M&A Deal Summary

Virgin Pulse Acquires Preventure

On January 18, 2018, Virgin Pulse acquired healthcare services company Preventure

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Virgin Pulse’s 2nd transaction in the Healthcare Services sector.
  • This is Virgin Pulse’s 2nd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Virgin Pulse’s 2nd transaction in Rhode Island.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2018-01-18
Target Preventure
Sector Healthcare Services
Buyer(s) Virgin Pulse
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Preventure

Coventry, Rhode Island, United States
Preventure, Inc. is a corporate wellness provider that offers corporate health programs. Preventure, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is based in Coventry, Rhode Island.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Virgin Pulse

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Category Company
Founded 2004
Sector Internet Software and Services
DESCRIPTION

Virgin Pulse is a provider of employee-centric solutions that drive wellbeing, culture and productivity across organizations around the world. Virgin Pulse platform is purpose built to deliver a personalized, consumer-grade user experience designed to promote health, productivity, and culture across organizations and employees. Virgin Pulse was founded in 2004 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 9
Sector (Healthcare Services) 2 of 2
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 3 of 7
State (Rhode Island) 2 of 2
Country (United States) 2 of 8
Year (2018) 1 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-02-24 ShapeUp

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

ShapeUp, Inc. is a provider of clinically-proven, social networking-based employee wellness programs. ShapeUp has pioneered an innovative approach to behavior change that uses social networking technology to reduce health care costs and improve the health of large populations through peer motivation, support, and accountability.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-05-22 RedBrick Health

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

RedBrick Health helps companies transform the health of their organizations by inspiring their people to be fully engaged in life and at work. Starting with each person’s unique needs, RedBrick combines advanced behavior science, adaptive technology and a deep bench of live experts. The industry’s most highly configurable platform actively integrates each organization’s benefits and resources with RedBrick’s own extensive content and capabilities. Hundreds of leading organizations rely on RedBrick to measurably improve their well-being and benefits engagement, while delivering a better employee experience. RedBrick Health was founded in 2006 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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