Optimize Health
Facts
- HQ
- Seattle, WA, US
- Sectors
- Software Development
- Founded
- 2015
- Employees
- 49
- Stage
- startup
Chloe Harford Joins Roofstock Board as Kymeta Names Walter Berger and Doug Hutcheson Co-CEOs
Chloe Harford, a former Zillow and OfferUp executive, joined Roofstock's board as the fintech firm continues to expand after acquiring Great Jones and raising $133 million; Kymeta named Walter Berger and Doug Hutcheson co-CEOs and partnered with OneWeb to test mobile satellite broadband. Seattle startups Optimize Health and CityBldr announced leadership moves: Todd Haedrich became Optimize Health CEO, and Convoy CEO Dan Lewis joined CityBldr’s advisory board.
Big Sky Labs raises $1M to build PillPez dispenser that auto-reminds patients and alerts caregivers
Seattle-area startup Big Sky Labs raised $1 million in seed funding to develop PillPez, a home health hub that dispenses medications from pre-loaded pharmacy strips and provides escalating reminders and caregiver alerts. Founders with telehealth experience designed the device to improve medication adherence for people with chronic conditions, Alzheimer’s, or developmental disabilities.
GeekWire names winners at 2021 Awards; SeekOut wins Startup of the Year after $65M raise
The 2021 GeekWire Awards returned as a virtual event honoring over 60 finalists across 14 categories from the Pacific Northwest tech community, featuring celebrity cameos and performances. Winners included SeekOut as Startup of the Year, and among 16 winners eight were women and five were people of color and/or immigrant entrepreneurs.
Chuks Onwuneme, Nigerian-born co-founder and CTO of optimize.health, raises $15.6M Series A and champions Black founders in RPM
Chuks Onwuneme, a Nigerian-born co-founder and CTO of optimize.health (originally Pillsy), recounts his path to tech entrepreneurship and leadership in remote patient monitoring after raising a $15.6 million Series A in 2020. He highlights underrepresentation of Black executives in VC-backed tech, and urges others from similar backgrounds to pursue technical founding roles.
Optimize.health raises $15.6M to scale remote patient monitoring platform amid telehealth surge
Seattle health-tech startup Optimize.health raised $15.6 million to expand its remote patient monitoring platform, which integrates with EHRs, supports communication and billing, and has seen revenue grow over 800% year-over-year.
optimize.health (formerly Pillsy) raises $3.5M bridge round to expand remote patient monitoring beyond smart pill bottles
Pillsy, now operating as optimize.health, expanded from a smart pill bottle to remote patient monitoring software that integrates home health devices; the startup raised a $3.5 million bridge round this year from Bonfire Ventures and others to scale into the broader RPM market.
