marketing-medtech

**Source:** GetYourJob (classified health-software, actively hiring developers)
**Founder:** Julia Néel Biz — Co-founder & CEO
**Background:** tech | verified: True — Tech-industry business executive with a strategy/business education. Julia Néel Biz is an ESSEC graduate. She began as a strategy consultant at OC&C Strategy Consultants (~3 years), then moved into the tech sector: Product Manager at an e-commerce company (2015), then leading internationalization and becoming Director of Strategy at Chauffeur Privé / Kapten (later Free Now). She co-founded the mental-health tech (SaaS/healthtech) company teale in early 2021, where she is co-founder & CEO. So her background is firmly in the tech industry (tech scale-ups, product management, now a tech-company CEO), though her formal training is business/strategy (ESSEC) rather than engineering/computer science.
**Stage / fundraise:** Series A. Founded 2021 in Paris; ~25 employees at the 2023 raise with a stated plan to scale to ~80. B2B platform serving 100+ (later 300+) client organizations. / €2M seed in May 2021; €10M (~$11M) Series A announced Aug 2023, led by Alter Equity and Bpifrance Digital Venture, with historic backers ISAI and Evolem. No newer round found as of mid-2026.
**Regulatory trigger:** No SaMD/MDR trigger identified. teale is positioned as a B2B workplace mental-health / digital wellbeing platform (mental-health index, programs/content, access to psychologists, AI chatbot "Joy"), sold to employers, mutuelles and institutions — wellbeing/prevention, not a regulated medical device. No evidence of Class I/IIa/IIb SaMD classification, CE marking, IEC 62304 file, or reimbursement (LPPR/PECAN) pathway. This is the GetYourJob note's "possibly not MDR SaMD" — confirmed: no regulatory compliance driver, which is OmDev's core differentiator.
**Email:** julia.biz@teale.io (confidence low) — No published personal address found. Third-party aggregators report teale's dominant pattern as first.last@teale.io (~94%) with first@teale.io as alternate. The CEO's surname is "Néel Biz" (compound), so the exact local-part is uncertain — the guess (julia.biz@teale.io) is a pattern-based inference, not a confirmed/published address; julia@teale.io is a plausible alternate. Treat as low confidence; the public contact route is teale.io/en/contact.
**LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-néel-biz-b1a47242/ **Website:** https://teale.io
**Score:** 4 -> Tier C
**Hook:** Weak fit, handle with care: teale already has a heavyweight in-house CTO (ex-Kapten, 100+ devs) and is funded to grow its own team, and the product is workplace wellbeing rather than an MDR-regulated SaMD — so OmDev's two strongest levers (a dedicated CTO and the IEC 62304/MDR compliance engine) don't map. Only credible angle: offer a senior pod for burst capacity on a bounded workstream (so the in-house team stays on core platform) at a fixed monthly price ~3x cheaper than expanding headcount — but only if they ever move toward a regulated DTx/SaMD positioning, which would suddenly make OmDev's compliance evidence pipeline (SOUP register + requirements-to-code-to-test traceability) relevant. Until then, deprioritize.

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## Founder & background
Co-founder & CEO **Julia Néel Biz** (ESSEC) came from strategy consulting (~3 yrs), then product management, then Chauffeur Privé/Kapten where she ran internationalization and became Director of Strategy — a **tech/strategy** background, not finance/insurance ([ewaboost](https://ewaboost.fr/2025/05/23/julia-neel-biz-cofondatrice-ceo-teale-board-member-france-digitale/)).
Critically for ICP scoring, co-founder **CTO Gilles Rasigade** is ex-CTO of Kapten where he led 100+ developers and owns teale's tech/data/security ([LinkedIn](https://fr.linkedin.com/in/gillesrasigade)) — this is NOT a tech-thin founding team.

## Funding & momentum
Founded 2021, Paris. Raised **€2M seed (May 2021)** then a **€10M / ~$11M Series A (Aug 2023)** led by Alter Equity and Bpifrance Digital Venture, with ISAI and Evolem ([TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/30/teale-your-mental-health-companion-at-work-raises-11-million/), [ISAI](https://www.isai.vc/news/teale-raises-10m-to-become-the-european-leader-in-mental-health-and-put-an-end-to-burn-out-in-the-workplace)).
At the raise they planned to grow from ~25 to ~80 staff and serve 100+ client orgs / 500k+ employees — well-funded and scaling.

## Product & regulatory
B2B **workplace mental-health / digital wellbeing** platform: mental-health index, 60+ programs, 1,000+ content pieces, psychologist access, and an AI chatbot "Joy" ([teale.io](https://www.teale.io/en)).
**No SaMD/MDR trigger found** — positioned as employer wellbeing/prevention, not a regulated medical device; no evidence of CE marking, IEC 62304, or reimbursement pathway. OmDev's compliance differentiator does not apply.

## Pain & buying signals
**Actively hiring developers (GetYourJob signal)** — a team-gap indicator. But it's heavily mitigated: an experienced co-founder CTO runs a modern in-house stack (TypeScript, Kotlin, Kubernetes, CQRS/event-sourcing), the company is Series-A funded and scaling its own team, and there is no compliance/audit deadline, no QARA gap, and no visible agency dependence. Hiring reads as organic in-house growth, not a build-vs-outsource decision.

**Why OmDev fits (weak):** Both of OmDev's strongest levers — a dedicated CTO and the IEC 62304/MDR compliance evidence engine (signed SOUP register + requirements-to-code-to-test traceability) — are neutralized here by teale's strong in-house CTO/team and its non-regulated wellbeing positioning. The only credible angle is a senior burst-capacity pod (fixed price, ~3x cheaper than headcount) on a bounded workstream, and OmDev's compliance pipeline only becomes relevant **if** teale pivots toward a regulated DTx/SaMD product. Recommend **deprioritize (Tier C)**.

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**Sources:** https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/30/teale-your-mental-health-companion-at-work-raises-11-million/ · https://www.isai.vc/news/teale-raises-10m-to-become-the-european-leader-in-mental-health-and-put-an-end-to-burn-out-in-the-workplace · https://ewaboost.fr/2025/05/23/julia-neel-biz-cofondatrice-ceo-teale-board-member-france-digitale/ · https://fr.linkedin.com/in/gillesrasigade · https://www.teale.io/en · https://tech.eu/2023/08/31/mental-health-platform-teale-secures-eur10m/ · https://rocketreach.co/teale-email-format_b7f2977fc25d8938 · https://teale.io/en/contact