A new blueprint for women's care, built inside the hospital
Kate Condliffe runs Diana Health, a network of women's health practices she co-founded in 2020 to remake the way hospitals deliver maternity and gynecological care. The company does not try to replace the hospital or route around it. It co-designs and operates women's health programs inside labor-and-delivery units and outpatient clinics, deploying integrated care teams of certified nurse midwives, OB/GYNs, and mental health and wellness providers who work together instead of in silos.
The bet is straightforward. Give a woman longer appointments, a coordinated team, and a say in her own plan, and outcomes improve while unnecessary interventions fall. Diana Health now cares for more than 80,000 women a year across nine locations in Tennessee, Florida, and Texas, with services that span sexual health, preconception and pregnancy, gynecological conditions, wellness and nutrition, and menopause.
In September 2025, the company closed a $55 million Series C led by HealthQuest Capital, with returning backers Norwest, .406 Ventures, LRVHealth, and AlleyCorp. That brought total funding to roughly $101 million. The same round added Dr. Neel Shah, a physician and health-policy voice known for his work on maternal care, to the board of directors. A new clinic in Jacksonville, Florida followed later that year.
"Women achieve better outcomes when care is holistic and centered on their voices."
Partnership over disruption
Most healthcare startups pitch themselves as an alternative to the incumbent. Condliffe went the other direction. Diana Health earns its place by improving the quality of the patient experience, and, as she has put it, hospitals build lasting programs by earning women's trust and loyalty over time. That framing turns a fragmented, high-pressure service line into something a hospital wants to keep.
She describes women's health as a transformational stretch in most women's lives, and often the first time a woman engages the health system in a serious, sustained way. Get that moment right, and you create a relationship that lasts across decades of care. The result is a tech-enabled model that leans on midwifery-led, collaborative teams and evidence-based protocols rather than on volume and throughput.
Where the money went in
Approximate rounds: $11M Series A (2022), $34M (2023), $55M Series C (2025). Bars scaled to the Series C.
Two decades of scaling high-value care
Condliffe did not arrive in women's health by accident. She spent the better part of twenty years working with companies and governments to scale care models that improve outcomes and lower cost, an operator's résumé that runs from management consulting through global public health.
- 2000Began her career as a Senior Business Analyst at A.T. Kearney.
- 2003Joined the Clinton Health Access Initiative as Director of Global Diagnostics.
- 2008Earned an MBA from Harvard Business School; became EVP and COO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative.
- 2014Became COO and EVP of Business Development at Baby+Co, a network of freestanding birth centers.
- 2020Co-founded Diana Health with hospital executive Jim Corum out of AlleyCorp's healthcare incubator; became CEO.
- 2025Led Diana Health to a $55M Series C and its ninth location.
How she works
Diana Health was incubated at AlleyCorp in New York, where Condliffe teamed up with hospital executive Jim Corum to design the model from scratch before launching its first three clinics in Tennessee. Her undergraduate degree, from Middlebury College, is in political science, not medicine or business. The clinical and commercial instincts came later, sharpened across global diagnostics work and years inside the birth-center world.
Fun facts
Started her career in management consulting at A.T. Kearney before pivoting into global health.
Holds a BA in political science from Middlebury College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Ran operations at Baby+Co, a network of freestanding birth centers, before founding a company of her own.
Diana Health emerged from AlleyCorp's healthcare incubator in New York and launched in Tennessee.
What she's building toward
The ambition is a new standard of women's health care - holistic, team-based, and centered on women's voices - delivered through hospital partnerships that reach women across their entire lifespan, from preconception and pregnancy through gynecology, wellness, and menopause. Each new market is a repeat of the original Tennessee bet: give women time, a team, and a plan they help shape, and let the outcomes make the case.