Wellbeing startup onHand secures €1.6 million to make employees feel-good with volunteering app
Summary
The raise is backed by Dhiraj Mukherjee (co-founder of Shazam), UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Healthy Ageing Challenge and is supported by existing investors. The fresh funds secured aim to fuel an extended period of growth enabling employees everywhere to feel great, by doing good in their community. Set up in collaboration with 6 of the UK’s largest charities, the award-winning app looks to combat some of society’s biggest challenges by matching employees with activities such as food waste and homelessness, befriending phone calls to tackle loneliness, simple tasks to support the elderly like shop drops, youth mentoring in BAME communities and eco clean up missions. onHand is the first cloud platform to enable volunteers and those needing support to be matched via an app, using geolocation, security checks, and machine learning to deliver the best experience to both sides at scale. There’s a growing batch of UK businesses leading the world in Tech for Good and, with a focus on the greatest societal issues of our times, onHand is set to join their ranks”.