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Sprinter Health raises $55M to expand its at-home healthcare service

The Series B was led by General Catalyst, with Andreessen Horowitz, Regents of the University of California, Google Ventures, and Accel also investing.

But since neither Cohen nor Behar had a background in healthcare (both worked at Google and Facebook previously), they had to think long and hard about how to contribute to a sector that was dominating the public consciousness at the time. So, Cohen and Cameron built Sprinter Health to fill that gap, offering at-home preventative services such as blood draws, diabetes eye checks, and colorectal cancer screenings. “There have been many home-based care companies that have failed because it’s really hard to make the unit economics work when you are deploying humans into the field,” Julie Yoo, a general partner at a16z, told TechCrunch.

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