{"id":418947,"date":"2026-02-11T00:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418947\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:33:08","slug":"vcs-give-solace-health-1-billion-valuation-for-patient-advocacy-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418947\/","title":{"rendered":"VCs Give Solace Health $1 Billion Valuation for Patient Advocacy Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The demand for help navigating the famously complex US health care system has propelled a startup called Solace Health to a $1 billion valuation \u2014 offering health advocacy for people trying to schedule appointments, interpret treatment plans and understand medical bills. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Venture capital firm IVP led the financing, which brought in $130 million for the startup, Solace plans to announce Tuesday. Other investors include Menlo Ventures, SignalFire, Torch Capital, Inspired Capital and RiverPark Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The demand for help navigating the famously complex US health care system has propelled a startup called Solace&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[847,2339,154662,102,2960,59209,154660,154661,154663,1208,86,56,54,55,11878,4213],"class_list":["post-418947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-cancer","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-eric-liaw","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-inspired","tag-jeremy-gurewitz","tag-riverpark-ventures","tag-sara-sargent","tag-startups","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-valuation","tag-venture-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}