Twitter/X

Priyang Shah (@realPriyangShah) announced a partnership with Liz Wessel…

2026-07-28 · 14:53 UTC ·@realPriyangShah ·1 min read

Brief

HealiaHealth, founded by Priyang Shah, aims to simplify plan selection for ~30 million U.S. dual‑income families by letting households pick the best employer plan while having the non‑selected employer offset employees' out‑of‑pocket costs. Backed by First Round (Seed, 2024) and Liz Wessel, the company says it now serves hundreds of customers and 10K+ people, saving employers millions and families tens of thousands annually.

Why it matters

Priyang Shah (@realPriyangShah) announced a partnership with Liz Wessel (@lizwessel) and First Round (@firstround) to build HealiaHealth (@healiahealth), crediting their support for the company's progress.

Key details

  • HealiaHealth targets roughly 30 million U.S. dual-income families by simplifying employer health-plan choice and proposing that the non-chosen employer contribute toward employees' out-of-pocket costs so households can get the 'best of both worlds.'
  • After a Seed round with First Round in 2024, HealiaHealth scaled to hundreds of employer customers and over 10,000 covered people, claiming to save employers 'millions' and families 'tens of thousands' of dollars per year.
Source evidence

Incredibly proud to partner with Liz and the @firstround team to build @healiahealth. We would not be here without her, the team, and their relentless support of our vision to build a better health insurance experience for millions of Americans.

Liz Wessel (@lizwessel)

My husband works at Google. I work at First Round. Both companies have epic healthcare plans, which means every year, we fall into the fortunate situation where we need to choose which plan to be on.

@realPriyangShah saw this was the case for the 30M dual-income families in the US, and wanted to make this experience a much better one. He thought: how can we make it easier for households to choose their plan, and once they do, what if the employer who doesn’t end up being chosen also chips in for out-of-pocket expenses, making it so employees really do get the best of both worlds?

Enter @HealiaHealth. We @firstround were lucky to partner with Priyang (an incredibly special, relentless, and brilliant founder) on his Seed round in 2024, and since then, he’s scaled the business to hundreds of customers and over 10K people, saving employers millions and families tens of thousands of $s per year.

— https://nitter.net/lizwessel/status/2082106308086600058#m