Cera is a digital-first healthcare-at-home company delivering care, nursing, telehealth and repeat prescription services in people’s homes via technology. In five years, Cera has expanded to 10,000+ staff across the UK and Germany, delivering 40,000+ healthcare visits a day, and has grown from zero to nearly $300M revenues. Every day, Cera delivers healthcare services equivalent to several dozen hospitals or 1,000 care homes, and has grown 100-fold over the past two years making it one of the fastest growing businesses in Europe.
Cera currently holds more than 300+ partnerships with the NHS and local authorities, and the company’s technology is used by 2,000+ businesses nationwide. It’s technology predicts health deteriorations in patients 30-fold faster than traditional care companies, with its Professional Carers and Nurses responding to over 5,000 ‘high risk’ alerts each day.
Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cera has delivered 10 million healthcare visits in people’s homes, created 10,000 jobs, and licensed it’s recruitment technology to the UK Government Department of Health to recruit 50,000+ people into healthcare careers.
Cera was co-founded by entrepreneur, physician and policy expert Dr Ben Maruthappu, and its advisory board is chaired by Sir David Behan, the former CEO of the Care Quality Commission. Cera’s technology and care network have been recognised by over 30 industry awards including Deloitte Fast 50 (#8 in 2021, down from #26 in 2020), Sunday Times Fast Track and Most Outstanding Home Care Provider.
Location: United Kingdom, England, London
Employees: 5001-10000
Total raised: $320M
Founded date: 2016
Investors 1
Date | Name | Website |
19.04.2023 | MK Venture... | mk-vc.com |
Funding Rounds 1
Date | Series | Amount | Investors | Deal News |
09.08.2022 | - | $320M | - | vcbay.news... |
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21.11.2022 | Home Healthcare Provider, Cera, Further Invests in its Techn... | Cera, Europe’s largest provider of digital-first home healthcare, announces that it is further inves... | aithority.... |
28.10.2022 | Cera – Off-Premise Hospital | The post was originally published in Russian on Startup of the Day. Alexander kindly agreed to repub... | itkey.medi... |
09.08.2022 | Cera raises USD 320 million in funding | London, the U.K-based digital-first home healthcare firm Cera raises USD 320 million in the latest f... | vcbay.news... |
03.08.2022 | This startup just raised $320M to make long-term care inside... | Cera, a U.K. provider of healthcare inside people’s homes augmented by a platform that allows carers... | techcrunch... |
08.04.2022 | Reducing waiting time and keeping elderly patients out of ho... | At a time when NHS hospital waiting lists reach record highs of 6.6 million and the world continues ... | tech.eu/20... |