2022年3月16日

餐厅卫生、巴西启动创建于去年年中,作为一个企业健康福利和员工之间的中间地带,指导他们如何之间的导航服务和为企业降低成本,这周三宣布(16)创始人领导的一轮360万美元基金和一般催化剂。这是创始人基金第一个巴西医疗卫生科技创业投资。“我们知道(拉丁美洲)市场过热,有几种方法可以提高(基金),但你必须知道你想要达到的。我们设法把创始人基金,基金已经投资在像SpaceX公司Airbnb,和一般催化剂,基金已投资于健康很长一段时间。我们还带来了格伦Tullman,独角兽的创始人和CEO Transcarent(美国餐厅卫生基准)和前首席执行官和创始人的另一家名叫Livongo的健康科技公司。这些基金也投资或投资于美国创业启发我们,”费尔南多·里贝罗说,该公司的首席执行官和共同创始人和威廉Menegali。圆还包括其他投资者,包括北企业和Latitud基金也参与创业的年代计划投资,130万年强,与其他的天使投资者。根据里贝罗,新资金将主要用于吸引新的专业人才餐厅和不断发展的平台。“我们的目标是要从根本上减少(健康)公司的成本和提高医疗服务的质量传递给员工。我们本质上是通过帮助员工浏览他们的利益,创造一个(单独的)之旅,取代目前的支离破碎的经验。 We do not replace health plan operators and service providers, but we are an impartial gateway that helps employees find the right service, which also drastically reduces business costs.” The startup ‘s addressable market is gigantic; basically, every company that offers health plans to its employees, from SMEs to large companies that provide benefits for more than 70,000 lives. According to the latest data from the National Supplementary Health Agency (ANS), Brazil ended 2021 with the highest number of health plan beneficiaries since March 2016 – when the country’s economic crisis hit and began to affect the sector as well. There are 48.7 million users of health care plans in the country today, and 68% of them are beneficiaries of plans paid by employers. Ribeiro points out that Alinea operates at the two most fragile ends of the industry’s equation: companies, which have to cover costs in the best possible way, and employees, who effectively need to access services and get the best out of them. In practice, the company delivers a layer of experience to employees which can be accessed via app or WhatsApp. From there, Alinea works in two ways: it offers a concierge service, which allows two-touch scheduling of services, in addition to answering questions and helping people navigate the health services’ puzzle; and also creates an integrated and personalized care plan for beneficiaries, with access to a health team that accompanies the patients throughout their journey. To offer all that, the startup has to integrate the operators’ system into its application and deploy its proprietary algorithms to process all the data generated by employees, who also can evaluate all the services provided. These data return to companies in the form of insights that answer questions such as what is actually used, when it is used, and who provides a particular service better according to employees.