Override raised a seed funding round of $3.5 million led by 7wireVentures and Martin Ventures, with SignalFire and Confluent Health also participating. The company used these funds in part to acquire a pain management coaching business called Take Courage Coaching.
Jennie Shulkin is the company’s co-founder and CEO while her father, David Shulkin, also is a co-founder and serves as executive chairman, Fierce Healthcare reports.
Override uses a virtual, team-based approach to care that matches each patient with an interdisciplinary care team of a pain specialists, according to Shulkin. The company offers a non-opioid solution that bridges the gaps in traditionally fragmented, one-size-fits-none chronic pain treatment. With Override, patients are matched with a team of coaches and chronic pain specialists in pain medicine, physical therapy and behavioral health. These specialists treat Override patients individually and work together as a team. Read more.
