Castlight Health
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| Public | |
| Traded as | NYSE: CSLT |
| Founded | 2008 |
Key people | Giovanni Colella, MD Co-Founder and CEO |
| Slogan | Leading the pathway to better cancer therapies |
| Website |
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Castlight Health is a San Francisco based healthcare information company.[1] The company was founded in 2008 and offers comparison tools showing price and quality metrics for tests and procedures offered by healthcare providers.[2][3] Access to the Castlight Health tool is through a business to business based subscription model. Only employees of companies which have purchased subscriptions are allowed access to Castlight Health's pool of pricing data. In 2012 the company secured $100 million in investment funds.[2] In 2014 the company had its IPO (initial public offering),[4] valued at, a $2 billion, which attracted criticism for being part of a potential economic bubble.[5]
References
- ↑ [Healthcare 2.0] October 2012 Inc. page 58-63
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rip Empson Castlight Lands A Whopping $100M D Round To Bring Transparency To Healthcare Costs May 1, 2012 Techcrunch
- ↑ Christina Farr New health data outs doctors whose patients die more often; Health care consumers are in the dark] July 5, 2013 Venture Beat
- ↑ "U.S. IPO Recap: Castlight Health's 149% Pop Shows Healthy Tech Demand". Seeking Alpha. March 18, 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- ↑ Hay, Timothy (March 29, 2014). "Veteran VC Says Beware of Health IT Bubble: Not Enough ‘Actual Business Plans’". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
- Moukheiber, Zina (March 14, 2014). "Health IT Soars With Castlight Health IPO". Forbes. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
- Krantz, Matt (March 14, 2014). "Castlight Health IPO soars 149% in debut". USA Today. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
- Hay, Timothy (March 29, 2014). "Veteran VC Says Beware of Health IT Bubble: Not Enough ‘Actual Business Plans’". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
- Antoine, Gara (March 20, 2014). "Castlight Health IPO Illuminates Bubble Discussion". The Street. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- Hill, Chris (March 14, 2014). "The Insanity of Castlight Health's IPO". The Motley Fool. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
- Edwards, Jim (March 29, 2014). "Everyone IS Saying This Is The Worst Tech IPO Of The Boom So Far". Business Insider. Retrieved 29 March 2014.