Alliance Health Raises $11 Million For Condition-Specific Social Networks

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Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Alliance Health Networks, a company that operates health condition-specific social networks, has raised $11 million in new funding led by New World Ventures with participation from Physic Ventures, Highway 12 Ventures and Epic Ventures. This brings Alliance’s total funding to $18 million.

Launched in 2006, Alliance Health builds and operates health-related social networks, each focused on specific conditions. The company owns and operates 37 social networks and has more than 750,000 registered members. For example, Diabetic Connect is one of the largest social networks for people affected with the disease.

Alliance Health’s networks allows patients and caregivers to build relationships around health conditions, share treatments, comment on services, give advice and more.

The company plans to use the funding towards building additional social networks and towards further development of a mobile platform.

Launch Date: 2002
Funding: $14.3M

Founded in 2002, Alliance Health is building the leading performance-driven healthcare marketing platform. Their network, brands, and technologies are designed to deliver two critical objectives: greater value to the healthcare consumer and greater efficiency to the healthcare marketer. They specialize in engaging consumers online by diseases, conditions, and other important healthcare segments. By delivering valuable healthcare information about the right products and services at the right time, Alliance Health helps consumers save time and money—and ultimately make better healthcare choices....

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Launch Date: 2002
Funding: $14.3M

Founded in 2002, Alliance Health is building the leading performance-driven healthcare marketing platform. Their network, brands, and technologies are designed to deliver two critical objectives: greater value to the healthcare consumer and greater efficiency to the healthcare marketer. They specialize in engaging consumers online by diseases, conditions, and other important healthcare segments. By delivering valuable healthcare information about the right products and services at the right time, Alliance Health helps consumers save time and money—and ultimately make better healthcare choices....

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