Wisp, a women’s telehealth company, has acquired sexual health platform TBD Health, the companies announced on Tuesday.
New York City-based Wisp is a direct-to-consumer company offering treatments for different sexual and reproductive health needs, including birth control, fertility, menopause and sexually transmitted diseases.
TBD Health, meanwhile, is an online and in-person sexual healthcare platform. It offers at-home STD testing, emergency contraception and PrEP, as well as telemedicine consults, across all 50 states. Its in-person clinics are located in Las Vegas and Denver. It also has partnerships with large organizations like Mount Sinai Health System, Planned Parenthood Direct and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.
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This is Wisp’s first acquisition, for which the terms of the deal were not disclosed. It allows the company to expand into providing in-person care to complement its virtual support. Wisp will continue to operate its direct-to-consumer platform while adding hybrid care offerings powered by TBD Health, according to Monica Cepak, CEO of Wisp. This includes supporting care provided through hospitals, employers and public health partners.
“There’s a limit to what consumer-only care can solve on its own, especially in sexual and preventive health,” Cepak said. “TBD Health built national infrastructure and long-standing partnerships with health systems and public health organizations that we did not have. … This acquisition closes that gap. It enables us to expand into hybrid and enterprise care quickly while staying focused on women, who are still underserved by existing prevention models.”
For TBD Health, the acquisition allows them to reach more patients, according to Daphne Chen, co-founder of TBD Health.
“We built TBD Health to operate inside real systems — hospitals, public health programs, enterprise workflows — and that work only matters if it reaches people consistently,” Chen said. “Wisp has already earned trust at scale, particularly with women who are often missed by existing sexual health and prevention models. Joining Wisp allows us to connect the infrastructure we built to a platform that reaches patients earlier and more often, instead of operating in parallel or at the margins of the system.”
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Chen and Co-Founder Stephanie Estey are both joining Wisp full-time. Chen will serve as vice president of enterprise strategy and operations, while Estey will serve as vice president of enterprise strategy and legal. Co-Founder Sherwin Lu will also lead the offshore engineering team as a contractor and then plans to join Wisp full-time in March 2026 as head of enterprise engineering, according to Estey.
Through the acquisition of TBD Health, Cepak plans to broaden access to Wisp’s services for women who are often missed by the traditional healthcare system.
“Too often, eligibility doesn’t translate into care because of cost, fragmented systems, or when care moves between settings,” she said. “This acquisition allows Wisp to support care across consumer, enterprise, and public health settings in a way that’s coordinated rather than fragmented, so patients don’t drop out as care shifts.”
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