Fruit Street Health provides an online, CDC-recognized Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) delivered via HIPPA-compliant live group video conferencing with Registered Dietitians (RDs). Its weight-loss program includes personalized attention, unlimited messaging with RDs, a free wireless scale and a Fitbit Activity Tracker™ to track progress. The company was founded in 2014 as a public benefit corporation and is led by founder and CEO Laurence Girard. Fruit Street is physician-funded and operates as a telehealth startup based in New York City. The recent investment will allow the company to continue to expand its reach. After the financing the company’s valuation reached $55M. Fruit Street Health operates a HIPAA-compliant digital health platform that enables physicians and registered dietitians to conduct video consultations and monitor patients via connected medical and wearable devices and a mobile dietary-tracking app. The platform integrates wireless scales, Fitbit trackers, blood pressure cuffs, and glucometers, and encourages patients to photograph meals for dietitian feedback. Fruit Street licenses its technology to healthcare providers and also delivers the CDC-recognized Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) to commercial health plan members using its own staff of registered dietitians. The company is a public benefit corporation with a mission to prevent and treat lifestyle-related disease through telemedicine, wearables, and mobile apps. Laurence Girard serves as CEO. The article reports the company has received physician investment from over 200 clinicians. Fruit Street Telehealth, founded in May 2014 by Laurence Girard and Dr. Milton Chen, is a public benefit corporation that offers telehealth software to healthcare providers. Its platform supports HIPAA-compliant video consultations and integrates data from wearable devices and mobile apps to monitor patients’ health, diet, and lifestyle. The company works with joint venture partner VSee on product development. It plans to use the new funding for continued product development, sales and marketing initiatives, and telehealth clinical trials. The company is headquartered in New York City. Its product and go-to-market efforts are supported by physician investors who have participated in financing rounds. Fruit Street Health offers a telehealth and wellness platform that enables healthcare providers to conduct HIPAA-compliant video consultations and monitor patients’ lifestyles through mobile apps and wearable devices. The product includes payment collection for video calls, scheduling, HIPAA-compliant chat, clinical notes, patient dashboards, customized branding, screen sharing, goal setting, health screening questionnaires and wearable-device monitoring. The company is led by founder and CEO Laurence Girard. Fruit Street plans to use the newly raised capital to scale its user base through online and offline advertising campaigns. Financially, the company has completed additional seed funding and has brought total funding to $1.7M. No revenue or user metrics are disclosed in the article. Fruit Street Health is a B Corp offering a digital wellness and telemedicine platform that helps patients improve their lifestyle and enables healthcare providers to connect with them using telemedicine and wearable mobile technologies. The company recently launched its Fruit Street Wellness Clinic solution. It will use the newly raised funds to market the Wellness Clinic solution to medical practices globally. The round increased the company’s total funding to date to $1.3M. Fruit Street is led by Founder and CEO Laurence Girard.

Total raised

$25M

Funding rounds

5

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Mar 2020