Israeli telehealth supplier Antidote Well being as we speak introduced the completion of a $12 million seed financing spherical led by iAngels, Effectively-Tech Ventures and Flint Capital, together with different angel buyers.
Antidote Well being is a B2C firm that launched in January, offering uninsured and underinsurance Individuals with a digital HMO by way of synthetic intelligence (AI) that connects customers to docs with a wise chatbot and thru video calls. Antidote Well being selected an HMO mannequin based mostly on the assumption that it’s the proper solution to rectify the prevalent drawback of entry to healthcare within the US market- with over 38 million Individuals uninsured. By providing a extra direct method to healthcare, Antidote is ready to present people premium high quality well being protection for as little as $29 monthly, making it an accessible various for hundreds of thousands of people and households.
Antidote Well being was based by CEO Avihai Sodri, CTO Carine-Belle Feder, chief medical officer Dr. David Zlotnik, and chairman and president Ben Enosh who cofounded Cyota with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Michal Tzur and Lior Golan,
Sodri mentioned, “Healthcare within the US presents us with an important alternative – each economically and morally. Making medical companies accessible to a inhabitants of hundreds of thousands is a gigantic mission. “The convergence of two disciplines – AI-based digital healthcare and fin-tech (insure-tech) software layers is exclusive within the tech-medical panorama in that it gives a disruptive pressure available in the market. The melding of superior applied sciences and the social influence Antidote produces are a part of our organizational DNA and manifest in each motion we take.”
iAngels founding companion Shelly Hod Moyal mentioned, “If there may be anybody trade for which COVID-19 highlighted the most important gaps and mandatory advances, it’s the want for entry to telehealth. Within the wake of a worldwide pandemic, and as an Israeli who can take with no consideration entry to nationwide healthcare, it’s thoughts boggling that as many as 1 in 4 Individuals would not have entry to equitable and reasonably priced healthcare. We’re proud to guide Antidote Well being’s financing spherical, and to play a task of their journey to stage the sphere for all Individuals to obtain ample telemedicine. Israel is just not solely a number one nation in digital well being, however in know-how as an entire, as may be witnessed by the document breaking yr we’re experiencing. This experience and skill to simplify processes coupled with fintech advances that enable for cost from the palm of your arms has made manner for Antidote Well being’s resolution to an age-old concern.”
The corporate launched a 24/7 digital acute and first care service throughout New York, New Jersey, Florida, Michigan, and North Carolina as of January 2021. Antidote plans to rollout to extra states persevering with by 2022, providing high quality healthcare companies which are reasonably priced for people and households.
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