| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.08.2024 | The Evolution of Insurance: Bridging Gaps in Cybersecurity and Health Coverage | In the fast-paced world of insurance, two companies are making waves: Inscora and Sun Life U.S. Both are redefining their respective fields, addressing pressing needs in cybersecurity and health coverage. Their recent initiatives highlight ... |
| 01.08.2024 | Sun Life U.S. expands critical illness coverage to include family planning services | WELLESLEY, Mass., Aug. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Keeping up with the ever-changing health care landscape, Sun Life U.S. has expanded its critical illness (CI) coverage to include family planning care, behavioral health and a broader range of ... |
| 14.05.2024 | The Quell Foundation Appoints Dr. Reena Pande to its Board of Directors | NORTH FALMOUTH, Mass., May 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Quell Foundation, a nationally recognized not-for-profit organization dedicated to reducing the number of suicides, overdoses, and the incarceration of people with mental health challe... |
| 29.04.2024 | Oshi Health Hires for Next Stage of Growth, with New Heads of Technology and Partnerships | Oshi Health Hires for Next Phase of Growth
To scale Oshi's transformational digestive health experiences and outcomes, Martin Anderson joins as Chief Technology Officer and Nathan Paulsen will lead Health Plan Partnerships
NEW YORK, April 2... |
| 29.02.2024 | In the Zone | Our Investment in FamilyWell |
In the Zone | Our Investment in FamilyWell
February 29, 2024
By Payal Agrawal Divakaran and Kathryn Taylor Reddy, .406 Ventures
“I had difficulty finding support when I experienced postpartum depression and have cared for countless new mom... |
| 27.02.2024 | FamilyWell’s Oversubscribed $4.3M Seed Round Led by .406 Ventures | Boston, MA, Feb. 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FamilyWell Health has secured $4.3 million in seed financing to solve the maternal mental health crisis. This milestone marks the company’s first round of institutional capital and is led by .40... |
| 15.02.2024 | .406 Ventures Raises $265 Million Fund V | BOSTON, Feb. 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Early-stage venture capital firm .406 Ventures announces that it has raised $265 million in capital commitments for Point 406 Ventures V, L.P., the firm’s fifth core fund. In raising this fund, .406... |
| 30.06.2021 | AbleTo Launches Clinically Guided Member Experience for 21M Eligible Lives | What You Should Know:
– AbleTo, a leading provider of high-quality, virtual behavioral health care, today announce new, clinically guided, fully integrated member experience for 21M eligible lives. The launch includes AbleTo Connect, a digi... |
| 30.12.2020 | 6 Mental Health & Teletherapy Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021 | The executive team at AbleTo, a technology-enabled provider of behavioral healthcare shares six mental health and teletherapy predictions and trends to watch in 2021.
Trip Hofer, CEO at AbleTo
1. Measurement and Outcomes
“The healthcare ind... |
| 06.11.2020 | Zooming into the next phase of care delivery: 10 emerging trends in a post-COVID-19 world | |
| 28.04.2020 | Optum reportedly finalizing $470M purchase of virtual behavioral care company AbleTo | |
| 27.04.2020 | Report: Optum in talks to acquire AbleTo for $470M | United’s OptumHealth division, which covers pharmacy benefits, technology and consulting, already has an existing relationship with AbleTo. Optum Ventures closed out AbleTo’s most recent funding round in January of 2019 for an undisclosed a... |
| 01.04.2020 | Healthcare in a socially distanced world | Across the world, companies, families, and individuals are navigating the unpredictable, ever-changing situation of Covid-19. Businesses have seen sharp declines in revenues resulting in layoffs, temporary shutdowns, and even permanent clos... |
| 27.12.2019 | Top 60 Health IT/Digital Health Mergers & Acquisitions in 2019 | – From Google’s acquisition of Fitbit to Philips acquisition of Carestream Health’s health IT business, here is a look at some of the biggest health IT/digital health mergers & acquisitions in 2019 by each quarter.Q1 M&A Activity
Jo... |
| 26.11.2019 | Mental health companies that have raised funding this year | Big companies like Quartet and Calm raised funding as did seed-stage companies like UpLift Health
