here’s a look at Fabric’s M&A journey since launching in 2023 to tackle capacity constraints:
- May 2023 – Fabric nabs Zipnosis from Bright Health to expand into asynchronous care.
- Jan 2024 – Fabric scoops up GYANT to provide an AI-entry point to its services.
- June 2024 – Fabric acquires MeMD and its 30k payor/employer partners from Walmart.
- Sept 2024 – Fabric broadened its provider network by acquiring TeamHealth VirtualCare.
- Nov 2025 – Fabric leans in on payors and employers with UCM Digital Health.
End-to-end platforms are built brick-by-brick. Fabric got its start by bringing consumer mobile app experiences to the ER, but it’s quickly expanded into new verticals and use cases.
- The acquisition spree has grown Fabric into a comprehensive access and experience platform backed by its own medical group, which allows it to streamline virtual-first care for patients across the country.
Fabric’s Hybrid AI is the connective tissue. It automates routine processes to make all the M&A pieces fit together, while also streamlining care coordination and clinical decision support to make its providers more efficient.
- By reducing provider work time to just 89 seconds for asynchronous visits, Fabric enables faster treatments for patients and saves payors up to $17 per member per month – all while maintaining outcomes on par with in-person care.
What’s the end result? Salvaging MeMD from the rubble of Walmart’s telehealth business already gave Fabric a strong foothold in the payor/employer market, and UCM will deepen its impact.
- UCM adds another 400 payor and employer customers to the mix. They’ll transition to the Fabric platform and reap the benefits of its national provider network and polished patient experiences.
- That brings Fabric’s total client roster to over 75 health systems, 30k employers, and more than 100M lives across all 50 states. Not too shabby for a startup still looking forward to its third birthday.
The Takeaway
Fabric’s been acquiring and integrating new platform capabilities as fast as any digital health company out there, and the “buy-and-build” approach definitely seems to be working. They might be spinning a lot of plates, but they haven’t dropped one yet.
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- Grail Locks in $325M: Grail just raised a whopping $325M through a private placement to bolster its balance sheet as it prepares to seek FDA approval for its blood test that can apparently detect dozens of cancers. The funding came from new and existing investors like Hims & Hers, while also arriving just weeks after a separate $110M investment from Samsung. Grail shares skyrocketed over 5x on the news, not a bad turnaround from this time last year when the newly public company was facing liquidity concerns after getting divested from Illumina.
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- Bryan Johnson Raises $60M for Blueprint: The longevity boom is kicking into overdrive after tech-entrepreneur turned human-guinea pig Bryan Johnson secured $60M to fuel the expansion of Blueprint. Johnson has gained a huge social media following by documenting his personal longevity protocol that costs over $2M per year, and the funding will help Blueprint build a virtual care platform to bring his protocol to the masses. Details were sparse, but we can rest easy knowing that we’ll be “more jacked and beautiful” with Blueprint’s presence in our life.
- SlicedIQ Launch: SlicedHealth debuted its new SlicedIQ contract intelligence solution that leverages AI to analyze contracts and help hospitals get out in front of any “roadblocks to an optimal revenue cycle.” Besides sounding like a catchy euphemism for a lobotomy, SlicedIQ allows RCM teams to uncover hidden underpayments, strengthen their denial management strategies, and ask natural-language questions about their contracts.
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- Hospitals Optimistic on Proactive Care: Most health system executives seem to agree that AI will help them move to more proactive care. Chartis’ fifth annual Digital Transformation Survey found that 9 in 10 execs believe they must fundamentally change how they operate – from reactive to proactive care – to remain viable over the next 5 years. The execs were optimistic they can achieve the shift by leveraging AI to transform access (89%), personalize the patient journey (86%), fit resources to demand (77%), and serve more patients (75%).
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- WellSky Teams Up With Suki: WellSky is teaming up with Suki to bring ambient AI to more specialty care providers. Suki’s AI assistant is now directly integrated with the WellSky Specialty Care EHR, and early adopters like KVC Health Systems have already been seeing some nice benefits. They’ve reportedly reduced documentation time per clinical note by 41%, slashed after-hours work by 37%, and driven up to $1,688 in additional monthly revenue per user through efficiency gains.
- The Heart Wants Healthy Living: A UK Biobank study suggests that lifestyle changes might be one of the best ways to reduce the risk of peripheral artery disease in patients with type 2 diabetes. Researchers examined 14.5k T2D patients matched with 56.9k controls for nearly 12 years and found that controlling PAD risk factors (e.g. physical activity, diet, smoking cessation) reduced disease incidence by approximately 23% per factor. T2D patients controlling ≥6 factors showed no excess PAD risk versus non-diabetic controls (HR 0.82), while those controlling ≤2 factors were at 2.5x higher risk.
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