Index and Forward Partners provide $3.3m to Big Health

The capital will enable the company to further develop its products and accelerate plans to move into the US later this year.

Big Health currently produces a digital sleep improvement programme called Sleepio, designed to combat insomnia by use of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). The company states that randomised controlled trials showed similar results of effectiveness to face-to-face CBT.

The VCs were attracted to the deal by the prospect of delivering healthcare via consumer technology and the emergence of personalised wearable technology.

Company
Big Health provides personalised behavioural medicine programmes by mobile and web that draw on data collected from personal devices. It was founded by Peter Hames and Colin Espie, a professor at University of Oxford, and has previously received funding from angel investors including Esther Dyson, Peter Read, Gi Fernando and Rob Taylor.

People
Neil Rimer is co-founder and partner at Index. Nic Brisbourne is partner at Forward.  

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