Invest. Build. Grow.
Echo Health Ventures invests to build and grow great health care companies.
Our Companies
Echo Health Ventures partners with innovative companies that are thinking differently. Together with our portfolio companies, we’re identifying bold, new and original ways to meet people’s healthcare needs and drive sustainable impact on the delivery of care.
Our Approach
Echo Health Ventures creates transformation through hands-on, purpose-driven strategic venture capital and growth equity investing. We are built on collaboration, connecting our member health plans with portfolio companies that deliver breakthrough products and services to the more than 12 million people those plans serve across eight states. Our unique approach leads to greater affordability, better health outcomes and improved access to care for millions of Americans.
Echo Innovation Alliance
Echo Health Ventures partners with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Cambia Health Solutions, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield and BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee to accelerate healthcare innovation on a national scale and to drive meaningful healthcare impact. Together, these four health plans form the Echo Innovation Alliance, a shared strategic investing platform.
Latest News
Report finds lower total cost of care for Regence BlueShield members with access to Dispatch’s Emergency Room Alternative Care Model
DispatchHealth, the leading organization powering scale in complex care at home, today announced findings from a three-year matching study reviewing its partnership with Regence BlueShield for the Washington state health plan’s commercial and Medicare Advantage members. Comparing Regence members to a matched benchmark, the study revealed statistically significant medical cost savings, although the study noted…
Thyme Care closes $125+ million Series E, establishes Thyme Companies to broaden its impact across the oncology ecosystem
Thyme Care, the nationally recognized oncology company, today announced a new Series E financing round of over $125M.
Cityblock agrees to acquire Homeward, alongside a $116 million Series E led by General Catalyst
Toyin Ajayi, CEO and co-founder of Echo portfolio company Cityblock Health, today announced that Cityblock has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Homeward Health in an all-stock transaction, alongside a $116 million Series E led by General Catalyst. Ajayi writes: We’re doing this from a position of real momentum: we now serve almost 200,000 members across…