employee mental health

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By  Jessica Hagen 12:23 pm July 31, 2024
Spring Health, which offers AI-enabled digital mental healthcare and navigation services, raised $100 million in a Series E funding round, raising its valuation to $3.3 billion. Generation Investment Management led the round, which included participation from existing investors RRE, William K. Warren Foundation, Northzone and Kinnevik. WHAT IT DOES The New York-based company works with employers...
Think Well programme on a smartphone
By  Adam Ang 10:47 pm February 22, 2023
Life insurer AIA Singapore and telehealth company WhiteCoat have partnered to offer digital corporate mental health solutions. The partners are expanding their Think Well programme to provide text, video, and in-person mental health coaching and support to AIA's corporate employee clients. Embedded in AIA's corporate outpatient plans, the programme will also offer "a dynamic and personalised"...
Four screenshots of the MindFi mobile app
By  Adam Ang 01:10 am August 17, 2021
MindFi, a Singapore-based corporate health and wellness platform, has raked in SG$ 1 million ($750,000) in pre-seed funding.  The investing round was participated by venture capital firms iGlobe Partners, M Venture Partners, as well as angel investors like Singaporean businessman Koh Boon Hwee; Jeffery Tiong, CEO of innovation intelligence platform developer PatSnap; and live chat platform Zopim...
Person on digital tool
By  Laura Lovett 11:52 am July 8, 2021
Recently mental health has come into the spotlight, with rates of anxiety, depression and substance abuse disorder spiking during COVID-19 lockdowns. It's no secret that employee mental health can take a toll on a business. However, a new report out of McKinsey said that digital tools could be one way to help support employee mental health and wellbeing. "A mental-health condition manifests...
By  Dave Muoio 01:32 pm February 17, 2021
App-based primary care provider 98point6 today announced a new integrated behavioral health offering for its employer, health plan and health system clientele. Founded in 2015, the company's app-based platform uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to conduct a text-based conversation with users, allowing it to build up a patient profile before matching them to a clinician for virtual...
By  Dave Muoio 12:29 pm February 11, 2021
San Francisco-based mental health and wellness platform Modern Health has kept its foot on the gas throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Today it announced a $74 million Series D funding round just a few months after a $51 million Series C closed in October and formally announced in December. The new investments peg Modern Health's lifetime funding to more than $170 million, the company said, and its...
By  Dave Muoio 12:08 pm December 15, 2020
Modern Health, maker of a mental health and wellness platform for employer customers, has uncorked a $51 million Series C funding round headed by Battery Ventures. The raise also included prior investors Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, 01 Advisors, Afore Capital and Okta cofounder Frederic Kerrest, as well as new backer Felicis Ventures. This raise – which lands less than a year after Modern's $...
By  Laura Lovett 03:41 pm February 11, 2020
This morning workplace mental health platform Unmind scored $10 million in Series A funding. Project A led the round with additional participation from Felix Capital.  This comes less than a year after the London-based startup announced a $3.8 million (£3 million) raise led by Felix Capital and private investors Michael Whitfield and Chris Bruce.  WHAT THEY DO The British company focuses on...
By  Laura Lovett 11:14 am January 16, 2020
Yesterday morning mental health-focused startup Modern Health announced that it scored $31 in Series B funding. Veteran digital health investors Founders Fund and John Doerr led the round, with participation from Kleiner Perkins and Afore Capital.  The company said this latest infusion of cash brings its total capital raise to $42 million.  WHAT THEY DO  The San Francisco-based startup works with...