Mobile-first employee wellness and engagement company Virgin Pulse and benefits and analytics platform HealthComp, which merged in November, are rebranding under the name Personify Health.
Personify combines Virgin Pulse's offerings with HealthComp's health plan administration solutions, offering one platform with health, navigation, benefits and wellbeing experiences alongside data-driven...
Virgin Pulse, a mobile-first employee wellness and engagement company, announced its intent to merge with HealthComp, a benefits and analytics platform, to create a technology and data-enabled healthcare service for employers.
The reported $3 billion deal, first reported in the Wall Street Journal, will form a combined entity that utilizes technology and an AI-enabled data platform to deliver...
Digital mental health company Headspace and employer health tech company Virgin Pulse have announced an extended partnership in which Virgin's members will have full access to Headspace within its AI-enabled health and wellbeing platform.
Headspace will be fully integrated into Virgin Pulse's Homebase for Health platform, providing Virgin's employer, health plan and health system members access...
This morning employee wellbeing company Virgin Pulse snapped up consumer health engagement tool Welltok for an undisclosed sum.
Welltok works with health systems, health plans and large employers to help motivate their members or staff involved in their wellbeing and health.
“[Welltok has] two primary capabilities. They have what I'll call a multimodal outreach capability, where they're...
Employer health tech company Virgin Pulse has its eyes set on the diabetes space with the recent acquisition of digital therapeutic Blue Mesa Health, best known for its diabetes prevention program Transform. The financial details of the deal were not released.
Following the announcement, Blue Mesa Health’s technology will now be rolled into a new offering called Virgin Pulse Transform. The...
This morning, the employee wellness and health engagement platforms Virgin Pulse and RedBrick Health announced that they are merging under the Virgin Pulse name. The merger comes after Marlin Equity Partners' acquisition of RedBrick Health last week and Virgin Pulse today, both for an undisclosed sum.
“We are thrilled to join with RedBrick to set a new vision and standard for employee health,...
Employee wellbeing and engagement programs are becoming more of a top priority for employers, although just how to integrate them into a work culture isn’t always clear, according to a recent survey from wellness and engagement company Virgin Pulse.
Among a pool of 600 human resources and benefits leaders, the survey found 78 percent of respondents believe wellbeing is a key component of their...
Fitbit has partnered with Virgin Pulse, a mobile-first employee wellness and engagement company, to offer Fitbit trackers at a lower cost and develop personalized wellbeing programs around Fitbit’s Group Health offerings. The collaboration will reach some 2,200 Virgin Pulse employer customers worldwide, and will work to address the challenge of implementing and managing corporate wellness...
This year is shaping up to be a big one for acquisitions, if not for the money (many are for undisclosed amounts) but for sheer volume. We’ve seen 30 so far, and with a little over three months to go, 2016 may well end up eclipsing 2015’s total of 37 deals. Rather than just list the companies, we've broken them down into different categories based on who the acquirer is, to try to outline some...
Framingham, Massachusetts-based employee wellness and engagement company Virgin Pulse has acquired two employee wellness companies: Providence, Rhode Island-based ShapeUp and Australia-based Global Corporate Challenge (GCC).
Just last year, in May, Virgin Pulse, announced a big funding round, $92 million led by venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners with participation from parent company,...
