Wellington Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies, focusing on Digital Media, Software, Electronics & Photonics, Resource Efficiency, and Biotech/Life Sciences. It is committed to providing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to fund their strategies. We typically lead financing rounds ranging from € 0.5 million to € 20 million. Depending on the maturity of the company, its own commitment can go as high as € 15 million. Wellington was established in 1998 and has offices in Munich, London, and Zurich.

Wellington Partners

Ancora Finance Group is an international management consulting firm that offers unparalleled leadership, strategic, and operational advice. Their focus on financial services is deeply rooted in the DNA of their company as it comes from their people.  They are based in London and Singapore, providing unparalleled leadership, strategic and operational solutions for the financial services industry. Their experience, expertise, and approach combine consulting and knowledge transfer.

Ancora Finance Group

Creas is an online platform that offers web design, graphic design, and software  solutions for its users.  Its current chain of services includes: web design, graphic design, software, e-commerce site, advertising photo, google ad, facebook ad, SEO solutions, server services, virtual power plants, banner design, and printing solutions. Creas also conducts an after sales special training session for its customers.  Creas was launched in 2004.

Creas

AA Sons focuses on raising venture capital for ambitious, fast-growing companies with a desire to 'make the world a better place' in retail, mobility, healthcare, care, fintech and broader tech sectors.

AA Sons

MTIP is a leading Swiss-based growth equity firm investing in European healthtech companies. We leverage our deep sector expertise to help the founders scale up successful and sustainable digital health businesses. At MTIP, we are driven by the mission to empower healthtech innovation with the potential to impact and improve millions of lives.

MTIP AG

Alma Mundi Ventures is a venture capital firm that funds primarily technology-based companies with B2B and B2B2C business models. The firms' third fund is an InsurTech Venture Fund with a European focus, backed by leading European international insurance companies and Mutuality Funds, investing between 1M and 7M in Series A, B, and C of leading European insurance startups. AMV is headquartered in Madrid but with an operational presence in Barcelona, London and Seattle.

Alma Mundi Ventures

Asabys Partners is a venture capital firm that invests across the board in human healthcare. The company is active in the health-tech and biopharma industries and aims to invest in Spain and abroad in innovative and transformative technologies. Asabys Partners are motivated by the idea of pushing the boundaries of science and medicine. This is done through the sourcing and financing of the most disruptive technologies, and through the collaboration with the best internal and external talents of our industry.

Asabys Partners

Akilia Partners is an investment firm that focuses on private markets direct investments.

Akilia Partners

Creas is the pioneering impact fund manager in Spain. We integrate capital, purpose and talent and place them at the service of transformative impact companies in Europe seeking to make a difference by empowerment through education, regeneration through promotion of circular production and addressing climate change and caring by improving the quality of life of vulnerable groups.

Koa Health

Koa Health is digital wellbeing and therapeutics solutions combine the latest clinical research and breakthrough technologies. It delivers mental health support that is accessible, personalized, and effective across a range of conditions. The company's other products include Mindset, offered through providers as a way to facilitate private chat-based mental health support. They create digital tools and resources for mental health that encompass prevention, prediction, and treatment. It offers a library of evidence-based activities for tackling stress, sleeping better, aiding relaxation and positive thinking, and boosting self-confidence.

<div>Koa Health is a B2B digital therapeutics company providing personalized mental health support for a range of conditions. The company’s app-based platform, Koa Foundation, offers activities and practice tools such as recording thoughts, mindfulness, and meditation exercises based on cognitive behavioral therapy. As of November 2020, the platform reached 250,000 users. </div>

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 Koa Health is a B2B digital therapeutics company providing personalized mental health support for a range of conditions. The company’s app-based platform, Koa Foundation, offers activities and practice tools such as recording thoughts, mindfulness, and meditation exercises based on cognitive behavioral therapy. As of November 2020, the platform reached 250,000 users. 
 
 
 Koa also offers three other products: Mindset, a chat-based mental health support program; Perspectives, targeted coaching support for specific conditions such as OCD and body dysmorphia; and Foresight, an AI-enabled mental health prediction tool helping care providers prioritize patients. 
 
 
 Founded in 2016, Koa Health currently operates in Spain, the US, and the UK. In November 2020, the Netherlands-based company became independent of Telefónica (a Spanish telecommunications company). Koa Health closed an oversubscribed Series A funding round in February 2021, which brought the total funds raised to USD 53 million.
 
