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<td><a href="https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/finance/nourish-raises-100m-plans-expand-care-model-physicians" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">Nourish raises $100M, plans to expand care model with physicians</a>
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<p>Nourish, a virtual nutrition-focused metabolic provider, has raised $100 million in a series C round. </p>
<p>The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Thrive Capital, Index Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, Maverick Ventures, Y Combinator and more. The capital will be used to grow Nourish’s provider workforce, accelerate its investment in AI and deepen partnerships with payers and health systems.</p>
<p>The company is pivoting from being a dietitian-only nutrition platform to a more comprehensive metabolic health clinic by hiring physicians. Nourish patients are typically paired with a registered dietitian, but now lab testing, GLP-1 prescriptions and other virtual care are also becoming available. There is currently a waitlist to see Nourish physicians, though the goal is to rapidly expand by the end of this year to meet the “overwhelming demand,” per executives. </p>
<p>“Since the start of the business, the vision has always been how do we combine a virtual care team that makes changing your lifestyle easy with AI that can be a 24/7 coach to help you change your behavior with medications,” Aidan Dewar, co-founder and CEO of Nourish, told Fierce Healthcare in an advanced interview. “We’ve always thought that to maximize scale and outcomes you need an integrated care team.”</p>
<p>About half of all American adults have one or more preventable chronic diseases, many of which are related to diet, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity and cancer. A million people in the U.S. <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11141542/">die annually</a> from diet-related chronic diseases. </p>
<p>Historically, Nourish has referred patients externally for needs outside of nutrition counseling. Earlier this year, it began to bring that in-house with lab testing. Expanding the care team with physicians was a natural next step, and something that health system partners have also been requesting, executives said.</p>
<p>“Most folks don’t have the ability to deliver the virtual metabolic clinic that we’re talking about,” Dewar said. “With the new capital, we’re going to invest much more heavily there to scale it up.”</p>
<p>Technology has been core to Nourish since its inception. Every patient gets an AI health agent available 24/7 to support with scheduling, lab interpretation, meal planning, coaching and more. The AI agent in Nourish’s mobile app has hundreds of thousands of monthly active users, per Dewar. “We’re seeing that really drive amazing clinical outcomes,” Dewar said of AI tools.</p>
<p>For providers, Nourish also incorporates AI components, including a scribe, a research assistant, a messaging tool and copilot agents to recommend treatment options based on millions of past clinical encounters. Dewar believes in the importance of keeping a human in the loop, and is excited to continue investing in AI as the company is “already seeing amazing results.”</p>
<p>Previously, Nourish had a companion GLP-1 program to support patients who are taking the medications with nutrition counseling, though the company couldn't offer prescriptions until it began hiring physicians more recently. About 15% of Nourish patients are currently on GLP-1s, per Dewar. Nourish focuses on brand-name GLP-1s that it aims to offer through insurance coverage or else at-cost, which shows that Nourish is not trying to upcharge on the medications, Dewar said. That helps build trust with patients: </p>
<p>“We can be the most responsible prescriber on the market, because we don’t make money on the medication.” Dewar also said that the goal should be to combine the medications with lifestyle changes and eventually get off them, noting “these medications don’t drive sustainable outcomes without behavior change.”</p>
<p>Through its GLP-1 companion program, Nourish saw positive results: patients on and off GLP-1s saw better weight loss results compared to non-Nourish patients, a 2024 peer-reviewed analysis <a href="https://www.einpresswire.com/article/801645496/nourish-launches-comprehensive-glp-1-support-programs-to-optimize-weight-loss-and-sustain-results-post-treatment">found</a>. Among those taking GLP-1s, Nourish patients saw 33% greater weight loss than non-Nourish patients. And 63% of Nourish GLP-1 patients reported improved side effects since working with their registered dietitian. Nourish patients also reported higher medication adherence. </p>
<p>In the four years since its founding, Nourish has scaled to over 10,000 registered dietitians and became profitable in 2025, Dewar said. With the latest round, it has raised a total of $215 million. Its payer partnerships now encompass over 200 million covered lives and over 250 health systems refer patients to Nourish. The demand is growing, per Dewar. Nourish achieves over $2,000 savings annually per patient for payers, the company claims.</p>
<p>Recently Nourish began partnering more directly with employers on advertising to make sure members know Nourish is available to them. While Dewar did not disclose specific employers, he said Nourish is working with the biggest accounts of their payer contacts.</p>
<p>“This is one of the most important problems in the world to be working on,” Dewar said. “There’s a lot of demand for a solution, given the size of the problem.”</p>
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<p><strong>Forwarded by:<br />
Michael Reeder LCPC<br />
Baltimore, MD</strong></p>
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