98point6 Technologies

98point6 Technologies

98point6 Technologies emerged from Seattle in 2015, co-founded by Robbie Cape, the former Microsoft executive who previously sold social-shopping startup Cozi to the tech giant. The company was built to deliver on-demand, text-based primary care via an AI-powered chatbot that automates clinical interviews before handing cases to board-certified physicians. Early venture rounds from L Catterton, Activant Capital, and Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division pushed the company to a post-money valuation near $435 million by 2018 (per PitchBook, 2018). The initial consumer brand, simply called 98point6, built a licensed medical group across all 50 states. Strategy shifted decisively in 2022 when 98point6 sold its physician-staffed medical group and consumer-facing app to Transcarent for approximately $100 million (per TechCrunch, 2022). The remaining entity, re-launched as 98point6 Technologies, licenses its core technology stack — combining natural language processing with an evidence-based clinical rule engine — directly to health systems, payers, and large employers that want to automate portions of primary-care triage and follow-up within their own branded experiences. The platform allows enterprise clients to embed an asynchronous AI clinician into their own apps, supporting millions of patients with clinical content reviewed by a centralized physician team. The company holds multiple patents on automated clinical interview technology. Post-pivot, 98point6 Technologies operates as a leaner SaaS-like business, though exact team size remains undisclosed. The company announced a $20 million Series A extension in early 2023, naming The Growth Fund of L Catterton as a returning investor (per 98point6 Technologies, January 2023). Offices remain in Seattle, Washington. The firm supports deployments across the United States and has cited early traction with regional health systems and self-insured employers looking to reduce per-visit primary-care costs through asynchronous AI. What separates 98point6 Technologies from most digital-health peers is the technology's original design for full episode-of-care management rather than simple symptom checking. The AI does not stop at triage; it drafts a complete encounter note that a physician reviews asynchronously, creating a hybrid workflow now licensed to organizations that control their own physician networks. The governance model puts the adoption decision and legal liability on the licensed enterprise, not on a distributed gig-network of third-party doctors — a structure built for scaled local deployment without rebuilding provider credentialing from scratch.