Digital musculoskeletal firm Sword Well being has secured $40 million in funding and launched a brand new psychological well being answer referred to as Thoughts that mixes AI with licensed clinicians, the corporate introduced on Tuesday.
New York Metropolis-based Sword Well being leverages AI to handle muscle and joint points from the neck all the way down to the ankle. It gives entry to digital bodily remedy, bodily well being schooling, pelvic care assist, on-demand scientific ache specialists and extra. The corporate serves each employers and well being plans.
The $40 million funding spherical was led by Basic Catalyst and included assist from Khosla Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Lince Capital, Oxy Capital, Armilar, Indico Capital and Shilling. In complete, the corporate has raised $300 million. The latest spherical brings its valuation to $4 billion.
“At Basic Catalyst, we again firms driving significant change in healthcare, and Sword Well being sits squarely on the forefront of that transformation,” stated Chris Bischoff, managing director at Basic Catalyst and Sword board director, in a press release. “By fusing subtle AI with human scientific experience, Sword is re-imagining your complete care continuum—from bodily ache care to right now’s launch of Thoughts for psychological well being — increasing entry, enhancing outcomes, and decreasing prices at world scale.”
The financing might be utilized in 3 ways, in line with Virgilio Bento, founder and CEO of Sword Well being. It’ll speed up its M&A exercise, assist its world growth and assist it increase to different areas of care.
The financing comes shortly after fellow musculoskeletal firm Hinge Well being went public, in addition to power situation firm Omada Well being, which additionally provides some joint and muscle well being assist. Some well being tech consultants have predicted that Sword Well being may file for an IPO quickly as properly. Nonetheless, Bento informed MedCity Information that the corporate doesn’t plan to pursue an IPO within the foreseeable future.
“We’re targeted on ensuring we execute our imaginative and prescient, which is now to increase past bodily care, into different areas of care with our AI care mannequin,” he stated. “Persevering with to stay non-public for the months and years to come back permits us to concentrate on what issues essentially the most, which is with the ability to constantly innovate, assist increasingly members of their path to full restoration, and higher serve our purchasers by offering extra ROI. We don’t wish to be distracted with the rest.”
Sword Well being additionally unveiled a brand new psychological well being answer referred to as Thoughts, which is on the market to sufferers 24/7. It consists of an AI therapist referred to as Phoenix, in addition to entry to psychological well being professionals when human assist is required. As well as, it provides a wearable machine referred to as the M-band, which might detect indicators of melancholy and nervousness and immediate Thoughts clinicians to succeed in out.
“Conventional remedy, based mostly on episodic 40-minute periods typically weeks aside, displays a largely outdated and one-dimensional view that may’t sustain with the round the clock actuality of psychological well being,” Bento stated. “This captures solely fragments of an individual’s life, lacking the on a regular basis components that form psychological wellbeing resembling sleep, stress, relationships, and setting. … This mannequin shifts care from reactive to proactive, delivering steady assist and eradicating limitations to entry.”
Trying forward, the corporate’s objective “is to make use of synthetic intelligence to heal the world throughout all dimensions within the healthcare world. This growth into psychological well being is one other step in that route,” Bento added.
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