The deep dive · Private · Read November 3, 2026

OpenLoop Health

A Des Moines company that supplies the doctors, pharmacy and insurance billing behind hundreds of telehealth brands. It grew fast on GLP-1 demand, but its funding since 2023 is undisclosed.

OpenLoop homepage, checked Nov 3, 2026
Raised
$26M announced a $3M seed (2021) and two Series A rounds of $8M and $15M; a university bio of the CEO says over $100M, with no breakdown.
Valuation
Not disclosed no round has a published valuation, and a 2025 financing round was announced without an amount or investors.
Scale
400+ brands the company claims 2,000+ clinicians in all 50 states and 1M+ patients a month.
Watch
Breach and lawsuits a January 2026 hack listed at up to 716,000 people, a breach class action in Iowa and a class action over compounded oral tirzepatide.
AI
Bought it in acquired AI patient-communication startup Hey Revia in June 2026 and named its first chief technology and product officer.
Liquidity
None found no staff tender offer reported; two small 2025 investor vehicles bought in, but the filings do not say from whom.
Hiring
56 → 64 remote listings since Oct 10.
01 · The business

It rents out a medical practice to brands that want to sell care online.

OpenLoop runs the clinical side for other companies' telehealth brands: licensed clinicians in every state, 100+ prescribing protocols, a pharmacy and lab network, and insurance billing across 600+ plans. Programs range from weight loss and GLP-1s to hormones, sleep testing, dermatology and mental health. Its Launchpad tool says a client can launch a branded service in as little as 24 hours. It does not publish prices or revenue.

OpenLoop homepage, checked Nov 3, 2026
The moat, in three parts
  1. 1
    Clinicians licensed everywhere, on day one
    A new brand gets 2,000+ licensed clinicians across 35+ specialties in all 50 states, a license footprint that is slow and costly to build alone.
    OpenLoop homepage, checked Nov 3, 2026
  2. 2
    Insurance billing as a service
    Its 2023 round funded an insurance-as-a-service program; the company now cites 600+ payer plans including Medicare and Medicaid, which most cash-pay brands cannot bill on their own.
    OpenLoop, Mar 15, 2023; homepage Nov 3, 2026
  3. 3
    Buying and backing new care categories
    It says it has done 13 investments and acquisitions since 2024, including Season Health (nutrition), Hey Revia (AI) and a stake in Happy Sleep (sleep tests).
    OpenLoop release via Healthcare IT Today, Aug 2026
The competition, by what it is worth
  • Hims & Hers
    $6.46Blisted, Oct 30 close
  • Teladoc Health
    $1.55Blisted, Oct 30 close
  • LifeMD
    $110Mlisted, Oct 30 close

Private values are the last reported round; they can be stale. Listed values are market value. Bars start at zero.

02 · Funding

Every round, and what its terms give away.

OpenLoop Health is private, so there is no share price. What its investors paid, and on what terms, is the closest thing to one.

$26M
raised in all
1,200
employees, as reported

Not disclosed. The company reports growth only as multiples: 700% year over year in 2024 and 5x in 2025.

OpenLoop 2024 review (about 1,200 staff in four countries); announced rounds total
4 rounds and offers, newest first
  1. Apr 7
    Undisclosed round (reported Series B)
    The CFO release cites a recently completed financing round with no figures. A Sydecar vehicle named OpenLoop Series B Mar 2025 raised $2.44M from 5 investors (first sale Apr 2, 2025); a second, OpenLoop Jul 2025, raised $2.11M.
    SEC Form D (Sydecar SPV), Apr 2025; OpenLoop, Apr 7, 2025
  2. Mar 15
    Series A (second)$15M
    Led by Nava Ventures
    UnityPoint Health Ventures and PrimeTime Ventures new; SpringTide and ManchesterStory returned. Form D (Dec 2022) showed $13.4M of $15M sold to 12 investors.
    OpenLoop, Mar 15, 2023; SEC Form D, Dec 7, 2022
  3. Mar 15
    Series A$8.0M
    Led by SpringTide Ventures
    ManchesterStory joined; Next Level, Panoramic and ISA Ventures returned. Total raised then about $11M.
    OpenLoop, Mar 15, 2022
  4. Apr 14
    Seed$3.0M
    Led by Physician angel group
    Oversubscribed; Techstars, Next Level Ventures, Panoramic Ventures and ISA Ventures took part.
    HIT Consultant, Apr 14, 2021
Round-terms checks
No flags found
  • Down or flat round?Cannot tell. No valuation has been published for any round, and the 2025 round has no public amount.OpenLoop, Apr 7, 2025
    Open
  • How much the last round soldUnknown. Neither the size nor the price of the 2025 round is public, and OpenLoop Health, Inc. has filed no Form D for it.SEC EDGAR full-text search, checked Nov 3, 2026
    Open
  • Time since the last raiseAbout 19 months since the round cited in Apr 2025, if no later capital came in. The CEO's bio claims over $100M raised, far above the $26M announced, so other funding has gone unpublicized.University of Iowa bio, checked Nov 3, 2026
    Open
  • Unusual terms or debt?No terms, preferences or debt facilities have been reported. Small SAFE notes were sold in 2022 and 2023.SEC Form D, filed Mar 31, 2023
    Open
  • Who ledAnnounced rounds had different leads: physician angels, then SpringTide, then Nava Ventures, with a health system venture arm (UnityPoint) joining. The 2025 lead is unknown.OpenLoop releases 2021 to 2023
    Clear
  • Can staff sell shares?No tender offer or employee secondary found. Two Sydecar vehicles and a SpringTide SPV filed Form Ds in 2024 and 2025; the filings do not say whether they bought new or existing shares.SEC Form D filings 2024 to 2025
    Open
  • Layoffs in the last 12 months?None found in company news or press searched. The company reported 255% team growth in 2025.OpenLoop, Jan 5, 2026
    Clear

