Pear Suite Empowers Community Health Workers to Improve Health in Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities

$2.5 Million in Seed Funding Expands Care Navigation Software and Partnerships with a Focus on Addressing Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) with Cultural Competency Pear Suite, a digital health company working to empower community health workers (CHWs) and better address the social determinants of health (SDOH), today announced its recently closed funding round. The $2.5 million in seed funding will enable CHWs to better act on SDOH data as well as expand the company’s efforts within the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. The investment round was led by Mucker Capital, Impact Engine, American Heart Association, Sweater Ventures, and Atento Capital, with support from Techstars, Open Venture Capital, Incisive Ventures, Lair East Labs, StartUp Health, and Third Act Ventures. Launched in 2021 by Co-Founders Colby Takeda and Nick Lockett, Pear Suite’s flexible and customizable social care navigation platform enables anyone – CHWs, care coordination staff, volunteers, and others – to better assess and address SDOH in a cost-effective, person-centered, and culturally and linguistically sensitive way. Through AI-powered smart scripts and care journeys, omni-channel communication tools, predictive analytics, and actionable dashboards to guide resource linking, Pear Suite is converting SDOH data into real-time solutions for CHWs to drive impactful interventions for those in need, particularly those within the AAPI community. To date, the compa...
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