Your.MD, which develops “self-care” app Healthily that uses AI to help users check their symptoms before deciding to see a doctor, raises €25M Series A
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Context & Ripple Effects
Your.MD's €25M Series A lands in the middle of a funding run on AI symptom checkers: K Health raised a $48M Series C for its chat-with-doctors app in March 2020, and Tia Health pulled in a $24M Series A for women's-focused digital care just months before. Healthily sits at the same point in the funnel — assessing symptoms before a user decides whether to see a clinician.
The arc continued after Your.MD's round: Ada Health, the most direct competitor in patient-side symptom assessment, went on to raise a $90M Series B led by Leaps by Bayer in 2021. Capital is clearly converging on whoever owns the first patient touchpoint.
First-order effects
- Your.MD gets the capital to scale Healthily's self-care triage app, but enters a category where K Health already pairs assessment with doctor chats across 47 US states — pure symptom checking without a care-delivery hook is the thinner offering.
Second-order effects
- Ada Health's response is visible in the corpus: a much larger round with Bayer's Leaps as lead, pushing rivals toward pharma-strategic backing rather than plain venture money.
- Investors are pricing the triage app as an acquisition channel — the same logic behind Netherlands-based doctor-communication tools raising from health-focused funds like Heal Capital and Philips' venture arm.
Third-order effects
- If the funding pattern holds, standalone symptom checkers consolidate into or merge with care delivery — Happify Health's $73M Series D for chronic-condition management via telehealth plus AI assistant shows the model extending beyond triage into ongoing care.
The trend: AI symptom-assessment apps are drawing progressively larger funding rounds as they compete to become the front door to digital primary care.