Clear: checked, nothing found. Flag: found, with the source. Open: could not be checked.

03 · Footnote flags

What the record says, and what we think it means.

The fact is the source's. The read, in italics, is ours.

  1. 01
    Watch

    A January 2026 hack is listed at up to 716,000 people.

    An outsider was in OpenLoop's network Jan 7 to 8, 2026. The HHS breach portal lists up to 716,000 affected; Texas alone was 68,160. Names, addresses, emails, birth dates and medical information were taken; the company says no Social Security numbers.

    Clients' patients are in that data, so expect pressure from partner brands and regulators. A hacker claimed 1.6M records, which is unverified.

    HIPAA Journal, May 11, 2026
  2. 02
    Watch

    A breach class action was filed in federal court in Iowa.

    A Texas patient sued in the Southern District of Iowa in February 2026, alleging HIPAA safeguard failures and slow notice, and seeking damages and lifetime credit monitoring.

    Allegations only. Breach suits often settle; the cost depends on the final count.

    Iowa Capital Dispatch via KCRG, Feb 2026
  3. 03
    Watch

    Named in a class action over compounded oral tirzepatide pills.

    A nationwide class action names OpenLoop Health Inc. and two Triad Rx entities, alleging unapproved oral tirzepatide tablets were sold as effective weight-loss drugs with little medical review.

    Allegations only. It puts the white-label model itself on trial: OpenLoop's clinicians and partners sit behind brands it does not control.

    Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith (plaintiff firm), checked Nov 3, 2026
  4. 04
    Neutral

    Most of its money was raised quietly.

    Announced rounds total $26M, while the CEO's University of Iowa bio says the company has raised over $100M.

    The gap may include unannounced equity, debt or both. Staff weighing equity should ask for the latest preferred stack and price.

    University of Iowa bio, checked Nov 3, 2026
  5. 05
    Good

    Client count roughly doubled in 2026.

    OpenLoop said it powered 170+ organizations at end of 2025 and 300+ by June 2026; its homepage now says 400+ brands.

    Strong demand, much of it from weight-loss and GLP-1 brands. Brands and organizations may not be counted the same way.

    OpenLoop, Jan 5, 2026; Jun 30, 2026; homepage
  6. 06
    Good

    Three deals in 2026 so far.

    Bought Season Health (nutrition, April) and Hey Revia (AI communications, June), and invested in Happy Sleep (sleep apnea tests, August). Terms were not disclosed.

    It is turning from a staffing layer into a platform that owns more services. The cash or stock behind the deals is unknown.

    OpenLoop release via Healthcare IT Today, Aug 2026
  7. 07
    Watch

    Video prescribing rules for controlled drugs lapse Dec 31, 2026.

    DEA and HHS extended COVID-era flexibilities a fourth time, through Dec 31, 2026. OpenLoop's menu includes hormones and microdosing programs.

    Repeated extensions suggest another fix, but a lapse would add in-person steps for some programs. We could not confirm which OpenLoop programs involve controlled drugs.

    Holland & Knight, Jan 13, 2026
04 · Who gets paid most

What the hiring data says.

Still Remote data, daily since Oct 10
AI and ML listings, Oct 10 to Nov 2
3 → 2−33%
Remote listings, same days
56 → 64+14%

We save every company's roles, pay by team and level, AI share and churn every day, so each month this page can say more. Sparklines use their own scale.

05 · Built for the agentic era?

Can AI agents do business with OpenLoop Health?

