Behavioral Health Business December 8, 2025
Empathy Health Technologies announced it raised $7.6 million to expand its value-based care partnership with payers, aiming to prevent relapse into addiction treatment settings through its Sober Sidekick platform.
The Bentonville, Arkansas-based startup has raised a total of $11.4 million. HealthX Ventures led the round. Nina Capital, Ikigai Healthcare Funds, American Heart Association Ventures, Suncoast Ventures, Cortado Ventures and Wilson Sonsini Investment Co. participated as well.
Empathy Health Technologies’ Sober Sidekick mobile app pairs peer engagement with predictive analytics to detect distress and potential relapse. It purports to be the “world’s largest peer-powered substance-use disorder (SUD) recovery platform.”
It has about 145,000 active monthly users and has been downloaded 1.1 million times, according to a press release.
“Recovery has always...
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