JAAQ, a London-based clinically governed digital health and engagement platform, has raised a €15 million (£13 million) Series A, with Alex Packham, Serial Entrepreneur and Technology investor, joining as CEO.
The funding includes investment from Meridian Health Ventures, Fuel Ventures, Bolt Angels and Guinness Ventures. The funding will be used to accelerate enterprise partnerships, deepening clinical infrastructure, and expanding into US markets.
“We have a structural problem in mental health: demand is infinite, capacity is finite. The answer isn’t choosing between technology and therapists, it’s using technology to reach millions of people who will never see a therapist. Clinically governed mental health content, embedded inside the digital experiences people already use, is how we close that gap. But this isn’t just a mental health story, it’s a digital engagement story too. Organisations want their users to actually engage with what they build. JAAQ is the platform that makes both happen, safely and at scale,” says Alex Packham, CEO, JAAQ.
“Having worked across healthcare for two decades, from research through to product, I’ve learned that what separates platforms that get adopted from those that don’t is trust: earned through clinical rigour, and through personalised experiences that reflect the individual not the population. Mental health is not one size that fits all, and the content and processes that govern what we deliver reflect that,” adds Saurabh Johri, Chief Product & Technology Officer, JAAQ.
Founded in 2021, JAAQ partners with insurers, employers and healthcare providers to embed structured mental health and digital engagement within existing digital ecosystems. The platform looks to enable organisations to support mental wellbeing at scale.
Powered by an AI-native approach, JAAQ’s bespoke library of more than 10,000 clinically reviewed videos embeds mental health content directly into user, patient, and customer journeys to deliver impact for insurers, employers, and healthcare organisations
Partners can license content directly from JAAQ’s content library integrated into their own product’s journeys, or they can license a bespoke JAAQ hosted experience. The platform serves large organisations across enterprise and healthcare, combining clinically governed mental health engagement with behavioural pathways that drive digital outcomes.
JAAQ is currently deployed across organisations covering more than 1.5 million eligible lives through active enterprise partnerships with leading insurers, employers and healthcare systems.
Saurabh continues “What excites me about JAAQ is the content proposition itself, we’re developing a new modality that combines conversational AI with video, to give people a simple, tailored way to understand their health. Not another chatbot. Something that meets people where they are, in a format that feels native to how they already consume information, underpinned by clinical credibility at every layer.
“The infrastructure we’re building is designed to make that experience scalable, safe, and deeply integrated into the digital environments where people already are.”
JAAQ is also investing in the engineering infrastructure that enables AI-native products and teams to integrate its clinically governed content directly into tailored user journeys – from clinical to enterprise settings.
As the intelligence layer of modern software shifts towards frontier AI models, JAAQ says they are building the connective layer that enables any digital product or team to harness a clinically governed engagement layer, bringing safe, structured mental health content into digital touchpoints that influence behaviour change and outcomes at scale.
Today’s investment will allow JAAQ to scale deployment across enterprise, healthcare and insurance organisations globally, accelerating US market entry and deepening the clinical infrastructure that underpins the platform.
“JAAQ is solving a critical problem in mental health: not replacing care, but unlocking access to it. Their clinically governed approach and institutional integrations are exactly what the market needs. Their approach is unique. We believe JAAQ will become the infrastructure of mental health engagement for healthcare systems at a time when demand is overwhelming,” shares Dr Pooja Sikka, Partner, Meridian Health Ventures
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/03/british-healthtech-jaaq-closes-e15-million-series-a-to-grow-enterprise-partnerships/
