Funding profile · Healthcare price transparency
Certainly Health
One announced seed round, no Form D on file with the SEC, and a consumer price guarantee that was backed by the company’s own cash rather than by any disclosed insurance.
$2.3MTotal disclosed funding, one round, announced Dec 13, 2023
0Form D notices on file with the SEC as of Sep 23, 2026
3Employees as of Aug 31, 2026, per Tracxn
33Months since the last announced round
Data as of September 23, 2026. Company-reported figures are labeled.
Rounds at a glance
| When | Round | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2023 | Y Combinator batch | Not disclosed | Y Combinator | YC page |
| Dec 13, 2023 | Seed, announced | $2.3M | Led by Pacific 8 Ventures, with Y Combinator and other institutional and angel investors | Press and reporting |
| Dec 2023 to Sep 2026 | Nothing announced | $0 reported | None | Not found |
| Any date | Regulation D offering | No filing | None named | SEC EDGAR |
What the filings show
Certainly Health, Inc. · no Form D located · searched Sep 23, 2026
- Company search
- EDGAR company search for filers beginning “certainly”, form type D: no results
- Full text search
- Five documents match the phrase, all filed by unrelated public companies including Maximus, LendingClub and Physicians Realty Trust, none of them a Form D
- Records pull
- Zero parsed Form D filings and zero EDGAR Form D mentions in the project record set
- Legal entity
- Certainly Health, Inc., incorporated May 27, 2021 per Tracxn
- Other federal records
- No FDA 510(k) or PMA, no registered trials, no NIH or NSF awards, no PubMed hits
- Reading
- A $2.3M round with no notice is ordinary, not irregular. See below.
Reading the filings
- No Form D does not mean no money.A company can sell securities under Section 4(a)(2) without filing anything, and Y Combinator standard instruments and small seed rounds often go unfiled. Three independent outlets and the company’s own release put the round at $2.3 million on December 13, 2023. The absence of a notice removes the usual detail: first sale date, amount offered versus sold, investor count and named directors.
- The round was sized for about seven hires.Chiu told VatorNews the capital would take the company from two founders to roughly nine people over the next year or so. At New York engineering salaries, seven hires consume most of $2.3M inside two years, which sets the practical clock on the strategy.
- The guarantee was an unfunded liability.The company promised to pay the difference when a bill exceeded the listed price. No reinsurer, stop loss or reserve was ever disclosed, and the founders said on Hacker News that they expected to lose money on payouts for some time. On a $2.3M base, that liability is bounded only by booking volume and by the decision to keep high variance procedures off the site.
- Thirty three months without a raise, and headcount fell.Nothing has been announced since December 2023. Tracxn lists three employees as of August 31, 2026, below the two founders plus seven the company planned. That is the shape of a team that extended runway rather than one that scaled.
- The revenue model changed underneath the cap table.The 2023 business was a per booking fee charged to providers when a new patient showed up. The 2026 business, reached by a redirect from the old domain, is a consumer subscription at $99 for the first month and then $19.99 a month, with a $149 video call add on. Different customer, different unit economics, same capital.
Commercial signals
| Signal | Detail | Source type |
|---|---|---|
| Regulatory basis | Transparency in Coverage rates public since July 1, 2022. The advanced explanation of benefits, the federal equivalent of the product, was still unimplemented in late 2025. | Public record |
| Market | New York City only, four payers supported at launch, about 5,000 doctors listed, most of them not partners. | Company-stated |
| Revenue | No revenue, booking volume or payout figure has been published. | Not found |
| Current product | certainlyhealth.com returns a 301 to certainlyglow.com, an aesthetics coaching subscription. Doctor listing URLs return 404. | Live site |
| Legacy claim | The provider page still states that patients who book through Certainly pay 100% of deductible and coinsurance upfront. | Differs from live product |
What to watch
- A first Form D. Any Regulation D round would require one within 15 days of first sale.
- Whether Certainly Glow trades under the same entity or a new one.
- Retirement of the provider page and its collection promise.
- CMS rulemaking on good faith estimates and the advanced explanation of benefits, which would commoditize the original product.
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Compiled from SEC and other public records and published reports as of September 23, 2026. Form D notices report offerings under Regulation D; amounts reflect the filing date. No Form D has been located for this company, and the absence of a notice is not evidence that no securities were sold. Healthcare Venture Capital Fund holds no position in Certainly Health. This page is not an offer to sell or a recommendation to buy any security.