We’re welcoming four incredible leaders to our executive team - each with a unique perspective and wealth of experience that will help Empathy continue to scale while staying true to our mission.

Empathy Welcomes Four Key Hires to Strengthen Executive Team:  COO, CMO, VP of Design, and VP of Insurance & Wealth Solutions 

Today, we’re excited to announce another step in that journey: our partnership with Sapiens, a global leader in digital transformation for the insurance industry.

Empathy Partners with Sapiens to Expand Support for Families with Cutting-Edge Tech Solutions

This year was one of growth and transformation for Empathy, as we elevated our powerful mission, to help families in their moments of greatest need, from an empassioned pursuit into a new industry standard. 

Looking Back on a Transformative Year in Compassionate Care

Partnering with Prudential Financial, one of the world’s leading insurance providers, to bring Empathy’s holistic bereavement support to millions of Prudential’s policyholders and their families.

Welcome to The Rock: Empathy Partners with Prudential to Expand Support to Millions More Families

Empathy is now officially partnering with The Hartford (NYSE: HIG), a purpose-driven leader in the insurance industry with a remarkable history of helping people and businesses achieve resilience in the face of hardship.

Empathy and The Hartford Partner to Support Families Through Life’s Hardest Moments

Ullico delivers comprehensive bereavement care to union members with Empathy

Group Life insurance beneficiaries will receive on-demand, personalized support through a dedicated care team.

Lincoln Financial Group expands compassionate care services to support beneficiaries, through Empathy

With LifeVault, families can create and update essential documents like wills, healthcare directives, and funeral plans—all from a secure platform that integrates directly with trusted life insurance providers and financial institutions.

Introducing LifeVault: A Major Milestone in Our Mission to Help Families

Pan-American Life Insurance Group (PALIG), a leading insurance carrier, will now offer Empathy, the comprehensive support system for loss, to provide holistic bereavement care for beneficiaries.

Collaborating with PALIG to improve the beneficiary experience

Empathy's loss support services will be available to Aflac Group Life, Absence, and Disability Solutions insureds and their beneficiaries to help manage grief and administrative burdens after losing a loved one.

Aflac partners with Empathy to provide on-demand loss support

Securian Financial is enhancing its group life insurance with Empathy’s bereavement care and is the first carrier to offer Empathy’s anticipatory loss service with its group supplemental health insurance

Securian Financial boosts claims experience through partnership with Empathy

Symetra will offer Empathy’s platform to individual life insurance beneficiaries, helping them deal with the administrative, emotional, and financial challenges that accompany loss.

Empathy and Symetra partner to support beneficiaries

Partnership offers on-demand bereavement support in the workplace

Voya Financial announces new collaboration with Empathy

Business Intelligence has recognized Empathy as one of the "Best Places to Work," this accolade highlights Empathy's dedication to employee satisfaction and well-being.

Empathy awarded "Best Places to Work" by Business Intelligence

Announcing our Series B funding round, an important step on our path toward bringing loss out of the shadows and giving every bereaved family everywhere the support they need.

Forging our path toward a compassionate economy

Empathy's 2024 Cost of Dying report underscores the huge strain and workplace challenges suffered by bereaved families. To change this, employers in particular are called upon to implement immediate, comprehensive solutions.

When loss strikes, where should we turn?

Life insurers face a unique marketing challenge, as they provide services to beneficiaries not policyholders. The 2024 Cost of Dying report highlights the stress families endure, suggesting carriers should offer holistic support beyond payouts.

Meeting life insurance beneficiaries where they are

Reflecting on 2023 and looking forward into 2024. Contemplating the big shifts and movements that we saw in our culture, and how they aligned with and impacted our mission to bring supportive, holistic bereavement care to as many families as we can. 

Redefining Compassion: An unforgettable year in bereavement care

Partnership offers employers integrated, best-in-class solutions for whole person employee benefits at every stage of life and grief.

