Oura to acquire AI primary care startup Counsel Health for $625M
Original title: Oura to acquire AI-native primary care startup Counsel Health for $625M
Counsel will keep serving enterprise partners, and its CEO will become Oura’s chief clinical AI officer.
Oura said it will buy Counsel Health, an AI-powered primary care platform already inside the Oura app, for $625 million. The companies plan to extend care from prevention into acute, specialty, and chronic services. Oura also reported $533 million in quarterly revenue and about $1.75 billion for fiscal 2026. The deal is expected to close before the end of 2027.
Unconfirmed: The acquisition is not yet closed; total funding and headcount figures come from PitchBook and Bloomberg.
- Counsel raised a $25 million Series A led by a16z and GV.
- PitchBook estimates Counsel had raised about $36 million in total.
- Oura postponed an IPO of up to $2.2 billion, citing market uncertainty.
- Oura hit an $11 billion valuation after a $900 million October 2025 round.
- Bloomberg reports about 70 Counsel employees will join Oura.
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The deal comes a few weeks after Oura postponed its up to $2. 2 billion IPO indefinitely, citing “uncertainty in the IPO market.”
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