SameSky Health

What SameSky Health does

SameSky Health, doing business as GroundGame.Health, is a US-based health equity company that operates the Implify® platform to coordinate culturally tailored, human-to-human interactions between health plans, providers, employers, community-based organizations (CBOs), and individual members. The platform is designed to surface and resolve unmet social needs that act as barriers to care, with reported cumulative impact of 2.6M+ people engaged, 418K+ social needs solved, $48M+ flowed back into communities, and a 5:1 return-on-investment ratio. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in North Hollywood, California, the company positions itself as a multi-stakeholder connector rather than a direct care provider, with origins rooted in community work and a focus on Medicaid populations, social determinants of health, and the upcoming Medicaid work requirements landscape.

The company generates revenue through managed-services contracts with enterprise buyers (primarily health plans and providers), supplemented by partnerships with CBOs and employer benefit offerings. Implify® is the central product asset: a platform that facilitates referrals, resource matching, and outcome tracking across the stakeholder network. The company is HITRUST CSF certified, which is a relevant credential for selling into risk-bearing health plan and provider procurement processes. GTM motion is enterprise field sales targeting Medicaid payers, provider systems, employers, and CBO networks nationally.

SameSky Health has raised approximately $24.2M across disclosed funding rounds between 2016 and 2020, with the most recent $17M round in December 2020 led by Magnetic Ventures and backed by 7wire Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Tufts Health Plan, American Heart Association, DaVita Venture Group, and others. The leadership team includes Founder & CEO Abner Mason, COO & CFO Vikram Bakhru, CTO Josh Siegel, VP of Client Relations Nicole Cook, and SVP of Finance Young Lee. The company remains privately held with no disclosed parent, no public listing, and operations confined to the United States.

Name

SameSky Health

Legal name

GroundGame.Health inc.

Website

https://sameskyhealth.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

SameSky Health (dba GroundGame.Health) operates the Implify® platform, coordinating culturally tailored, human-to-human interactions between health plans, providers, employers, CBOs, and Medicaid members to address social determinants of health and close gaps in care.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Care Coordination Services

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241)

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Health Equity, Access & Social Determinants Programs (BPAIAJAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

Care Management & Coordination Platforms (case/disease management workflows) (HLACAHAD), Healthcare-Linked Social Benefits Administration (e.g., Medicaid/Means-Tested Health Coverage) (BPAIAKAH), Patient Engagement, Education & Messaging Platforms (portal/CRM integrated) (HLALABAJ)

Keywords

• Social care coordination
• Health equity solutions
• Culturally tailored engagement
• Medicaid member outreach
• Social determinants platform

Headquarters

HQ city

North Hollywood

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Social care coordination services: The company facilitates personalized, culturally tailored interactions through human-to-human connections to address social needs. Revenue appears to be generated through service delivery to health plans, providers, employers, and community-based organizations, creating sustainable revenue streams to fund social care delivery within communities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

SameSky Health (operating as GroundGame.Health) provides managed social care coordination services to enterprise health plans, providers, employers, and community-based organizations, delivered through human-to-human, culturally tailored outreach. Its proprietary Implify® platform operationalizes these interactions, addressing social determinants of health, removing barriers to care, and supporting Medicaid redetermination and work-requirements compliance. The offering combines a national CBO network with technology-enabled coordination to close gaps in care and generate sustainable funding for community-based social care delivery.

Product overview

GroundGame.Health (SameSky Health) offers a platform for facilitating personalized, culturally tailored, human-to-human interactions to address social needs and close gaps in care. The company's primary offering is the Implify® platform, which enables health plans, providers, employers, and community-based organizations (CBOs) to leverage shared resources and expertise to solve social needs at the ground level. The platform facilitates connections between stakeholders and helps ensure Medicaid members maintain eligibility while addressing barriers to care.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Implify® platform Proprietary platform that enables health plans, providers, employers, and community-based organizations to coordinate personalized, culturally tailored, human-to-human interactions addressing social needs and closing gaps in care; HITRUST CSF certified.
• Barriers to Care program Managed-service program helping people overcome social, economic, and logistical barriers that prevent them from leading healthier lives, delivered through the Implify® platform and CBO network to health-plan, provider, and employer customers.
• Redetermination and Work Requirements support Service helping Medicaid payers and members navigate redetermination and new Medicaid work requirements so that eligible members maintain coverage, delivered via the Implify® platform and culturally tailored community outreach.

Quantifiable outcome

• 2.6M+ people engaged
• +3 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Unite Us: Unite Us operates a national SDOH coordination platform connecting health plans, providers, and community-based organizations — the same multi-stakeholder model and buyer segments that GroundGame.Health serves, making it the closest direct competitor.
• findhelp (formerly Aunt Bertha): findhelp runs a social care referral network used by health plans, providers, and CBOs to connect members to social services — directly overlapping with GroundGame.Health's social-needs identification and referral workflow.
• Socially Determined: Socially Determined provides SDOH analytics and risk intelligence for health plans and providers — competing for the same Medicaid payer budgets with an analytics-first approach to social care.
• Healthify (now part of Wellvana): Healthify built a social-care coordination platform for payers and providers addressing SDOH — directly comparable technology and customer base to GroundGame.Health's Implify® platform.
• Carrot Health (acquired by Arcadia): Carrot Health was a SDOH data and engagement platform sold to health plans — now part of Arcadia's population health suite — and serves overlapping Medicaid and value-based care customers as GroundGame.Health.

Emerging players

• Cityblock Health: Cityblock Health is a value-based care provider focused on Medicaid and dual-eligible populations with embedded SDOH services — an adjacent model that overlaps on target population and health-equity mission rather than core software delivery.
• NowPow (acquired by Unite Us): NowPow was a community-resource referral platform serving health systems and CBOs — now integrated into Unite Us — and historically competed with GroundGame.Health for provider and CBO-led SDOH contracts.

Broad incumbents

• Arcadia: Arcadia is a population health analytics and value-based care platform with growing SDOH capabilities (post-Carrot Health acquisition), competing for the same health-plan and provider budgets as a broader incumbent.
• Optum (UnitedHealth Group): Optum operates at-scale SDOH, population health, and care coordination capabilities within UnitedHealth, serving many of the same Medicaid and commercial health plans GroundGame.Health targets, but as part of a much broader services portfolio.
• Wellvana: Wellvana is a value-based care enablement platform that acquired Healthify, bringing social-care coordination into a broader primary-care and population-health offering — competing for overlapping payer and provider relationships.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/groundgame-health
• Xx.com/sameskyhealth

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors17 records

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M&A

Investments

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