We deserve better.

That’s what makes today’s announcement of our Series C and national expansion all the more incredible to me. In just two years, we’ve come a long way from Rajaie and my early conversations at the Stanford Hospital café (where Rajaie was completing his residency in internal medicine) about how a technology company could fix what ails our healthcare industry. Back then we would chat about what we could possibly do to address daunting problems like the fact that healthcare bills are the number one cause of personal bankruptcy in America.

Fast forward to today, and I still blink twice when I see the company I walk into every day: a remarkable team of over 100 (and growing) designers, engineers, data scientists, actuaries and operations experts who have created a health insurance experience that some of the best and fastest growing companies in America have chosen for their people. With 30,000 members on our platform next year, we’ve begun the work we set out to do.

To say I’m proud would be an understatement. Most of all, I’m thankful for the ability to work with a team that is helping turn one of the worst experiences of my life into one of the best. I’m also grateful to partner with a mix of the most established and newest healthcare businesses in the country, to be backed by investors who share our conviction as shown in our Series C financing from Google Ventures, Founders Fund, NEA, Maverick Capital, Redpoint Ventures and RRE Ventures and to be chosen by some of the boldest, smartest companies in our country to create a new standard for how we take care of people.

It goes without saying that this is just the very beginning for Collective Health. Our vision for a better healthcare experience means we have a lot of work left to do. Our team is excited to expand nationally in 2016, to continue developing our product into one that welcomes millions to a never-seen-before level of service and technological innovation, and to make a lasting impact on an industry that touches each and every one of us.

We at Collective Health invite everyone passionate about #redesigninghealthcare to join us, and I personally can’t wait to see what the next chapter in our collective story brings.

Ali