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| 03.04.2026 | Elon Musk's SpaceX files initial paperwork to sell shares to the public | Elon Musk's space exploration company has filed preliminary paperwork to sell shares to the public, according to two sources familiar with the filing, a blockbuster offering that would likely rank as the biggest ever and could make its foun... |
| 01.04.2026 | Houston unicorn closes $421M to fuel first phase of flagship energy project | Houston geothermal unicorn Fervo Energy has closed $421 million in non-recourse debt financing for the first phase of its flagship Cape Station project in Beaver County, Utah.
Fervo believes Cape Station can meet the needs of surging power ... |
| 31.03.2026 | Houston researcher builds radar to make self-driving cars safer | A Rice University researcher is giving autonomous vehicles an “extra set of eyes.”
Current autonomous vehicles (AVs) can have an incomplete view of their surroundings, and challenges like pedestrian movement, low-light conditions and advers... |
| 31.03.2026 | Houstonians make Forbes billionaires list and more top innovation news | Editor's note: The top innovation news of the month finds leading Houstonians in the Forbes and Inc. spotlight. Plus, we see where Texas ranks among the most innovative states right now. Below are the five most-read InnovationMap stories pu... |
| 12.02.2026 | Scala: $8.5 Million Seed Funding Raised For Contact Center Operational Intelligence Platform | Scala has emerged from stealth, announcing its official launch alongside $8.5 million in funding, including a seed round co-led by Madrona and FUSE. The Bellevue, Washington-based company is positioning itself as an operational intelligence... |
| 01.08.2025 | Hacking the Immigration Code: An Interview with OpenSphere CEO Atal Agarwal | Share
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America’s immigration system stands at a crossroads, burdened by complexity, lengthy processing times, and barriers that often exclude the very talent the nation seeks to attract. While traditional immigration ... |
| 05.05.2025 | Jill Kirchner and Tom Pelegrin Join Pager Health to Accelerate Growth Strategy | Tom Pelegrin, Chief Growth Officer at Pager Health Jill Kirchner, VP of Health Plan Partnerships at Pager Health
What You Should Know:
– Pager Health℠, a connected health platform company serving over 26 million members, today announced the... |
| 25.04.2025 | Novo Nordisk scores major legal win that bars many compounded versions of Wegovy, Ozempic | Novo Nordisk scored a huge legal victory that largely restricts compounding pharmacies from marketing or selling cheaper, unapproved versions of the drugmaker’s blockbuster weight loss drug Wegovy and diabetes treatment Ozempic.
U.S. Distri... |
| 17.04.2025 | Brain implant cleared by FDA for Precision Neuroscience, a Musk Neuralink rival | Precision Neuroscience announced that a core component of its brain implant system has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The company is building a brain-computer interface that will eventually help paralyzed patients r... |
| 17.04.2025 | 23andMe bankruptcy under congressional investigation for customer data | The House Committee on Energy and Commerce sent a letter to 23andMe expressing concern that its genetic data is “at risk of being compromised.”
The embattled genetic testing company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March, and i... |
| 09.04.2025 | The Shifting Landscape of Healthcare: Walgreens and Transcarent Navigate New Waters | The healthcare sector is undergoing a seismic shift. Two major players, Walgreens and Transcarent, are charting their courses through turbulent waters. Walgreens, a stalwart in the retail pharmacy world, is preparing to go private. Meanwhil... |
| 08.04.2025 | Digital health startup Transcarent takes Accolade private in $621 million deal | Transcarent on Tuesday announced it has completed its $621 million acquisition of Accolade.
Accolade shareholders received $7.03 per share in cash, and the company will no longer be listed on the Nasdaq.
Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman previou... |
| 08.04.2025 | Transcarent Completes Merger With Accolade | What You Should Know:
– Transcarent today announced the successful completion of its merger with Accolade, a market leader in health advocacy, expert medical opinion, and virtual primary care.
