{"id":702,"date":"2021-10-05T09:54:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T09:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2021-10-05T09:54:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T09:54:27","slug":"wellthy-caretaking-concierge-start-up-raised-35-million-series-b-to-expand-to-the-uk-and-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wellthy-caretaking-concierge-start-up-raised-35-million-series-b-to-expand-to-the-uk-and-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellthy, caretaking concierge start-up, raised $35 million Series B to expand to the UK and Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wellthy.com\/\">Wellthy<\/a> is a caregiving concierge service aiming to help employees pulling double duty caring for a loved one with special needs. Launched in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lindsayjuristrosner\/\">Lindsay Jurist-Rosner<\/a>, the company started as B2C service and then expanded to employers three years after. As of today, customers comprise A-list book businesses such as Facebook, Accenture, Cisco and Salesforce, as well as manufacturing and media companies like Kohler, Ashcroft, Colgate-Palmolive, Hearst and News Corp.<\/p>\n<p>We congratulate Wellthy for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/maggiemcgrath\/2021\/06\/28\/exclusive-amid-a-care-crisis-caretaking-concierge-startup-wellthy-raises-35-million-series-b\/?sh=598cae76dac1\">$35 million Series B round<\/a> led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/rethink-impact-lp\/\">Rethink Impact<\/a>, the largest American Venture Capital fund focused on female founders solving problems through technology. The investment will grow the head count and fuel the business&#8217; growth expansion into the UK and Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wellthy is a caregiving concierge service aiming to help employees pulling double duty caring for a loved one with special needs. Launched in 2014 by Lindsay Jurist-Rosner, the company started as B2C service and then expanded to employers three years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22,40],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portfolio-news","tag-dn-capital","tag-wellthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}