Last year, I assembled a small team and began incubating products in the digital health space. This work has resulted in the creation of two companies, Bridge and Sunrise Health. A few updates:
We learned early on that there is no equivalent to Stripe in telehealth! Every digital health company must individually contract and integrate with 100s of regional plans to accept insurance as a form of payment.
As a result, most telehealth companies end up requiring patients to pay directly via credit card - making these services unaffordable for many people, arguably those who may need them the most.
So, we built @Use_Bridge – a one click checkout for health insurance. Bridge gives telehealth companies the ability to accept insurance within a matter of weeks. It will be launching with several pilot customers in the next few months.
Secondly, we looked at how telehealth could help combat obesity, which is the root cause of so many serious conditions. By 2030, more than half of all adults in the US will be considered obese. This is a national epidemic.
So, we built @findsunrise, a product designed to make obesity care accessible through physicians and if medically appropriate, access to GLP-1 medications. Over the last 15 months, Sunrise has helped 200k+ patients and is doing $XXm in ann rev, is profitable and growing
So what’s next? Bridge and Sunrise are going to be led by world-class leaders from the founding team. Bridge will be led by @keatonbedell and Sunrise will be led by Jacob Gilson. I will continue to support as a co-founder and advisor.
@apoorva_mehta @findsunrise If Jacob and sunrise need smart scales hit us up!