Female-Founded Telehealth Startup Calibrate Announces $22.5 Million Series A

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Calibrate announced Tuesday that it has closed a $22.5 million Series A round of funding led by Emily Melton at Threshold Ventures.

Calibrate, a female-founded telehealth startup that aims to provide patients with a metabolic reset, announced Tuesday that it has raised a $22.5 million Series A round of funding., it was operating in three states, had 10 employees and $5.1 million in seed funding. Seven months later, the service has expanded to seven states, grown to 52 employees and, as of Tuesday morning, secured a fresh capital infusion.

“By Labor Day, we’d blown through our goals and targets for the year,” Calibrate founder and CEO Isabelle Kenyon toldabout the company’s recent growth. The new capital, she says, will fuel expansion across the rest of the U.S., as well as product enhancements.People have started to ask us what comes next, what are the year two products, what are the products for people who want to stay on?”

Melton also noted that Kenyon’s personal ties to Calibrate—she’s open about wanting to start a businessin her own health journey—gave her confidence to invest. “Authentically caring about the problem, and putting the consumer in the center, those are almost always my best investments and the ones I enjoy working with the most,” Melton says.

She began using Calibrate in August. After she got the bloodwork she’d need for the consultation with her Calibrate doctor, she started meeting with her coach, who started recommending some simple lifestyle changes, like drinking more water. “I have white in my eyes now,” Scott laughs, noting that they used to be bloodshot.medicine, a treatment that can help the body produce more insulin, which regulates the body’s blood sugar.

 

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