WellRight and Empathy form strategic partnership

Empathy And Carallel partner to empower employers in providing holistic support for employee caregivers

Empathy And Carallel partner to empower employers

Featured in Employee Benefit News' annual excellence in benefits awards, Empathy's CEO Ron Gura is changing how workplaces respond to death

Empathy selected for EBN's Excellence in Benefits Awards

Empathy was selected as the Americas winner for the InsurTech category.

Empathy won the World's Digital Insurance Awards 2023

This collaboration represents a major step forward for Empathy, and a major shift in group life insurance, with leading carriers recognizing the value of integrating Empathy’s services into their support for beneficiaries.

Providing bereavement care to millions more, through MetLife

The 2023 honorees consist of top-performing individuals and firms selected by a distinguished and diverse team of industry leaders. 

Empathy named in BenefitsPro Luminaries 2023

Empathy was founded on the idea that when we help families, we all win. And by partnering with Family First, we are furthering that mission, to help more families during moments that matter. 

Improving access to care for your employees when they need it most

Empathy and Majesco partner to provide innovative tech to benefit life insurance carriers and beneficiaries

Innovating together to improve the insurance journey

Our CEO Ron joined insurance professionals for a panel on “Using Life Claims to Create Lifelong Relationships” at InsurTech NY. Here are some highlights.

Beneficiary care and Empathy at InsurTech NY

Experts from  Sequoia, WellRight, and Empathy share how employers can create a healthier, more resilient workplace by supporting employees when they need it most: during bereavement and other major life events.

The evolution of employee wellness: Key takeaways from Empathy’s webinar

Author, speaker, and practicing hospice and palliative medicine physician BJ Miller shares his thoughts on employer bereavement policies and how they might be improved.

BJ Miller on managing bereavement in the workplace

Guardian and Empathy are partnering to reinvigorate life insurance with the spirit of its original mission: supporting people through the hardest times in their lives.

Fulfilling the true promise of life insurance

 Empathy held a webinar on “Improving DEI+B through bereavement care,” a conversation about how organizations can support the diversity of their workforces through their response to care and loss.

The biggest takeaways from Empathy’s DEI+B webinar

As part of Empathy’s efforts to guarantee continuity of care for those caring for an elderly, ill, or disabled relative, we are partnering with Sharecare, so Empathy's bereavement services can complement CareLinx, Sharecare’s tech-enabled home care.

Supporting caregiving employees, before and after loss

We are excited to announce our partnership with FINEOS, the leading global provider of SaaS enterprise claims software to the insurance industry, so we can together offer a better overall experience for beneficiaries.

Teaming up to create a better beneficiary experience

Empathy is honored to partner with TAPS, the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, to provide military families dealing with loss with 24/7 access to the experts on our Care Team and our digital platform.

Honoring fallen military heroes by supporting their families

As of August 11th, 2022, Empathy is officially SOC II Type 2 certified, joining the world’s leading companies in abiding by strict compliance standards across all of our business practices.

Empathy is now SOC II Type 2 certified

In the 2023 Cost of Dying Report, we show that the burden of loss is both broad and deep, affecting families across every aspect of their lives and affecting people's wellbeing and performance at work.

Understanding the true price of loss

Empathy was selected as one of the honorees of Fast Company’s 2022 Innovation by Design Awards in the Apps and Games category.

Empathy selected for 2022 Innovation by Design Awards

When employees experience the loss of someone close to them, teams, managers, and whole organizations often face challenges that can have far-reaching and long-lasting repercussions, from distraction and absenteeism to lowered morale and high turnover.

Dealing with loss in the workplace

Just twelve apps from around the world were recognized for design excellence in inclusivity, delight and fun, interaction, social impact, visuals and graphics, and innovation at Apple's annual conference: WWDC22

Empathy won the Apple Design Awards

Every year, Calcalist, the leading tech magazine in Israel, publishes its list of the 50 Most Promising Israeli Startups, and this time, Empathy was featured. 

