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Fortuna Health
Simplifying Medicaid navigation
- 1-20 employees
- Healthcare
- B2C
- Midtown South, New York, NY
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Company mission
To create seamless Medicaid navigation.
Our take
Medicaid is a public insurance program that provides health coverage to low-income people in the US. However, many Medicaid users face challenges with enrolment and recertification when using the software associated with the medical insurance package - with these issues contributing significantly to disenrollment rates.
Fortuna Health is on a mission to remedy these online navigation issues, creating a consumer-first platform that helps users navigate their Medicaid packages end-to-end, from eligibility forms to renewing existing coverage. The platform tackles many specific problems with current systems, such as overlong applications and fluctuating renewal dates, that can cause confusion to enrolees.
Fortuna's solutions support both simple and complex eligibility screenings, working in 7 different languages and boasting 3rd party integrations. With these features, the company addresses accessibility issues that affect user’s health and well-being, and support heightened revenue for partner providers. Armed with 2023 seed funding, the company plans to expand across several states and forge new partnerships with care organisations and health systems.
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Benefits
- Equity ownership in the company
- Platinum health insurance plans
- Free lunch every day
- All commuter expenses covered
- $100/month wellness benefit
- Unlimited PTO
Company values
- Product Mindset: Our philosophy is that engineers should lead product. Further, we are fundamentally building a consumer product for the masses. As such, we are looking for an engineer who is more motivated by building a great consumer-first product than by deeply exploring interesting technology
- Ownership: There's plenty of greenfield, exploratory work to be done. We need someone to be able to take an ambiguous problem and run with it. As we gain traction with specific product ideas, we would want you to truly own the whole product, not just the code
- Technical Velocity: We are looking for a rockstar engineer, someone who is nimble and can move fast while maintaining a sufficiently high level of code quality so that things don't fall apart. It's important to understand best practices and technical end goals so that trade-offs can be appropriately weighed as we are building
- Respectful Disagreement: We believe it's crucial to be able to openly disagree with anyone on the team. We are looking for someone who doesn't shy away from conflict, but is respectful and empathetic in their approach and always open to different ideas
- Humility: It's important to be able to admit when you're wrong. We are looking for a low-ego teammate who is able to take failures in stride and grow from them
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2023
$4m
SEED
Total funding: $4m
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Leadership
Benjamin Wesner
(CTO)Previously Software Engineer at Juniper Behavioral Health and Bloomberg LP. Was also a General Manager at Brown Daily Herald.
Cydney Kim
(COO)Previously the Vice President of Strategic Intiatives at HALO Diagnostics, and Director of Product Strategy at Brightstar Corp. Was also a Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company.