{"id":2900,"date":"2022-09-25T14:14:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T14:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2022-09-25T14:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T14:14:58","slug":"global-care-now-pay-later-medical-care-fintech-scratch-raises-35m-series-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/global-care-now-pay-later-medical-care-fintech-scratch-raises-35m-series-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Global: \u201cCare now, pay later\u201d- medical care fintech Scratch raises $35m Series C"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"contentContainer\" class=\"contentBody ms-column-type-narrow\" role=\"main\">\n<div id=\"__reading__mode__mainbody__id\" class=\"__reading__mode__mainbody\">\n<div id=\"mainContainer\" class=\"__reading__mode__extracted__article__body\">\n<div class=\"columns small-12 single-post-content_text-container\">\n<p class=\"first_paragraph\">California-based medical and patient care fintech Scratch Financial has raised $35 million in a Series C funding round.<\/p>\n<p>The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners and saw participation from Alumni Ventures, Companion Fund, Struck Capital, SWS Venture Capital and TTV Capital, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2016, Scratch offers a \u201ccare now, pay later\u201d payment model to help pet owners and patients across the US and Canada cover the cost of medical care.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 10,000 veterinary and medical care practices using Scratch\u2019s payment and financing tools, the company says it is on track to process nearly $1 billion worth of patient payments by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The new funding will be used to create new products and accelerate the development of technology designed to connect medical providers with clients to provide an end-to-end patient experience.<\/p>\n<p>Scratch CEO John Keatley says: \u201cFinancial inclusion has always been a goal for our company\u2014helping connect more people with transparent and personalised financing options to get the care they need for themselves or their loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"__reading__mode__content_end_mark_container_id\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"pages_pending_container_id\" class=\"pages_pending_container_class\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California-based medical and patient care fintech Scratch Financial has raised $35 million in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners and saw participation from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[73,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global","category-startup"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Scratch-Gets-35M-Funding-Toward-Care-Now-Pay-Later-Patient-Financing.png?fit=715%2C319&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}