For the past couple of years, Vator, along with HP and UCSF Health Hub, has been holding salons about different aspects of the healthcare spac... |
| 13.08.2019 | AbleTo Stresses Clinical Innovation with Addition of Renowned Psychiatrist Dr. David Whitehouse | NEW YORK, August 13, 2019 – AbleTo, Inc., a leading provider of virtual behavioral health care proven to improve clinical outcomes and lower health care costs, today announced that Dr. David Whitehouse, a widely recognized leader in innovat... |
| 11.07.2019 | WellCare and AbleTo Partner to Bring Virtual Behavioral Healthcare to Medicare Advantage Members in New York | NEW YORK and TAMPA, July 11, 2019 — WellCare Health Plans, Inc., (NYSE: WCG) and AbleTo, a leading provider of virtual behavioral healthcare, announced today the launch of a new program to serve WellCare’s Medicare Advantage members in New ... |
| 06.04.2019 | March 2019 News, Merger & Acquisition, IPO, Public Company Performance Summary | A brief summary of noteworthy news, health IT M&A activity, IPOs, and public company performance during the month of March.
Noteworthy News
Amazon, JP Morgan, Berkshire Names New Joint Venture Haven
Amazon, J.P. Morgan, and Berkshire Ha... |
| 07.03.2019 | Term Sheet — Thursday, March 7 | ‘QUARTERLY CAPITALISM’
I’m excited to share today’s guest column with you and hear your opinions. Jack T. Ciesielski, an accounting analyst and portfolio manager at R.G. Associates, explores the nuances behind the decades-old system of quar... |
| 06.03.2019 | Top startup news for today, Wednesday, March 6, 2019 | Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Wednesday, March 6.
Mental health app maker startups join forces to go after multibillion-dollar market. The global behavioral and mental health care softwar... |
| 06.03.2019 | AbleTo buys app-based digital therapy company Joyable | Headquartered in New York City, AbleTo teams up with employers and health plans to provide their employees or members access to personalized treatment. Throughout the course of the company’s program, individuals have telephone or secure vid... |
| 06.03.2019 | AbleTo acquires Joyable, furthering consolidation of the mental health space | Window Channel Network, Lantern and myStrength have all been acquired in the past year
On April 4, we're taking the topic of mental and behavioral health back on stage with our first salon of 2019: Future of Mental and Behavioral Health.
Re... |
| 08.01.2019 | AbleTo Receives Strategic Investment from Optum Ventures | AbleTo, a NYC-based provider of virtual behavioral health care, secured an investment from Optum Ventures, closing out a recently raised Series D financing.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Led by Trip Hofer, CEO, AbleTo provides t... |
| 28.10.2018 | What barriers are preventing patients from getting mental health services? | The results reveal that patients see numerous barriers hindering them from seeking behavioral healthcare.
“The top barriers to treatment that were cited in the survey were cost, stigma and also, interestingly, uncertainty about what care re... |
| 31.05.2018 | Check out who joined StartUp Health Academy’s latest cohort | Here’s an overview of the businesses based in part on StartUp Health’s blog post, info from the companies’ websites.
Advice Coach is a physical therapy business that helps patients recover from home. It produces a set of videos by the patie... |
| 09.04.2018 | The top 25 mental/behavioral health startups that have raised funding | They include Iora Health, Quartet Health, Headspace, AbleTo, Ginger.io and Joyable
Healthcare is such a massive space, one that takes up a sixth of the entire U.S. economy, that just one small piece of that pie can be extremely lucrative. T... |
| 09.04.2018 | Top 10 VCs investing in mental/behavioral health | They include Polaris Partners, .406 Ventures, Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures
Healthcare is such a massive space, one that takes up a sixth of the entire U.S. economy, that just one small piece of that pie can be extremely lucrative. Take ... |
| 09.02.2018 | New report highlights New York City’s health tech and life science investment landscape | NYCHBL estimated that life science and health tech accounted for $13.8 billion across 412 deals last year across the country. As for New York City, 79 startups and growth stage companies received $703 million last year.
