Public health startup Cityblock raises $65M Series B

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Redpoint Ventures has led a $65 million Series B in Cityblock, a healthcare company focused on providing improved care to low-income
and chief executive officer Iyah Romm told TechCrunch
Prior to joining Sidewalk Labs as an entrepreneur-in-residence in 2017, he spent one year as the chief transformation officer of the
Commonwealth Care Alliance, a nonprofit medical care delivery organization.Cityblock provides personalized medical and behavioral health and
social services across a growing number of clinics on the East Coast
The company will use the investment to open additional clinics and continue the development of its core platform, Commons
The care delivery platform helps care workers collaborate and stay up to date on patients, with real-time hospital admission alerts to tools
with EmblemHealth, a New York neighborhood health insurance business
Cityblock will open clinics in North Carolina later this year
low-income demographics regular access to more affordable care
investors 8VC, Echo Health Ventures and StartUp Health also participated in the latest round, as did existing investors including Sidewalk
Labs, Thrive Capital, Maverick Ventures, Town Hall Ventures and EmblemHealth.