Salvo Health Secures $4M Extension to Scale Digital GI Care Platform

Salvo Health, a digital gastrointestinal care company, has closed a $4 million extended Seed Prime round, building on its $5 million raise from February 2024. The New York-based platform addresses obesity, inflammatory bowel disease, fatty liver disease and irritable bowel syndrome, using the capital to expand its clinical workforce across its growing network of gastroenterology partners.

The Artemis Fund led the extension round, with participation from existing investors City Light, Human Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Felicis Ventures and Torch Capital. The funding comes as Salvo experiences significant growth, with patient volume increasing 800% from September 2024 to April 2025.

"We launched commercially last summer, and now we have signed GI practices representing 700 physicians across nine states," Jeff Glueck, founder and CEO of Salvo Health, told MobiHealthNews. The company's revenue has grown eightfold over the past eight months, with expectations to multiply another six times by year's end.

Salvo's platform connects patients with interdisciplinary care teams including registered dietitians, behavioral health specialists and licensed nurses. The services are covered by most commercial insurers and Medicare under remote patient monitoring and chronic care management codes. Patients enrolled in RPM receive complimentary connected devices such as scales or heart rate variability sensors.

The platform addresses a critical gap in gastroenterology practices. "As with all of medicine, there can be a great deal of pressure to perform enough gold standard colonoscopies and endoscopies for colorectal cancer screening and the like. That leaves very little time and usually no resources for some of the follow-on care that is recommended by the research and the guidelines," Glueck said.

"GI psychology, food as medicine, microbiome diversity, support and stress, sleep, exercise – all of these things are part of evidence-based lifestyle medicine. Physicians do fiber scans, colonoscopies and determine the diagnosis, but they generally are not set up with the resources to provide the daily follow-up support that patients need. We are an extension of that local brick-and-mortar physician office, but we're purely digital."

The fresh capital will support workforce expansion across partner offices in multiple states. "We're in that hyper-growth period where we need to be hiring and investing more in our technology to scale, and that is what this extension provides," Glueck said.

"For that local physician, we are an extension of their office. We're providing continuous care. Second, it's interdisciplinary care. It's really important that it is both food as medicine and mental health and lifestyle medicine, so you have a team of experts. Thirdly, it is closely coordinated with your local, trusted doctor so that when you come back in for your next appointment, that doctor in your chart is fully up to date," Glueck said.

"The Salvo app also reminds patients of what they are working on. This week, you might be working on three to five new habits that are among our 400 scientifically backed little, small-step changes that will make you thrive with your chronic condition, but it's different for each patient, and that's the beauty of our technology."

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