Amwell, a leading telehealth platform in the United States and globally, connecting and enabling providers, insurers, patients, and innovators to deliver greater access to more affordable, higher quality care, announced that it has closed its Series C financing round, adding $194 million in funding across two tranches. Many early investors and strategic partners participated in this round, including Allianz X and Takeda.
Amwell will use significant parts of the funds to expand its investment in technology and services that make it easy, convenient and effective for doctors and patients to connect securely at scale.
“Amwell will continue to ensure that clinical encounters remain fully integrated in existing workflows and enveloped with healthcare-appropriate clinical and administrative information, management, and reporting,” the company said in a release.
“The past two months have accelerated telehealth by more than two years,” said Ido Schoenberg, CEO of Amwell. “We intend to build upon this momentum to transform healthcare with digital care delivery. Our strategic investors are providers, insurers, consumer gateways and healthcare innovators. Each of these partners play a key role in creating a more interconnected digital healthcare ecosystem, where our mission is to deliver greater access to more affordable, high quality care.”
“Being an investor and partner to Amwell since early 2018, Allianz is excited to see the company emerge as a digital healthcare leader in the U.S.” said Nazim Cetin, CEO of Allianz X. “As one of the leading insurance and financial services leaders in the world, we look forward to deepening our collaboration and bringing innovative solutions to a global audience.”
“Takeda is investing in digital transformation across our business and building key technology partnerships,” said Karl Hick, Chief Digital & Information Officer at Takeda. “Patient journeys will be transformed through new settings of care as we emerge from COVID-19. Amwell has developed a highly scalable and agile technology platform that we believe can directly improve patient access and outcomes.”
Amwell offers a single, comprehensive platform to support all telehealth needs from urgent to acute and post-acute care, as well as chronic care management and healthy living. With over a decade of experience, Amwell powers telehealth solutions for over 240 health systems comprised of 2,000 hospitals and 55 health plan partners with over 36,000 employers, reaching over 150 million lives.
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