Kindly Care Raises $5.4 Million, Plans East Coast Expansion

Kindly Care—a startup that helps clients find, hire and manage at-home caregivers—has raised $5.4 million in a Series A round and is planning to expand to the East Coast for the first time. The company has also backed away, for the moment, from sharing workers with home care agencies through a platform dubbed Care Exchange. […]

Why Home Care Agencies Should Share Their Caregivers

A startup that recently entered the home care market with $3.1 million in funding has a new goal: to get competing home care agencies to share their caregivers. San Francisco-based Kindly Care has just launched Care Exchange, an online database from which home care agencies can recruit caregivers who also work at nearby agencies—but only if […]

Investors Funnel $30 Million to Startup Offering Home Care

Yet another small, California-based company with millions of dollars in funding appears to be making a splash in the home-based health care market. ConcertoHealth has completed a $30 million round of funding from existing investors, the Irvine, California-based company announced Tuesday. The company currently provides health care services for elderly, frail, complex and Medicare-Medicaid dual-eligible […]

Startup Secures $3.1 Million to Help Families Hire Caregivers Directly

Another app-based home care solution has burst onto the scene, and with $3.1 million in funding to boot. But this one—San Francisco-based Kindly Care—isn’t out to replace the home care agencies in its markets, according to its co-founder and CEO Igor Lebovic. Instead, it’s out to capture the clients home care agencies can’t. This strategy is different from […]