Startup profile for Honor: latest funding, latest known valuation, total disclosed funding, investors, status, sources, and why the company is interesting. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.
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Honor funding, valuation and investors

Tech-enabled home care network matching professional caregivers with seniors — merged with Home Instead.

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Funding, valuation & investors

Answer-first snapshot

Latest funding

Series E

$70M · 2021

Latest known valuation

$1.25B+

Series E · 2021

Total disclosed equity funding

$70M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

growth · San Francisco, California

Investors in latest funding

Lead: Baillie Gifford

Other: Thrive Capital , Andreessen Horowitz

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Honor operates a tech-enabled home care network matching professional caregivers with seniors. The company merged with Home Instead, using its operations platform as the backbone for the franchise network.

Why Honor is interesting

Unicorn in fragmented $83B home-care market; ops platform now backbone for Home Instead franchise network.

Product & use cases

Honor operates a tech-enabled home care network matching professional caregivers with seniors — operations platform now backbone for Home Instead franchise network after merger.

  • In-home senior care matching and scheduling
  • Caregiver network management at scale
  • Franchise ops platform for Home Instead

Key facts

  • Series E (2021): $70M equity plus $300M debt led by Baillie Gifford; Thrive Capital and a16z re-upped at $1.25B+ valuation — Honor blog
  • Merged with Home Instead; ops platform now supports the franchise caregiver network

Funding history (newest first)

Series E

2021 $70M Valuation: $1.25B+

Source: https://www.joinhonor.com/blog/series-e

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from Honor's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

Andreessen Horowitz Thrive Capital

Competitive landscape

Edge: Merged with Home Instead — ops software plus caregiver supply at franchise scale in fragmented $83B market.

Home care is fragmented and labor-constrained. Honor's Home Instead merger pairs technology with franchise scale — $1.25B+ valuation at Series E (2021).

  • Amedisys / LHC Group incumbent

    Large home health incumbents; Honor tech-enabled model.

  • Care.com adjacent

    Caregiver marketplace; Honor senior-specific with ops platform.

  • Local home care agencies incumbent

    Fragmented; Honor consolidates via Home Instead merger.

Notable stories

  • Merged with Home Instead — ops platform supports franchise caregiver network.
  • Series E $70M equity plus $300M debt at $1.25B+ valuation (Honor blog, 2021).

Industries

Healthtech

FAQs about Honor

Practical answers founders, operators, and investors typically search for.

Tech platform and caregiver network for in-home senior care, integrated with Home Instead franchise system.
a16z (/fund/andreessen-horowitz) and Thrive Capital (/fund/thrive-capital) among Series E backers (2021).
Honor merged with Home Instead — ops platform now supports the franchise network.
Honor pairs technology with caregiver supply at franchise scale vs. fragmented local agencies.
Series E — $70M equity plus $300M debt in 2021 at $1.25B+ valuation.
Seth Sternberg co-founded Honor in 2014.
$83B home care market is fragmented — Honor scales via tech plus Home Instead merger.
No — private, merged with Home Instead but not a public exit.
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