Optum Ventures and Echo Health Ventures helped the healthcare chatbot provider take its overall funding to more than $41m.

US-based medical chatbot developer mPulse Mobile completed a $16m series C round yesterday led by Optum Ventures, the investment arm of health services provider Optum.

Echo Health Ventures, the corporate venturing vehicle for healthcare provider Cambia Health Solutions and health insurer Blue Cross North Carolina, also took part in the round, alongside HLM Venture Partners, OCA Ventures, SJF Ventures and Rincon Ventures.

Founded in 2014, mPulse has created a conversational algorithm that enables healthcare industry clients to build chatbots to…