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Catalia Health Announces Close of $4M – Robot-Human Interaction

Catalia Health, a CA-based patient care management company, has now raised $4m in pre-Series A from Ion Pacific, Khosla Ventures, and others.

Khosla Ventures, NewGen Ventures, Abstract Ventures and Tony Ling joined Ion Pacific in the round. This marks Khosla Ventures’ third and NewGen Ventures’ second investment in Catalia Health. In addition to the funding, Catalia Health announces Charles Wu as Director of Product Management.

The funding builds on the company’s $2.5M seed extension raised earlier this year and a $1.25M seed round led by Khosla Ventures. The startup plans to utilize the funding to begin patient rollout, expand into new disease states in early 2018 and acquire new customers.

Catalia Health Announces Close of $4M - Robot-Human Interaction

Founded in 2014 by Cory Kidd, Catalia Health helps increase medication adherence by working with patients to remember medication, overcome the challenges of dealing with ongoing illness and communicate with healthcare professionals about symptoms, side effects and emotional reactions to the illness to track patient progress.

Mabu’s engaging interface blinks make eye contact and uses AI to build unique relationships with each patient. She currently supports patients living with congestive heart failure, late-stage kidney disease, and rheumatoid arthritis.

It completes daily check-ins using tailored conversations

with patients to help them manage care routines, overcome the challenges of isolating illnesses and provide insight to healthcare professionals about patient health, progress and adherence to treatment.

Ion Pacific is thrilled to join the Catalia Health team in their quest to improve patient health outcomes and the efficacy of healthcare systems through scalable technology,” said Michael Joseph, Co-CEO of Ion Pacific. “Ion Pacific narrows in on the power of creative and tailored solutions and believes Catalia Health’s approach to healthcare is well-positioned to improve patient outcomes. Moreover, there is tremendous interest among our partners in Asia for this type of company, as interest in RAID (Robotics, AI, IoT, Data) technology continues to grow in Asia. We believe there will be continued strong demand for such innovative technology.

We’ve seen great traction since the close of our seed extension and this additional funding is a great proof point for the platform we’ve developed and will help us more rapidly expand the number of patients who can benefit from interactions with Mabu,” said Cory Kidd, CEO, and founder of Catalia Health. “Ion Pacific, a leading technology-focused merchant bank, is the ideal partner to lead this round as we increase our global footprint. This Lagniappe, or ‘little extra,’ round on top of our seed funding lets the company move even faster than before.

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