Welcome Tech

Welcome Tech is a Los Angeles-based technology and services company that builds a platform for immigrant households in the United States, combining community content, messaging-based support and a curated set of consumer services. Its offering spans community support (educational content, confidential advice, surveys and polls, community events), platform services (financial tools, health services, jobs and income, discounts and rewards) and a Welcome+ subscription membership that provides discounted medical, prescription and dental services, job and educational support, and family coverage.

The company originated as the Latino-focused brand SABEResPODER, launched in 2003, and later rebranded to serve all immigrant communities. Alongside its consumer platform it sells an enterprise product, positioning Welcome+ to employers as a retention and recruitment tool priced at about $1 per day per employee and family, with benefits and support delivered in Spanish and English, year-round enrollment, and a proprietary jobs platform that profiles candidates by job interests, skill sets and ZIP code. Reported services include telemedicine, dental, vision, prescriptions, mental health, legal access, ID protection, roadside assistance and global travel benefits, as well as a debit card that does not require a Social Security number and carries no maintenance fees.

The company distributes and onboards users through channels tailored to its audience, including a closed-circuit television network inside Latin American consulates in the United States that prompts visitors to text a short code providing only a first name and ZIP code, and pilots placing workplace iPads with corporate partners to connect employees to telehealth and financial guidance. It is investing in proprietary AI infrastructure intended to use more than a decade of de-identified interaction data to deliver multilingual, fact-based guidance.

Founding story

Cofounders Amir Hemmat and Raúl Lomelí-Azoubel are both children of immigrants and spent roughly two decades working with immigrant communities and building businesses serving historically underserved populations before Welcome Tech. Lomelí-Azoubel's parents were migrant farmworkers; he and a younger brother were born in the United States during harvest season while two older brothers were born in Mexico, a difference in status that he cites as the origin of his interest in expanding access for immigrant families.

Business model

Welcome Tech operates a freemium consumer platform: free community content and messaging alongside paid subscription memberships. The Welcome+ / Healthcare Plus membership provides discounted access to health and financial services for members and their families. It also sells to employers, offering the membership as a workforce benefit priced at roughly $1 per day per employee and family, bundled with access to its jobs platform.

Recurring subscription revenue from consumer memberships (a $25/month Healthcare Plus plan reported in 2025) and from employer-paid enrollments; the enterprise page references an indicative plan priced at $30 per month per employee, with actual prices varying by plan.

Traction

The company reports over 4 million community members on its site, and 4.5 million registered members as of its 2025 funding announcement, alongside 200% year-over-year revenue growth in its subscription business and a tripling of enterprise partnerships over the prior 12 months. Its SABEResPODER product crossed 3 million users by April 2022, when headcount had quadrupled to 80 staff.

Latest developments

In August–September 2025 the company closed a $7.5 million Series C led by TTV Capital with Mubadala Capital, Westbound Equity Partners, CityRock Ventures Partners, Next Legacy Partners and BTN Ventures, earmarked for developing proprietary AI infrastructure and expanding its workforce engagement platform and employer partnerships. Management stated the round positions the company to reach profitability and that new enterprise partnerships are driving thousands of subscriber enrollments.