NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2026--
Nourish, the country’s largest dietitian-led metabolic health clinic, today announced its $100 million Series C, bringing total funding to $215 million. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Thrive Capital, Index Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, Maverick Ventures, Y Combinator, BoxGroup, Atomico, Daybreak, and Operator Partners. The funding will be used to grow Nourish's clinical network, accelerate investment in AI agents for patients and providers, expand its metabolic clinic care model, and deepen partnerships with health plans, employers, and health systems. With this investment, Menlo Ventures’ partner J.P. Sanday will join the board.
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“Chronic disease is the largest cost driver in U.S. healthcare, and the system still isn't built to treat it,” said Aidan Dewar, Co-Founder and CEO of Nourish. “Too often, patients get expensive, reactive, fragmented care that doesn't actually make them healthier. We've built the care model and technology to change that — driving the behavior and lifestyle change that delivers real clinical outcomes at a low cost and great patient experience. The demand from patients, providers, health plans, employers, and health systems has never been clearer, and this round positions us to meet it at scale.”
Nearly 200 million Americans live with nutrition-related chronic conditions, which are the leading drivers of the nearly $5 trillion spent on healthcare annually and more than one million preventable deaths each year. Nourish addresses this through an AI-native metabolic clinic, built to drive behavior change and measurable outcomes. Nourish’s high-quality care produces best-in-class outcomes: 8% weight loss, 1.3 point A1C reduction, 31 point LDL cholesterol reduction, and 23 point systolic blood pressure reduction, resulting in over $2,000 per patient in annual cost savings for health plans.
Every Nourish patient works with a Registered Dietitian (RD) virtually and receives a comprehensive care plan — with lab testing, GLP-1 prescribing and medication management, and other virtual medical care layered in based on need, coordinated with each patient's existing providers. Every patient has an AI health agent as part of their care team to proactively support behavior change and coordinate care. Nourish’s AI health agent in its patient-facing mobile app has hundreds of thousands of monthly active users and world-class engagement metrics. For providers, AI copilot agents surface real-time insights and automate administrative work to improve quality of care.
The explosion of GLP-1 medications has accelerated demand for metabolic care, but medication alone is insufficient: fewer than half of patients remain on GLP-1s at six months, and most who discontinue regain the weight without sustained nutrition and behavior support. Payers are under growing pressure to find scalable solutions that actually bend the cost curve. For eligible patients who need access, Nourish integrates responsible prescribing of brand-name, insurance-covered GLP-1s into nutrition-first care, combining medication and lifestyle change into one model that delivers long-term behavior change and sustainable outcomes.
Founded just four years ago, Nourish has scaled its network to over 10,000 Registered Dietitians, has completed millions of appointments, and has more than tripled year-over-year. Nourish has partnered with hundreds of the nation’s leading health plans to provide broad access for more than 200 million covered lives. Nourish has tens of thousands of providers from over 250 health systems referring hundreds of thousands of patients to Nourish’s care model.
“Chronic disease is the central failure of U.S. healthcare — nearly 200 million Americans affected, trillions spent, and outcomes that still don't move. What Nourish has built in four years is remarkable: a care model that actually bends the cost curve, with 10,000 dietitians, deep payer relationships, and clinical outcomes patients stick with,” said J.P. Sanday, Partner at Menlo Ventures. “Most companies get one of those things right. Nourish has all of them. We're proud to lead this round.”
About Nourish
Nourish is the country's largest dietitian-led metabolic health clinic, building the first AI-native virtual care model to tackle America’s healthcare crisis and reverse chronic disease. The company pairs 10,000+ Registered Dietitians with AI agents to deliver insurance-covered, personalized care that produces best-in-class outcomes.
For patients who need access, Nourish integrates GLP-1 medication management, lab testing, and medical care into one care model designed for sustained behavior change. Through partnerships with the nation's largest health plans, health systems, and employers, Nourish is available to over 200 million Americans across all 50 states — typically at no cost. Nourish is actively hiring across clinical and business roles — learn more at nourish.com.
Nourish Raises $100M Series C to Reverse Chronic Disease with AI-Native Metabolic Clinic
Thousands of Southern California residents still could not return home Tuesday as crews worked to keep cooling a damaged tank containing a hazardous chemical at an aerospace plant, despite officials saying the risk of a catastrophic explosion had largely passed.
Officials began ordering residents of Garden Grove near Los Angeles to evacuate their homes on Thursday after the tank overheated. About 16,000 residents out of the 50,000 evacuees were still waiting for the all-clear.
“It’s not over yet,” TJ McGovern, interim fire chief of the Orange County Fire Authority, said Monday. “We still have to mitigate a fire and very small explosion concern, and also a spill potential.”
