About Carbon Health
Carbon Health was founded in 2015 by Eren Bali and Caesar Djavaherian, an emergency medicine physician, with the goal of building a modern, technology-forward alternative to traditional primary and urgent care, addressing common patient frustrations such as difficulty getting timely appointments, opaque pricing, and clinical record systems that make it hard for patients to access and understand their own health information. Carbon Health operates its own network of physical clinics offering primary care, urgent care, and a range of specialty and occupational health services, built around proprietary software and electronic health record technology that the company developed in-house rather than relying on legacy third-party EHR systems widely used across the healthcare industry.
The company's technology platform emphasizes a more consumer-friendly patient experience, including online scheduling, transparent pricing information, and a patient-facing app for accessing medical records, messaging providers, and managing appointments, functions that many traditional healthcare providers using older legacy systems have historically offered only in more limited or clunky forms. Carbon Health expanded significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, becoming a major provider of COVID-19 testing and later vaccination services across many of its markets, which drove substantial growth in patient volume and public visibility, though the company, like many healthcare and technology companies that scaled rapidly around pandemic-specific services, faced the challenge of navigating growth and staffing normalization as pandemic-related demand receded. The company has continued to expand its virtual care offerings alongside its physical clinic network, positioning itself as a hybrid in-person and virtual primary care provider. Carbon Health has raised substantial venture funding from investors including Blackstone Growth, Dragoneer Investment Group, and General Catalyst, reaching a valuation exceeding $3 billion, competing with other technology-enabled primary and urgent care providers such as One Medical (acquired by Amazon) and CityMD.
