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Caraway named to the New York Digital 100

Caraway has been named to the New York Digital Health 100! The NY #DH100 celebrates the most innovative healthcare startups in New York.

February 7, 2024

25 healthcare startups that are set to take off in 2024

"With its mission to provide the education, navigation, and access needed to help those entering early adulthood thrive, Caraway is set to revolutionize healthcare for young adults."

December 18, 2023

Caraway named one of the most promising digital health companies of 2023

CB Insights has unveiled the winners of the fifth annual Digital Health 50 — a list of the 50 most promising private digital health companies across the globe. Companies on this list are building tools for clinicians, healthcare organizations, payers, and life sciences companies.

December 11, 2023

Spotlight: Lori Evans Bernstein, CEO/Co-Founder of Caraway

Meet Lori Evans Bernstein, the CEO/Co-Founder of Caraway, whose mission is to fundamentally change the way Gen Z experiences the healthcare system. Caraway's vision is to treat their members' needs in the moment and provide them with skills to manage their health over their lifetime.

July 5, 2023

Fierce Healthcare Fundraising Tracker—Gen Z-focused provider Caraway secures $16.75M to scale

Caraway, a digital health company focused on Gen Zers, will use the funding to advance the development of its platform and scale its services. The announcement was also accompanied by the news that the startup is rolling out its virtual care services in six more states: Colorado, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan and New Jersey.

June 26, 2023

Caraway shows what else digital health can do

Access to healthcare has long been an issue in the U.S., but the sheer magnitude of the problem became apparent during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Numerous digital health startups stepped in to address the plethora of issues, and for a few quarters, VCs flocked to back them.

June 23, 2023

Roe reversal fuels women's health deal market

Nearly one year out from the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the women's health tech industry is at a critical inflection point. Total funding for women's health tech dropped just 10% from 2021's peak, even as the digital health sector overall plunged nearly 50% during the same time period.

June 22, 2023

Caraway raises $16.75M to expand virtual care platform for Gen Z

Caraway, a virtual care startup focused on providing mental, physical and reproductive healthcare for Generation Z, has secured $16.75 million in Series A funding led by Maveron and GV.

June 22, 2023

GV backs Gen Z-focused digital health company's $17M funding round

GV, formerly Google Ventures, co-led a $16.75 million series A funding round for Caraway, a company offering digital mental, reproductive and physical health services for Generation Z patients.

June 21, 2023

Caraway Secures Series A Funding to Fundamentally Change How Gen Z Experiences Healthcare

To advance the development of its Gen Z care platform and scale its services, Caraway today announced $16.75M in Series A funding. The round is led by Maveron, investor in consumer-only and early-stage companies, and GV.

June 20, 2023

Caraway Secures $16.75M Series A Funding

Caraway, a digital healthcare company for Gen Z, announced a series of milestones and expansions to fundamentally change how Gen Z experiences healthcare. To advance the development of its Gen Z care platform and scale its services, Caraway today announced $16.75M in Series A funding.

June 20, 2023

Top 50 In Digital Health - 2022 Honorees

The Top 50 in Digital Health honors individuals from the digital health community for exceptional work in driving resources, bringing awareness, and pushing innovation toward better healthcare for all. These leaders are focused on advancing reproductive and maternal health equity for historically marginalized people, providing accessible and affordable gender-affirming care via telehealth, transforming stigma in the behavioral health system, and so much more. Congratulations to this year’s honorees of the Top 50 in Digital Health.

May 1, 2023

Telehealth Startups Prep For Abortion Pill Decision

In light of the recent rulings and misinformation on medication abortion, Erin Brodwin spoke with Lori Evans Bernstein, CEO and Co-founder of Caraway, Carolyn Witte, CEO of Tia, and Kiki Freedman, CEO of Hey Jane to discuss how women’s healthcare startups are stepping up to combat the misinformation and overcome future obstacles.

April 13, 2023

The Top Digital Health Leaders of 2023

Today we released our first-ever awards list featuring “The Top 35 Digital Health Leaders.” This annual list highlights 35 of the most innovative and influential leaders in the digital health industry. The list was compiled after an extensive internal and external research process that spanned over six months

March 7, 2023

Doctors Explain How Parents Should Prepare Their Teens for College

Caraway Care Team members Cheryl Baggeroer Turner, MD and Sara Levine, MD see the worrisome daily headlines about the multiple crises affecting young people right now and share their fears. With this byline for Grown and Flown they share 10 tips on how to prepare your kids for a healthy college experience.

March 2, 2023

Camden Robertson And The Fight For The Right To Wellness

Camden Robertson '23 is busy. It’s her final year at Pace as a double major in peace and justice studies and political science. She helped bring affordable online healthcare to students on campus through a healthcare startup, has been a Peer Advocate Against Sexual Assault for three years, and she won a Girard Cannon Award for Poetry in 2021.

March 1, 2023

The Hot Subsectors Of Women's Health Tech To Watch

Women's health tech companies are having a moment. Dozens of companies across the categories Francesca de Quesada Covey highlighted have raised significant capital in recent years. For example, mental and reproductive health tech startup Caraway last summer pulled in $10.5 million in seed capital.

