Baltimore-based healthcare access startup Live Chair Health is looking to use the millions of dollars from the yearlong seed round it closed last week to bridge health disparities in the Black communities of new markets.
The 2021 RealLIST Startups honoree has continued to pivot from barbershop appointment app to barbershop-based healthcare access provider. It now is expanding to partnerships with community-based organizations to help health plans and systems engage with underserved peoples by meeting them at key gathering points. In these community spaces, Live Chair Health conducts health screenings and links residents with health services that they often go without.
“We had to iterate at a much faster rate because COVID decimated the volume that’s traditionally seen in barbershops and salons,” Live Chair CEO Andrew Suggs told Technical.ly. “We’ve expanded where we reach people. Through these partnerships with various community-based organizations, we’re looking to give them the infrastructure, and the tools, to help the members that they serve flourish.”
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