Based on research conducted at Newcastle University, Changing Health has obtained $1.3m in a round that included North East Finance.
Diabetes management app developer Changing Health, a spinout of Newcastle University and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has raised £1m ($1.3m) in a seed round featuring North East Finance’s Accelerator Fund, managed by Northstar Ventures.
Changing Health helps patients with type 2 diabetes monitor and improve their lifestyle choices using behavioural change techniques relating to diet, exercise and weight management.
The company will use the money to further grow its team, having recently hired six people.
Alongside the funding, the startup has also signed an agreement with not-for-profit healthcare provider Nuffield Health to roll out the use of Changing Health.
Mike Trenell, chief scientist at Changing Health and senior researcher at Newcastle University, said: “Diabetes is currently the single biggest health issue in the UK and the greatest cost to the NHS and other healthcare providers.
“Yet 70% of Type 2 diabetes can be prevented or reversed with a healthy diet and physical activity.
“Changing Health addresses this need by reducing barriers to patients accessing the educational programme they need and for the first time making available evidence-based behavioural change tools that improve health outcomes and reduce delivery costs.”
