Seven Starling, a digital girls’s behavioral well being firm, has secured $8 million in funding to assist broaden its maternal psychological well being platform, it introduced on Thursday.
Washington, D.C.-based Seven Starling focuses on perinatal psychological healthcare and addresses challenges associated to fertility, being pregnant, being pregnant loss, postpartum and early parenthood. Girls are often referred to the corporate by their OBGYN after which are paired up with a therapist who focuses on perinatal psychological well being.
Sufferers additionally get entry to group remedy, remedy administration providers, a affected person advocate and in-app content material and workouts. The corporate is in community with most main business plans, together with UnitedHealthcare, Aetna and Cigna.
Its $8 million elevate was led by Rethink Impression and included participation from Pear VC, Zeal Capital Companions, Enlarge Ventures, Ulu Ventures, Expa, Fiore Ventures, the March of Dimes, Rogue Girls’s Fund and Graham & Walker. Seven Starling has raised $22 million in complete.
“Maternal psychological well being represents a large market failure – excessive prices, poor outcomes, and critically underserved populations – and is ripe for disruption,” mentioned Jenny Abramson, founder and managing accomplice of Rethink Impression, in an announcement. “Seven Starling’s tech enabled built-in mannequin tackles one among healthcare’s most urgent challenges with measurable outcomes. That is healthcare innovation that truly strikes the needle.”
The financing will assist speed up Seven Starling’s nationwide enlargement. At the moment, the corporate operates in 18 states in partnership with 1,500 OBGYNs.
“Seven Starling has confirmed scientific outcomes, sturdy supplier partnerships, and payer protection in place, and the time is correct to carry our mannequin to extra girls,” mentioned Tina Keshani, CEO and co-founder of Seven Starling, in an e-mail. “With Rethink Impression’s backing, we will broaden into over 30 states by the top of 2026, proceed to construct revolutionary expertise to additional personalize the affected person expertise, and develop our partnerships with well being programs and well being plans.”
The corporate has delivered some optimistic outcomes by means of its platform, with 90% of sufferers experiencing scientific enchancment. As well as, 96% of sufferers are ready to make use of in-network protection with copays between $0 and $30. About 37% of its sufferers determine as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and Individuals of Colour), as do half of its clinicians.
At the moment, one in 5 girls are affected by perinatal temper and nervousness issues, however 75% of identified girls are unable to entry remedy as a result of points like supplier shortages and lack of protection. That’s what Seven Starling hopes to unravel.
“Our imaginative and prescient is to turn into the go-to vacation spot for girls’s psychological well being, tackling the distinctive psychological well being wants that ladies have all through their lives,” Keshani mentioned. “We’re beginning with a give attention to maternal psychological well being, a second when many ladies are coping with acute psychological well being challenges for the very first time, and see a lot alternative already to proceed to develop with our sufferers.”
Different girls’s psychological well being corporations embody Mavida Well being and LunaJoy.
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