Filed under Health · 2024
Forward
2016 - 2024, 9 years old
AI-powered primary care, delivered through standalone kiosks.
Forward started as a chic membership clinic and pivoted to CarePods, walk-in medical booths that promised to diagnose dozens of conditions without a doctor in the room. The pods got stuck on patients, misread tests, and ran into the same regulatory and trust problems that have stalled every algorithm-only clinic. The company shut down all locations in November 2024 and laid off staff with little warning. Investors who had bet on a self-service future of medicine were left with the lease costs of empty kiosks.
- Founded
- 2016-01
- Shut down
- 2024-11-12
- Funding raised
- $657M
- Years alive
- 9
- Founders
- Adrian Aoun