Uber Health leader departs for General Catalyst

Caitlin Donovan, international head of Uber Well being, will be a part of Basic Catalyst on the finish of June, the manager stated in a Friday LinkedIn put up confirmed by the enterprise capital agency.

Donovan joined the well being arm of the experience sharing large within the spring of 2021. She’ll get replaced by Zachary Clark, present head of progress at Uber Well being. Clark has already began in his new function, based on an Uber spokesperson. 

Uber Well being first launched in 2018 to a bid to permit suppliers to rearrange rides to medical appointments for his or her sufferers. The unit has since expanded into same-day prescription and grocery and over-the-counter merchandise supply, in addition to permitting some Medicare Benefit plan enrollees to make use of advantages to pay for Uber Well being companies. 

Final month, the experience sharing firm stated caregivers will quickly be capable of request and monitor rides and deliveries, and assist customers apply their eligible well being advantages. 

Donovan’s transfer to Basic Catalyst comes because the enterprise capital agency has doubled down on its healthcare ambitions. Early this 12 months, Basic Catalyst stated it had signed a non-binding letter of intent to accumulate Akron, Ohio-based Summa Well being, simply months after the agency revealed plans to purchase up a well being system.

The agency has constructed a community of greater than 20 well being system companions that check and supply suggestions on the healthcare expertise developed by its portfolio corporations.