Endo Health raises investment from General Catalyst

Silicon Valley-based digital health startup Endo Health announced on the 26th that it had raised funding from General Catalyst (GC), a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm. The amount was not disclosed.

With a vision of “adding one year to the average human lifespan,” Endo Health combines healthcare, AI and gamification to offer differentiated solutions for managing metabolic and chronic diseases. Its service is currently in beta, with an official launch planned for the first half of 2025. After raising funding from Crew Capital earlier this year, Endo Health has secured investments from two top-tier Silicon Valley VCs, a16z (Andreessen Horowitz) and General Catalyst, drawing attention in the global healthcare market.

General Catalyst is a global top-tier VC with more than 40 trillion won in assets under management. It has actively invested in healthcare and AI and recently drew industry attention by raising a new fund worth 10 trillion won. Since its founding in 2000, General Catalyst has backed leading U.S. tech startups including Airbnb, Instacart and Snap. It also contributed to the successful founding and growth of chronic disease management company Livongo. Endo Health is the firm’s first investment in a Korean-founded team.

“Endo Health goes beyond simply collecting healthcare data; our focus is on transforming the user experience,” said Endo Health Co-founder Ilhan Ryu. CEO Heesang Yoon said, “As the first Korean-founded team to receive an investment from General Catalyst, we feel a strong sense of responsibility and will build a company that makes history in the consumer healthcare market.”

Endo Health’s founding team brings together members with backgrounds in medicine, AI and gaming. CEO Heesang Yoon graduated from Yonsei University College of Medicine and spent three years as an AI product lead at Thingsflow, an AI content subsidiary of Krafton. Co-founder Ilhan Ryu also came from Thingsflow and has led various AI-based technology teams, including as tech lead for the couple messaging service Between. Co-founder Chanwoo Park is a computer science Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has authored more than 10 AI-related papers.