Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Heal's Founders Launch New Healthcare Startup, Renee, Backed By $8.2M

The founders of home healthcare company Heal, Dr. Renee Dua and Nick Desai, announced a new startup this morning--backed by $8.2M in funding--to help provide healthcare to an aging population. According to Dua and Desai, the new startup, Renee, provides services to help managing scheduling of doctor's appointments, booking rides to and from a doctor's office, providing reminders for appointments and routine prescriptions, and free delivery of most routine prescription medications. The company said it is backed by $8.2M in venture capital funding from AARP, Quiet Capital, Tau Ventures, Mucker Capital, Fika Ventures, SaaS Ventures, Global Founders Capital and Citylight Ventures. The startup was part of the US Department of Health and Human Services PandemicX and the AgeTech Collaborarive from AARP accelerator programs. The startup says its service combines both human support with advanced AI to provide its services.