ZealCare

What ZealCare does

ZealCare is a privately held digital health company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, that delivers a whole-person chronic disease management program to payers, self-funded employers, and risk-bearing providers. The company's clinical foundation rests on 20 years of evidence-based personalized care models developed at the Duke Center for Personalized Health Care, adapted by founders Ralph Snyderman, MD and Connor Drake, PhD into a tech-enabled care program targeting the small share of patients with complex chronic conditions who account for a disproportionate share of U.S. healthcare spending.

The core product, the ZealCare Program, combines four components: the ZealCare Digital App for participant engagement and progress tracking; ZealGroup, which delivers live virtual peer-support sessions to cohorts of 8-10 participants; ZealCoach, providing dedicated 1:1 integrative health coaching; and a HIPAA-compliant Secured Health Coaching Platform that schedules sessions, coordinates information across clinical teams, and surfaces analytics to identify individuals likely to benefit. The program is positioned around outcome metrics claimed by the company—6x first-year ROI for partners, 45% reduction in avoidable ER visits and readmissions, and 92% participant confidence—and addresses a clinical gap in sustaining behavior change between prescribed care plans and daily execution.

ZealCare operates a B2B, sales-led go-to-market, selling program licenses to health plans, self-funded employers, and risk-bearing providers on negotiated contracts (likely PMPM or bundled program fees). Distribution is domestic only, with no disclosed enterprise customers, no disclosed funding, no disclosed revenue, and no disclosed headcount. The leadership team (President/COO Cassie Wallace, CMO Beau Munoz, CFO Joe Cianflone, CTO Joseph Bastante, VP Coaching Operations Ginny Leavitt) and board (former BCBS NC and Walmart Health executives, Vestar/Apax PE partners) reflect a deliberate blend of academic medicine, payer relationships, and healthcare technology operations aimed at enterprise healthcare buyers.

Name

ZealCare

Legal name

ZealCare

Website

https://zealcare.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Chronic Disease Management

NAICS

All Other Outpatient Care Centers (621498), Social Assistance (624)

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Chronic Disease & Complex Care Management (Geriatrics) (HLADALAC)

Keywords

• Chronic disease management
• Digital health platform
• Health coaching services
• Population health management
• Value-based care programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Cary

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

Revenue model

1. Health Plan/Employer Program Licensing: ZealCare provides its comprehensive chronic disease management program to health plans, self-funded employers, and risk-bearing providers. The program integrates with existing health plans and prescribed care protocols, delivering tailored care experiences, coaching, group therapy, and digital tools to members/employees with complex chronic conditions. Revenue is generated through negotiated contracts with payer and employer customers, likely on a per-member-per-month or bundled program fee basis.
2. Professional Coaching Services: The company provides dedicated health coaches who deliver intensive, human-centered support to participants. This service component augments traditional clinical care with integrative health coaching techniques for sustained behavior change.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

ZealCare delivers a whole-person, tech-enabled chronic disease management program that combines prescribed health plan integration, dedicated integrative health coaching, virtual peer-support group therapy, and a digital empowerment application. The program is built on 20 years of evidence-based care models developed at Duke Center for Personalized Health Care and is sold to health plans, self-funded employers, and risk-bearing providers for delivery to their members and employees with multiple complex chronic conditions.

Product overview

ZealCare offers a unified, tech-enabled whole-person care program for patients with complex chronic diseases. The core offering consists of the ZealCare Program, which integrates the ZealCare Digital App, ZealGroup peer support cohorts, ZealCoach dedicated health coaching, and a Secured Health Coaching Platform. The program delivers personalized health care, group therapy, integrative health coaching, mindfulness practice, and analytics capabilities through a continuous cycle of care approach built on validated models from Duke Health's Center for Personalized Health Care.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 6:1 ROI for partner organizations within the first year
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Duke Center for Personalized Health CarecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerZealCare's program is built on 20 years of evidence-based care models developed and validated by the Duke Center for Personalized Health Care. The company adapted and enhanced these models to create a new paradigm for managing complex chronic diseases, incorporating the center's validated methodologies into their whole-person care approach.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Omada Health: Omada Health is a leading virtual chronic disease prevention and management company that partners with payers and employers to deliver coaching, digital tools, and behavior-change programs for diabetes, hypertension, and other cardiometabolic conditions—directly competing with ZealCare's chronic disease management offering.
• Vida Health: Vida Health provides virtual chronic care management combining 1:1 coaching, digital tools, and mental health support to manage conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and obesity—closely overlapping ZealCare's coaching-plus-digital model for complex chronic populations.
• Livongo (Teladoc Health): Livongo, now part of Teladoc Health, pioneered the connected device-plus-coaching model for diabetes and hypertension management sold to payers and employers—sharing ZealCare's enterprise chronic disease value proposition and target buyer segments.
• Virta Health: Virta Health delivers a telehealth-enabled chronic disease reversal program (notably for type 2 diabetes) combining clinician oversight, coaching, and digital tracking—overlapping with ZealCare's whole-person chronic care model sold to payers and employers.
• Noom Health: Noom offers a behavior-change platform with coaching for chronic conditions including diabetes, hypertension, and obesity, sold to employers and payers—competing for the same value-based care dollars as ZealCare.
• Solera Health: Solera Health operates a chronic disease prevention and management network that connects payers and employers to a curated set of digital health solutions—competing for the same value-based care budgets and serving as both a competitor and a potential channel partner for ZealCare.

Broad incumbents

• Teladoc Health: Teladoc Health is a large incumbent virtual care company whose chronic disease management portfolio (post-Livongo acquisition) overlaps with ZealCare's offering for payers and employers, while also offering broader primary care and mental health services.
• Verily (Alphabet): Verily is Alphabet's health sciences platform that develops chronic disease management, population health, and care navigation solutions, overlapping with ZealCare's payer and employer value-based care positioning at much larger scale and capital base.

Emerging players

• Hinge Health: Hinge Health provides digital chronic condition management (initially musculoskeletal, expanding to broader chronic care) combining coaching, sensor technology, and PT-led programs—sharing ZealCare's B2B payer/employer distribution model and digital-plus-coaching approach.
• Maven Clinic: Maven Clinic delivers virtual care and coaching across women's health, family building, and chronic conditions to payers and employers—sharing ZealCare's coaching-led, enterprise chronic care distribution model though focused on reproductive and family health.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/zealcareinc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles17 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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