OCD-focused platform NOCD raises $35M and extra digital well being fundings

OCD-focused platform NOCD raises $35M and extra digital well being fundings

Digital obsessive-compulsive dysfunction (OCD) identification and administration platform NOCD closed a $35 million funding spherical co-led by Cigna Ventures and 7wireVentures. 

Current traders F-Prime Capital, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Well being Enterprise Companions and Eight Roads Capital additionally participated within the spherical alongwith new investor Longitude Capital.

The Chicago-based firm gives video-based OCD remedy utilizing the publicity and response prevention method, a way of behavioral remedy that exposes an individual to a scenario that provokes an OCD response and studying to tolerate these stressors. 

The corporate will use the funds to proceed increasing its community of therapists and additional advertising efforts with comic and TV character Howie Mandel. The corporate can even work to reinforce its analytics capabilities. 

“Cigna Ventures is targeted on working with firms who’re bringing ahead revolutionary options that may extra successfully and effectively remedy a few of well being care’s largest challenges,” Craig Cimini, head of Cigna Ventures, stated in an announcement. “NOCD performs a important function within the behavioral well being ecosystem with a confirmed means to establish sufferers in want and seamlessly join them to evidence-based remedy and tailor-made assets.”

The most recent funding spherical follows NOCD’s bulletins in August that members of Aetna Insurance coverage and Blue Cross Blue Protect of New York would have entry to NOCD’s platform. 

NOCD additionally closed a $33 million Sequence B funding spherical in 2021, a $4 million Sequence A in 2019 and $1 million seed funding spherical in 2018.


Calif.-based diagnostics startup Easy HealthKit garnered $8 million in Sequence A funding, bringing its whole increase to $12 million.

The spherical was led by Initialized Capital with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Quest Enterprise Companions and Kapor Capital. 

Easy HeathKit provides testing for sexual well being, respiratory sicknesses and power situations like diabetes for dwelling, clinic or pharmacy use with suggestions for session and remedy upon a constructive check consequence.

The funding will assist Easy HealthKit develop its testing portfolio and produce its platform to underserved markets. 


New York-based kids’s psychological well being platform Fort Well being introduced a $4.5 million increase from Blue Enterprise Fund.

Fort Well being was developed at Redesign Well being in partnership with the Little one Thoughts Institute, a nonprofit that focuses on serving to kids with psychological well being and studying issues. The startup provides a platform that connects major care and behavioral well being suppliers to enhance entry to psychological healthcare for kids. 

Fort Well being is roofed underneath Aetna, Optum/United Healthcare and Geisinger Well being Plan industrial insurance coverage in New Jersey. The corporate says it plans to develop to New York and different states this yr. 

The brand new funds can be used to drive the corporate’s market enlargement. 


Newel Well being obtained a $2.5 million grant from the Michael J. Fox Basis for Parkinson’s Analysis to additional analysis and develop Soturi, the corporate’s platform for sufferers with Parkinson’s Illness. 

Soturi provides bodily, voice and speech workouts and nervousness assist in addition to symptom monitoring, treatment reminders and a wearable bracelet that may detect tremors. 

Newel was constructed from an funding by Italy-based Healthware Ventures, the company VC of Healthware Group.

“This grant from The Michael J. Fox Basis marks the primary of many vital milestones for the corporate because it continues to develop its portfolio of digital options in order that the well being journeys of individuals residing with well being situations and their medical doctors’ efforts will grow to be as clear and profitable as may be,” Roberto Ascione, chairman of the board of Healthware Ventures, stated in an announcement.  


Canadian healthcare tech startup The Rounds, which provides a community for healthcare professionals throughout North America to attach and focus on medical subjects, garnered a further $1.6 million CAD ($1.19 million) in Sequence A funding.

The most recent funds from Atlanta-based Panoramic Ventures and Make investments Nova Scotia carry the firm’s Sequence A spherical to $6.7 million CAD ($4.99 million). The corporate introduced a $5.1 million increase in September. 

“Our workforce at Make investments Nova Scotia is proud to be a long-time supporter of, and investor in, The Rounds. The Sequence A fundraise will assist replicate the corporate’s success in Canada throughout key healthcare markets within the U.S. There has by no means been a greater time to interrupt down the geographic obstacles stifling collaboration in specialty healthcare, and The Rounds is doing simply that,” Ben McDade, funding principal at Make investments Nova Scotia, stated in an announcement. 

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