February 23, 2023

Caraway & Ash Wellness Are Partnering To Provide At-Home STI Testing

STIs are spreading like wildfire and increasing at alarming rates, especially for college students, but there’s a new solution to ease all your STI worries. Caraway, a digital healthcare platform for college women, is partnering with Ash Wellness to provide at-home STI test kits made specifically for Gen Z.

February 14, 2023

Caraway, Ash Wellness Launch Partnership to Combat Rise in STIs on College Campuses

Through the partnership, members of Caraway can order an STI Kit, which is delivered to their door and is geared toward Gen Z. The kits have tests for STIs and sexual health, including chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, HIV, hepatitis C, trichomoniasis, candidiasis and bacterial vaginosis.

February 14, 2023

Caraway and Ash Wellness Partner to Address Surge in Gen Z Sexually Transmitted Infections

Caraway, a digital healthcare company for Gen Z, announces its partnership with Ash Wellness to combat the rise in STIs on college campuses. Caraway's members can now access complimentary, discrete and on-demand STI kits delivered directly to their addresses in New York, California, Ohio and North Carolina.

February 14, 2023

Making The Right Choice In Healthcare

What I found particularly interesting about Caraway is its offering of care designed around women and those AFAB, and personalized for all. Such companies that empower us to make informed choices about our health must continue to prioritize disseminating healthcare information in a way that is accessible and affordable; as young women, we are entitled to this knowledge because our bodies do not merely deserve to survive; they are meant to thrive.

February 14, 2023

43 Startups To Bet Your Career On In 2023

What I found particularly interesting about Caraway is its offering of care designed around women and those AFAB, and personalized for all. Such companies that empower us to make informed choices about our health must continue to prioritize disseminating healthcare information in a way that is accessible and affordable; as young women, we are entitled to this knowledge because our bodies do not merely deserve to survive; they are meant to thrive.

February 9, 2023

Addressing the Multitude of Healthcare Crises Facing College Women+

What I found particularly interesting about Caraway is its offering of care designed around women and those AFAB, and personalized for all. Such companies that empower us to make informed choices about our health must continue to prioritize disseminating healthcare information in a way that is accessible and affordable; as young women, we are entitled to this knowledge because our bodies do not merely deserve to survive; they are meant to thrive.

January 18, 2023

Health-Tech Founder Wants to Make Reproductive Care More Accessible for Gen Z

What I found particularly interesting about Caraway is its offering of care designed around women and those AFAB, and personalized for all. Such companies that empower us to make informed choices about our health must continue to prioritize disseminating healthcare information in a way that is accessible and affordable; as young women, we are entitled to this knowledge because our bodies do not merely deserve to survive; they are meant to thrive.

December 23, 2022

Episode #6 – The Future of Mental Healthcare in Education

Episode #6 of Titans of Healthcare invites leaders in the mental health space to talk about mental healthcare and it's role in education.

December 20, 2022

In Honor of the 2022 Season of the Frosh and Frat Flu

Nothing, truly nothing compares to the first time you get sick in this new, germy kindergarten-like environment, and you feel lost without a mother to take care of you or your usual 'sick spot' at home to snuggle into. We long for care away from home.

December 7, 2022

The Digital Health 150: The most promising digital health companies of 2022

CB Insights has unveiled the fourth annual Digital Health 150 — a list of 150 of 2022's top private companies transforming healthcare with digital technology.

December 7, 2022

Hopelab Invests $1.5M in Five Startups Who Are Redefining Mental Health Care for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC Youth

Hopelab, a leading social innovation lab and impact investor helping advance a new generation of mental health entrepreneurs has made investments into Brave Health, Caraway Health, InStride, MindRight Health and violet.

December 5, 2022

Don’t Put Your Health on the Back Burner

Recently, my friends and I started looking into different healthcare apps we could download on our phones. We came across Headspace, Calm and Caraway, which all offer different types of convenient care. Had I known about and utilized these when I was a freshman, I think my whole experience would have been different; having access to care when I needed it most, instead of having to wait until I was home.

November 29, 2022

Health Execs Embrace Tailwinds Fueling Abortion Access

At a time when some states and the federal government are stripping away reproductive health rights while others choose to protect them, the leaders of private companies see their role as more important than ever.

November 29, 2022

Q&A: Caraway's CEO on the 'Tsunami' of Healthcare Need Among Young Women

CEO and co-founder Lori Evans Bernstein explains why Caraway is focused on women and people assigned female at birth and discusses the startup's strategy for offering reproductive healthcare in states where abortion access is restricted.

