Hintsa Performance, a Finnish employee wellness tech company that formed last year when H2 Wellbeing (makers of the HeiaHeia app) merged with Hintsa Performance in 2016, has raised $7.6 million (€6.8 million) in new funding. Life insurance company OP Insurance led the round along with Pontos Group. Previous investor Ilmarinen also participated in the round.
Jussi Räisänen, CEO and cofounder of...
Finland-based online exercise service Yoogaia raised $630,000 led by Inventure, according to a report from TechCrunch.
Yoogaia's site, accessible on laptop computers, allows users to partake in live exercise classes remotely. Classes include yoga, pilates, kettle bell, and core. Users can see teachers through their laptops during the class, while teachers can watch their students with a split-...
Just over 71 percent of obese or overweight employees using employee wellness program HeiaHeia have improved health and fitness since starting the program, according to a survey of 2,039 users that Finland-based H2 Wellbeing, the company behind HeiaHeia, conducted.
Around 49 percent of users in the survey were overweight and all respondents were based in Finland.
HeiaHeia, which is derived from a...
Finland-based H2 Wellbeing, maker of employee wellness platform HeiaHeia, raised just over $2 million (1.5 million euros) in a round led by Finland’s Wallstreet Financial Services. Additional backers included unnamed angels and a Finnish funding agency called Tekes.
Until now, H2 has run on its own revenues, which the company started generating just two months into its launch, and government...
