Carbon Health

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Carbon Health Inc.
Industry Primary healthcare, urgent care
Founded2015;10 years ago (2015)
Founders
  • Eren Bali
  • Tom Berry
  • Greg Burell
  • Caesar Djavaherian
HeadquartersSan Francisco
Number of locations
101 (2022)[ citation needed ]
Total equity US$3.3 billion (2021)[ citation needed ]
Number of employees
2,309 (2021)[ citation needed ]
Website carbonhealth.com

Carbon Health is an American chain of primary healthcare and urgent care clinics [1] [2] [3] that also provides telemedicine. [4] [5] It was founded in 2015 in San Francisco. Carbon Health positions itself as a technology-first provider aiming to meet patients across virtual, in-person, and at-home settings, streamlining doctor-patient workflows and administrative processes [6]

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History

Carbon Health was founded in San Francisco in 2015 by Udemy co-founder Eren Bali, engineer Tom Berry, and physician Greg Burell. It began as a software platform and mobile app for medical records, telehealth, doctor-patient messaging, and scheduling. [7] The team developed the platform by opening a private clinic that saw about 750 patients; at the time, their goal was to build software for medical practices. [8] [9] [10]

In 2017, Eren Bali was introduced to Dr. Caesar Djavaherian, an Iranian-American emergency medicine doctor and owner of Direct Urgent Care, a national chain of urgent care clinics. [11] Djavaherian had experienced problems with electronic health record (EHR) systems, and he decided to pilot the Carbon Health software in his clinics. [12] In 2018, Carbon Health and Direct Urgent Care merged, and Caesar Djavaherian became the company's fourth co-founder. [13] [14] [15] Because of this merge, Carbon Health now owned 7 brick-and-mortar clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area. [4]

In 2017, Carbon Health had created a mobile app to communicate with directly with doctors, and an alternative to traditional EHR systems. [12]

In 2019, Carbon Health announced a Series B round of $30 million, [16] followed by a Series B extension of $28M in early 2020 to strengthen its initiatives related to the COVID-19 pandemic. [17] Later in 2020, the company announced a $100M round led by Dragoneer Investment Group, [18] and in 2021, a $350M round led by The Blackstone Group. [11] [19]

By April 2021, Carbon Health had 49 physical location medical clinics, including 19 clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area and 8 clinics in Los Angeles. [20] [21] By October 2021, Carbon Health had 90 full service medical clinics, located in 14 states within the United States. [22]

In 2023, Carbon Health partnered with CVS Health to pilot a new clinic model offering primary and urgent care services within CVS retail stores. The partnership was part of a broader $100 million investment led by CVS Health's corporate venture arm. [23]

In August 2024, Carbon Health co-founder and CEO Eren Bali stepped down from his role to return to Udemy, the education company he co-founded, as Chief Technology Officer. Bali announced the move on social media, noting that Udemy held a "special place" in his heart. He will remain involved with Carbon Health as executive chairman. Chief Operating Officer Kerem Ozkay was named the new CEO. [24]

COVID-19

In March 2020, Carbon Health partnered with the San Francisco-based online pharmacy Alto Pharmacy to provide oral swab home test kits to patients in California. The tests were reportedly distributed under an Emergency Use Authorization by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA); [25] [26] however, that same week, the FDA suspended the sales and distribution of home testing kits produced by Carbon Health, among others. [27] [28]

In April 2020, Carbon Health released an open source, HIPAA-compliant repository of COVID-19 clinical data. [29] [30]

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  4. 1 2 Truong, Kevin; Dietsche, Erin (June 6, 2019). "Carbon Health pulls in $30M to become the 'Starbucks of healthcare'". Med City News. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  5. ↑ Thompson, Nicholas (April 18, 2020). "Coronavirus and the Future of Telemedicine". Wired. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
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  8. ↑ Loizos, Connie (March 29, 2017). "Udemy co-founder Eren Bali just raised $6.5 million for his newest startup". TechCrunch. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
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  11. 1 2 Jennings, Katie (July 21, 2021). "Meet The Immigrant Entrepreneurs Who Raised $350 Million To Rethink U.S. Primary Care". Forbes. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  12. 1 2 Stokel-Walker, Chris (July 3, 2017). "Carbon Health puts total control of doctor-patient relationship in your hands". Wired UK. ISSN   1357-0978 . Retrieved 2021-12-13.
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  18. ↑ Brown, Kristen V. (November 10, 2020). "Carbon Health Raises $100 Million to Expand Clinic, Virtual Care". Bloomberg. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
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  21. ↑ Rinker, Brian (2021). "Landlords court a new breed of retail medical clinic". San Francisco Business Times. Archived from the original on 2021-04-09. Retrieved 2021-12-13.
  22. ↑ "Carbon Health Expands National Footprint Through Acquisition of New Jersey Clinic Chain". 6Park NewsDesk, New Jersey. 2021-10-07. Retrieved 2021-12-13.
  23. ↑ "JPM23: Carbon Health nabs $100M, CVS Health partnership to pilot primary care in retail stores". Fierce Healthcare. Jan 9, 2023.
  24. ↑ Ravindranath, Mohana (2024-08-20). "Carbon Health founder steps back from top role, Kaiser hospitals roll out AI scribe". STAT. Retrieved 2025-06-23.
  25. ↑ Canales, Katie (March 20, 2020). "A San Francisco startup is shipping coronavirus home test kits to sick Californians for $167". Business Insider. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  26. ↑ Singer, Natasha (2020-03-24). "Start-Ups Jump the Gun on Home Kits for Coronavirus Testing". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-12-13.
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  28. ↑ Singer, Natasha (2020-03-25). "Lawmakers Question Start-Ups on At-Home Kits for Coronavirus Testing". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-12-13.
  29. ↑ "Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Clinical Data Repository". COVID Clinical Data. Carbon Health. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  30. ↑ Moosvi, Nosheen; Ismakov, Rebekkah; Noorzad, Pardis; Burell, Greg; Wu, Roger; Atluri, Haritha; Djavaherian, Caesar; Mandavia, Sujal; Bali, Eren. "Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Clinical Data Repository". Covid Clinical Data on GitHub. GitHub. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
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