Orbimed, New Enterpr... |
| 05.02.2018 | AbleTo Adds Daniel Lieber as Chief Operating Officer | NEW YORK, Feb. 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- AbleTo, Inc., the leading technology-enabled behavioral health provider proven to improve clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs, announced today the addition of Daniel Lieber as Chief Operating ... |
| 09.01.2018 | AbleTo, Inc. Announces James P. Bradley as Chairman of the Board | NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- AbleTo, Inc., the leading provider of technology-enabled behavioral health solutions proven to improve patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs, announced today the addition of James Bradley as its ... |
| 05.09.2017 | AbleTo plans on using $36.6 million in latest funding round to address behavioral health | Behavioral health technology company AbleTo secured $36.6 million in financing last week, led by Bain Capital Ventures, and all of its existing investors -- 406 Ventures, Sandbox Industries, HLM Venture Partners, and Horizon Healthcare Serv... |
| 25.08.2017 | AbleTo is the latest mental health startup to get capital | New $36M financing underscores popularity in mental health startup investing
Americans have always had to struggle with various drug addictions: the opioid crisis being the latest substance abuse scare, along with heroin usage, which just h... |
| 24.08.2017 | AbleTo Raises $36.6M in Series D Funding | AbleTo, Inc., a NYC-based provider of technology-enabled behavioral health solutions proven to improve patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs, closed $36.6m in financing.
The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures with participation fr... |
| 24.08.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, August 24 | A BUGABOO
Earlier this week, I mentioned that Jim Clark is back with a new building security startup based in Del Rey, Fla., called CommandScape. One key element to the startup’s product is that its building management “command center” will... |
| 24.08.2017 | AbleTo Raises $36.6M to Accelerate Behavioral Health Platform | AbleTo, Inc., a provider of technology-enabled behavioral health solutions has raised $36.6 million in Series D funding led by Bain Capital Ventures and also includes strategic investor Aetna. Existing investors, ncluding .406 Ventures, San... |
| 23.08.2017 | AbleTo raises more than $36M to expand treatment platform for people with anxiety, depression | Bain Capital Ventures led the round with Aetna Ventures. Existing ventures, such as .406 Ventures, Sandbox Industries, HLM Venture Partners, and Horizon Healthcare Services, also took part. Aetna has been an AbleTo customer since 2011.
Here... |
| 23.08.2017 | AbleTo Raises $36.6 Million in Series D Funding, Led by Bain Capital Ventures | NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- AbleTo, Inc., the leading provider of technology-enabled behavioral health solutions proven to improve patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs, announced today it has closed $36.6 million in finan... |
| 23.08.2017 | Bain Capital Leads $36.6 Million Series D for AbleTo | AbleTo, Inc., the leading provider of technology-enabled behavioral health solutions proven to improve patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs, announced today it has closed $36.6 million in financing, led by Bain Capital Ventures and a... |
| 23.08.2017 | AbleTo Raises $36.6 Million for Digital Behavioral Health Platform | - |
| 23.08.2017 | AbleTo Raises $36M For Digital Behavioral Health Platform | - |
| 19.06.2017 | How Regroup Therapy Found and Seized a Huge Telehealth Market Opportunity | The Hyde Park Angels “New Investment Series” profiles our most recent investments by examining the portfolio company and its future trajectory from two perspectives: the portfolio company’s CEO and the HPA leader who made the deal happen. T... |
| 25.05.2017 | ESD Announces AbleTo Will Expand Headquarters New York City | Empire State Development (ESD) today announced AbleTo, a national, technology-enabled provider of behavioral healthcare, will create 94 new jobs and retain 90 jobs as part of an expansion of its New York City headquarters. |
| 21.02.2017 | Payers, large employers are pushing to integrate behavioral health services into member plans | New York City-based AbleTo has positioned itself as an end to end service for payers and increasingly self-insured employers. Its client base includes Aetna, United Healthcare, and blue cross blue shield plans. AbleTo also wants to work wit... |
| 24.12.2016 | Technology and today’s vast and immensely underserved mental health population | Adam Seabrook Contributor
Adam Seabrook is an investor at B Capital Group.
