Culina Health – a digital platform that makes clinical nutrition care inclusive and accessible for everyone – announced that it has raised a $7.9 million Series A funding round. The funding round, which raised Culina Health’s total capital to $20 million, was led by Healthworx (the investment arm of CareFirst). And additional participation in the round includes Rethink Impact, Collab Capital, Collide Capital, Vamos Ventures, Tensility Venture Partners, Cake Ventures, and GW Ventures.
With this new funding round, Culina Health will expand its offerings to support dietitians and patients, implement new AI platforms to improve care efficiency, and enhance its leadership with key hires. And this round comes on the heels of 117% year-over-year growth and exceptional patient engagement and clinical outcomes.
Co-founded by registered dietitians Vanessa Rissetto and Tamar Samuels in 2020, Culina Health offers a clinically rigorous approach to nutrition. And it connects patients and healthcare providers to a nationwide network of trusted registered dietitians who provide personalized virtual nutrition care across specialty areas of weight loss, chronic disease prevention and management, and healthy eating and wellness. The company partners with major insurers and Medicare, making its digital platform available to 70 percent of the U.S. population.
So far, Culina Health maintains over 1,000 referring providers and has served more than 10,000 patients through the Culina Health Method. And this methodology integrates evidence-based clinical nutrition protocols and non-judgmental and culturally-affirming care to help patients achieve health outcomes.
Culina Health Method has created new standards for nutrition care with above-industry outcomes including 100% prevention of prediabetes disease progression for patients, significant A1c, cholesterol, and systolic blood pressure reduction, as well as $7,000 cost savings per patient per year, amounting to $10.3 billion annual cost savings at scale.
KEY QUOTES:
“Research shows 90 percent of Americans would benefit from seeing a dietitian, yet only .02 percent of the population has done so. It’s clear that nutrition is a vital function of long-term health, and registered dietitians should be empowered to be at the forefront of providing this care. With a clinical-first, evidence-based approach, Culina Health is uniquely positioned to support patients and providers with the most effective and connected nutrition journey. With the help of our investors and health plan partners, we are one step closer to our shared mission of making world-class nutrition care available to everyone and putting registered dietitians back in the driver’s seat of Food as Medicine interventions.”
- Vanessa Rissetto
“New interventions that engage members, improve health outcomes, and ultimately reduce long-term costs associated with managing chronic conditions are core to the potential of whole-person health. Through its clinically driven approach to nutrition and unparalleled level of support, compassion, and attention from its care team, Culina Health has created a viable solution that can be deployed at scale, and has the potential to improve the health of millions of people.”
- Doba Parushev, Managing Partner at Healthworx
