Digital speech remedy supplier Expressable introduced it secured $26 million in Collection B funding.
HarbourVest Companions led the spherical with participation from Digitalis Ventures and present buyers F-Prime Capital and Lerer Hippeau.
WHAT IT DOES
The Texas-based firm presents digital care classes for sufferers and households to attach with a licensed and authorized speech therapist based mostly on their wants. The platform additionally gives safe therapist texting providers, schooling movies and weekly homework.
Adults and kids can obtain care from the platform. The service caters to a number of circumstances, together with language problems, speech delays, aphasia, stuttering, autism spectrum dysfunction and different circumstances.
The corporate will use the funding to broaden its community of therapists, improve its platform and broaden its supplier and well being plan partnerships.
“We’re thrilled to companion with Expressable as they proceed to scale their category-defining speech remedy resolution for this rising market want,” Michael Guiness, principal at HarbourVest, mentioned in an announcement. “Producing higher outcomes by their novel care mannequin is a win-win for sufferers, payers, and suppliers that aligns incentives and addresses disparities in entry.”
MARKET SNAPSHOT
Expressable raised $15 million in Series A funding in 2022.
Different speech remedy corporations embrace the digital remedy platform Great Speech, speech recognition expertise firm Voiceitt, and tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, and Google.
In 2022, the 5 tech corporations, alongside nonprofit companions, introduced a collaboration with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to broaden speech capabilities for these with disabilities by way of the Speech Accessibility Project.
