VITL Raises $7.5M Series A Led by SignalFire to Build the Operating System for Cash-Pay Healthcare

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 26, 2026--

VITL, the operating system for cash-pay health, announced the close of its $7.5 million Series A funding round led by SignalFire - accelerating expansion of VITL's pharmacy network, product development, and team. SignalFire identified VITL through its data-driven sourcing platform and reached out directly - no pitch deck, no outbound fundraising required.

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VITL addresses a critical infrastructure gap in the rapidly growing $100 billion cash-pay healthcare market. The physicians driving this market - med spas, hormone clinics, longevity practices, concierge medicine, direct primary care - are prescribing treatments that are genuinely 10 years ahead of the traditional system. But the tools available to them were purpose-built for legacy sick care: insurance-based, reactive, designed for a world of PBMs, retail chains, and formulary lookups.

Cash-pay preventative health doesn't work that way. Because no one ever built infrastructure for this market, these clinics are manually managing the entire pharmacy experience themselves - credentialing with five to seven pharmacies individually, tracking whether a prescription was filled, following up on whether it shipped, hunting inventory by phone when a compound goes out of stock. The cost: the average clinic loses over $100,000 a year in productivity and inefficiency. Physicians are spending two full workdays a month on pharmacy operations instead of patients.

“We're not building another healthcare tool. We're building infrastructure that eliminates the need for most of them”, said Charlie Jordan, Founder and CEO of VITL. “E-prescribing was the first and most obvious source of drag we eliminated. But it's not the last.”

VITL's platform provides a single login that replaces multiple pharmacy portals, enables real-time price comparison across verified 503A & 503B compounding pharmacies nationwide, allows ordering from multiple pharmacies in a single transaction, and gives patients real-time tracking from prescription to doorstep. The result: physicians reclaim valuable clinical time while patients gain transparency and convenience.

Since launching in late 2024, VITL has demonstrated exceptional traction:

"Cash-pay healthcare represents one of the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. healthcare market, yet it's running on infrastructure designed decades ago," said Chris Scoggins, General Partner at SignalFire. "VITL is bringing modern marketplace dynamics and consumer-grade user experience to an industry desperately in need of innovation. Charlie and his team have built exactly what physicians have been asking for."

Three forces make this moment inevitable. Patients are leaving the traditional system - direct primary care, concierge medicine, and cash-pay clinics are growing at double digits as consumers vote with their wallets for transparency, access, and choice. The regulatory landscape is accelerating demand - FDA enforcement is professionalizing the compounding pharmacy industry, and recent developments including the Novo Nordisk/Hims & Hers deal have reshaped GLP-1 distribution overnight. And every major e-prescribing platform on the market today was purpose-built for insurance-based, reactive medicine - you can't retrofit sick care plumbing for a preventative health economy. You have to build new infrastructure from scratch.

The funding will be used to expand VITL's network of verified pharmacy partners, develop clinical program management and subscription workflow tools, invest in interoperability that connects VITL to the broader healthcare ecosystem, and scale the team at the company's Nashville headquarters.

VITL serves cash-pay medical practices including med spas, hormone clinics, peptide clinics, anti-aging centers, weight loss clinics, functional medicine practices, and concierge medicine providers. The platform connects these practices with verified 503A & 503B compounding pharmacies that meet stringent quality and compliance standards.

"We're not building another healthcare tool," Jordan added. "We're building infrastructure that eliminates the need for most of them. Every workflow, every manual step, every phone call, every redundant credential - if it creates drag for a cash-pay clinic and it isn't treating a patient, we want to remove it."

About VITL

VITL is a Nashville-based healthtech company building the operating system for cash-pay health. Through its open marketplace, VITL connects clinics with verified 503A & 503B compounding pharmacies nationwide, enabling real-time price comparison, multi-pharmacy ordering, and patient tracking from prescription to doorstep - all through a single, elegant interface. Founded in 2024, VITL serves over 630 clinics and 1,000+ prescribers across the United States. Learn more at vitlrx.com.

About SignalFire

SignalFire is the first AI-native VC firm built like a technology company to better serve the needs of founders as they build and scale their startups. With approximately $3B in assets under management, SignalFire invests in applied AI companies from pre-seed to Series B in key sectors, including Health & PharmaTech, cybersecurity, infrastructure, consumer, and other enterprise verticals.

The firm's Beacon AI platform tracks over 650M employees and 80M organizations, giving the firm an unmatched data advantage in identifying and supporting world-class startups. Its sector-focused investors, XIRs from leading Health & PharmaTech unicorns, and a dedicated team of seasoned operators drive SignalFire at startup speed. They provide support across a company's full lifecycle through data and resources tailored by growth stage, plus a diverse ecosystem of partners and customers. Notable investments include Grow Therapy, Ro, EvenUp, Frame.io, Superhuman, and Stampli.

Learn more at www.signalfire.com.

VITL liberates cash pay healthcare from legacy technology

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers in Nepal pulled out a Chinese man and a woman in separate operations Saturday, 10 days after devastating floods hit the country, as teams continued searching for thousands of missing people.

The man was rescued from a hydropower tunnel, according to a social media post by the country’s prime minister’s office, bringing the total to three workers pulled alive from the Trishuli hydropower project. Two Nepalese workers were rescued on Friday.

Nepal's army said a joint rescue team of Nepalese military personnel and South Korean disaster experts rescued the man from a 225-meter (about 740-foot) tunnel and that he was undergoing a health assessment. Images showed him being evacuated by helicopter, with an army medic checking on him during the flight.

A photo released by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV showed two rescuers carrying the man out of the tunnel.

CCTV shared audio of the man talking to an officer, saying how he repeatedly shouted whenever he saw the rescue crews’ lights, but they could not hear him.

“When they rescued me today, when they shone (the light) before my eyes, I couldn’t believe it,” he said.

The man was taken to a hospital and was in stable condition, according to CCTV.

Rescue efforts have increasingly focused on 12 hydropower projects across Nepal, where about 900 workers are missing and roughly 500 are believed to be trapped in various tunnels, authorities said. Specialized rescue ​teams from India, China, South Korea and the United States have been searching through debris, damaged structures and tunnels at the projects, hoping to find survivors.

In flood-hit Nuwakot town, a woman was rescued alive from a house, Nepal's army spokesperson said Saturday. Officials said she was airlifted to Kathmandu for treatment.

Images released by Nepal’s army showed rescuers finding the woman covered in mud inside the damaged house. They gave her bottled water before pulling her to safety, wrapped in a gray blanket.

At least 1,300 people were killed in the Aug. 26 floods, which were likely caused by a glacier collapse, and more than 5,000 remain missing, according to Nepal’s disaster management agency.

Saaliq reported from New Delhi. Associated Press journalist Kanis Leung in Hong Kong contributed to this report.

In this photo provided by the Nepal Army, a Chinese national is seen drinking water after being rescued by soldiers during an ongoing operation at the Trishuli-3A hydropower project in Nepal's Rasuwa district, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026. (Nepal Army via AP)

In this photo provided by the Nepal Army, a Chinese national is seen after being rescued by soldiers during an ongoing operation at the Trishuli-3A hydropower project in Nepal's Rasuwa district, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026. (Nepal Army via AP)

A drone view shows a damaged residential building along the swollen Trishuli River in the aftermath of flash floods in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)