employer health benefits

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By  Trevor Dermody 01:48 pm April 24, 2024
Alaffia Health, which creates genAI solutions for health insurance claims, secured $10 million in Series A funding, bringing its total raise to $17.6 million.  FirstMark Capital led the funding round with participation from GingerBread Capital and existing investors Aperture Venture Capital, Anthemis, 1984 Ventures, Tau Ventures and Remarkable Ventures.  Amish Jani, founder and partner of...
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By  Mallory Hackett 11:14 am May 11, 2021
YourCoach.Health, a practice management platform for health and wellness coaches, is taking its services corporate by launching an employee-centric version of its platform. The company is now partnering with employer organizations to provide health and wellness coaching to workers. Using its patent-pending algorithms and a YourCoach concierge, the company pairs each employee with a health coach...
By  Dave Muoio 04:16 pm August 25, 2020
Less than half a year after closing a $75 million raise, digital behavioral health benefits platform Lyra Health has wrapped up another $110 million in Series D funding, the company announced today. The new round was led by Addition, and brought on Adams Street Partners alongside a slew of returning backers: Casdin Capital, Glynn Capital, Greylock, IVP, Meritech Capital Partners, Providence...
By  Dave Muoio 01:44 pm March 11, 2020
Lyra Health, maker of a digital benefits platform focused on behavioral health, announced today that it is adding $75 million in Series C funding to the roughly $100 million it had raised previously. The new investments were headed by IVP, with additional support coming from new backer Meritech Capital Partners and prior investors Casdin Capital, Crown Venture Fund, Glynn Capital, Greylock...
By  Dave Muoio 02:15 pm February 6, 2020
A new survey polling thousands of international office workers suggests that two in five will opt to search their symptoms online and self-medicate rather than visit a doctor, and the same amount admit that doing so makes them more nervous about seeking care from a professional. On the flip side, a similar portion of respondents (43%) said they would investigate their condition online and then...
By  Dave Muoio 03:36 pm February 5, 2020
Nearly half of US workers say they would have greater confidence in a new digital health solution if it was provided by their employer, and more than a quarter said that the provision of digital health tools would have a positive impact on their decision to stay with their employer, according to data featured in a recent Mercer Marsh Benefits, Mercer and Oliver Wyman report. To determine the...
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...
By  Dave Muoio 03:33 pm October 22, 2019
Mountain View, California-based Beddr is taking aim at the employer market. The sleep health company announced this morning the launch of a new program that provides employees with a sleep tracking device, weekly coaching and referrals to experts. “Beddr’s program helps people who have a combination of physiological, psychological and lifestyle causes of their chronic sleep issues,” Michael Kisch...
By  Laura Lovett 12:31 pm April 27, 2018
A new digital health survey released by Castlight Health showed that while both employers and employees are enthusiastic about the future of digital health, there is a gap between what tech is being provided by employers and what the employees actually want.  Employers surveyed reported that employee assistance programs, smoking cessation programs, and health risk assessment were among the most...
By  Jonah Comstock 10:42 am November 4, 2014
As telemedicine continues to grow in adoption and support, two of the most high profile telemedicine CEOs -- Teladoc's Jason Gorevic and Doctor on Demand's Adam Jackson -- shared the stage at the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit with Dr. Allan Khoury, a Towers Watson senior health management consultant with a focus on the burgeoning field. The panel discussed telemedicine adoption and the...