Pomelo Care Secures $33M, Partners with Leading Health Plans, Employers and Academic Medical Centers to Deliver Value-Based Care and Improve Maternal and Newborn Health

Backed by Andreessen Horowitz and First Round Capital, Pomelo Care has Built an End-to-End, Value-Based Virtual Maternity Care Platform and is on Track to Cover 2M Lives this Year Pomelo Care, a virtual medical practice that improves maternal and newborn health outcomes, today announced $33 million in Seed and Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The capital will fuel Pomelo’s continued partnership expansion with major health plans, including several Medicaid managed care organizations, employers and leading academic medical centers on the front lines of the national maternal health crisis. Pomelo’s multispecialty team of expert clinicians cares for mothers and infants from preconception through pregnancy, birth and one year postpartum, spanning everything from prenatal care to nutrition and lactation to mental health. Its value-based virtual care model pairs each patient with a personalized care team to comprehensively address maternal health inequities and the root causes of poor outcomes. Pomelo uses data to predict and proactively identify risk, provides holistic care leveraging evidence-based protocols and novel care programs and makes 24/7 care accessible via phone, text, and video. “We know that the right care at the right time can dramatically improve outcomes for families. Everyone deserves access to high-quality care, regardless of their circumstances or health plan,” said Marta Bralic Kerns, Founder and CEO at Pomelo Care. “That’s why Pomelo e...
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