Develop Health Raises $14.3M to Automate Prior Authorization and Medication Access Using GenAI

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Develop Health, an EHR-integrated benefits‑verification and prior‑authorization platform, today announced a $14.3 million Series A led by Wing Venture Capital, with participation from Afore Capital, J Ventures, and South Park Commons. The round brings the company’s total funding to $17.6 million.

Built with over a dozen purpose-built large language model pipelines, Develop Health is the first medication access platform fully architected around GenAI. Its EHR-integrated platform plugs into virtual care workflows to verify insurance coverage in real time, generate and submit the correct prior authorization package, follow up and track status continuously, and return structured data back into the provider’s system, all without manual effort from care teams.

Founded by Mel van Londen and Benjamin Easton, Develop Health is tackling a growing bottleneck in healthcare: the administrative complexity that delays access to necessary medications. Before Develop Health, the founders held roles at provider-facing healthcare startups Canvas Medical and Rupa Health, where they saw how poor communication and data fidelity between providers and payers led to delayed treatment, lost revenue, and worse outcomes for patients.

“We believe providers should be able to make care decisions with full visibility into a patient’s plan, because a prescription that isn’t affordable or accessible is no prescription at all,” said Mel van Londen, co-founder and CEO of Develop Health. “We’re building healthcare’s agentic clearinghouse, starting with medication access and designing infrastructure that meets both payers and providers where they are.”

The new funding will fuel Develop Health’s expansion beyond its core work helping digital health companies navigate the pharmacy benefit space—spanning GLP-1s and treatments across addiction, neurology, dermatology, and psychiatry—into the medical benefit market. The company will also deepen its integrations with both EHRs and PBMs, streamlining and scaling the link between prescribing and coverage, and extend its reach into traditional providers outside of digital health.

“Develop Health is solving one of the most frustrating pain points in healthcare – getting patients the medications they need without weeks of paperwork and endless back-and-forth,” said Sara Choi, Partner at Wing Venture Capital. “They’ve built a system that puts GenAI to work in one of the industry’s most critical, overlooked workflows. Develop Health is positioned to become essential infrastructure for any provider dealing with medication access complexity. ”

Today, Develop Health helps providers reduce churn, set clearer patient expectations, and streamline access to care. The platform reduces form completion time by over 80% and increases approval rates, improving both provider efficiency and patient experience. In just three months, the company has grown significantly and is on track to helping over 1 million patients access their medications by the end of this year. That traction has been driven by Develop Health’s exceptional team of engineers, including Jack Collins, Juan de Urtubey, and Zygimantas Koncius, whose technical excellence has made the platform possible.

About Develop Health

Develop Health’s mission is to empower providers by eliminating the friction of prior authorization and improving visibility into plan benefits—freeing up capacity to deliver truly high-quality patient care. At its core, Develop Health is healthcare’s agentic clearinghouse, beginning with medication access. Today, the platform supports hundreds of thousands of patients each month in getting the treatments they need—while reducing administrative work related to medication access by 83%.

Learn more at www.develophealth.ai.

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