Wisp, a ladies’s telehealth firm, has acquired sexual well being platform TBD Well being, the businesses introduced Tuesday.

New York Metropolis-based Wisp is a direct-to-consumer firm that gives remedies for quite a lot of sexual and reproductive well being wants, together with contraception, fertility, menopause and sexually transmitted ailments.

TBD Well being is now a web-based and private platform for sexual well being care. It affords at-home STD testing, emergency contraception and PrEP, in addition to telemedicine consultations in all 50 states. The in-person clinics are situated in Las Vegas and Denver. It additionally has partnerships with main organizations akin to Mount Sinai Well being System, Deliberate Parenthood Direct and the San Francisco AIDS Basis.

That is Wisp’s first acquisition, for which deal phrases weren’t disclosed. It permits the corporate to develop into offering in-person care to enhance digital assist. Wisp will proceed to function its direct-to-consumer platform whereas including hybrid healthcare choices powered by TBD Well being, Wisp CEO Monica Cepak mentioned. This consists of supportive care offered by means of hospitals, employers and public well being companions.

“There’s a restrict to what consumer-only care can remedy by itself, particularly within the areas of sexual and preventive well being care,” Cepak mentioned. “TBD Well being has constructed a nationwide infrastructure and long-standing partnerships with healthcare programs and public well being organizations that we lacked. … This acquisition closes that hole. It permits us to quickly develop into hybrid and enterprise care whereas persevering with to deal with ladies, who stay underserved by current prevention fashions.”

For TBD Well being, the acquisition permits them to succeed in extra sufferers, mentioned Daphne Chen, co-founder of TBD Well being.

“We constructed TBD Well being to operate inside actual programs – hospitals, public well being applications, company workflows – and that work solely issues if it reaches individuals constantly,” says Chen. “Wisp has already constructed belief at scale, particularly amongst ladies who are sometimes neglected by current sexual well being and prevention fashions. By becoming a member of Wisp, we are able to join the infrastructure we have constructed to a platform that reaches sufferers earlier and extra typically, fairly than working in parallel or on the fringe of the system.”

Chen and co-founder Stephanie Estey each work full-time at Wisp. Chen will function vice chairman of company technique and operations, whereas Estey will function vice chairman of company technique and authorized affairs. Co-founder Sherwin Lu will even lead the offshore engineering workforce as a contractor and plans to hitch Wisp full-time as head of enterprise engineering in March 2026, in line with Estey.

Via the acquisition of TBD Well being, Cepak goals to broaden entry to Wisp’s providers for girls who are sometimes missed by the standard healthcare system.

“Too typically, eligibility doesn’t translate into care attributable to value, fragmented programs or when care strikes between settings,” she mentioned. “This acquisition will allow Wisp to assist care throughout client, enterprise and public well being environments in a method that’s coordinated fairly than fragmented, so sufferers do not drop out as care shifts.”

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