London-based health tech company Simple Life has secured a $35 million Series B funding round led by HartBeat Ventures, the venture capital firm founded by actor and entrepreneur Kevin Hart, alongside AI-driven private credit firm Liquidity. The raise comes on the back of a robust 2024 performance marked by $100 million in revenue, 64% year-over-year growth, operating profitability, and over 20 million app downloads worldwide. The company claims more than 800,000 active subscribers who have collectively lost over 17.5 million pounds, underscoring the platform's significant user impact.
Simple Life offers an AI-powered health and weight loss coaching app centred on its virtual coach, Avo. This AI coach delivers personalised plans, real-time nutritional feedback, and on-demand virtual coaching aimed at sustainable behaviour change without relying on strict calorie counting or extreme diets. Avo supports users through continuous guidance, sending millions of tailored coaching messages daily; it delivered 19 million messages in January 2025 alone. Data shared by the company reveals Avo processes approximately 300,000 daily meal logs and handles over 100,000 coaching conversations every day, offering granular advice on nutrition, activity, fasting, and daily habits.
The company's approach combines evidence-based behavioural science with AI to create an adaptive, gamified experience. Initial tests of a gamified companion feature have reportedly boosted both user retention and weight-loss outcomes by incorporating streaks, rewards, and motivational prompts to make habit-building more engaging and sustainable. Simple's Nutrition Scores, a tool analysing meal quality based on their contribution to health and weight loss, has seen over 28 million uses, supporting the app’s goal to blend technology with behavioural insights for durable metabolic health improvements. According to a peer-reviewed study involving over 50,000 users, 42% of active users achieved at least 5% weight loss within a year, with higher engagement correlating with better results.
Simple Life operates within the rapidly expanding digital health market, projected to grow from roughly $340 billion to $940 billion globally over the next five years. The company positions itself distinctively by focusing on making the health journey motivating and rewarding rather than simply fixating on outcomes. Mike Prytkov, Simple’s founder and CEO, emphasised that their methodology helps users develop a positive and sustainable relationship with wellness, turning healthy habits into an engaging, game-like experience. This ethos aligns with broader industry trends addressing the need for scalable, cost-effective, and user-friendly digital health solutions.
Looking ahead, Simple Life plans to deepen its AI capabilities to enhance real-time personalisation and multimodal coaching, scale content creation, and further integrate behaviour-science-driven gamification mechanics to improve member retention. Additionally, the company is expanding its focus to include women's health and midlife wellness programmes, signalling broader ambitions within the health tech space.
Simple Life has been recognised for innovation within the field; in 2025, its AI coach Avo received the MedTech Breakthrough Award for Best Virtual Health Coach. The company also earned the British Dietetic Association’s Digital Innovation Award in 2024 for its Nutrition Scores feature, highlighting its growing influence as a leader in digital health technology.
Despite its reported successes and rapid growth, Simple Life operates in a competitive market with many players offering fragmented or costly weight loss and wellness solutions. However, through its combination of AI, behavioural science, and gamification, it aims to carve out a durable niche focused on sustainability and user engagement.
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Source: Noah Wire Services