Digital weight loss company Noom has announced several new hires within its leadership team, including new executive vice president and chief financial officer Jean Clifton, chief technology officer Rich Friedman, and general counsel Norman Petty.
The company has also appointed Jim Bugden as senior vice president of corporate development and partnerships, named Katerina Kugel as senior director...
Mendel.ai, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to help structure medical information, announced the launch of Hypercube, an AI-powered platform that integrates structured and unstructured text data, democratizes analytics, and allows a user to ask questions in free text and receive outcomes from specific patient data.
Karim Galil, cofounder and CEO of Mendel.ai, announced the new...
Digital weight loss company Noom announced the appointment of Geoff Cook as its new chief executive officer and member of its board of directors.
Saeju Jeong, Noom's cofounder and the company's former CEO of 16 years, is stepping down but will continue as executive chairman of the board.
Cook cofounded and served as CEO of social networking services company the Meet Group, where he took the...
DarioHealth, a digital chronic condition management platform, announced that Eitan Shay is joining the company in the newly created position of chief product officer. Shay was previously in leadership roles at Livongo, Teladoc Health and Meta.
Arnaud Robert is also joining Dario as a strategic advisor to the company's CEO, Erez Raphael. Robert recently served as executive vice president and...
Noom confirmed it had conducted another workforce reduction, marking the third round of layoffs at the digital weight loss company in less than a year.
The company didn't specify how many employees were affected by the latest job cuts. In April, Insider reported that Noom was laying off about a quarter of its coaches. It conducted another round of cuts in the fall, with TechCrunch reporting it...
Noom confirmed another round of layoffs at the digital weight loss company this week, the latest in a spate of workforce reductions at health tech companies. According to reporting by TechCrunch, Noom let go of about 500 workers, or around 10% of its staff, largely affecting its coaching team.
This marks the second round of layoffs at the company this year. Insider first reported in April that...
Weight management startup Noom is now diving into the behavioral health space with the launch of Noom Mood. The new platform was designed to help individuals manage stress and anxious thoughts, as well as boost health habits.
Users will be able to tap into daily 10-minute lessons based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance Commitment Theory (...
Alphabet’s life sciences and healthcare subsidiary Verily has named Dr. Amy Abernethy as the new president of its clinical research business.
Abernethy will support Verily’s expansion into a full-scale clinical evidence generation platform by overseeing the overall product vision and Verily’s related clinical research portfolio.
"There is no one better positioned to catapult Verily's clinical...
Health management and weight loss app Noom landed a whopping $540 million in Series F funding. Silver Lake led the round with participation from Oak HC/FT, Temasek, Novo Holdings, Sequoia Capital, RRE and Samsung Ventures.
Noom's last funding round raked in $58 million in 2019 in order to help grow the business.
WHAT IT DOES
Historically, Noom has been focused on helping users lose weight and...
New study results published online in the American Journal of Psychiatry suggest that a binge eating treatment strategy combining cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), telemedicine consultations and Noom’s self-monitoring app could be effective in reducing symptoms compared to standard care.
Announced back in in 2015, the investigation — conducted by researchers from Mount Sinai, Kaiser Permanente...
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