Somatus
Company

Last deal

$325M

Amount

Series E

Stage

22.02.2022

Date

3

all rounds

$465.12M

Total amount

date founded

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About Company
Somatus is a healthcare company that provides integrated care for patients with or at risk of developing kidney disease.

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founded date

01.01.2016

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series E

IPO status

Private

Description

The company partners with health plans, health systems, nephrology, and primary care groups to offer concierge kidney care that slows the progression of chronic kidney disease and increases the utilization of home-based dialysis for end-stage renal disease patients. Somatus' vertically integrated clinical services and technology delay or prevent disease progression, decrease avoidable hospital utilization, improve quality and care coordination, and increase the use of home dialysis modalities and rates of kidney transplantation. The company's mission is to maximize the number of patients who qualify for and receive kidney transplantation, and it is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia.
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Anthony Welters
Anthony Welters

Anthony Welters

Anthony Welters is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Somatus. He also currently serves as the Executive Chairman of the BlackIvy Group, LLC, an organization that builds and grows commercial enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa, including logistics and infrastructure solutions and businesses that serve the growing consumer class. Mr. Welters retired as Senior Adviser to the Office of the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, which serves more than 100 million people worldwide through its health and well-being companies. During his two decades at UnitedHealth Group, Mr. Welters also served as Executive Vice President and a Member of the Office of the CEO of UnitedHealth Group and led UHG’s Public and Senior Markets Group. Mr. Welters joined UHG upon its acquisition of AmeriChoice, a $1 billion health care company he founded in 1989. Mr. Welters is a member of the boards of Loews Corporation, C.R. Bard, Inc, and the Carlyle Group. He is a Trustee Emeritus of the Morehouse School of Medicine Board of Trustees, Chairman Emeritus of the Board of New York University School of Law, as well as Vice Chairman of the Board of New York University and a Trustee of NYU Langone Medical Center. He is a recipient of a Horatio Alger Award, awarded to those who have overcome humble beginnings and adversity to achieve success and contribute to society, and he serves on the board of that charitable organization as well. He and his wife Beatrice are also recipients of the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service, in recognition of their long-standing commitment to philanthropy. Mr. Welters was born and raised in the New York City neighborhoods of Harlem and Bedford Stuyvesant. He earned a BA in economics from Manhattanville College and a JD from New York University School of Law. Mr. Welters is a member of the Bars of New York and the District of Columbia.

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Ikenna Okezie
Ikenna Okezie

Ikenna Okezie

Ikenna Okezie is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Somatus, a value-based provider of integrated and coordinated care to patients with kidney disease. Somatus partners with providers and payors to improve outcomes for patients with or at risk for developing chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease. Prior to founding Somatus, Ikenna led the mid-Atlantic operations for DaVita Healthcare Partners, a $1 billion business unit with 225 outpatient dialysis centers, 70 hospital-based dialysis units, and 4,000 teammates. He has also served as a partner of The Advisory Board Company and engagement manager at McKinsey & Company. Ikenna enjoys contributing to the community, including as a former member of the Medical Review Board of Medicare’s End-stage Renal Disease Network and past co-chair of the Region III Health Equity Council of the U.S. National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities. He earned a Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School, a Master of Business Administration, graduating with Honors, from Harvard Business School, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, graduating cum laude, from Yale University. Ikenna is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

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Employee Profiles
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Joe Kimura

Joe Kimura

Chief Medical Officer

Lawann Powers

Vice president, account management

Emily Kiernan

General manager

Shelly Daniels

Senior director, operations

Damion Powell

Senior technical recruiter

Ramon Mendez

Ramon Mendez

Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs

Jon Kunkle

Jon Kunkle

Chief Financial Officer

Anthony Welters

Anthony Welters

Co-Founder

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