What You Should Know: - Vital Start Health, a University of Pennsylvania startup and a member of Microsoft for Startups, has launched COURAGE as the next-generation, virtual reality, multi-lingual coaching and psychotherapy telehealth platform for maternal well-being support across the pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and postpartum stages. - The platform empowers patients with experiential practice and immersive psychoeducation, with the goal of driving better diagnoses, and
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Nudj Health Raises $10M for Tech-Enabled Health Service
What You Should Know: - Nudj Health, a tech-enabled health service that delivers telehealth lifestyle interventions to patients using the collaborative care model raises $10M in Series A funding led by Nebraska Medicine, Teal Ventures, Cohn Family Trust & Health Innovation Pitch. - Founded in 2021 in Pasadena, Nudj Health delivers integrated, whole-person, and continuous care for patients with chronic disease. Based on AHA/ACC
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Forge Health Secures $11M for Value-Based Behavioral Health Model
What You Should Know: – Forge Health, a White Plains, NY-based behavioral healthcare provider with a proven, national-payer-validated ability to drive clinical outcomes that span all areas of health, today announced an $11M growth funding round led by HC9 Ventures. - Innovative behavioral health company works with payers and health systems to enable value-based care for mental health and substance use populations. Transforming Addiction and Mental Health Treatment Founded in 2016,
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Eleos Closes $20M to Unlock CareOps Automation for Behavioral Health
What You Should Know: - Eleos Health has announced a $20 million Series A round, co-led by F-Prime Capital and Eight Roads Ventures, bringing their total raise to $28 million. - Eleos Health is a behavioral health application for voice AI, operating ambiently in the background of mental health clinician-patient conversations. It’s in production use with 20+ care providers and health plans, with a goal of unlocking up to 30% more mental health care provider capacity as the U.S.
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Brightside Health Raises $50M for Personalized Anxiety & Depression Care
What You Should Know: - Today, Brightside Health announced it raised a $50M Series B, led by ACME Capital and Mousse Partners, bringing its total funding to $75M to date. - The funding will help Brightside expand access to high-quality mental healthcare to more people across the country, enhance the platform, forge new partnerships, and grow as a team, from about 57 now to an expected 175 later this year. Brightside Health, a telemedicine platform that offers fast access to
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UK Startup Oliva Raises $6.3M for Workplace Mental Health Platform
What You Should Know: - Oliva, a London-based workplace mental health platform announced it has raised $6.3M (£4.84M) in seed funding led by Stride VC, a seed-stage VC firm based in London, along with additional investment provided by Moonfire. - The seed raise marks the largest seed funding for a mental health startup in Europe. Help with Life’s Problems, Work-Related or Not In the UK, poor mental health costs employers
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Antidote Health Secures $22M to Expand Telehealth Platform for Primary Care, Mental Health, Hypertension Care
What You Should Know: - Antidote Health, an NYC-based telehealth provider announced it has raised $22M in Series A funding led by third-time investor iAngels, Group 11, and Flint Capital. - The company will use the funds to support R&D activity, which includes advanced AI screening and clinical decision support system capabilities. Quality healthcare doesn’t need to be expensive Founded in 2020, Antidote Health democratizes access, delivering care for the whole family for a
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Nurses Are Beyond Burnout, Suffering From PTSD as Spiraling Work Demands, Report Finds
What You Should Know: - A majority of nurses (56%) report that they’re sacrificing their mental health for the job, reveals survey data from the IntelyCare Research Group. IRG is the research arm of IntelyCare, the largest digital staffing platform for nursing professionals seeking per diem positions. - The third-party data demonstrates that working conditions during COVID-19 have taken a significant toll on nurses’ mental, physical and emotional well-being and
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Grow Therapy Partners with Aetna to Take its Mental Health Care Services Nationwide
What You Should Know: - Today Grow Therapy, a leader in helping create life-changing therapeutic connections between therapists and clients, today announced that its mental health care services are now available as an in-network benefit to all members of Aetna, CVS Health company. - Bringing Grow Therapy’s multi-thousand therapy and psychiatry provider group in-network with Aetna means it can now
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Day 3 HIMSS Roundup: Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT, GE Healthcare/AliveCor Integration
Venture Capital, Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT® to Expand Diabetes Offerings in France Glooko, a leading provider of remote patient monitoring and data management solutions for diabetes and related chronic conditions, today announced the acquisition of DIABNEXT, a Paris-based company whose digital health platform helps people with diabetes better manage their conditions and connects to their healthcare providers, so they can
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