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Helm Health

Dynamic Copay health-plan infrastructure that insurers and TPAs use to launch upfront-price plans

Pace
6:00/kmWarm-up2.75
Distance
Distance Unproven.
Open ops roles
3
Last week
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Move
New
Peak
#573
Weeks in the 100
0
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Rank and score over time
Board rank
#563#573#583#573Oct 25
Pace score
02462.8Oct 25

One point per Sunday re-rank, tracking since Oct 25. The lines fill in week by week.

Helm Health runs in the Warm-up lane (6:00/km): 35 of 94. Further right = more momentum. No competitors on the board yet, so it runs alone.

Also competes with: Surest (UnitedHealthcare), Centivo, Curative, Collective Health

Total raised
$21.2Msee rounds ↓
Headcount
~30as of Oct 2026 linkedin.com ↗
Founded
2019
HQ
Columbus, OH

Leadership

The problem

Members can't see what care costs before they go; deductible plans confuse members and don't save employers money

What they do

Dynamic Copay health-plan infrastructure that insurers and TPAs use to launch upfront-price plans

Traction Team ~doubled to ~30 in a year; clients from local plans to large national insurers (unnamed); no revenue disclosed

Hiring trend

Open roles
8
Ops roles
3
Headcount
~30

Headcount ~14 → ~30 in 12 mo (+114% YoY, LinkedIn); open roles 10 (Mar 2026) → 8 now

Funding

Last round
$10.5M
Stage
Series A
Date
Oct 2025

Led by .406 Ventures

Distance

Unproven · edge: hard to leave

Sits inside carriers' and TPAs' claims workflow (sticky once live) and says it is the only independent Dynamic Copay platform, but it is a ~30-person Series A with no named customers or revenue yet, and UnitedHealthcare's Surest already owns the category's best-known plan.

Sources: Helm: Partners page, integrates with any claims platform ↗ · SEC Form D: $10.5M Series A Preferred (first sale Oct 28, 2025; filed Mar 23, 2026) ↗

Last checked Oct 25, 2026

News timeline

  1. Oct 2026CEO Ross Klosterman joins HHS panel on new price-transparency rules linkedin.com ↗
  2. Jul 2026Team nearly tripled in 10 months, per Helm's talent lead linkedin.com ↗
  3. Mar 2026Form D filed for $10.5M Series A led by .406 Ventures (first close Oct 2025) sec.gov ↗
  4. May 2025Files 'Dynamic Copay' trademark markinton.com ↗

Funding historyTotal raised $21.2M

  1. Oct 2025Series A$10.5MLed by .406 Ventures sec.gov ↗
  2. Mar 2024Seed II$2.6MLed by SpringTide Ventures formds.com ↗
  3. Aug 2021Series Seed$6.7Msec.gov ↗
  4. Nov 2020Seed (as UnifiHealth; equity + debt)$1.4Msec.gov ↗

Profile facts checked Oct 19, 2026. Every fact links to its public source.

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