Mental healthcare provider Onebright has acquired the digital platform Mindstep for an undisclosed sum.
Onebright says this creates the UK’s first digitally-led end-to-end workplace mental healthcare and neurodevelopmental service.
Onebright specialises in offering psychological therapy, psychiatry and neurodevelopmental assessment services, with Mindstep offering digital screening, triage and adaptive self-care technology.
The deal comes as workplace health providers increasingly seek to integrate digital wellbeing tools with insured and clinical services, amid growing employer demand for earlier intervention, improved employee engagement and better navigation of mental health support.
Onebright says this acquisition enables it to offer employers a service that incorporates digital self-help, clinically validated assessments and specialist treatment where required all through a single provider.
It adds this ensures employers have an ‘always-on’ digital front door for mental health support, with personalised assessments designed to identify employees requiring either self-guided support or referral into Onebright’s clinical services.
The acquisition, sees Mindstep founders .Dr Aaron Lin and Dr Hamzah Selim. join Onebright’s senior leadership team.
Onebright Group CEO Donald Fowler says: “Today, individuals and organisations must navigate a frustratingly fragmented ecosystem of different platforms and clinical providers depending on their mental health requirements, but our new integrated end-to-end offering puts an end to that.”
Mindstep founder and COO Dr Aaron Lin adds: “As the UK’s leading provider of mental healthcare and neurodevelopmental services, Onebright will bolster Mindstep’s product, platform and work, allowing us to reach more people and have a broader impact than we can achieve alone. Their clinical expertise in the mental health space will further strengthen our clinical rigour and clinical excellence.”
Mindstep founders Dr Aaron Lin and Dr Hamzah Selim, were recently named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Science and Healthcare.