Tech-enabled psychiatric care startup Talkiatry has wrapped up its $37 million Series A financing round.
The company announced it had raised $20 million in funding in July. Left Lane Capital, which also participated last year, contributed the additional $17 million.
Other investors in the mental health startup include CityMD founder Dr. Richard Park, Sikwoo Capital Partners and Relevance Ventures...
Teletherapy company Talkspace is facing a class action lawsuit alleging it misled investors about the company's financials in the run-up to its merger with a special purpose acquisition company.
The suit, filed Jan. 7, alleges investors weren't informed that Talkspace was seeing significantly increased advertising costs in its direct-to-consumer business, and it was seeing lower conversion rates...
Digital mental health company Headspace Health has acquired Sayana, maker of AI-enabled mental health-tracking and sleep apps.
Sayana’s Self-Care app uses chat sessions with an AI dubbed Sayana that tracks their feelings and connects them to their experiences and actions. It also offers different content and exercises, depending on the information a user provides and their mood trends. It also...
Prescription digital therapeutic products can improve health for the underserved, especially in the area of mental health. Apart from addressing the severe shortage of mental health professionals by increasing access to care, recent science would suggest the digital therapeutic modality can be particularly effective at treating widespread conditions, including those made worse by the pandemic....
New York-based UpHealth brings patient management software to India's Nagaland
HelloLyf, a patient management, digital health and decision support software by New York-listed digital health firm UpHealth, has come to the state of Nagaland in India with the opening of the company's latest health facility there.
The digital hospital HelloLyf HX provides outpatient care, emergency care, radiology...
Sometimes legends walk among us. We would be wise to pay attention.
Dr. Aaron Beck, regarded as the father of modern cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), passed away last month, soon after celebrating his 100th birthday. Dr. Beck’s historic life compels us to examine his pioneering work in furthering behavioral medicine and the need to extend that work to the current state of mental health...
Researchers from the University of Southern Queensland are coming up with a new digital mental health platform for children and adolescents. The project was made possible through A$5 million funding from the government's Medical Research Future Fund.
Called Momentum, the online tool is being developed in tandem with young people, parents, and mental health professionals from Kids Helpline, West...
BeMe Health, a digital behavioral health tool geared towards teens, has raised $7 million in seed funding from Polaris Partners and Flare Capital Partners.
BeMe offers teens mental health content, coaching, self-guided activities and telehealth support on a platform that looks and feels like social media, gaming and streaming sites.
The company said it plans to use the funding to scale the use of...
Digital behavioral health company SonderMind has acquired Qntfy, a predictive-analytics platform that uses mental health biometric data to suggest potential treatment options.
“Qntfy was always rooted in making data work for the individual,” Qntfy founder Glen Coppersmith said in a statement. Coppersmith will serve as chief data officer at SonderMind.
“I am thrilled to be working with SonderMind...
Behavioral coaching unicorn BetterUp announced Friday it closed a $300 million Series E funding round, bringing the company’s valuation to $4.7 billion.
Wellington Management, ICONIQ Growth and Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Mubadala Investment Company, Sapphire Ventures, Morningside Group, SV Angel and PLUS Capital.
The Series E comes...
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