Fay, a digital diet remedy startup, has secured $50 million in Sequence B funding led by Goldman Sachs, the corporate introduced on Wednesday.
San Francisco-based Fay connects folks to a community of over 2,300 registered dietitians coated by insurance coverage, together with UnitedHealthcare, Cigna and Aetna. Sufferers can entry digital or in-person visits with dietitians. For the dietitians, Fay helps them construct their very own non-public follow and get credentialed with insurance coverage. The startup additionally serves massive employers like Amazon, Microsoft and Pepsi.
Along with Goldman Sachs, the $50 million Sequence B spherical included participation from current traders Normal Catalyst and Forerunner. The Sequence B spherical comes shortly after the corporate’s $25 million Sequence A spherical in Could 2024, bringing its whole funding to $75 million. The funding will assist Fay additional develop and broaden its choices for dietitians and purchasers.
Vitamin is an space that’s ceaselessly uncared for in healthcare, in keeping with Chase Williams, investor at Goldman Sachs.
“Vitamin is a basic part of healthcare and but it’s typically ignored till it’s too late, with folks pushing aside habits change till they get recognized with an avoidable continual situation. It doesn’t need to be that means, and a serious a part of US healthcare shifting in direction of value-based care is getting the system as an entire to work in a extra proactive and preventative means,” Williams mentioned in an announcement. “Higher diet care will probably be on the middle of this transition, and we imagine Fay is uniquely positioned to assist this shift with their AI-driven supplier enablement platform for registered dietitians.”
Presently, greater than half of adults within the U.S. battle a diet-related continual illness. And a part of the issue is that the healthcare system is extra reactive somewhat than proactive, in keeping with Sam Faycurry, founder and CEO of Fay. The corporate goals to handle this difficulty.
“We let tons of of hundreds of thousands of individuals get sick and wrestle with debilitating continual circumstances that might have been prevented, then supply to deal with signs,” Faycurry mentioned in an e mail. “It’s no person’s fault that that is how the system operates at present, however we should change it as a result of we deserve higher. Vitamin care is important, life-changing, proactive care as a result of it is among the only a few well being domains that spans throughout virtually each well being subject from diabetes to consuming issues to most cancers. We’re democratizing entry to assist folks reside more healthy, happier lives.”
Quite a few different digital well being startups are additionally providing meals and diet assist, together with Season Well being and NourishedRx. Faycurry beforehand informed MedCity Information that Fay differs from others within the area by “empowering dietitians to be impartial practitioners.”
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