Iris Plans provides secure videoconferencing technology that connects people facing serious medical conditions with specially trained facilitators who educate, guide decision-making, and assist in completing advance healthcare directives. The service is delivered through partnerships with large national healthcare providers and health insurance companies, which cover 100% of the cost for their members. Co-founded by Dr. Stephen Bekanich (Chief Medical Officer) and Steve Wardle (CEO), the company focuses on facilitating and distributing advance directives to guide future care. Iris Plans plans to use its new funding to enhance its technology platform, hire key staff, and expand national partnerships with healthcare providers and payers. The business model centers on payer and provider partnerships rather than direct consumer payments. No revenue or user figures were disclosed in the article. Iris Plans is an Austin, Texas-based tech-enabled Advance Care Planning (ACP) service for people facing serious medical conditions. Led by CEO Steve Wardle, the company provides a service that uses targeted technology and algorithms to allow strategic partners, mainly health insurance plans, to identify patients who will most benefit from ACP. Iris Plans raised $750K in seed funding. Backers included Better Ventures, whose co-founders and managing directors Wes Selke and Rick Moss joined the Iris Plans Board of Advisors. The company intends to use the funds for a new release of its technology platform and to launch major partnerships. The financing was reported on 15 September 2016.

Total raised

$6M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Sep 2017