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 Boulder Care is a telepsychiatry platform that connects patients who are opioid-addicted users to addiction specialists, care coordinators, and peer coaches. Patients can get personalized plans via video and text messaging and the app is intended to be used in conjunction with prescription medicines and lab tests.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In June 2022, the company raised USD 36 million in a Series B funding round. The funds were earmarked to triple the size of the company’s medical care team, expand its geographical footprint, and increase its value-based care treatment options through partnerships with health plans.
 
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Boulder Care

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 7 Cups provides an emotional-support platform with a network of volunteer listeners. Users can anonymously access either one-on-one chats or group chats 24/7, free of charge for issues such as depression, anxiety, relationships and those related to the LGBTQ+ community. It also teaches users skills such as meditation to improve their lives. If users want additional support, the company also provides access to an online therapy platform with a network of 180 licensed therapists for a subscription plan of USD 150 per month. 7 Cups is available for users above 13 years of age (users between 13 and 17 years old engage with listeners who are specifically trained in teenage interactions).
 
 
 Volunteer peer listeners get free training and support as well as flexible scheduling. Once a user requests a chat, it will be directed to available listeners and if the user requests a specific listener, he will be connected as soon as the listener accepts the demand. The service is anonymous and the listener has no access to the details of the user unless the information is disclosed to the listener by the user in their conversations. As of January 2022, 7 Cups has facilitated more than 51 million conversations, served 25 million individuals, and had 300,000 trained listeners. The listeners serve in 180 countries in 140 languages.
 
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7 Cups

wayForward provides technology-supported behavioral health and emotional wellness services for employers planning to make services available to their employees. It uses a screening procedure designed by neuropsychologists to triage and help employee members get clinically relevant mental healthcare. The company provides a self-guided app, text-based coaching, video visits, telepsychiatry, and if required, in-person visits or an on-site counselor. wayForward leverages its evidence-based approach and artificial intelligence in delivering its services and claims that it has been able to reduce anxiety symptoms by 48% and depression symptoms by 59%.The company raised USD 2 million in a seed round in June 2020, which brought total funding to USD 4.5 million. DarioHealth, a chronic disease management platform based in Israel, signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of wayForward in May 2021 for a total consideration of USD 30 million. As of May 2021, the wayForward had approximately 20,000 members and was available in North America, Australia, and Europe.

wayForward

Coa is a mental health company that conducts online classes led by licensed therapists for mental health users. The classes focus on conditions such as stress, anxiety, confidence and relationships. The company raised USD 3 million in a seed round in October 2020 from investors led by Crosslink Capital.

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 Meru Health is an online platform that connects patients experiencing stress, depression, anxiety, burnout, and other mental health issues to licensed therapists. The company was founded by Kristian Ranta in 2016 after his older brother died from suicide after battling depression. The platform offers a 12-week program and personalized text-based coaching services and virtual workshops. Meru also provides access to progress reports and anonymous peer support groups as well as sleep, nutrition, and mindfulness advice on top of vital tracking information—such as heart rate data.
 
 
 The company reported a 10x YoY growth in its customer base in 2020 and plans to serve 10 million users by 2027. The company also achieved 8x YoY growth in revenue in 2020 amid an increase in demand in mental health services brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In September 2022, Meru Health and clinical trial platform Curebase 
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 to carry out a three-year clinical trial to measure the effectiveness of Meru Health’s 12-week digital depression treatment targeting primary care patients. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health’s Small Business Innovation Research program. 
 
 
 
 
 
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 In May 2022, the company secured a USD 2 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to measure the effectiveness of its 12-week program for treating primary care patients. The study will follow 300 patients across the US with symptoms of major depression for a period of three years.
 
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Meru Health

Online peer-to-peer platform and support system that connects mental health communities.

Mobile-based apps and FDA-approved software that incorporate evidenced-based cognitive behavioral therapy to prevent, treat, or manage mental and behavioral conditions in conjunction with or as a replacement for traditional medication.

Products for behavioral health and mental health tracking, measurement-based care, and real-time remote monitoring of patients.

Subscription or membership-based platforms and apps to connect therapists, psychiatrists or behavioral health coaches with patients.

Offers virtual offerings for mental health consultations

Mental healthcare services offer personalized care tailored to a user's needs and treatment progression

There are mental health providers offering services specifically to help LGBTQ+ or BIPOC individuals

Several mental health technology providers offer therapy services rendered by AI/ML technology

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