What You Should Know:
– Portland, Oregon-based Reperio Health announced it has raised $6M in seed funding co-led by Caduceus Capital Partners in Nashville, Tenn., and Rogue Venture Partnersin Portland, Ore., with additional investment from Liquid 2 Ventures and G Ventures, both out of the San Francisco Bay Area.
– Reperio’s patent-pending at-home health assessment brings a broad range of screenings right to peoples’ doors. The home wellness kits contain sensors for testing key health metrics like levels of total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglycerides and glucose, blood pressure, resting heart rate, BMI and RFM. With this info, people are better empowered to monitor and track their health over time.
– The company plans to use the funding to support its plans to accelerate growth and expand proactive health monitoring to the employer market.
How At-Home Wellness Kits Work
Reperio’s HIPAA-compliant mobile app begins with a wellness screening to understand lifestyle patterns. Then, the biometric screening walks customers through the testing process using voiceovers, animations and videos to make the process as user-friendly as possible. Once they complete the full screening, the Reperio app provides them real-time results with context that explains their results in a consumer-friendly and easy to understand format.
Availability
In addition to their initial launch into the employer market, Reperio’s at-home health assessments will be made available to health plans, retirement facilities, fitness and nutrition practitioners and directly to individuals who are personally motivated to better understand and control their health data.
