Indian insurtech startup Zopper snaps up $75M in Series C funding
Zopper, an insurance tech startup in New Delhi, has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Creaegis. The round was also participated by ICICI Venture, Bessemer Venture Partners, and its existing investor Blume Ventures.
The company operates an API platform for insurance infrastructure and delivers small,...
Malaysian health technology startup Qmed Asia has recently unveiled its telehealth kiosk for corporate employers.
Called Qmed GO, the kiosk serves as a "mini-clinic" that offers remote online health consultations and diagnoses with licensed GPs. It has cloud-connected medical IoT devices for real-time onsite monitoring of up to 16 vital parameters, whose data can also be accessed via the Qmed...
At-home connected fitness company Peloton is moving into the office with its new corporate wellness program for businesses.
Now companies in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and soon Australia, can offer their employees access to Peloton’s workout classes and more.
"Introducing Peloton Corporate Wellness is the latest step to making the award-winning Peloton experience more...
Fitbit’s activity-tracking wearables may be a common features of many corporate wellness programs – their products are currently in use by over 1,300 companies – but all those step challenges and healthy lifestyle motivators aimed at lowering healthcare costs still only make up about 10 percent of the company’s revenue. So, in order to best position their enterprise strategy, Fitbit is merging...
Fitbit’s corporate wellness offering, which became a HIPAA compliant platform a little over a month ago, has added a premium software feature to its program, called Corporate Challenges. The move adds additional momentum to Fitbit's enterprise-focused business, which recently added Target as a customer.
The company also announced a number of new enterprise customers including Aon Service...
A new survey of 121 employers from Fidelity Investments and the National Business Group on Health shows that employer spending on incentive-based wellness programs is up an average of $100 per head over last year.
Respondents said they planned to spend an average of $693 per employee on wellness incentives in 2015, up from $594 in 2014. It was $430 five years ago.
While 79 percent of companies...
The corporate wellness market is an increasingly big opportunity for activity trackers like Fitbit, but data is just now starting to come in about how much those programs really help corporations. According to a recent story in Citeworld, however, one company, San Francisco-based Appirio, has saved $280,000 in annual insurance payments by implementing a wellness program using Fitbits....
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...
HumanaVitality, the health insurer's employee wellness program that uses rewards and social features to encourage healthy behavior change, has released some data based on a two-year study of 16,000 employees.
Humana looked at data from individuals who were users of HumanaVitality, and compared their claims data to their engagement with the program. They found that users who were unengaged with...
Popular fitness tracking app company Endomondo is branching out into corporate wellness and building a new platform for employees around its Endomondo Sports Tracker app.
"Endomondo spent years refining modern technology to motivate people to be more active," Endomondo CEO Mette Lykke told MobiHealthNews in an email. "During that time, Endomondo worked with various entities to learn how the...
