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| May 27, 2015 | Keas gamifies personal health with new online hub | Online health management company Keas is announcing a new personal health platform that gamifies health care, making it more fun for people to track and improve their health over time.
U.S. businesses spend more than $620 billion a year on ... |
| Apr 6, 2015 | Motivation: Why healthcare brands need to encourage more | The literature defines positive reinforcement as “the addition of a reinforcing stimulus following a behavior that makes it more likely that the behavior will occur again in the future.” Essentially, when our personal trainer tells you you’... |
| Mar 20, 2015 | Gamification harnesses the power of games to motivate | Walk through any public area and you’ll see people glued to their phones, playing mobile games like Game of War and Candy Crush Saga. They aren’t alone. 59% of Americans play video games, and contrary to stereotypes, 48% of gamers are women... |
| Mar 18, 2015 | Keas develops health hub to integrate benefits of employer wellness plans | “The problem Health Hub solves is that…employees must access their benefits through multiple passwords, websites, communications tools. Most companies have over six different benefits offerings from six different vendors. Health Hub integra... |
| Oct 27, 2014 | Online wellness startup Limeade raises $25M, plans to double staff in 2015 | Limeade CEO Henry Albrecht
Limeade has raised $25 million from a New York venture capital firm that will help the Bellevue startup fuel its platform that creates incentive-based wellness plans for businesses. Total funding now stands at $34... |
| Sep 14, 2014 | Keas Raises $7.4M in Funding | According to an SEC filing (read here), Keas Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a corporate wellness platform, raised approximately $7.4m in funding.
Reports said that backers included existing investors Atlantic Ventures and Ignit... |
| Sep 12, 2014 | Keas raises $7.4 million to support employer wellness programs | Among the requirements Keas asks of corporate customers are: All employees have to participate and companies must offer online access to the program. A partnership with LabCorp lets Keas users measure and track specific health indicators an... |
| Sep 12, 2014 | Keas Raises $7.4M in Series B |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Keas has raised more than $7.4 million from Atlantic Investors and Ignition Partners.
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Keas has rai... |
| Sep 11, 2014 | Employee wellness platform company Keas raises $7.4M | Health gaming corporate wellness platform Keas raised $7.4 million, according to an SEC filing. This brings the company's total funding to date to at least $32.9 million. Previous investors in the company include Atlantic Ventures and Ignit... |
| Sep 10, 2014 | Funding Daily: Getting the cable guy to show up on time, and other good ideas | Field service management tool FieldAware gets $24M
This company uses mobile software to connect dispatch centers with field workers, such as television repairpeople; they then learn in advance when they need to be at your house and what’s w... |
| Sep 10, 2014 | Funding Daily: Getting the cable guy to show up on time, and other good ideas | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Field service management tool FieldAware gets $24... |
| Jun 19, 2014 | Is your work-life balance out of whack? This digital health company wants to change that | Here’s how it works. Employees get quizzed on their health through a questionnaire and are given a couple of starter challenges. The challenges fall under five categories including physical fitness, healthy eating, personal interests like a... |
| Feb 11, 2014 | Keas adds Safeway, Target to “Facebook for employer wellness plans” | Among companies that offer high deductible plans, some offer lower deductibles as incentives.
Keas CEO Josh Stevens likens it to Facebook for employer wellness plans.
In an interview with MedCity News, Stevens said the toughest challenge fo... |
| Nov 19, 2013 | 7 Surprising Reasons Why Your Medical Staff is Unhappy – [INFOGRAPHIC] | Being happy at your job is a lot more than the money factor. (although getting paid more does make it easier look the other way when problems arise) Happiness directly correlates to performance on the job and how long your staff stays with ... |
| Sep 18, 2013 | Google taps former Genentech CEO to lead Calico, its new health & antiaging initiative | Google chief executive Larry Page just announced a new venture, Calico, to challenge aging and associated diseases.
Biotech pioneer Art Levinson has been named Calico’s chief. Levison is the former CEO of life sciences giant Genentech and a... |
| Sep 5, 2013 | App with goal of letting doctors eprescribe directly to consumers raises $1M | ZappRx also adding a group of advisers including Jay Silverstein, founding member of Oxford Health, Will Cowen, founder and CEO of healthcare communications network NaviNet, and George Kassabgi, founder of corporate wellness program provide... |
| Aug 5, 2013 | Maxwell Health gets $2M to help employers manage their health plans | New York-based startup Maxwell Health just raised $2 million to help employers set up affordable health and wellness plans.
It’s a particularly useful tool for entrepreneurs and small business owners, as Maxwell Health offers guidance on th... |
| Jul 31, 2013 | Wellness startups find a channel to better health: Employers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Wellness-management startups are seeing success b... |
| Jul 31, 2013 | Wellness startups find a channel to better health: Employers | Wellness-management startups are seeing success because they’re scaling through a channel that actually has money to spend: the enterprise.
