Quick Take: Strive Health just announced a $550M capital raise ($300M equity, $250M debt) to scale its value‑based kidney care model and double down on AI‑powered operations.
That’s a strong signal for every CS leader building outcomes, not activities.
What Happened (Value‑Based Kidney Care & AI Funding)
Strive Health, a company focused on value‑based kidney care, raised a huge round to expand partnerships, grow multi‑specialty services, and invest in AI tools and analytics.
Their model is built around early intervention, preventive care, and tight integration with providers.
Reported results include lower costs and fewer hospitalizations alongside high patient satisfaction.
Why This Matters For Customer Success
This isn’t just healthcare news. It’s a blueprint for CS in any industry:
Outcomes > activity.
Funding flows to companies that prove measurable results (cost down, quality up). Your CS narrative should lead with outcome metrics, not meeting counts.
Early‑warning systems win.
Strive invests in predicting risk early. In B2B SaaS, that’s your churn‑risk radar: health scores, usage anomalies, and moments that signal value gaps.
Integrated care ≈ integrated journeys.
Their provider network mirrors how we should connect CS with Support, RevOps, and Product so customers don’t feel hand‑offs.
AI as a force multiplier.
Human‑led, AI‑assisted workflows scale high‑touch work without losing trust.
If you need a practical way to operationalize this, take a look at our lifecycle automation playbook—it shows how to replace spreadsheet‑driven processes with automated, signal‑based journeys in a weekend; see Why Customer Success Still Runs on Spreadsheets (and What to Steal from E‑Commerce) inside From Spreadsheets to Automation: CS Lifecycle Playbook.
Customer Success Action Playbook
1) Make risk visible.
Build a three‑tier risk model (Green / Watch / Critical) using 6–8 leading indicators (activation completion, weekly active users, executive usage, support backlog, value‑proof cadence). If you’re scaling this across segments, read Scaling Customer Success: The Ultimate Guide for a simple way to productize your motions.
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