Press Release: Noom Announces Investment From Serena Ventures
September 26, 2019 -- New York, NY -- BusinessWire -- Noom, the world's leading behavior change company, today announced it has received an investment from Serena Ventures to help fund the company’s continued growth. In addition to capital, Noom will have access to...
Press Release: Wellness Company Noom Raises $58 Million, Led by Sequoia Capital to Grow Its Team and Improve Its Consumer Offering
NEW YORK, May 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Noom, the mobile wellness company, has completed a $58 million financing, led by Sequoia Capital. Groupe Arnault's tech arm Aglaé Ventures, Jan Koum, co-founder of WhatsApp, Tony Xu,...
Study shows Noom’s food database has the most accurate calorie count
A study published February 20, 2019 in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) mHealth and uHealth found that Noom has the most accurate calorie count, compared to common tracking apps such as MyFitnessPal, Lose It!, FatSecret, and more. Click here to read the...
Press Release: Noom Celebrates 1,000th Hire Milestone
NEW YORK – Jan. 15, 2019 – Noom, the behavior change company that is disrupting the weight loss industry, announced the hiring of their 1000th full-time employee today, less than 2 years after struggling to find its footing. Saeju Jeong, CEO and co-founder, credits...
Press Release: Journal of Medical Internet Research Publishes a 65-Week Study That Finds Noom’s Mobile Diabetes Prevention Program Demonstrated Weight Loss Results Inline With the CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program
NEW YORK, May 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study published in this month's Journal of Medical Internet Research finds that Noom, Inc., the leader in mobile health coaching delivers similar results for prediabetics compared to the federal...
Press Release: Former Uber Executive, Aaron Schildkrout, Joins Noom’s Board of Directors
NEW YORK, March 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Noom, the world's leader in mobile health coaching, has announced that ex-Uber executive Aaron Schildkrout has joined its board. Schildkrout joined Uber in 2015 as Head of Data; subsequently he led the...
Press Release: Noom Announces Technology Upgrade With New Customized Features
NEW YORK, January 3, 2018 /Newswire/ – The world’s leading weight loss program, Noom, has announced a new technology upgrade that can predict who will succeed with their weight loss goals before they even start. Dr. Andreas Michaelides, Noom’s Chief of...
Press Release: Study in the Journal of Human Hypertension Demonstrates That Noom’s Mobile Hypertension Reduction and Prevention Program Lowers Blood Pressure
NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Journal of Human Hypertension has just published a study that found adults with high blood pressure were able to lower their risk of hypertension by using Noom's mobile Hypertension Reduction...
Press Release: Noom’s Diabetes Prevention Program is the First Fully Mobile Program to Receive Official Recognition by the CDC
The program is the only fully mobile DPP to be proven successful in a peer-reviewed study New York, NY, April 11, 2017 (Newswire.com) - Noom, Inc. announced today that it has officially received recognition for its diabetes prevention program (DPP), making it the...
Press Release: Noom Extends Its Diabetes Prevention Program to South Korea’s Single Payer Health Care System
NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Noom, Inc. announced today the successful application and initial results of its Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) with South Korea's single payers health care system. Noom's DPP was deployed with two regional public health...
Press Release: Scientific Reports Study is First to Prove Impacts of Climate on Weight Loss
NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study published in Scientific Reports, a research journal from the publisher of Nature, found that while 80 percent of Noom users lost significant weight using the mobile health application, users who lived in colder...
Press Release: Noom’s Platform is the First to Offer Spanish Diabetes Prevention and Healthy Weight Management Programs to Help Address the Growing Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity Among Hispanic Americans
New York, NY, January 17, 2017 (PR Newswire) - Noom Inc., the leader in mobile health coaching, is the first to offer fully Spanish behavior change programs that address prediabetes and obesity. Noom’s Spanish diabetes prevention and healthy weight management programs...
Press Release: The YMCA of Greater Kansas City to Use Noom’s Behavior Change Platform to Enhance Its Traditional In-Person DPP and Hypertension Programs
NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Noom Inc. and the YMCA of Greater Kansas City announced today a strategic partnership that combines a strong community-based in-person approach with mobile technology and scalable coaching tools to address the growing...
Study: Successful weight reduction and maintenance by using a smartphone application in those with overweight and obesity
Abstract A discrepancy exists with regard to the effect of smartphone applications (apps) on weight reduction due to the several limitations of previous studies. This is a retrospective cohort study, aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a smartphone app on weight...
Press Release: Samsung Ventures Invests in Noom, Inc. to Change Behaviors That Cause the Most Pressing Chronic Conditions
New York, NY, December 20, 2016 (PR Newswire) - Noom, Inc., the world's leading behavior change company, today announced an investment from Samsung Ventures. Noom’s platform combines human coaching and artificial intelligence to deliver successful, scalable...
Press Release: Noom’s New Outcomes-Based Pricing Model is Poised to Disrupt the Healthcare Market
NEW YORK, Dec. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Noom, Inc., the leader in mobile health coaching, announced today that it will charge enterprise customers only when their members achieve real health outcomes. The new pricing model disrupts the health and wellness sector, which...
Press Release: Nature’s Research Journal Scientific Reports Proves Noom is Effective in Driving Sustained Weight Loss Across Large Populations
NEW YORK, New York (November 16, 2016) /PRNewswire/ -- A new study published in Scientific Reports, a research journal from the publisher of Nature, found that Noom's consumer mobile app successfully drove sustained weight loss in 78% of users across a 9-month...
Press Release: First Fully Mobile Diabetes Prevention Program Proved Successful in a Peer-Reviewed Study.
NEW YORK, New York, September 8, 2016 (PR Newswire) - A new peer-reviewed study published in British Medical Journal Open Diabetes Research & Care found that Noom’s diabetes prevention program helped 64% percent of completers lose more than 5 percent of their...
Press Release: Dan Poch Joins Noom Inc. as Senior Vice President, Sales
July 07, 2016 10:00 AM NEW YORK--Noom Inc., a leader in the mobile health coaching, today announced the addition of Dan Poch to the executive team in the position of senior vice president of sales. Poch will lead the sales team and continue to drive Noom’s...
Press Release: Jamaica Hospital Medical Center Deploys Noom Platform to Engage up to 66,000 New Yorkers in the Diabetes Prevention Program
June 22, 2016 10:00 AM NEW YORK, New York, June 22, 2016 -- Noom, Inc., a leader in tech-enabled, human coaching platforms for healthcare enterprises, today announced that Jamaica Hospital Medical Center (JHMC) selected Noom for its virtual National Diabetes...
Study: The Most Popular Smartphone Apps for Weight Loss: A Quality Assessment
Background: Advancements in mobile phone technology have led to the development of smartphones with the capability to run apps. The availability of a plethora of health- and fitness-related smartphone apps has the potential, both on a clinical and public health level,...