Seattle startup CueZen raises $5M for personalized health coaching software

CueZen, a Seattle-based startup that sells software designed to boost personalized healthcare programs, raised $5 million in a round led by Point 72 Ventures.

Founded in 2021, CueZen leverages AI and data from sensor-based devices to help people adhere to care plans and promote healthy habits.

Customers include healthcare organizations such as Titan and Microport. CueZen also sells to the Singapore government, which uses the software for its wellness programs.

CueZen CEO and co-founder Ankur Teredesai previously founded KenSci, a Seattle healthtech startup acquired by Tegria in 2021. He’s a longtime professor at the University of Washington.

Other CueZen co-founders include Sunil Shinde, who also worked at KenSci and held leadership proles at Harman and Aditi Technologies, and Aloysius Lim, a Singapore-based engineering leader.

“We started CueZen during the pandemic, driven by a clear opportunity: to unify wearable and clinical data to deliver hyper-personalized health recommendations,” Shinde told GeekWire. “Over the past two years, our platform has already been engaging millions of lives with very heartening results in positive behavior change and improvement in health outcomes.”

Shinde said recent personalized health coaching offerings from companies such as Apple and Fitbit provide validation for CueZen’s sector.

“By combining diverse data sources with best-in-class AI, we’re establishing ourselves as a foundational layer of the rapidly emerging digital health stack,” he said.

Point72 Ventures has been increasingly active in the Seattle region. Other backers in the round include Pack Ventures, Fortson VC, and Nextinfinity.

“We believe CueZen is addressing a significant gap in the digital health ecosystem,” Tara Stokes, partner at Point72 Ventures, said in a statement. “Their platform has the potential to fundamentally change how health data is leveraged across the industry.