US-based medical services chatbot developer Sensely has attracted $15m in a round led by Aflac Corporate Ventures, a division of supplemental insurance provider Aflac.

Medical services group NMC, life insurance provider Nippon Life Insurance and quantitative trading firm Susquehanna International Group also backed the round, as did diversified trading group Sojitz and healthcare services firm Zuellig Pharma.

The round was filled out by venture debt provider Silicon Valley Bank, family office Mojo Partners and venture capital firms Chengwei Capital and Pegasus Tech Ventures.

Founded in 2013, Sensely creates artificial intelligence-driven chatbots that connect patients to voice-enabled avatars which can help check their symptoms, arrange insurance claims and monitor ongoing conditions.

The service is employed by healthcare providers and insurers to provide more effective support and robust insurance underwriting, and can be integrated with third-party enterprise software platforms.

The capital will help Sensely meet existing demand and tweak its underlying platform in response to customer feedback.

Chengwei Capital led an $8m series B round in 2017 that featured medical centre Mayo Clinic, Stanford-StartX Fund, Bioved Ventures and Fenox Venture Capital, after a $2.2m series A round in 2015 involving Fenox, TA Ventures and Launchpad Digital Health.

Sensely had already about raised $1.3m of seed capital from unnamed investors in September 2014, adding to an undisclosed sum supplied by Zillionize in March 2014.

– A version of this article first appeared on our sister site, Global University Venturing.

Sensely, a US-based medical services chatbot developer backed by the Stanford University-aligned StartX Fund, has attracted $15m in a round led by Aflac Corporate Ventures, a division of supplemental insurance provider Aflac.
Medical services group NMC, life insurance provider Nippon Life Insurance and quantitative trading firm Susquehanna International Group also backed the round, as did diversified trading group Sojitz and healthcare services firm Zuellig Pharma.
The round was filled out by venture debt provider Silicon Valley Bank, family office Mojo Partners and venture capital firms Chengwei Capital and Pegasus Tech Ventures.
Founded in 2013, Sensely creates artificial intelligence-driven chatbots that connect patients to voice-enabled avatars which can help check their symptoms, arrange insurance claims and monitor ongoing conditions.
The service is employed by healthcare providers and insurers to provide more effective support and robust insurance underwriting, and can be integrated with third-party enterprise software platforms.
The capital will help Sensely meet existing demand and tweak its underlying platform in response to customer feedback.
Stanford-StartX Fund backed an $8m series B round for Sensely in early 2017 led by Chengwei Capital that also featured medical centre Mayo Clinic, Bioved Ventures and Fenox Venture Capital, after a $2.2m series A round in 2015 involving Fenox, TA Ventures and Launchpad Digital Health.
Sensely had already about raised $1.3m of seed capital from unnamed investors in September 2014, adding to an undisclosed sum supplied by Zillionize in March 2014.