Welfie

Welfie puts Community Health Workers in schools to help Medicaid Health Plans and K-12 School districts improve health outcomes for kids and families.

  • Stage Product In Market
  • Industry Healthcare Services
  • Location San Diego, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded April 2019
  • Employees 6
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website welfie.com

Company Summary

Welfie is a population health management solution for Medicaid and Medicare health plans. Uniquely, we offer whole child, whole family health education and care coordination services through K-12 schools. We charge health plans and providers a per member per month fee to educate and coordinate care for their community members. We've reached $45 K in revenue in FY2022 and are on track to reach $575 K in FY 2023.

Team

  • Chief Executive Officer

    Board Certified Internal Medicine Physician currently working as an academic hospitalist at University of California San Diego. Completed Internal Medicine residency training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Founder of Welfie which is a winner of the American College of Preventive Medicine Design Hack 2019 and BlinkUX Social Impact Award.

  • Chief Marketing Officer

    An Emmy Award winning content creator. Specializes in content for kids designed to create behavior change in families. Brand, marketing and public relations expert. With her husband/partner, she has created and written critically acclaimed digital projects and television shows. One, a science-based kids show, was the winner of two regional Emmy Awards.

  • Chief Technology Officer

    Lakshmin brings over 20 years of experience as a Senior Engineer at Yahoo. Lakshmin was responsible for managing international teams of up to 200 engineers. Lakshmin has deep experience in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Particularly in the space of content, product and service recommendations (automated care coordination).

  • Nicole Trickett
    Chief Education Officer

    Nicole brings 14 years of experience in the K-12 education space to our leadership team. She has worked as a special education teacher, professional development coach for her peers, assistant principal, and principal in the San Francisco Unified School District. And, has intimate knowledge of the problems educators face and the challenges of in-school implementation .

Advisors

  • Dennis Robbins
    Unconfirmed
    Michael Giske
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Visible Hands VC
    Unconfirmed

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