US-based behaviour analytics company Ginger.io has secured $20m in a series B round backed by Kaiser Permanente Ventures, healthcare consortium Kaiser Permanente’s corporate venturing unit, according to a regulatory filing.
Founded in 2010 as Gingerd, Ginger.io is a spinoff of university MIT’s Media Lab that uses big data from mobile phones to model the user’s behaviour and in turn derive information about their health.
Ginger.io did not disclose Kaiser Permanente’s participation, but the filing did reveal that Dave Schulte, managing director at Kaiser Permanente Ventures, has joined the company’s board of directors.
The round boosted the company’s overall funding to $27.9m. Ginger.io’s previous backers include venture capital firms Khosla Ventures, True Ventures and Kapor Capital, VC fund Romulus Capital and startup accelerator Techstars.