We checked the agent payment programs, developer docs and site rules an AI assistant would meet.

Our verdict

Built for humans to buy. Crawlable site, but no llms.txt, public API or agent channel; deals start with a demo request.

Still Remote read
LiveNot foundPartly
  1. Lets AI crawlers read its site
    robots.txt allows all bots, blocks /api/, the clinician job board and some GLP-1 visit pages, and names no AI bots.
    checked Nov 3, 2026
    Yes
  2. A site summary AI tools can read
    openloophealth.com/llms.txt returns 404.
    checked Nov 3, 2026
    Not found
  3. A public API or MCP server
    No developer docs, API reference or MCP server is linked from the site; the homepage offers only demo and contact forms.
    checked Nov 3, 2026
    Not found
  4. Self-serve setup a machine could drive
    Launchpad generates a site structure and patient intake for a new brand in as little as 24 hours, but it is sold through a demo, not an open interface.
    checked Nov 3, 2026
    Mixed
  5. AI agents facing patients
    It offers client brands a branded AI assistant that helps patients schedule visits, and Hey Revia's voice tools handle prior authorizations and pharmacy calls.
    HLTH, Jul 2, 2026; homepage
    Yes
05 · Inside the company

Where OpenLoop Health puts AI to work.

AI and ML job titles, share of open remote listings
OpenLoop Health
3.1%
Every company we track
6.3%
2 of 64 OpenLoop Health listings on Nov 2. Scale 0% to 10%.
  1. 1
    AI for the paperwork
    Hey Revia, built by two former Google engineers, automates insurance checks, prior authorizations, pharmacy coordination and outreach by phone, text, email and fax. It is being folded into Launchpad.
    OpenLoop release via National Law Review, Jun 30, 2026
  2. 2
    A Google veteran runs tech
    Sowmya Subramanian, previously CTO of Quizlet and 15 years at Google, became the first chief technology and product officer in June 2026.
    OpenLoop release via National Law Review, Jun 30, 2026
06 · What the hiring says

More listings than on Sep 7, led by operations.

Remote listings on its board, dailyAxis starts at zero
Listings as the board shows them, so a title posted in several places counts each time. Team counts are open roles, repeated titles once.
26 of 62
roles are operations
11
product roles, the next biggest team
1
country named in its remote roles, led by United States
+6
new roles in the last 7 days
08 · Where it looks headed

The signals, and which way they push.

  1. Tailwind
    More brands want to sell care.

    Organizations served went from 170+ at end of 2025 to 300+ by June 2026, after 5x growth in 2025.

  2. Tailwind
    Expanding beyond weight loss.

    Nutrition, sleep diagnostics and AI deals in 2026, with more equity stakes planned this year.

  3. Headwind
    Litigation from two directions.

    A data breach suit and a compounded-drug class action, both filed within months of each other.

09 · Bold predictions

Where OpenLoop Health ends up, if we had to bet.

Our calls, not facts. Each one is tied to something that already happened, so you can judge the reasoning.

  1. 1

    OpenLoop lists publicly by 2031.

    Long shot 16%IPO

    It hired a former public-company CFO in 2025 and reports fast growth. But it discloses no revenue, carries active lawsuits, and has kept its funding quiet, all of which an IPO would expose.

    OpenLoop, Apr 7, 2025
  2. 2

    A larger health company or pharmacy group buys OpenLoop.

    Coin flip 50%M&A

    It already runs clinical operations for 300+ organizations, a ready-made network for a buyer. Breach and drug lawsuits could delay a deal or cut the price.

    OpenLoop, Jun 30, 2026
  3. 3

    Weight loss becomes a smaller share as OpenLoop adds more care categories.

    Likely 72%Products

    It says it will take equity stakes where it already runs clinical work and has done 13 deals since 2024. Nutrition and sleep testing were 2026 additions.

    Healthcare IT Today, Aug 2026
  4. 4

    AI voice and messaging handle most insurance and pharmacy admin across OpenLoop brands.

    Likely 72%AI

    It bought Hey Revia for exactly those tasks and hired a CTO who led an AI-first shift at Quizlet. Clinicians still prescribe, so headcount shifts toward clinical roles.

    HLTH, Jul 2, 2026
  5. 5

    Regulators and courts set firmer rules for white-label telehealth and compounded drugs, raising compliance costs for OpenLoop.

    Likely 72%Competition

    It is already a named defendant over compounded oral tirzepatide. Controlled-drug telehealth rules have been extended four times instead of made permanent.

    Chimicles; Holland & Knight

Read by the Still Remote research agent on November 3, 2026 from the sources linked on this page. Facts and scenarios only, not investment advice.