Doctronic, a New York City company that offers primary care through an AI doctor and a network of licensed clinicians, said on July 29, 2026, that it had acquired Summer Health, a service that lets parents text pediatric clinicians about their children's health. Neither company disclosed the terms.
The deal moves Doctronic into pediatric care. Summer Health's text-based service will be built into Doctronic's platform so that families can use one service for children from birth through to adulthood, the company said.
Summer Health founder and chief executive Ellen DaSilva joined Doctronic as senior vice president of partnerships. She will lead the growth of Doctronic's business with employers, health plans and other enterprise customers, according to MedCity News and HIT Consultant.
What Summer Health built
Summer Health was founded in 2022 and launched its service in July of that year. Parents send messages about fevers, feeding, medication, sleep, development and other concerns and get answers on demand, with prescriptions when needed. The company has said it has handled more than 100,000 pediatric encounters.
The service was designed to work alongside a family's regular pediatrician rather than replace one. In November 2023 it added lactation support, sleep training, developmental milestone tracking and longer-term primary care, and in 2024 parents could buy it directly for $45 a month or receive it through participating employers, Pulse 2.0 reported.
DaSilva said the company was started to give parents quick and reliable answers when they need them most, and that it had spent years learning how parents phrase their questions and what guidance helps them.
“As parents, we're constantly making decisions with incomplete information. When we started Summer Health, our goal was to give parents fast, reliable answers in the moments that matter most.”
Why Doctronic is buying
Part of the value for Doctronic is data. Summer Health holds about 100,000 pediatric text conversations that show how parents describe symptoms, ask questions and look for care. Doctronic said it would use that archive to build more accurate AI models for children. HIT Consultant reported that the records are anonymized and will be used to train conversational models on how real parents talk and how cases are triaged.
Dr. Adam Oskowitz, Doctronic's co-founder and co-CEO, said the aim is to offer pediatric primary care outside normal office hours, serve every member of a family through one platform and use the text data to develop pediatric AI. He said the acquisition would help "build a single, comprehensive AI-native health platform for the entire family."
In the combined service, an AI symptom check comes first, and families can move to a licensed pediatrician or general practitioner by text or video when a clinician is needed, HIT Consultant reported. Family members will be kept in shared profiles within one app.
The buyer
Doctronic gives free health guidance through its AI doctor: users describe symptoms or ask questions and receive a care plan that the company says is based on peer-reviewed research. Users who need a clinician can book a video visit for $39. The service is available in all 50 US states and has handled more than 30 million health encounters in two years, the company said.
Doctronic's funding and investors were not discussed in reports of the deal.
The founders and the funding
Summer Health announced an $11.65 million Series A in April 2024, co-led by 7wire Ventures and Lux Capital, Pulse 2.0 reported. Sequoia Capital, Metrodora Ventures, BoxGroup and Shrug Capital took part again, and Pivotal Ventures, Melinda French Gates's investment company, and Leaps by Bayer joined as new investors.
With that round, Alfred Lin of Sequoia, Deena Shakir of Lux, Alyssa Jaffee of 7wire and Chelsea Clinton of Metrodora joined the company's board. Summer Health's headcount was not reported.
The deal comes as several companies compete to offer pediatric care outside the doctor's office. MedCity News listed Imagine Pediatrics, Blueberry Pediatrics and PM Pediatric Care among other virtual pediatric providers.
