The Public Health Company Launches to Protect Businesses and Communities from Infectious Disease
World-class team raises $8 million in seed funding from Venrock, Verily
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GOLETA, Calif., April 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Public Health Company (PHC), the first company that offers a platform to protect businesses and communities from infectious disease, officially launched today. As part of that, PHC announced that it closed a $8 million seed funding round including investments from Venrock, Verily, and Sweat Equity Ventures. The COVID-19 pandemic reinforced how disruptive uncontained disease outbreaks can be to business operations, the normal functioning of society, and the health and well-being of millions, said Dr. Charity Dean, CEO and co-founder of PHC. But today most organizations still take a reactive instead of a proactive approach to the risk management of communicable disease, and most companies just don t know wh