In August 2025, Naluri, a Malaysian digital provider of employee health and wellbeing services, successfully raised US$5 million (RM21.1 million) in its latest equity fundraising round. This capital injection, which brings their total Series B funding to US$14 million, will fuel their expansion into Southeast Asia, beginning with the Philippines and Vietnam. The company aims for profitability within a year.
The recent funding round was led by venture capital firm Telus Global Ventures, with continued support from existing investors Sumitomo Corp Equity Asia and M Venture Partners.
Naluri is a digital health company offering personalized programs through technology, coaching, and clinical expertise. It helps individuals improve mental health, manage chronic conditions, and enhance overall well-being. Naluri also provides employers and insurers with analytical solutions to quantify health improvement value using its proprietary mental health dataset and health economic models.
Healing Through Tech: Naluri’s Mission to Make Wellness Accessible to All
Naluri, a digital health and wellbeing company based in Southeast Asia, recently received a funding boost to fuel its regional expansion efforts. /ignitio hosted a Q&A session with Group CEO and co-founder Azran Osman-Rani, who shared insights into the startup journey from its inception to the present.
Naluri was founded in 2017, inspired by your father's illness and the identified gap in integrated chronic and mental healthcare in Malaysia. How has this foundational vision progressed and transformed by 2025?
Azran: Shifting healthcare from a reactive to a predictive model is now achievable thanks to advancements in data analysis. Naluri can accurately forecast early health risks, such as depression, anxiety, and stress, which often precede conditions like hypertension, diabetes, and high cholesterol. These, in turn, can lead to more severe and costly issues like kidney failure and heart disease.
To address the healthcare system's fragmented nature, where specialists focus on isolated aspects of a patient's health, Naluri aims to establish a coordinated, multidisciplinary team approach. This model brings together psychologists, doctors, dietitians, and fitness coaches to work collaboratively for comprehensive patient care.
Naluri has been evolved in two key ways:
- Expanded Multidisciplinary Team: Executive coaches and financial planners have been added to our team. The top two causes of employee stress: work pressures and financial concerns are addressed by this. Expert guidance is aimed to be provided to help employees overcome these challenges.
- Technological Efficiency: Technology is leveraged to streamline our team's workflow. For instance, tasks like summarizing therapy sessions, writing notes, and sharing relevant information with dietitians or doctors are now automated by AI. The productivity of psychologists, dietitians, and other healthcare professionals is significantly boosted by this, enabling more people to be served.
Furthermore, a focus has been placed on tackling the challenge of healthcare payments. Major frustrations are caused by the rising cost of care (10-20% annually) and the traditional fee-for-service model (where doctors are paid regardless of patient health improvements). This model is being worked to be shifted to one that genuinely links to health improvements.
A significant goal is for elderly care services to be bundled with insurance, allowing easier access for insured individuals. Considerable progress has been made in this area, moving from theory to actively collaborating with insurance companies to integrate Naluri into corporate health insurance policies.