Although investment in digital health startups is up and exciting technologies are on the horizon, s... |
| Jun 25, 2013 | Keas raises $8M to get employees to exercise and eat more veggies | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Keas is off and running with $8 million in new fu... |
| Jun 25, 2013 | Get Employees Engaged, Then You Can Talk About Wellness, Says Keas | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Just five chronic conditions—heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and obesity—account for more than 75 percent of all healthcare costs in the U.S., according to the CDC... |
| Jun 25, 2013 | Keas raises $8M to be the Facebook for your health | Ignition Partners and Atlas Venture double down to get corporate employees on the wellness track
(Correction: To reflect total financing raised)
Your poor health can be a problem. Not only with your productivity and the people around you, b... |
| Jun 25, 2013 | Funding Daily: Macadamia butts | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Sometimes, you’re in Hawaii where the breeze is w... |
| Jun 25, 2013 | Keas Raises $8M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Market leader in corporate health and wellness, today announced new funding from Ignition Partners and Atlas Venture.
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| Jun 25, 2013 | Keas Raises $8M in Funding | Keas, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of corporate health and wellness solutions, raised $8m in funding.
Backers included Ignition Partners and Atlas Venture.
Founded in 2008 by Adam Bosworth and and led by Josh Stevens, CEO, Keas provid... |
| Jun 25, 2013 | Keas raises $8M to get employees to exercise and eat more veggies | Keas is off and running with $8 million in new funding.
Businesses use Keas to create and manage their workplace health programs. The system promotes healthy behavior and teamwork by rewarding people for achieving simple exercise and nutrit... |
| May 21, 2013 | Keas partners with nutrition experts to encourage employee wellness | The typical employer pays an average of $10,000 a year per employee for healthcare.
Keas announced at Healthbeat today two new content partnerships with My Healthy Dish and Noshtopia that will help employees make wiser nutritional choices a... |
| May 21, 2013 | Keas partners with nutrition experts to encourage employee wellness | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The typical employer pays an average of $10,000 a year per employee for healthcare.
Keas announced at Healthbeat today two new content ... |
| May 15, 2013 | Getting American employees online is key for health care — and reducing health costs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Josh Stevens is CEO of corporate wellness company... |
| May 15, 2013 | Getting American employees online is key for health care — and reducing health costs | Josh Stevens is CEO of corporate wellness company Keas.
[Editor’s note: Stevens Comcast Ventures’ Michael Yang will be debating the topic of educating employees on health benefits at HealthBeat 2013 next week. See Yang’s story: “Health assi... |
| Apr 10, 2013 | How can an employer tell if its corporate wellness program is really working? | While the program did seem to change the way that employees accessed health care, it did not produce savings for the hospital system, BJC Healthcare.
The news is not ideal timing considering the themes in this week’s World Health Care Congr... |
| Apr 4, 2013 | EveryMove gets $3.5M for its apps that reward healthy employees | People who regularly exercise and eat well don’t often rack up many doctor’s visits. So shouldn’t they be rewarded for their good behavior?
Seattle-based EveryMove has closed $3.5 million in funding for its health care mileage program. The ... |
| Apr 4, 2013 | EveryMove gets $3.5M for its apps that reward healthy employees | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
People who regularly exercise and eat well don’t ... |
| Mar 4, 2013 | Ex-Google Health leader’s new venture puts positivity & fun (not data) at the core of corporate wellness | Your background is so tech-heavy. Why was healthcare the next step for you?
In 2002 my mother was ill. In 2003, my daughter was ill. I got to watch our healthcare system at its best and at its worst simultaneously. It was pretty illuminatin... |
| Feb 5, 2013 | Keas jogs out new-and-improved tools to promote employee health | Corporate wellness company Keas is doing pretty well itself.
Today, it jogged out its new 360/365 platform that seeks to keep employees engaged with their physical well-being at all times.
Keas is used by businesses to create and manage the... |
| Feb 5, 2013 | Keas jogs out new-and-improved tools to promote employee health | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Corporate wellness company Keas is doing pretty w... |
| Jan 2, 2013 | The Ultimate Guide To The 50+ Hottest Health And Fitness Apps, Gadgets And Startups Of The Year | The holidays wreak havoc on our bodies, with their mandatory over-indulgence in food as well as family and reminiscences. As we reflect on the year past — its victories and losses — we also begin looking ahead to the next, and in big ways o... |
| Sep 10, 2012 | Earn a chance to win $1M just for getting in shape: That’s the promise of KardioFit | I never thought playing the lottery would help improve one’s physical fitness. But that’s the idea behind KardioFit, a Bellevue startup that’s announcing $500,000 in financing today from angels including former SurveyMonkey CEO Ryan Finley ... |
| Dec 23, 2011 | Gamification is Helping Drive Web 2.0’s $400 Million Future | The Web health space is expected to see revenues quadruple to $400 million by 2016, and much of that growth could come from companies selling gamification services. This week, Keas, a firm co-founded by former Google Health chief Adam Boswo... |
| Dec 22, 2011 | Jawbone, Stion, Houzz: Bay Area BizTech by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Time for our data-driven roundup of the latest deals news from around the San Francisco Bay Area.
$17 to $18 billion—The approximate amount Yahoo could raise by selling off it... |
| Dec 21, 2011 | Keas Grabs $6.5M Series B |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Social game for the workplace that promotes wellness and healthy living announced it raised $6.5 million in Series B financing led by Atlas Venture and Ignition Partners.
