Ciitizen, a California-based company working to build a platform to help patients collect, organize and share their medical records digitally, has closed $17 million in new funding in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz and that included Section 32 and Verily.
The Redwood City, Calif.-based company said it would use the proceeds to accelerate platform development and expand commercial operations. The company received a Series A financing round of $3 million led by Andreessen Horowitz in July 2018. As part of the new financing, Vijay Pande, general partner of Andreessen Horowitz's Bio fund, will join the Ciitizen board of directors. Michael Pellini, managing partner at Section 32, and Andy Harrison, head of business and corporate development at Verily, will join the board as observers.
Ciitizen’s co-founders are Anil Sethi, Premal Shah, and Brian Carlsen. CEO Anil Sethi’s last company, Gliimpse, was acquired by Apple. Carlsen was formerly special projects lead at Apple, and serves as director of clinical informatics at Ciitizen. Deven McGraw, who has deep experience in HIPAA and medical data sharing, and was formerly the head of privacy at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, also works for Ciitizen.
"We are aggressively hiring to support release of products in partnership with select healthcare stakeholders that will immediately benefit patients—all driven by obtaining and organizing a patient's health data," said Premal Shah, COO, in a prepared statement. "Contrary to what is happening today, we want to facilitate patients gaining maximum direct benefit from what is rightfully theirs: their personal healthcare data."
"We are aggressively hiring to support release of products in partnership with select healthcare stakeholders that will immediately benefit patients—all driven by obtaining and organizing a patient's health data," said Premal Shah, COO and Co-Founder of Ciitizen. "Contrary to what is happening today, we want to facilitate patients gaining maximum direct benefit from what is rightfully theirs: their personal healthcare data."
Ciitizen also has initiated a weekly blog, The Voice of Ciitizens, that offers opinions from healthcare thought leaders on ways to address some of healthcare's most pressing challenges, including patient empowerment with their data.