Empathy named one of the 50 Most Promising Israeli Startups

If insurance carriers want to provide great customer service and offer support to beneficiary families, executives and claims representatives must strive to understand the burden that loss imposes, as revealed in this year's Cost of Dying Report.

Beneficiaries’ needs present an opportunity for life insurance

Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies features organizations whose efforts are reshaping their businesses, industries, and the broader culture.

Empathy selected for Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies

Dealing with painful emotions and navigating unfamiliar, complicated tasks can leave beneficiaries feeling lost—making established relationships all the more important to them at this time.

Why overwhelmed beneficiaries rely deeply on those they trust

The Golden Kitty Awards is the inaugural celebration of the top product launches from the entire year. Empathy was the runner up for the Social Impact category. 

Empathy was selected as a finalist for Product Hunt's Golden Kitty Awards

Helping a beneficiary reach their financial goals is a profound way of providing care and support during one of the most difficult and bewildering times in a person’s life. 

Maintaining financial wellbeing through bereavement

The Digital Health 150 is CB Insights' annual ranking of the 150 most promising digital health startups in the world.

Empathy named in CB Insights' Digital Health 150

Google Play’s Best of 2021, is a celebration of apps and games that made positive contributions to culture this year. 

Empathy featured in Google Play's Best of 2021

Every year, Wired magazine names its top 100 startups in Europe, 10 per city, with Tel Aviv included as well. Empathy was featured in both the 2021 and 2022 lists.

Empathy was featured in Wired's list of Hottest Startups in 2021

Loss is very hard. But we’re dedicated to making it a bit less hard, for everyone, every day. Starting now.

Untangling loss and logistics

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Empathy Strengthens Executive Team Amid Massive Momentum and Growth 

Prudential collaborates with Empathy to enhance workplace benefits with holistic bereavement support for families coping with loss

Aflac Partners with Empathy to Provide On-Demand Loss Support

Securian Financial Boosts Claims Experience Through Partnership With Empathy

Lincoln Financial Group Expands Compassionate Care Services to Support Beneficiaries

Empathy Launches LifeVault, Bringing Trusted and Personalized Legacy Planning to Life Insurance Clients Across the U.S.

Empathy and Symetra Life Insurance Company Partner to Provide Holistic Support to Beneficiaries Experiencing Loss

Royal Neighbors of America will now offer beneficiaries Empathy – a comprehensive bereavement support solution

Voya Financial partners with Empathy to introduce on-demand bereavement support in the workplace

Global life insurers join Index Ventures in leading Empathy's $47 million Series B funding round

Empathy closes $47M to help with the practical and emotional bereavement process

AT&T: ‘Investing in wellbeing is going to pay dividends’, supporting employees through bereavement is not just the morally right thing to do, but a financially sensible action.

Dying Can Cost Loved Ones $20,000 Before Lost Wages And Worse Health, New Report Says

The logistics of death can be overwhelming. New apps can offer help.

Even Netflix and PayPal require manual effort and pages of documentation if you don’t have access to the deceased’s login information. Empathy wants to change that and leverages what technology is good at to automate closing the deceased’s accounts.

We use apps every day to connect with friends and order food, but we didn't have one to help us through challenging moments like loss and grief – until now. 

Bereaved employees feel added pressure of job insecurity

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Why bereavement leave isn’t enough: What employees need after losing a loved one

Google’s Best Android Apps Of 2021 Highlight Mental Health

Empathy raises $30M for a personal assistant that helps with the practical and emotional process of bereavement

A family death can mean a nightmare of forms—this app helps you through the process

Empathy Partners With New York Life On Mobile App For Those Dealing With Loss

Compassus Partners with Tech Company Empathy on Bereavement Support

Empathy emerges from stealth with $13M for a digital assistant aimed at bereaved families

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