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| Dec 21, 2011 | Keas Raises $6.5 Million To Turn A Healthy Lifestyle Into A Game | The Health 2.0 space is getting super-exciting — between services like Practice Fusion, CakeHealth, Virgin Health and hardware plays like the Fitbit and UP, it finally seems like technology has caught up to some real world human problems th... |
| Dec 20, 2011 | Social wellness game, Keas, raises $6M in funding | Atlas Venture and Ignition Partners backs health community for co-workers to share experiences
I used to be an avid cyclist, riding about 150 miles a week. But with three kids and one on the way, it's tough to keep that up. Back then, I'd r... |
| Dec 20, 2011 | Adam Bosworth’s Keas scoops up $6.5 million to make corporate America healthier | Ignition’s insane investment pace for 2011 is finishing with a bang. The Bellevue venture capital firm has partnered with Atlas Venture to lead a $6.5 million investment in San Francisco-based Keas, a social gaming startup that’s looking to... |
| Jun 18, 2011 | Web Of Games | Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Adam Bosworth, co-founder of Keas, a startup that turns staying healthy into a game. Previously, he spearheaded Google Health, was chief architect at BEA Systems, and one of the fathers of XML.
I... |
| Jun 3, 2011 | Adam Bosworth Unveils Keas, The Game That Keeps You Healthy | After two years in stealth, Adam Bosworth is finally ready to start talking about his health startup Keas. Keas is not a Mint for health, although it began that way. Bosworth, who previously launched Google Health at Google and before that ... |
| Jun 3, 2011 | Adam Bosworth unveils Keas, a social game that uses peer pressure to make co-workers healthier | It has been two years since Ignition Partners backed Adam Bosworth’s stealthy consumer health startup Keas. But the London-born entrepreneur, who was famously accused of violating a non-compete agreement when he left Microsoft to form the s... |
| Jun 30, 2010 | Keas, Founded by Former Google and Bit9 Execs, Tries to Make Online Care Plans Pay | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Keas has an online platform that gives patients interactive software for improving their health. But the San Francisco-based startup has had to change its strategy to find cus... |
| Oct 9, 2009 | Fresh from Health 2.0: two dozen of the most innovative new health apps | The Health 2.0 conference is probably the only “2.0” conference that doesn’t belong to the O’Reilly empire (it was founded by healthcare visionaries Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya in 2007). However, like many of the other “2.0” conferences, ... |
| Oct 6, 2009 | Google Health Adds Two More Insurers, Only Has 267 To Go | Google announced today the addition of two new health insurance companies to its Google Health platform at the Health 2.0 – original naming FTW – event in San Francisco. The fact that the company is touting this addition on its main blog is... |
| Motivation: Why healthcare brands need to encourage more | The best medicine is preventative. Whether it’s exercise, eating well or reducing stress, being proactive about our health saves time and money.
But who wants to do all that work? Most of us can admit – to ourselves, if not our healthcare p... |
| Keas adds Safeway, Target to “Facebook for employer wellness plans” | Companies are increasingly turning to startups in the employer wellness space. They view them as helping staff to take a greater interest in managing their health and help employers pare down healthcare costs. Although gaming and challenges... |
| Is your work-life balance out of whack? This digital health company wants to change that | Do you live to work or work to live? During the time I spent in England, it was a question that got raised frequently on the train ride home. Americans, as I was reminded, tend to fall into the former category. But the Brits tended to be sp... |
| 7 Surprising Reasons Why Your Medical Staff is Unhappy – [INFOGRAPHIC] | Being happy at your job is a lot more than the money factor. (although getting paid more does make it easier look the other way when problems arise) Happiness directly correlates to performance on the job and how long your staff stays with ... |
| How can an employer tell if its corporate wellness program is really working? | Corporate wellness programs have become a cause celebre of the cost-saving era in healthcare. Everyone has started using employee wellness plans and there are plenty of ways to try them.
But there’s one catch: few corporate wellness solutio... |
| App with goal of letting doctors eprescribe directly to consumers raises $1M | Several app developers are trying to dismantle the accepted tradition of waiting around for healthcare services from doctor appointments to emergency care. ZappRx, launched an app earlier this year to reduce the amount of time consumers wai... |
| Keas develops health hub to integrate benefits of employer wellness plans | Employer wellness plans get a bad rap because employees don’t make use of them. Keas is betting that the lack of ease in accessing these programs is a big contributor. Yet self-insured employers are pouring money into these programs with th... |
| Keas raises $7.4 million to support employer wellness programs | Employer wellness plan Keas, which brings together a social network with personal health challenges, has raised more than $7.4 million. Employers’ interest in adopting wellness plans to encourage cost savings to improve their bottom lines h... |
| Ex-Google Health leader’s new venture puts positivity & fun (not data) at the core of corporate wellness | Self-proclaimed tech nerd Adam Bosworth has spent more than two decades building software and databases. Before becoming VP of product management at Google, he’d done stints in management positions at BEA Systems and Microsoft. He’s been a ... |
