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Women’s health startup Tia just slashed about 23% of its workforce, Business Insider has learned.
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CEO Felicity Yost told employees that Tia got feedback in a recent fundraise that led to the cuts.
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In-person healthcare clinics, like those Tia operates, have proven difficult to sustain financially.
Women’s health startup Tia has slashed about 23% of its staff, Business Insider has learned.
The company, which provides in-person and virtual care tailored to women, cut 27% of its corporate team, or 17 people; 22% of its providers, or 27 people; and 23% of its field support team, or 28 people, according to an email to employees sent Monday evening by Tia CEO Felicity Yost.
Tia’s layoffs show how even buzzy, well-funded startups are being forced to reckon with healthcare’s economic pressures against venture capital’s growth expectations. Once a rising star backed by Melinda French Gates, Tia is now under pressure to prove that its hybrid model of tech-enabled women’s clinics can actually turn a profit.
The demise of similar healthcare startups like former Silicon Valley darling Forward has shown how hard tech-enabled healthcare can be to scale; even Amazon owned-health clinic company One Medical has struggled with profitability.
Tia confirmed the layoffs in a statement to Business Insider.
Tia operates as a one-stop healthcare shop for women, providing services from gynecology and primary care to mental healthcare, with options for in-person and virtual care. The startup runs 11 clinics, according to its website, including six locations in Los Angeles, two in New York City, one in San Francisco, and two in Arizona.
Yost told employees in her email that the layoffs were a response to feedback Tia received in a recent fundraise. Yost said Tia sought that funding after its business’s underperformance meant Tia would not be able to reach profitability without more cash.
The feedback from the fundraise “required us to rethink our business in the current economic and policy climate, which is one that prizes cost and profit-consciousness,” Yost said in her email. “We must manage towards a faster timeline to be corporate-level profitable than we previously contemplated.”
“Tia has seen strong growth, particularly in membership, which has outpaced our expectations for 2025. At the same time, we’re facing ongoing structural challenges impacting the broader care delivery sector, such as cost pressures from rising labor rates and tighter reimbursement rates, which require us to be more disciplined in our operations,” a Tia spokesperson said in a statement to Business Insider.
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Women’s health startup Tia just slashed about 23% of its workforce, Business Insider has learned.
-
CEO Felicity Yost told employees that Tia got feedback in a recent fundraise that led to the cuts.
-
In-person healthcare clinics, like those Tia operates, have proven difficult to sustain financially.
Women’s health startup Tia has slashed about 23% of its staff, Business Insider has learned.
The company, which provides in-person and virtual care tailored to women, cut 27% of its corporate team, or 17 people; 22% of its providers, or 27 people; and 23% of its field support team, or 28 people, according to an email to employees sent Monday evening by Tia CEO Felicity Yost.
Tia’s layoffs show how even buzzy, well-funded startups are being forced to reckon with healthcare’s economic pressures against venture capital’s growth expectations. Once a rising star backed by Melinda French Gates, Tia is now under pressure to prove that its hybrid model of tech-enabled women’s clinics can actually turn a profit.
The demise of similar healthcare startups like former Silicon Valley darling Forward has shown how hard tech-enabled healthcare can be to scale; even Amazon owned-health clinic company One Medical has struggled with profitability.
Tia confirmed the layoffs in a statement to Business Insider.
Tia operates as a one-stop healthcare shop for women, providing services from gynecology and primary care to mental healthcare, with options for in-person and virtual care. The startup runs 11 clinics, according to its website, including six locations in Los Angeles, two in New York City, one in San Francisco, and two in Arizona.
Yost told employees in her email that the layoffs were a response to feedback Tia received in a recent fundraise. Yost said Tia sought that funding after its business’s underperformance meant Tia would not be able to reach profitability without more cash.
The feedback from the fundraise “required us to rethink our business in the current economic and policy climate, which is one that prizes cost and profit-consciousness,” Yost said in her email. “We must manage towards a faster timeline to be corporate-level profitable than we previously contemplated.”
“Tia has seen strong growth, particularly in membership, which has outpaced our expectations for 2025. At the same time, we’re facing ongoing structural challenges impacting the broader care delivery sector, such as cost pressures from rising labor rates and tighter reimbursement rates, which require us to be more disciplined in our operations,” a Tia spokesperson said in a statement to Business Insider.
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