Through its award-winning platform, the company helps employees thrive at work and across all aspects of life. Virgin Pulse, part of Sir Richard Branson's famed Virgin Group, replenishes employees with tools that help them build better habits. Together, we can elevate that mission and amplify the message." "Virgin Pulse, ShapeUp and GCC each believe that engaging employees directly in improving their health can strengthen corporate cultures, build employment brands and help organizations develop high-performing organizations that drive meaningful and measurable business outcomes. "We are thrilled to expand our global movement with organizations that share our values and passion for inspiring employees towards meaningful, sustainable health and behavior change," said Tom Sermon, CEO of GCC, who will drive Virgin Pulse's global expansion as President of Virgin Pulse International. ![]() We can now offer even greater value to our customers through the combination of these three industry-leading organizations." As Virgin Pulse's newly appointed President and Chief Medical Officer of the Virgin Pulse Institute, Rajiv's responsibilities include leading the organization's analytics team, which provides clients with cutting-edge Value-on-Investment (VOI) studies and promotes research on health, wellbeing and employee engagement. "This represents a significant milestone in the 10-year history of our company and a tremendous endorsement of our people and products. "We are proud to join the Virgin Pulse family," said ShapeUp Founder and CEO, Rajiv Kumar, M.D. This will ensure our customers can promote health and wellbeing for their people around the world," said Virgin Group founder, Sir Richard Branson. I am delighted Virgin Pulse, ShapeUp and GCC are now joining forces to create an even stronger platform and service. "Virgin Pulse is the perfect example of an organization that helps companies take care of their employees through innovative technology. Customers of each organization will also have the ability to connect and extend their challenge and wellbeing programs to ensure a continuous, highly personalized employee experience. ShapeUp and GCC expand this value by offering both custom and out-of-the box global challenges, providing an entry point and experience on which customers can build and promote broader employee programs and initiatives. Virgin Pulse is widely recognized for delivering an engaging, technology-enabled user-experience that drives workplace health, productivity and culture by engaging employees in daily interactions designed to optimize their personal and professional wellbeing. "In addition to bringing together the experience, strengths and momentum of three proven industry leaders, joining our organizations allows us to present an exciting and compelling opportunity to our collective customers and the firepower to aggressively expand into new geographies and markets." "We couldn't be more excited to welcome ShapeUp and GCC into the Virgin Pulse family," said Virgin Pulse CEO, Chris Boyce. ![]() Virgin Pulse investors Insight Venture Partners and Virgin Group, ShapeUp investors Cue Ball and Excel Venture Management, and GCC investors will continue to support Virgin Pulse through its next phase of growth by investing significant capital into the combined entity. With more than 5 million participants spanning 6,500 customers, 25 languages and 185 countries, and annual recurring revenue expected to exceed $100 million for 2016, this merger solidifies Virgin Pulse as the leading wellbeing software provider and partner of choice for organizations committed to building wellbeing and engagement into the DNA of their workplaces. Together, the companies will advance Virgin Pulse's mission to change lives and workplaces for good and accelerate the company's growth in the $1.2 billion market for employee wellness, engagement, rewards and recognition. 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/ - Virgin Pulse, a leading provider of employee-centric solutions that drive wellbeing, culture and productivity across organizations around the world, today announced that it has joined forces with ShapeUp and Global Corporate Challenge (GCC) to become the world's largest, most comprehensive technology-enabled wellbeing software provider. Combined organization delivers first global SaaS solution for optimizing employee engagement, health and performance and accelerates Virgin Pulse's mission and growth strategyįRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts, Feb.
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