Yuzu Health, a next-generation third-party administrator focused on modernizing the infrastructure behind health insurance plans, announced it has raised $35 million in Series A funding, bringing its total capital raised to $40 million. The round was led by General Catalyst and Chemistry, with participation from Anthropic’s Anthology Fund, Bain Future Back Ventures, Timeless Ventures, Lachy Groom, and Neo. As part of the investment, Alex Tran, Managing Director at General Catalyst, will join the company’s board of directors.
Founded in 2022, Yuzu Health initially aimed to build a new type of health plan. In the process, the company identified a broader opportunity to address longstanding inefficiencies in the underlying infrastructure that powers health insurance. Today, the company operates as a vertically integrated TPA, providing the core systems for claims processing, payments, and member administration.
Yuzu Health has developed a unified, white-labeled system of record that replaces fragmented legacy solutions. This platform enables insurers, brokers, and employers to launch more customizable health plan designs, including direct contracting, cash-pay models, and dynamic copay structures, without the operational complexity typically associated with traditional administrators.
The company currently supports customers across all 50 states, serving thousands of employers and facilitating more than $1 billion in claims payments to date.
With the new funding, Yuzu Health plans to expand its engineering team and scale its platform nationally. The company also intends to further automate historically manual processes such as claims adjudication, stop-loss submissions, reconciliation, bookkeeping, and reporting, reinforcing its role as a comprehensive system of record for health plan administration.
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“Healthcare costs are rising at their fastest pace in over 15 years, and employers are looking for new ways to design plans that actually control costs. But the infrastructure behind health insurance hasn’t meaningfully changed in decades. We built Yuzu to simplify that stack and make it possible for innovative plans to launch quickly, operate efficiently, and deliver a better member experience.”
Max Kauderer, Co-Founder of Yuzu Health
“Max, Ryan, and Russell have assembled some of the best technical and operating talent we’ve seen in healthcare. While most health plan infrastructure providers rely on a bevy of fragmented vendors, the team at Yuzu have accomplished a rare feat by building an operating system that owns every piece of software in-house. We believe this makes Yuzu not only the partner of choice for today’s health plan innovators, but also a long-term beneficiary of the advances we are currently seeing in AI, which requires context that only a unified operating system can provide.”
Alex Tran, Managing Director at General Catalyst
“Our goal at Arlo was to create a health plan that better reflects the needs of small businesses. But working with hundreds and thousands of small groups can quickly become an operational challenge. Yuzu gave us a highly automated, scalable system that allowed us to operate our plan without the operational friction of legacy administrators.”
Jan-Felix Schneider, CEO & Co-Founder at Arlo
