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Money Moves

June 15, 2021

Every week, we track the investments, mergers, and acquisitions across fitness and wellness so you don’t have to. Here are this week’s top headlines.

  • Lyra Health, a provider of mental healthcare benefits for employers, added $200M in funding.
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  • Cerebral, a digital platform for psychiatric and behavioral therapy services, raised $127M in Series B funding at a $1.23B valuation.
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  • Fresha, a business management platform for beauty and wellness services, closed a $100M Series C round led by General Atlantic
  • Denmark-based Lenus, a platform helping online fitness instructors build their businesses, landed a €50M Series A investment by EQT Ventures.
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  • Cure.fit acquired TREAD, a Bengaluru, India-based connected fitness startup. Terms were not disclosed. Last fall, TREAD raised $1.1M in seed funding.
  • Smart mattress maker Eight Sleep announced new funding from a variety of athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs, including Alex Rodriguez and Kevin Hart.
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  • The Pill Club, an online prescription and delivery service for birth control, raised $41.9M in fresh capital.
  • UpLift, a platform to find in-network therapists, emerged from stealth with $3.1M in funding from Redesign Health.
  • Framework, a platform for wellness businesses to set up virtual communities, raised $3M in seed funding led by True Ventures.
  • Poppy Seed Health, a telehealth app for pregnant and postpartum women, raised $1.6M in pre-seed funding led by Seven Seven Six.
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  • Faculty, a men’s makeup and grooming brand, landed $3M in seed funding led by Estée Lauder.
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  • Terra, a Y Combinator-backed startup building an API for fitness and health data, closed a $2.8M funding round with participation from General Catalyst, Samsung Next, and NEXT VENTŪRES.
  • Berlin-based mental fitness startup Flow Lab raised a €1M ($1.2M) investment round led by IBB Ventures.
  • Hard kombucha brewer JuneShine closed a Series A funding round with participation from musical artist Diplo, Outdoor Voices founder Ty Haney, and RXBAR/Litani Ventures founder Peter Rahal.
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