Nava Benefits, a modern healthcare benefits brokerage leveraging technology and benefits innovation to tackle the rising costs of healthcare, today announced the acquisition of i2, a healthcare benefits consulting company. This marks Nava's first acquisition, which brings additional benefits expertise to the team, strengthens Nava's position in the Northeast, and accelerates the firm's ability to help smaller employers in the tri-state region control rising healthcare costs.
Modern benefits brokerage Nava Benefits today announced Kristen Malone as Vice President of Finance. With more than a decade of leadership experience managing financial operations for large companies, Kristen will help Nava build and scale its financial management, planning, and growth functions to bring benefit innovation to employers of all sizes.
For Nava Benefits CEO Brandon Weber, who grew up in northern Alaska, he always understood healthcare was financially unsafe for his blue-collar family. Despite starting his career building software and then becoming a technology entrepreneur, he always wanted to help fix the nation’s perverse healthcare system. EBN recently spoke with Morales and Weber about their respective healthcare journeys.
Armed with fresh capital, Nava Benefits hopes to take advantage of what it believes will be a disruption in the way smaller businesses approach health and wellness benefits, including the many digital tools now on the market.
Nava Benefits has raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Thrive Capital, a venture capital firm in New York. The investment, disclosed in early June, builds on the $20 million Nava raised in seed and Series A rounds.
Nava Benefits today announced the completion of a $40 million Series B funding round led by Thrive Capital, with participation from existing investors Avid Ventures, Quiet Capital, and Sound Ventures.
Bryan brings more than two decades of benefits leadership experience from Lockton, Optum, Aon and Mercer as newly appointed National Practice Leader at Nava
Modern benefits brokerage with an intentional, remote-first team attributes growth to company mission and employee culture
"It often feels like buying a used car, or trying to rent an apartment in a popular NYC neighborhood — the other parties have all of the information, while I’m flying blind, up against a deadline and need to make a decision."
Nava Benefits has been named to Inc. magazine’s annual Best Workplaces list.
Nava Benefits has been recognized as one of the NYC Digital Health 100, showcasing the most exciting and innovative health start-ups in New York.
Nava Client Manager Grace Prentice advises HR leaders not to wait for employees to leave in search of greener pastures before you begin highlighting just how green your benefits are.
After a chaotic year, HR leaders are faced with a choice: keep their benefits plan as is and deal with cost increases, or try something new. Nava Partner Marcel Ocampo pens this op-ed in BenefitsPro.
Joe Donovan, Nava's CRO and Benefits Consulting Lead, outlines a new policy that could lift the veil on how much benefits brokers are actually charging their clients.
