Mountain Health, an alum of the first Techstars UnitedHealthcare cohort, announced this week that it had closed a $1.5 million seed round led by local firm Matchstick Ventures.
Dallas-based Mountain is an affordable monthly subscription service providing health and wellness care for self-employed people, small business employees and millennials. For $30 a month, Mountain users can access the kind of regular services that make up many of a person's yearly healthcare needs.
This includes doctor visits, prescription, urgent care, sexual and reproductive health, as well as help getting Covid-10 testing. The first doctor's visit of the year is free, and the rest are $99 each. In addition to in-person services, Mountain also offers digital options like text conversations with doctors and wellness care via the Headspace meditation app.
"Mountain has been forward-thinking in its approach to providing millennials with affordable access to healthcare services like sick visits, birth control, STD testing and more," CEO Kobby Amoah said in a statement. "With this new capital, we can make our $30/month affordable plan available to consumers in cities across the United States."
Mountain's round was led by Matchstick Ventures, a firm dually based in Minnesota and Colorado. Matchstick Partners Ryan Broshar and Natty Zola are both former leaders of Techstars accelerators.
In a blog post, Matchstick said that Broshare met Mountain's co-founders, Amoah and CMO Charles Kunene, while mentoring them during the UnitedHealthcare Techstars program and maintained close ties with them after the accelerator concluded.
"Mountain's healthcare plan is exactly what young adults are begging for," Broshar said in a statement. "A simple and affordable plan that offers the services they actually want and need on a daily basis. We're excited to back this team and their plan to take on this opportunity."
Other firms contributing to the round included Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Techstars Ventures, Bread and Butter Ventures and Route 66 Ventures.
