Cardiologist-founded virtual cardiology clinic raises $8M to expand heart failure offerings

Ventricle Health, a North Carolina-based virtual cardiology clinic backed by private-equity investors, has raised $8 million to fund the expansion of its heart failure care model.

Ventricle Health helps patients schedule cardiologist appointments from the comfort of their own homes in a matter of days, delivering easy access to guideline-directed medical therapies proven to improve outcomes among heart patients. Treating heart failure has been one of Ventricle Health’s key priorities since Daniel Bensimhon, MD, a cardiologist with the Cone Health system in North Carolina, founded the company back in 2021.

“Our foundational service lines offer a rapid path for either payers or value-based provider groups to connect heart failure patients to high-quality cardiology services and provides a model for cardiologists to effectively manage more patients,” Bensimhon said in a prepared statement announcing the new funding. “Study after study has shown that getting heart failure patients on appropriate guideline-directed medical therapy can dramatically improve health outcomes and lead to marked reductions in costs and improvements in quality of life in just weeks—yet typically less than 20% of our patients are on these medications even when they come out of the hospital.”