Someone in your life is suffering from a mental disorder right now. You may not know it, but it’s there.
Indeed, one in five adults suffers from a mental disorder.
S... |
| 08.11.2016 | Annum Health raises $2.5M to build out digital treatment platform for heavy drinkers | New York City-based Annum Health, a stealthy digital health startup created by the founder of behavioral health support company AbleTo, has raised $2.5 million according to an SEC filing. MedCity News confirmed with Annum Health founder Mic... |
| 08.11.2016 | AbleTo founder raises $5M for digital health startup to treat heavy drinkers (Updated) | Update Laskoff clarified in an email that the New York City-based company raised a total of $5 million, $2.5 million of it was reflected in a Form D filing. He shared a few details about the business in an interview with MedCity News.
He sa... |
| - | Payers, large employers are pushing to integrate behavioral health services into member plans | Despite the uncertainty over what the Republicans may or may not do with the Affordable Care Act, payers are warming up to digital health companies in the behavioral health management space. These businesses use technology to help identify ... |
| - | New report highlights New York City’s health tech and life science investment landscape | Famous Skyline of downtown New York, Brooklin Bridge and Manhattan at the early morning sun light.
By StartUp Health’s reckoning, New York City was the second most active city for health tech dealflow in 2017 with $1 billion invested across... |
| - | Report: Optum in talks to acquire AbleTo for $470M | UnitedHealth Group’s Optum is in talks to acquire behavioral telehealth provider AbleTo for $470 million, according to CNBC. The deal would bring together the two companies at a time when the demand for telehealth services is in the spotlig... |
| - | AbleTo founder raises $5M for digital health startup to treat heavy drinkers (Updated) | The convergence of substance abuse and digital health has produced a fair few startups such as Sparkite, Addicaid, and Pear Therapeutics. Michael Laskoff founded AbleTo, previously known as AbilTo, to harness telemedicine, phone and other m... |
| - | What barriers are preventing patients from getting mental health services? | New research from AbleTo, a New York City company that provides tech-enabled behavioral health solutions, takes a closer look at the obstacles preventing consumers from getting their mental health needs met.
The online survey was conducted ... |
| - | AbleTo buys app-based digital therapy company Joyable | AbleTo, a provider of tech-enabled behavioral health solutions, has acquired a San Francisco company called Joyable, which offers app-based digital therapy.
Financial details of the deal were not disclosed in a news release, but an AbleTo s... |
| - | Check out who joined StartUp Health Academy’s latest cohort | StartUp Health has added ten companies in the latest Academy cohort. The digital health companies include a remote monitoring service for physical therapy, a healthcare matchmaking program that connects patients based in China with U.S.-bas... |
| - | Healthcare in a socially distanced world | Across the world, companies, families, and individuals are navigating the unpredictable, ever-changing situation of Covid-19. Businesses have seen sharp declines in revenues resulting in layoffs, temporary shutdowns, and even permanent clos... |
| - | AbleTo raises more than $36M to expand treatment platform for people with anxiety, depression | AbleTo, a healthcare business working with self-insured employers and health plans to use technology to help people who identify themselves as depressed or coping with anxiety or stress, has closed a $36.6 million Series D round. The fundra... |
| - | AbilTo’s behavior-change programs to cut medical costs growing healthcare investing trend | Health IT company AbilTo has raised fresh capital for a program aimed at changing behavior for the costliest patient population — people with chronic conditions or multiple chronic conditions.
The healthcare startup works with health plans ... |
