Honor Technology Closes $370 Million Round

<p><strong><span class&equals;"xn-location">SAN FRANCISCO <&sol;span><&sol;strong>&&num;8212&semi; <u>Honor Technology&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;c212&period;net&sol;c&sol;link&sol;&quest;t&equals;0&amp&semi;l&equals;en&amp&semi;o&equals;3311974-1&amp&semi;h&equals;238538021&amp&semi;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;joinhonor&period;com&percnt;2F&amp&semi;a&equals;Inc" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Inc<&sol;a><&sol;u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;c212&period;net&sol;c&sol;link&sol;&quest;t&equals;0&amp&semi;l&equals;en&amp&semi;o&equals;3311974-1&amp&semi;h&equals;3811073765&amp&semi;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;joinhonor&period;com&percnt;2F&amp&semi;a&equals;&period;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">&period;<&sol;a>&comma; the world&&num;8217&semi;s largest senior care network and technology platform&comma; has raised <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;70 million<&sol;span> in Series E funding and <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;300 million<&sol;span> in debt financing&period; The round brings Honor&&num;8217&semi;s total equity funding to date to <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;325 million<&sol;span> and values the company at over <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;1&period;25 billion<&sol;span>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Honor recently acquired global home care provider Home Instead&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Honor&&num;8217&semi;s technology and operations platform&comma; paired with Home Instead&&num;8217&semi;s global network and relationship-based care&comma; will serve as a foundation for a dramatic increase in innovation investment to benefit professional caregivers and clients through expanded offerings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Baillie Gifford led the equity financing with participation from existing investors including funds and accounts advised by T&period; Rowe Price Associates&comma; Inc&period;&comma; Home Instead founders <span class&equals;"xn-person">Paul and Lori Hogan<&sol;span>&comma; Prosus Ventures&comma; Andreessen Horowitz&comma; Thrive Capital&comma; FMZ Ventures&comma; Rock Springs Capital&comma; Lighthouse Capital Markets&comma; and TriplePoint Capital&period; Perceptive Advisors led the debt financing with a significant commitment from Ares Management funds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The funding will be used to further invest in Honor&&num;8217&semi;s groundbreaking operations and technology capabilities and expand it across the Home Instead network&period; Honor is fundamentally transforming the delivery of home care in the fast-growing&comma; highly fragmented <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;83 billion<&sol;span> worldwide home care market spread across 21&comma;000 individual agencies in the U&period;S&period; alone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The Honor technology platform is positioned to become the backbone for the Home Instead network&comma; providing an even better end-to-end human experience for professional caregivers and clients&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said <span class&equals;"xn-person">Seth Sternberg<&sol;span>&comma; co-founder and CEO of Honor&period; &&num;8220&semi;In the coming years&comma; this technology will open a channel to allow seniors more streamlined access to the products and services they need at home – creating the most advanced ecosystem to serve the aging population around the world&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Honor&&num;8217&semi;s proprietary technology platform creates a better human experience by extracting insights to match the right caregivers with the right clients based on a range of personalized factors and assists with caregiver recruiting&comma; training&comma; scheduling&comma; and performance analysis&period; The technology improves as the company scales&comma; learning from expanding data points to further optimize performance&period; This tech-enabled approach strengthens the relationships between professional caregivers and clients while streamlining business operations&comma; centralizing care and reducing turnover – ultimately increasing the ability of Honor and Home Instead to meet rapidly growing demand&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;With our new global scale&comma; we are excited to accelerate the rollout of our game-changing care delivery platform&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re looking to <u>triple the size<&sol;u> of our engineering and product team within the next year&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said <span class&equals;"xn-person">Sandy Jen<&sol;span>&comma; co-founder and chief technology officer for Honor&period; &&num;8220&semi;We are aggressively recruiting product hires&comma; from designers to developers who want to solve real-world problems and build with purpose to solve a massive societal need&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re trailblazing in an industry that takes care of our parents – and ultimately our solutions will take care of our own generation when we&&num;8217&semi;re older&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Since its Series D funding round in <span class&equals;"xn-chron">October 2020<&sol;span>&comma; Honor has added hundreds more caregivers—whom they call Care Pros—and expanded its care delivery platform to four new states&period; In <span class&equals;"xn-chron">August 2021<&sol;span>&comma; Honor acquired Home Instead&comma; the leading global franchisor of personalized&comma; in-home care services&period; Today&comma; the combined company serves over 100&comma;000 older adults around the world every month&comma; providing more than 80 million hours of care annually&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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