Digital MSK startup IncludeHealth secures $11 million or more in digital health funding

Digital Musculoskeletal Company (MSK) Health Company IncludeHealth announced it has raised $11 million in a funding round led by CincyTech with input from Tamarind Hill and other investors.

The company said it would use the funds to expand MSK-OS, a virtual platform for musculoskeletal care and physiotherapy. Late last year, IncludeHealth announced a partnership with Yale New Haven Health System to offer a hybrid MSK service model for system patients using the platform.

In addition to the funding round, the startup said it has hired Ray Sheeley as chief operating officer and added Grant Koster, who served as senior vice president of operations, partner and CEO of Athletico Physical Therapy, to its board of directors.

Seniors, a Madrid-based company providing home care services for the elderly and others in need of support, has raised $5.6 million in seed funding.

The round was led by SixThirty featuring Sevenzonic, KIMPA, Zubi Capital and Invertidos. The startup offers home care that includes physical, speech and occupational therapy, mental health and nutritional counseling.

“The approach to the elderly combines technology and personalized care to address two of the most important challenges facing our time: the accelerated aging of the population, which increases the need for this type of care, as well as health problems, which require a sustainable model for healthcare institutions and long-term care for the elderly and addicts,” said Angel Cano, president of Sevenzonic.

Health-benefit startup Thatch announced that it has raised more than $6 million in total funding through pre- and seed rounds.

The seed was led by a16z and GV with strategic investors including Lux Capital, Quiet Capital, Not Boring Capital and BrightEdge. The company, which targets other startups, said it offers benefits in addition to health insurance plans, such as a health savings account, a debit card for healthcare costs and access to experts who can help resolve billing issues.

“Thatch is creating a smart and ingenious solution to our country’s long-standing health care financial crisis with an exciting new fintech application,” a16z general partner Julie Yu said in a statement. “We are proud to support this exceptionally talented team of experts in the field. healthcare and financial technologies to solve this problem”.

Previa Medical, a French company developing an algorithm to alert healthcare workers to the early signs of sepsis, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding.

The round included Kreaxi, M2care, Veymont, Hopla Memory, CCI Capital Croissance, Holding Seraip, Bpifrance and BNP Paribas, as well as equity and debt financing from Banque Populaire AURA.

The company said it will invest in a multicenter clinical trial of its sepsis risk scoring system called SEPSI-SCORE and hire new team members to prepare for a potential commercial launch.