LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- mPulse Mobile, a leader in Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced more than $16 million in funding. The round was led by Optum Ventures and includes existing investors HLM Venture Partners, OCA Ventures, SJF Ventures, Echo Health Ventures and Rincon Ventures.
Powering more than 300 million personalized, automated consumer healthcare conversations annually, mPulse Mobile's solutions help consumers and healthcare organizations achieve better health outcomes by increasing engagement and improving communication through meaningful, tailored conversations. mPulse combines behavioral science, artificial intelligence and an enterprise-grade platform to assist healthcare organizations guide consumers to adopt healthy behaviors.
mPulse Mobile has more than a decade of healthcare consumer engagement experience, serving more than 100 healthcare organizations. The Series C investment will help mPulse Mobile further enhance solutions that deliver positive consumer experiences on behalf of its customers.
"We are excited to have the support of Optum Ventures and all of our current investors as we execute on our strategic roadmap to improve health outcomes for consumers and our customers through improved communications," said Chris Nicholson, CEO of mPulse Mobile. "This new investment recognizes that scale and solution performance are key factors in successfully engaging consumers in their healthcare, and we will use it to expand our consumer conversational AI capabilities, enhance our client engagement analytics platform and expand our engagement solutions across healthcare verticals."
"mPulse Mobile enables valuable connections between healthcare organizations and consumers, while addressing a significant market need for better experiences," said Laura Veroneau, Partner, Optum Ventures. "We believe mPulse's innovative approach to consumer engagement can play a key role in improving health outcomes and lowering the total cost of care."
About mPulse Mobile
mPulse Mobile, the leader in Conversational AI solutions for the healthcare industry, drives improved health outcomes and business efficiencies by engaging individuals with tailored and meaningful dialogue. mPulse Mobile combines behavioral science, analytics and industry expertise that helps healthcare organizations activate their consumers to adopt healthy behaviors. With over a decade of experience, 100+ healthcare customers and more than 300 million conversations annually, mPulse Mobile has the data, the expertise and the solutions to drive healthy behavior change. For more information, please visit http://www.mpulsemobile.com
About Optum Ventures
Optum Ventures is the independent venture fund of Optum, a leading information and technology-enabled health services business dedicated to helping make the health system work better for everyone, and part of the UnitedHealth Group. Optum Ventures invests in digital health companies that use data and insights to help improve consumers' access to health care services and how care is delivered and paid for, and that make the health care system more reliable and easier to navigate. For more information, please visit http://www.optumventures.com.
About HLM Venture Partners
HLM Venture Partners is a leading venture capital firm and one of the nation's oldest and most experienced in the tech-enabled healthcare services, healthcare information technology, and medical device and diagnostics sectors. Seeking dynamic, emerging-growth companies, HLM invests in the industry's most innovative companies, including Phreesia, Teladoc, AbleTo, Regroup Therapy, Nordic Consulting, meQuilibrium and ClearDATA. http://www.hlmvp.com
About OCA Ventures
OCA Ventures is an early stage (Seed, Series A, and Series B) venture capital firm focused on equity investments in companies with dramatic growth potential, primarily in technology and highly-scalable services businesses. OCA invests in many industries, with a preference for technology, financial services, cyber security and healthcare technology. Founded in 1999, the firm is investing out of its fourth fund in companies spread throughout the United States. Learn more at http://www.ocaventures.com
About SJF Ventures
SJF Ventures invests in high-growth companies creating a healthier, smarter and cleaner future. Its mission is to catalyze the development of highly successful businesses driving lasting, positive changes. We are experienced venture capital investors who have been at the forefront of impact investing since 1999. We are passionate about generating extraordinary results, creating positive changes, and partnering with visionaries who combine these two. Our team has invested in over 70 companies during the last 21 years, bringing time-tested perspective and expertise to partnerships with entrepreneurs. For more information, visit http://www.sjfventures.com
About Echo Health Ventures
Echo Health Ventures invests to build and grow great health care companies. Echo Health Ventures seeks to drive systemic health care transformation through hands-on, purpose-driven strategic venture capital and growth equity investing. As a strategic collaboration of Cambia Health Solutions and Mosaic Health Solutions, Echo Health Ventures works closely with its parent entities to catalyze the development of its portfolio companies and accelerate their innovations to scale nationally. For more information, please visit http://www.EchoHealthVentures.com
About Rincon Ventures
Rincon Venture Partners, as well as its successor firm Bonfire Ventures, is an LA-based seed-stage venture capital firm that invests exclusively in B2B software businesses, and typically leads or co-leads a startup's first priced round. We back extraordinary founders who are seeking to build world-class market leaders, and aspire to serve as those founders' most trusted advisors. Investments made by the firm's founders include The Trade Desk (IPO), Burstly (acquired by Apple), Edgecast (acquired by Verizon), Datapop (acquired by Criteo), MessageLabs (acquired by Symantec), Orbitera and Bitium (each acquired by Google), EmailAge (Acquired by LexisNexis), TaxJar, ChowNow, Rainforest QA, Invoca, Honk and others. For more information visit http://www.bonfirevc.com
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