Health care platform Trellis Health has secured a $1.8 million pre-seed round from Palette Ventures, Swizzle Ventures, NextBlue, Suncoast Ventures and Sundial Foundation. Individuals in the health care space also participated including Care.com founder Sheila Marcelo; Flo Health cofounders Yuri Gurski and Andrei Kouzel; founder and chief executive officer of Simple Mike Prytkov; How Women Invest venture partner Naseem Sayani and more. 

The round will assist with the company’s launch, expanding its security and data platform engineering team and AI team and eventual expansion of its consumer base.

Trellis Health, which is set to launch officially in May after being in beta the past year, provides users a timeline of their health data, predictive analysis and appointments all in one place. Following Thursday’s announcement, Trellis Health will be opening its waitlist for users to join. 

“[Trellis Health is] an operating system for your own health,” said Trellis Health cofounder and CEO Estelle Giraud. 

In founding Trellis Health, Giraud, formerly of genomics company Illumina, discovered that the concept of a family doctor — essentially a physician who has seen several generations in one family and therefore is able to provide more precise care — no longer exists. 

“Instead, today, people see 150 different doctors in their lifetime. Most of us don’t have primary care physicians. Fifty percent of young people just do not have a primary care physician relationship, and even if you do, it takes months to get in,” she said. “Not only is the system incredibly fragmented, but you have this access problem.” 

Trellis Health is trying to change that, starting with pregnancy and postpartum. The platform aggregates all of the user’s medical data to create a clear health timeline and employs AI to provide predictive insights. To date, the company has connections with over 50,000 medical sites nationwide to collect this information. 

“We can pull in about a decade of health history in less than a minute from any doctor you’ve seen nationwide… Then we arrange it into a timeline of your health, like, baselines of your health, family health history, risk,” Giraud said. “We can then start to do things like predictive questions for your doctor’s visit, things that you should know about personalized lab tests at home that are [aligned] with where you are in your health journey. It’s about relieving the mental load of managing our health.”

While this raise will help the company gear up for its official launch, expansion is also on the horizon. 

“We’re obviously starting with women’s health, and specifically starting with pregnancy [and] postpartum, this journey that requires so much mental load and work and opportunity to improve health outcomes,” Giraud said. “We plan to expand really quickly and open it up broadly to families and then to individuals.”