Big Health Hones Digital Mental Health Therapy With $39M Series B (Crunchbase):
“Startup Big Health believes individuals can improve their mental health through its technology that focuses on cognitive behavioral therapy versus medication or the help of human therapists.
On Thursday it raised $39 million in a Series B financing to advance that objective.
Its two digital offerings, Daylight, for worry and anxiety, and Sleepio, for poor sleep, are fully automated cognitive and behavioral programs.
“We are taking proven cognitive behavioral therapies and fully automating them to deliver the care scalably and consistently as drugs,” Peter Hames, co-founder and CEO, told Crunchbase News. “Clinical studies show these kinds of products are just as effective as medication and people.”
Gilde Healthcare led the new round of funding joined by co-lead Morningside Ventures, as well as Samsung NEXT and existing investors Kaiser Permanente Ventures and Octopus Ventures. The new funding gives San Francisco-based Big Health a total raise of $54.3 million since the company was founded in 2010.
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