health and wellness apps

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...
By  Adam Ang 05:33 am July 21, 2021
HealthifyMe, an AI-enabled health and fitness app from India, has netted $75 million in a Series C funding round led by LeapFrog and Khosla Ventures. The investing round was also joined by HealthQuad, Unilever Ventures, Elm of the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, as well as repeat investors Chiratae Ventures, Inventus Capital and Sistema Asia Capital.  The company has so far raised over $100...
By  Adam Ang 05:25 am July 14, 2021
Taiwan-based companies First Life Insurance of First Financial Holding Co. and fintech-focused software provider TPIsoftware have collaborated to launch a new mobile health and fitness app that features gamified exercise. WHAT IT'S ABOUT According to a press release, the Qwalker app tracks a user's all-day steps, walking miles, and burned calories. It gamifies a step tracker and enables users to...
By  Aditi Pai 08:01 am September 30, 2014
This week several companies announced that their apps now integrate with Apple's new Health app, which is preloaded on all new iOS devices and any Apple device that downloads the new iOS 8 operating system. Apple's HealthKit platform, which feeds health and wellness data from third party devices and apps into its consumer-facing app, called Health, had an initial rocky launch last week when the...