Sprinter Health raises $55M to expand its at-home healthcare service

When Max Cohen and Cameron Behar set out to launch a startup together during the pandemic, they decided to focus on the most top-of-mind sector of the era: healthcare. But since neither Cohen nor Behar had a background in healthcare (both worked at Google and Facebook previously), they had to think long and hard about how to contribute to a sector that was dominating the public consciousness at the time. Telehealth was getting tremendously popular, too, in those years, but the duo recognized that not all patients can be served remotely. So, Cohen and Cameron built Sprinter Health to fill that gap, offering at-home preventative services such as blood draws, diabetes eye checks, and colorectal cancer screenings. The startup says its goal is to serve and re-engage patients who haven’t been using the health system so they can stay healthy for a long time. Four-year-old Sprinter has been growing fast: it now operates in 18 states (compared to five in 2023), and has seen its revenue incr ... Read full article.