{"id":1125,"date":"2016-02-14T16:38:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T16:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2016-03-15T05:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T05:25:50","slug":"lantern-a-mental-health-startup-raises-17-million-series-a-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"Lantern, A Mental Health Startup Raises $ 17 Million Series A Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/golantern.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lantern <\/a>is a mental health startup which provides tools to tools in dealing with stress, anxiety and body image has raised a $ 17 million Series A Round conducted by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center\u2019s venture arm with the involvement of the previous investor\u2019s such as Mayfield and Soft TechVC.<\/p>\n<p>UPMC Enterprises, the hospital\u2019s venture arm, infused a huge amount of money in some other 12 startups, considering the health care software dbMotion, which had $ 235 million exit in 2013, and Evolent Health, a population health management services organization which went public last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs one of the leading integrated healthcare provider and insurance systems, UPMC was attracted to Lantern\u2019s widely accessible, cost-effective behavioral health platform,\u201d UPMC Enterprises President Tal Heppenstall told TechCrunch. \u201cBy working with our clinical experts, who are leaders in the mental health field, and our vast network that covers the entire continuum of care, we think that we can add value to Lantern\u2019s technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lantern proposes to do few things in relation with the funding. For starter\u2019s, it wants to pay some attention on combining Lantern into employer insurance plans, so that the employees use Lantern as a benefit.\u00a0Lantern has also planned to \u00a0infuse more into research studies in order to display the economic proof that symptom reduction positively influence the bottom line for employers in terms of health costs.\u00a0This month, Lantern plans to initiate a program around mood, as an extra benefit on its stress, anxiety and body image. Finally, Lantern wants to diversify the set of categories.\u00a0\u201cThe point is not to solve all your problems \u2014 it\u2019s to feel better,\u201d Foung said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lantern is a mental health startup which provides tools to tools in dealing with stress, anxiety and body image has raised a $ 17 million Series A Round conducted by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center\u2019s venture arm with the involvement of the previous investor\u2019s such as Mayfield and Soft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277,21],"tags":[101,38],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-start-up","tag-lantern","tag-startups"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Lantern.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}