November 23, 2022

How Just-In-Time Healthcare Support For Women Can Drive Student Success

What exactly does “just-in-time” health support look like in practice for college students? Alison Griffin talked with Camden Robertson, a 19-year-old woman who attends Pace University in New York, to discuss her experience and observations of healthcare accessibility as a college student

November 10, 2022

Caraway Launches Virtual Healthcare Services for Women+ at Colleges Across the United States

Four million college women+, ages 18-27, across New York, California, Ohio and North Carolina, now have access to mental, physical and reproductive healthcare services all in one place. Built with and for students, the Caraway mobile app is available in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

November 9, 2022

Caraway Launches Virtual Healthcare Services for Women+ at Colleges Across the United States

Caraway is a healthtech startup for college women that offers mental, physical, and reproductive care. The startup launched care services in four states today after pilots in New York and California. Here's why Caraway's founders and investors are betting big on this underserved market.

November 9, 2022

Op-ed: Students deserve easier access to health care with transparent pricing

As college students, we deserve better treatment, greater transparency and more options. I have been seeking out other ways to maintain my own health, including exercising, eating more nutritious food, downloading health care apps such as Caraway and prioritizing sleep.

November 8, 2022

If You're A College Student Looking For Better Access To Health Care, Meet Caraway

Countless North American college women are ill-informed and unable to solve their medical issues because the health care system has failed them. We’re in dire need of a better way to access care. And even though it may not seem like it, there are several companies who see our struggle and want to help us — one being Caraway.

November 6, 2022

34 of the Most Promising Women’s Health Startups of 22, According to VCs

Venture-capital funding for women's healthtech startups has exploded. Here are the 34 most promising startups in the space, according to investors.

October 17, 2022

College is Hard. Healthcare Might be Harder

While it may seem naive or even mythical, you can engage with the people you want to be engaged with. I recently spoke with Olivia Coletta, head of engagement at Caraway, a digital healthcare company, about the transformation of health maintenance pipe-dreams to real and inexpensive services built specifically for a demographic within the adolescent population: college age women+.

October 5, 2022

Quit Genius, Wondermind Cash In Despite Investment Slowdown

Several digital mental health startups managed to land capital in the last few weeks as the investment market for these companies cools down. July saw investment rounds for other early-stage digital mental health such as the women’s digital health company Caraway.

August 15, 2022

Caraway Raises $10.5M in Seed Funding

Caraway, a New York-based women’s+ digital healthcare company, raised $10.5M in Seed funding. The round was led by 7wireVentures and OMERS Ventures, with participation from Hopelab Ventures.

August 15, 2022

From self-care to mental health and doctor visits, Gen Z is reimagining well-being.

Caraway brings women’s+ healthcare to college students.

August 9, 2022

HEALTH CARE IN COLLEGE SUCKS

New digital health startup Caraway raised $10.5 million to revamp health care on college campuses for the Gen Z women+ population. This is great news since health care on campuses is notoriously awful. Caraway will leverage technology to make all-encompassing health care accessible for college students who, conveniently, are always using their smartphones.

July 30, 2022

Post Roe v Wade, femtech stakeholders feel urgency, opportunity

Investors, founders and other stakeholders at women’s health-focused startups are conferring with and supporting each other since the Supreme Court’s decision on abortion in June.

July 29, 2022

Women’s Health Care Company for College Students Raises $10.5M in Seed Funding

Caraway, a Flatiron-based women’s health care company focused specifically on providing care for college students who identify as women, nonbinary or gender nonconforming, has raised $10.5 million out of stealth in a seed round led by 7wireVentures and OMERS Ventures, Caraway announced Tuesday. According to the company, Caraway will provide integrated reproductive, physical and mental health care tailored to college students’ specific needs and in light of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which makes access to care vital.

July 27, 2022

Caraway, A Digital Health Startup Targeting College Women, Comes Out of Stealth with $10.5M in Funding

Caraway, a femtech with plans to take on the societal and medical imperative of caring for college students by providing integrated mental, reproductive and physical healthcare has come out of stealth announcing a $10.5M seed round.

July 27, 2022

College women-focused digital health startup snags $10.5M to offer integrated care

A new women-focused health tech startup for college students, Caraway, has announced a $10.5 million seed round.

July 27, 2022

Caraway raises $10.5M seed to offer virtual care to college women

Caraway, a virtual care startup focused on providing mental, physical and reproductive healthcare for college students, emerged from stealth with $10.5 million in seed funding. The seed was led by 7wireVentures and OMERS Ventures, with participation from Hopelab Ventures and angel investors.

July 27, 2022

Women's+ Healthcare Company, Caraway, Launches to Tackle College Student's Mental, Reproductive and Physical Health

Out of Stealth, Caraway Raises $10.5 Million in Seed Funding, Led by 7wireVentures and OMERS Ventures, with Participation from Hopelab Ventures.

July 26, 2022

The BFD: Caraway Seeds $11M for Women's Care

A month after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, virtual reproductive and mental health startup Caraway raised $10.5 million in seed funding, CEO Lori Evans Bernstein tells Erin exclusively.

July 26, 2022

Exclusive: Caraway Collects $11M Seed for Women-Focused Virtual Care

A month after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, virtual reproductive and mental health startup Caraway raised $10.5 million in seed funding, CEO Lori Evans Bernstein tells Axios exclusively. Why it matters: The company launches at a time when women are facing devastating consequences from the reversal of Roe, including poorer mental health, reduced access to reproductive support and lower economic mobility.

July 26, 2022