Hot Take 🔥 Too many founders feel entitled to funding.
@elan_was_here, founder of @oneimaging, says the biggest mistake he made early on was not approaching fundraising with a sales mindset.
Learn more about how he raised $38M in this episode of The Miami Tech Pod: 🎧 https://t.co/bwtHIMFkPd
Episode 2 is live 🔥
In this episode, @MariaDerchi sits down with @elan_was_here, Founder of @oneimaging — a Miami-based startup that has:
- Raised $38M (including a $31M round closed in ~6 weeks) 📷
- 50x’ed growth in under 3 years 📷
- Reached millions of covered lives 📷
All by tackling one simple insight: patients don’t realize they have a choice in healthcare.
We cover:
- Why 35% of people delay or skip care due to cost
- How faster access to imaging can directly impact health outcomes
- The surprising way insurance works (and who actually pays)
- OneImaging’s rapid growth
- Lessons from raising $31M in 6 weeks and why fundraising is just sales
- Why Miami is becoming a serious hub for healthcare innovation
Listen in 🎧
https://t.co/bwtHIMFkPd
Miamiposting might be a phenomenon whose time has passed, but having just spent a few days visiting, it really does feel like a boomtown in a way that no other American city that I've spent time in over the past few years does. In some ways, it reminds me of Chinese cities.
Holy smokes. I’m all for the best wealth is your health. But such an abrupt increase in consumer spending can’t be described as the consumer buying more.
Pervasive use of advanced imaging will dramtically improve health outcomes & signifcantly reduce costs borne by catastrophic disease.
Low-cost advanced imaging in America is available right now. @oneimaging cuts through all of the inefficiencies Palmer talks about here to offer imaging at its true cost which is often 75% less than payor pricing.
We will look back on someone developing stage 4 cancer without knowing to be as primitive as amputating a leg because of an infection penicillin could stop.
Honored to support OneImaging in their quest to make diagnostic imaging cheaper and more accessible!
More generally — I believe this will be one of many proof points that show how technology / capitalism can help improve healthcare!
We’re proud to share that OneImaging has raised $38 million in Series A funding to expand our mission of making diagnostic imaging more affordable and accessible for everyone.
Diagnostic imaging plays a pivotal role in nearly every healthcare journey — it’s the moment when uncertainty becomes clarity and the path to the right care becomes clear. Yet for too many people, access to imaging is still delayed, confusing, and far too expensive.
At OneImaging, we’re changing that. By partnering with employers and health plans, we make high-quality radiology services available as an employee benefit — guiding members to the right imaging at the right time and cost, while helping organizations lower their healthcare spend.
This new funding will accelerate our growth, allowing us to expand our network, deepen our clinical partnerships, and continue building technology that simplifies access to care.
We’re grateful to our team, our partners, and our investors who share our belief that everyone deserves access to clear answers that imaging provides.
The future of imaging is more affordable, more transparent, and more human.
And we’re just getting started.
Today, we’re announcing $38 million in funding to continue our mission of making diagnostic imaging more affordable and accessible for everyone.
Radiology is the only tool available for us humans to look inside our bodies and figure out what is going on and why.
For something so central to modern medicine (2nd most-used service in healthcare), imaging has become one of the most frustrating and expensive parts of care.
That’s why we started OneImaging: to remove the barriers between people and the answers that imaging provides. We’re helping employers and health plans bring high-quality, lower-cost imaging to their employees - so that no one has to delay care because of cost, confusion, or access.
On our platform, patients can finally book imaging as easy as it is to book an Airbnb, all integrated into their health insurance plan. It costs up to 80% less, you get your appointments faster, and go closer to your home.
The truth is, Americans have been pointing their fingers at the wrong people. Insurance companies are not perfect, but they don’t decide the price of healthcare.
The bureaucratic hospital executives do, all while their physicians/nurses make less than ever before. I wish more people realized that, so something could change.
The same “non-profit” hospitals solemnly swear to serve their communities have become the hellish amusement parks of healthcare. You can’t ever find the exit when you want to leave, and the same exam on their outdated equipment is 10x what it costs at the private practices across the street. Just like a hotdog stand charges $3 on any street corner vs $20 inside an amusement park.
Patient choice has had a blindfold over its eyes for too long.
We’re letting patients be in the driver's seat and decide where they want to go from our vast network of partnered imaging providers, rather than be shepherded like a number with a wristband through the amusement park-esque hospitals, by unbeknownst employees of a well orchestrated system designed to extract dollars from your pocket.
OneImaging is leading the charge of re-inserting free-market dynamics back into healthcare.
I’m beyond grateful to our team, our partners, and our investors who believe in what we’re building. But most of all, I’m grateful for the chance to help people get the care they deserve.
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