Private Equity
On deals and dealmakers. : Ro, a direct-to-consumer telehealth business, is raising another round of funding. According to TechCrunch, the company is raising $85 million in Series B funding at a $500 million valuation. It’s unclear who participated in the latest financing, but Ro’s prior investors include FirstMark Capital, SignalFire, Initialized Capital, General Catalyst, Slow Ventures, Sinai Ventures, Torch Capital, BoxGroup, and Tusk Ventures. You may remember that I wrote about Ro’s last $88 million fundraise just seven months ago. At that point in time, the startup had been marketing itself as a men’s wellness/erectile dysfunction business.