Collective Health Raises $205M Led by SoftBank Vision Fund

Health technology company Collective Health has announced a $205m round of new funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund.

Collective Health will use the new funding to:

• Accelerate adoption of its enterprise healthcare platform with employers across the U.S. and deepen strategic partnerships across the industry
• Deliver even greater technology capabilities to address fundamental health insurance service issues that plague U.S. consumers and employers alike

Accelerating adoption and deepening partnerships

Building upon the increasing demand from American employers looking to address the ballooning complexity and cost of healthcare, Collective Health is accelerating growth across all 50 states by strengthening its national sales, engineering, and customer experience teams in San Francisco, Chicago, and Lehi.

Collective Health makes health insurance work for everyone. With more than 200,000 lives across over 45 enterprise clients in diverse industries such as technology, agriculture, entertainment, and retail, among others, Collective Health’s growth has gone from early adopter to mainstream since launching in 2013.

Collective Health plans to add new partnerships to its already expansive list of 80 integrated health partners on its open platform. These include new local and national medical PPO networks, provider systems serving the commercial market, and an increasing number of digital health solutions that allow seamless integration for both employer reporting and member engagement.

Advancing product development and technology capabilities

With much of the country’s health insurance industry still running on antiquated and disparate technology systems, Collective Health is rebuilding how a health plan works for both employers and the populations they cover in one, unified software platform. With four patents pending across its product suite, this new funding will support Collective Health’s expansion of its product and engineering team to accelerate development in core areas, including:

Reducing administrative burden and waste

By continuing to invest in improved claims and payments technology to enhance decades-old systems, Collective Health plans to enable more transparency around cost of care, faster payments, improved member navigation, and rapid fraud detection. As a result, all employer clients and members are able to make more timely, informed healthcare decisions and receive the information they need—right when they need it.

Guiding members to treatments that meet their health needs while helping to reduce costs

Collective Health enables employers to create a seamless experience for their people and drive engagement with their ecosystem of solutions to create healthier workforces. Collective Health’s patent-pending machine learning engine, CH Cortex™, identifies individual member care needs—from chronic disease management to radiology services and beyond. The Collective Health app and Member Advocates then guide people to appropriate partners, facilities, and providers for treatment.

Unlike many navigation and advocacy vendors who chase members after a high cost claim, Collective Health is already engaged with people through its products and Member Advocates, with 2/3 of claims preceded by an interaction with Collective Health.

Delivering insights to employers that point the way to improved population health

Collective Health Insights gives employers and their consultants a window into the trends that drive healthcare spend; for most companies, the size of that spend is second only to payroll. Insights will launch new features and datasets that extend the Collective Health commitment to helping employers better understand and manage emerging health issues, so they can move from reactive to proactive and, in turn, provide their people with better access to care.

The SoftBank Vision Fund led the round with additional participation from PSP Investments, DFJ Growth, and G Squared, as well as existing Collective Health investors including Founders Fund, GV, Maverick Ventures, Mubadala Ventures, NEA, Sun Life, and other leading investors.