Nourish Raises $70M Series B to Scale Access to Nutrition Care
QUICK TAKE
- Nourish has raised a $70M Series B round to expand access to AI-powered, insurance-covered virtual nutrition care, bringing total funding to $115M. Index first backed the company by leading its $35M Series A in 2024.
- With 3,000+ registered dietitians, Nourish operates the largest RD network in the U.S., serving hundreds of thousands of patients in all 50 states.
- With the new funds, Nourish will accelerate product development, grow its clinical team, and expand strategic partnerships across the healthcare ecosystem.
INDEX PERSPECTIVE
By Martin Mignot & Susana Rojas
At Index, we’re big believers in the power of technology to transform healthcare, not just by building better software for providers, but by reimagining how care is delivered. That’s exactly what Nourish is doing: connecting patients, providers, and payers in a single digital platform. It’s a rare win-win-win: convenient, covered care for patients, meaningful work for dietitians, and preventative savings for insurers.
We see Nourish as a “goldilocks” healthcare business—digital-first, operationally excellent, and built for a category where virtual care makes sense. Dietitians don’t need a physical clinic to provide great care. With Nourish, they can reach patients from anywhere, using tools that streamline admin, surface insights, and let them focus on what they do best. Patients, in turn, get matched with the right specialist—94% of the time at zero cost—for support across every major nutrition-related condition. Today, Nourish serves hundreds of thousands of patients and employs more than 3,000 W-2 RDs across all 50 states.
This is a massive market that’s been overlooked for too long. For years, seeing a dietitian was an out-of-pocket luxury, inaccessible to most. That’s now changing. Policy updates have made preventative care reimbursable, insurers are covering nutrition services at scale, and consumer interest in diet and nutrition is rising, driven in part by the rise of weight loss medications like Ozempic and Wegovy. These tailwinds have created a powerful “why now” moment for the category, helping Nourish bring nutrition care into the healthcare mainstream.
We’re thrilled to back Aidan, Sam, and Stephanie again as they scale a model that’s better for patients, better for providers, and ultimately, better for the healthcare system as a whole.
THE DETAILS
Nourish was founded to address one of the most urgent and overlooked challenges in healthcare: nutrition-related chronic disease. Today, 60% of Americans live with at least one chronic condition, and 40% have two or more. Together, conditions like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease account for the vast majority of healthcare spend in the U.S. Working with a registered dietitian (RD) is one of the most effective interventions available, yet fewer than 1% of eligible Americans use their covered benefits due to a lack of awareness and limited access.
Through its fully integrated virtual care platform, Nourish makes it easy for patients to connect with RDs who specialize in their condition, schedule appointments, receive ongoing care, and pay using insurance. The company is now in-network with Medicare, Medicaid, and national commercial insurers like Aetna, Anthem, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, and UnitedHealthcare, with 94% of patients paying $0 out of pocket. At over 3,000 W-2 dietitians and hundreds of thousands of patients served, Nourish now offers the largest RD network in the country.
The company’s model is already delivering meaningful clinical impact, including significant improvements in key health markers like A1C and LDL. Recently published data shows that patients on GLP-1s like Ozempic lost 33% more weight when paired with a Nourish RD, while also reporting better medication adherence and fewer side effects.
“We built Nourish to make healthcare radically better for millions of Americans—it’s the care we wanted ourselves during our own patient journeys,” says co-founder and CEO Aidan Dewar. “We wanted to build a patient-friendly healthcare system with lifestyle change and nutrition as a first-line treatment, not an afterthought. We're combining cutting-edge AI with the best RD team in the country to deliver personalized care that actually works, at a fraction of the cost of traditional medicine. It is not only more effective and accessible, but also more human.”
With this $70M Series B, Nourish plans to invest in three key areas: accelerating product development, expanding its provider network, and deepening strategic partnerships across the healthcare ecosystem. The company’s platform already supports patients with smart meal tracking, wearable and lab integrations, recipes, and between-session content. For providers, Nourish offers a powerful AI copilot that automates note-taking, highlights clinical insights, and reduces administrative overhead, letting them focus on delivering best-in-class care.
“Our healthcare system is at an inflection point, with chronic disease rates and costs rising to unsustainable levels,” said Sam Perkins, co-founder, President and COO of Nourish. “Payers are under growing pressure to find scalable solutions that actually work. Nourish meets this need by addressing the root cause of chronic disease—giving payers a powerful new lever to improve outcomes, bend the cost curve, and deliver a care experience members love.”
Published — April 23, 2025
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