Better Community by LifestyleRx · Jun 2025
Official community post announcing a program rebrand/restructure into Better Health programs, with a new weekly flow and a 12-week plus 12-month structure.
Virtual Care for Type 2 Diabetes Reversal
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Canadian, physician-led virtual clinic focused on insurance-covered type 2 diabetes reversal and broader metabolic health care, delivered through 100% virtual programs and a custom clinical platform. Public sources disagree on headcount and funding-label timing, but converge on the same core business.
Primary product
Virtual Type 2 diabetes reversal program (now also packaged as Better Health programs for metabolic health)
Founded
2022
Headquarters
St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
Team size
50-60 employees (public LinkedIn estimate)
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Sub-industry
Virtual diabetes reversal and metabolic health clinic
Offices
St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
London/St. Thomas area, Ontario, Canada (development team)
Business model
insurance-reimbursed virtual care
fee-for-service physician billing
publicly funded provincial health coverage
B2B clinic partner revenue-share
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed · Jun 2023
Latest amount
$500K
Jun 2023 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer
Co-Founder & CTO
Co-Founder & COO/CFO
Director of Physician Success
Work & culture
Mission-driven, physician-led, evidence-based, and software-enabled; the company emphasizes scalable virtual care, clinician efficiency, and measurable metabolic-health outcomes.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public hiring copy says compensation is highly competitive. Clinician-facing roles are billed fee-for-service, with consultations and group medical visits described as among the best reimbursed services in Canadian healthcare; no public salary bands were found.
Benefits
Highly competitive compensation
100% virtual, flexible scheduling
Mission-driven healthcare work
Opportunity to build with an internal custom platform
Product & market
Pricing
Free for eligible patients with provincial health coverage; optional 1:1 dietitian support may be covered by third-party insurance or health spending accounts; partner clinics use a 70/30 revenue-share model with no upfront cost.
Differentiators
- —100% virtual care
- —Physician-led group medical visits
- —Evidence-based 4+2 diabetes reversal strategy
- —Custom-built clinical platform automating charting, billing, and communication
- —Broadening beyond diabetes into metabolic-health conditions
- —LifeLabs partnership for lab access and follow-up
- —Turnkey B2B partner program with revenue share
- —Published patient outcome claims (e.g. A1c improvement rates)
Technology
custom-built clinical platform
Laravel
MySQL
Tailwind CSS
Wistia
Customers
Patients with type 2 diabetes
Patients with prediabetes
Patients with hypertension, dyslipidemia, heart disease, vascular disease, fatty liver, PCOS, mild cognitive impairment, and metabolic syndrome
Canadian provincial health plan members in BC, Alberta, and Ontario
Primary care providers and partner clinics
Pharmacists
Competitors
Virta Health
Omada Health
Noom Med
Teladoc/Livongo
other digital diabetes-management and lifestyle-medicine programs
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
US$0-5M (GetLatka estimate: about US$1.4M in 2024)
Estimated monthly visits
196.1K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
LifeLabs · Nov 2023
Press release announcing the LifeLabs partnership and describing LifestyleRx as a virtual physician-led program for diabetes reversal and remission support.
BetaKit · Sep 2023
Coverage of LifestyleRx as a YC Summer 2023 company, including founder names, team size, and growth claims.
Y Combinator · Sep 2023
YC company profile and launch material describing the product, founding year, founders, and initial scale claims.
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