Klara, a New York-based healthcare messaging system, just landed another $11.5 million in Series A funding round led by FirstMark Capital in addition to participants like Project A Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Atlantic Labs, and other investors. 

Simon Lorenz, the co-founder and co-CEO of Klara, said “This is how we think about the business, we believe healthcare should be patient-centric and in order to enable that all of the people who are involved with the care process are on the same platform — not only doctor and patients but doctor and staff, and they communicate together and they are the one who communicates only.”

In 2014 the healthcare platform was founded by Lorenz and Simon Bolz, and is able to connect patients with care teams. It allows users to send messages, lab results and photos of patients that can be exported to EHR. This information exchange will be equally useful for those involved in the care team on the same platform. The idea behind this platform is to provide the right caregiver to a patient.

Simon Lorenz said, “At the end of the day we are not connecting the patient directly to the physician. We are connecting the patient to the practice; Then we have a smart triaging system inside of Klara that allows the practice to triage the patient’s request to the right person.”

 Lorenz concluded, “We are building a network that solves siloed communication between patients and one practice. We believe communication in healthcare is many players and that is one part we are completely different to existing players.”