Collective Health has raised $81m from Google Ventures in a bid to expand outside its California base, throughtout the US. The company offers a helpiing hand to small businesses to ﻿migrate their insurance schemes to self-funded plans, and will work with major insurers such as Anthem and Blue Shield of California to help deliver its offering. But the two-year-old company is taking a different tack by focusing on employers, letting customers tailor which insurance options they want to offer their workers. In an interview with TechCrunch, co-founder and CEO David Schwartz said that his startup was looking for ways to “disrupt” healthcare by offering consumers more choice than they currently have.
Collective Health has raised $81m from Google Ventures in a bid to expand outside its California base, throughtout the US. The company offers a helpiing hand to small businesses to ﻿migrate their insurance schemes to self-funded plans, and will work with major insurers such as Anthem and Blue Shield of California to help deliver its offering. In an interview with TechCrunch, co-founder and CEO David Schwartz said that his startup was looking for ways to “disrupt” healthcare by offering consumers more choice than they currently have.