The tank at GKN Aerospace Transparency Systems contains 6,000 to 7,000 gallons (22,700 to 26,500 liters) of methyl methacrylate, which is highly flammable. Exposure to the chemical can cause serious respiratory problems, neurological problems and irritation to the skin, eyes and throat, according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
An evaluation of the tank showed a reduction of pressure inside, thanks to a crack that was discovered Sunday. The tank’s interior had cooled to 93 degrees F (33.9 degrees C), the county's fire division chief Craig Covey said Monday, down from 100 degrees (37.7 degrees C) a day earlier.
Health officials have sought to reassure people who are returning to homes near the plant.
“There was no contamination. There were no fumes. There were not vapors that came from this incident,” Orange County Health Director Regina Chinsio-Kwong said at Monday's news conference. “There was not a leak. So it should be, you should feel comfortable going home even if you’re across the street from that new zone line.”
Kim Yen, a retiree who had to evacuate her home two blocks from the plant, said she’s ready to go back but wants to be sure it’s safe first.
“I am happy and many of us are happy but, still, we are still on our evacuation,” she said Monday.
The parking lot was full Monday at a large park in Fountain Valley, just southwest of Garden Grove, as people sought refuge in an ad hoc shelter there or pitched tents outside. Other people gathered in the park to enjoy Memorial Day.
Yen added that she’s been worried about the emergency crews.
“They are really our heroes,” she said.
The tank might eventually cool enough for crews to safely stabilize and drain the remaining material without triggering a spark or ignition, said Andrew Whelton, a Purdue University engineering professor who has studied environmental contamination.
Whelton cautioned there is still some risk of an explosion while the chemical inside the tank remains hot and reactive. He said temperatures need to fall closer to ambient levels — roughly 60 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit (15.6 to 21.1 degrees C) — before conditions are considered significantly safer.
As the interior temperature of the tank increased, methyl methacrylate — which is used to make plastics — converted from liquid to gas, ramping up the pressure and risk of explosion, Whelton said.
Some of the methyl methacrylate may already have hardened into a stable plastic similar to plexiglass, reducing the risk inside the tank, he said.
Orange County Supervisor Janet Nguyen said the South Coast Air Quality Management District will be monitoring the air for several months and the EPA will be checking the sewer and storm drains.
County health officials have said the chemical is easy to smell and people may notice it over a large area without being harmed.
GKN Aerospace Transparency Systems, which owns the plant, is a British company that makes cockpit windows, canopies and windshields for military and commercial aircraft.
GKN Aerospace technical specialists and the Orange County Fire Authority removed external insulation material from the tank to help cool its contents, according to a GKN Aerospace statement released Monday.
“We apologize for the ongoing disruption this incident is causing and our priority remains its safe resolution, so that residents can return to their homes as quickly as possible,” the statement said.
GKN Aerospace says on its website that it employs about 16,000 people across 32 manufacturing sites in 12 countries and supplies technologies and components used by major commercial and military aircraft manufacturers worldwide.
It remained unknown when the operation would reopen.
GKN Aerospace agreed in 2025 to pay state regulators more than $900,000 to settle violations involving recordkeeping, permitting issues and nitrogen oxide emissions, according to a report on the South Coast Air Quality Management District website.
Disruptions at facilities producing specialized aircraft components can be difficult for the global aerospace industry to absorb because supply chains are highly concentrated and already strained, said Richard Aboulafia, managing director of the aerospace consulting firm AeroDynamic Advisory.
Aboulafia said aerospace manufacturing differs from many other industries because aircraft production rates are relatively low, leaving only a small number of suppliers for many specialized parts and systems.
“There’s just not a lot of margin in the system,” he said.
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This story has been corrected to attribute a quote to TJ McGovern, interim fire chief of the Orange County Fire Authority, not to division chief Craig Covey.
Willingham reported from Boston. Stengle reported from Dallas. Associated Press journalist Ethan Swope in Garden Grove, California, contributed to this report.
Two evacuees sit in their pickup truck at a gas station within the evacuation zone in Stanton, Calif., Monday, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
An aerial view shows a police checkpoint enforcing a road closure at the evacuation zone boundary in Anaheim, Calif., Monday, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Jan De Jonge and fiancé Sher Stuckman set up a tent with their belonging and pet outside the Elks Lodge in Garden Grove, Calif., on Monday, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
An evacuation map is displayed at the incident command post at the Los Alamitos Race Course in Cypress, Calif., on Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Water is sprayed on a damaged tank at GKN Aerospace in Garden Grove, Calif., on Sunday, May 24, 2026, after the tank containing a chemical used to make plastic parts overheated Thursday. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
People walk outside Freedom Hall, an evacuation center in Fountain Valley, Calif., on Monday, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
An American Red Cross volunteer walks outside Freedom Hall, an evacuation center in Fountain Valley, Calif.,on Monday, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
People tend to their pets outside Freedom Hall, an evacuation center in Fountain Valley, Calif., on Monday, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
