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Thriva
At-home health testing and diagnostics services
- 101-200 employees
- Healthcare
- B2C
- B2B
- Lifestyle
- Personal health
- MedTech
- Old Street, London, UK
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Company mission
To build a global, people-centric healthcare service that makes it easy to be actively invested in our health.
Our take
In the past few years, dozens of startups have offered tests that bypass the NHS by providing pay-as-you-go medical testing normally reserved for the unwell. Thriva has focused on finger-prick blood tests for preventative measures, allowing customers to take control of their health without going through what can be a drawn out, sometimes fruitless, process with their GP.
The company's bright branding helps soften the need for customers to prick their fingers. The business model is smart as regular tests are required to track the progress of an indicator like cholesterol, additionally, its fully customisable suite of tests enables users to only order the tests they need.
Thriva has brought to light how well some diseases can be prevented just by testing, advice from its doctors can even help with simpler answers, like if someone is taking a Vitamin C supplement but they don't need to. The company has picked up a large customer base and has made several partnerships to make comprehensive blood tests easily accessible.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Stock options: We have an employee options scheme — we want you to be a part of our long-term success
- Pension: We have a company pension scheme and contribute 3%
- Holidays: We offer 28 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays) for some well-deserved time off
- Equipment: You choose what you need so you can deliver your best work
- Socials: We have monthly team socials and quarterly company-wide socials. Last year we had also had a company offsite weekend in Snowdon and another in London!
- Free Thriva tests: We offer free monthly tests — we’re all customers of our product
- Flexible working: We work in a hybrid way and know everyone works differently
- Community: We care about making a difference. That’s why we offer ways for you to contribute to the community such as 2 volunteering days per year
- Wellbeing budget: From a mindfulness app subscription, to childcare, a new hobby or a massage, you choose how you want to spend it
- Private healthcare: Everyone has access to one of the best packages you can have with Bupa and the option to add family too
- Sabbatical: On your 4-year Thrivaversary you will be thanked for all your hard work with a 6-weeks paid sabbatical
- Remote working: 12 weeks per year for you to work from anywhere - many people use this to extend their time abroad visiting family or to simply work from a new location
- Climate friendly: Partnering with Climate Perks, you can earn up to 2 extra days annual leave just by travelling more planet-friendly
- Furry friends: Pet friendly office 3 days a week (meaning there are also pet-free days for those less keen)
- Income protection & Life insurance
- Learning and Development: £600 per year professional development budget - many use this to fund a course, to attend conferences or buy new learning materials
- Nursery Scheme: Access to the Workplace Nursery programme to help our working parents with the cost of childcare
Company values
- Truly Care
- Stay Humble
- Galvanize
- Intelligent Pace
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2020
$5.1m
SERIES A
Jul 2019
$7.6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $14.5m
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Leadership
Hamish Grierson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former head of International Payments and Remittance at Travelex.
Tom Livesey
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previous CTO of Droplet Online. Started Connex (selling high-end audio products), initially as a side project and grew into a profitable business.
Eliot Brooks
(Co-Founder)Previous Product Manager at Tandem Bank, and Manager at Travelex.
People progressing
Becky joined Thriva as a Graduate Customer Experience Agent. Since then, she progressed in her CX role and has now moved on to the Product team as a UX Researcher.
Since joining Thriva in May 2019 Mary has thrived and been promoted from Software Engineer to Senior and to Lead Software Engineer more recently.
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