Oscar Health snags Google Capital. Will healthcare’s billion-dollar unicorn win by attrition?
In an industry that's all about the money, Oscar Health got high-profile validation and a little cash.
Health insurance startup Oscar raises $145M to support push into California, Texas
The young insurance company Oscar has completed just one open enrollment and the New York based insurer only moved into its second state — New Jersey — at the start of the year. But its $145 million extension of its Series A fundraise gives it a valuation of $1.5 billion, according to a source close […]
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Insurance startup Oscar Health seeks entry to Covered California
UPDATED. Insurance startup Oscar Health is seeking approval to enter California’s health benefits exchange by 2016, telling its board of directors that the company’s focus on consumers would be beneficial to the state. Started in early 2014, New York-based Oscar is trying to position itself as the technology-driven, consumer-focused alternative to the big carriers. It’s […]
Top Startups of 2014: Shared economy for hospitals, innovating health insurance and home care
The year 2014 has been absolutely deluged, in a good way, with health startups, particularly within the health IT space. From the seemingly ubiquitous data analytics companies looking to help hospitals to applying the shared-economy principal to hospital equipment to mining data from imaging, new ideas abound. What follows are the ones that stood out […]
With Misfit partnership, startup Oscar Health Insurance will pay members to use wearables
A New York-based health insurance startup said it will offer members free Misfit wearable fitness trackers, along with $240 in Amazon gift cards a year to users who download the app and use it to track walking. Beginning in January, Oscar Health Insurance said it would give members the wearable device, which retails for $50 […]
Innovative health insurer Oscar will ramp up business with $80M fundraise
Startup health insurer Oscar chose Tumblr as its social media venue of choice to announce that it raised $80 million in a Series A round. Forbes broke the story earlier today. It kind of makes sense since Oscar’s chief technology officer is Fredrik Nylander, who was vice president of engineering and operations at Tumblr. […]
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