New York, NY – March 11, 2025 – Junction, the healthcare infrastructure company, today announced an $18M Series A funding round led by Creandum, with participation from Y Combinator, Point Nine, Amino Collective, and Inflect Health. This funding accelerates Junction’s mission to modernize healthcare infrastructure, helping organizations deliver seamless, data-driven, and patient-centered care. The announcement coincides with the company’s rebrand from Vital to Junction, with a new brand identity and website set to launch on March 11th.

The Problem:

The future of healthcare is in the home, not in the hospital. Today, every healthcare company trying to deliver quality healthcare outside the hospital needs hospital-grade biometrics and physiological data. The primary means of getting this data today are by integrating with legacy lab vendors and medical devices.

Yet today’s healthcare infrastructure wasn’t designed for patient-centered care outside of traditional settings. This is critical, as 60% of U.S. adults have a chronic disease, and nearly 1 in 5 lab tests go incomplete, while care teams waste hours managing manual workflows and chasing results. This does not work. Patient data is incomplete, lab results are lost, and care is delayed. This reality makes it impossible to reverse ballooning healthcare costs.

To meet these challenges, the healthcare industry has to invest in a new type of infrastructure. Existing solutions were not built for this new world, and it shows in negative NPS scores from companies who rely on them (Health Gorilla -20, Change Healthcare -51).

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• In an NIH study of diabetic patients, lab attendance ranged from 86% for A1c to 73% for SC, time to attendance had a median of 7–10 days and mean of 25–30 days, and 1 in 7 patients did not complete an ordered lab test within 6 months (NIH)
• Patients prefer convenience most over coverage or quality (NRC Health)

“Data is the bottleneck to unleashing the potential of new technologies like AI in healthcare,” said Sabina Wizander, Partner at Creandum. “So much of healthcare infrastructure is built on legacy systems and communicates using outdated methods like fax and pen and paper. Junction solves this problem, by providing companies with healthcare infrastructure for lab testing and device data integration. Junction’s infrastructure makes this data actionable, improving the patient experience and preventative care outcomes.”

The Solution:

Junction’s mission is to enable companies to reduce the cost of managing chronic disease by two orders of magnitude. Junction provides the infrastructure to power the next generation of healthcare. The Junction platform:

• Allows companies to order lab tests across all 50 states, and receive results from over 10+ labs, including Labcorp and Quest; through both in person and at-home-tests. 
• Automates lab testing clinical workflows while minimising the manual work for clinical staff, enabling organizations to deliver care on time while reducing operational burden and costs.
• Keeps patients informed with real-time lab status updates and communication, reducing uncertainty and minimizing the need for patients to follow-up.
• Allows companies to connect to over 500 wearable and medical devices to create a comprehensive longitudinal view of patient health.

“Junction is transforming healthcare by addressing its most critical pain points: scalability, convenience, and data-driven decision-making,” said Maitham Dib, Founder and CEO of Junction.

Customer and Market Validation:

Junction currently powers over 140 healthcare organizations, including digital health leaders like Found, Parsley Health, and Evidation, supporting 500K+ tests annually and over 2 million connected devices.

The opportunity for transformation is immense: a 2020 McKinsey report estimates that $250B of U.S. healthcare spending could shift to virtual care delivery. Junction is uniquely positioned to make this a reality by bridging the gap between data collection, automation, and preventative care.

Why the Rebrand to Junction?

“Vital was always about helping healthcare systems operate more effectively. As Junction, our new brand reflects the pivotal role we play in connecting systems, data, and patient care seamlessly,” said Dib. “This name represents our commitment to building the infrastructure that will support the next generation of healthcare innovation.”