– The newly combined organization, operating un... |
| 28.03.2025 | Observe.AI's VoiceAI Agents: Revolutionizing Customer Experience in Contact Centers | In the fast-paced world of customer service, efficiency is king. Enter Observe.AI, a trailblazer in AI conversation intelligence. The company recently unveiled its VoiceAI agents, a game-changer for contact centers. These agents promise to ... |
| 27.03.2025 | Observe.AI Unveils VoiceAI Agents for Smarter CX Solutions | Observe.AI, the leading AI Conversation Intelligence platform for contact centers, announced the general availability of the company’s VoiceAI agents, capable of automating all customer interactions in the contact center, from FAQs to compl... |
| 04.02.2025 | PlushCare Expands Access to Virtual Healthcare for Medicare Beneficiaries | What You Should Know:
– Accolade, Inc. announced that PlushCare, its direct-to-consumer virtual healthcare offering, now accepts Medicare Part B. This expansion brings accessible and convenient healthcare services to 64 million Medicare ben... |
| 15.01.2025 | The Future of Healthcare: Navigating the Digital Revolution | The healthcare landscape is evolving. The digital revolution is at the forefront, reshaping how we think about health and wellness. By 2025, we will witness a seismic shift in how care is delivered, driven by technology, data, and patient-c... |
| 14.01.2025 | 25 Executive Digital Health Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2025 | From the rise of personalized nutrition to the growing importance of interoperability, healthcare is on the cusp of transformative change. Explore the key trends and predictions that will shape the healthcare landscape in 2025, according to... |
| 06.09.2024 | Thatch: Personalized Health Benefits Platform Raises $38 Million (Series A) | Thatch – a personalized health benefits platform for forward-thinking businesses – announced it had raised $38 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Index Ventures and General Catalyst, and with new investors SemperVirens and Th... |
| 21.05.2024 | Accolade Welcomes Noom to Trusted Partner Ecosystem | The partnership combines Noom's best-in-class content and coaching with Accolade's
advanced primary care physicians
SEATTLE, May 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Accolade, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACCD) announced today that Noom has joined Accolade's Trusted ... |
| 19.03.2024 | Accolade Promotes Kelsi McDonald Harris to Chief People Officer | Kelsi McDonald Harris, Chief People Officer at Accolade
What You Should Know:
– Accolade, a healthcare company based in Seattle, has promoted Kelsi McDonald Harris as its new Chief People Officer and Senior Vice President.
– As Chief People... |
| 14.03.2024 | Pharmacogenomics Market Anticipates a Remarkable CAGR of 8.52% to Attain a Staggering Value of USD 8.5 Billion by 2032, Ushering in a New Era of Precision Medicine and Personalized Healthcare | Pharmacogenomics Market Anticipates a Remarkable CAGR of 8.52% to Attain a Staggering Value of USD 8.5 Billion by 2032, Ushering in a New Era of Precision Medicine and Personalized Healthcare
03-14-2024 03:37 PM CET | Health & Medicine... |
| 04.03.2024 | Weight-loss drug restrictions shine spotlight on imbalance in obesity care | Tightening restrictions on who can receive the remarkably effective class of new weight-loss drugs is putting a spotlight on an imbalance in how health plans cover obesity care.
Why it matters: The explosive growth of Ozempic and other drug... |
| 11.01.2024 | Accolade beats analyst estimates, Teladoc’s optimism, and more JPM health tech news | You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. Teladoc makes its case for sustained growt... |
| 20.10.2023 | Global AI in Personalized Healthcare Market is projected to reach the value of USD 239.79 Billion by 2030 | Global AI in Personalized Healthcare Market is projected to reach the value of USD 239.79 Billion by 2030
10-20-2023 02:49 PM CET | IT, New Media & Software
Press release from: Virtue Market Research
Global AI in Personalized Healthc... |
| 02.05.2023 | Channel Partnerships in Healthcare: A Founder’s Playbook | Over the last decade, many digital health companies have struggled to achieve escape velocity, not because their products and services weren’t transformative, but because they failed to find a sustainable path for distribution.
The good ne... |
| 22.12.2022 | The Lanby just raised $2.7 million to launch a primary-care members club in New York. Here's the pitch deck it used to seal the deal with investors at Female Founders Fund and other VC firms. | The Lanby cofounder Chloe Harrouche. The Lanby This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Primary-care startup The Lanby just raised a $2.7 million seed round.
The startup provides m... |
| 27.10.2022 | HealthJoy secures $60M in series D funding for continued growth in healthcare benefits space | Healthcare navigation platform HealthJoy has gained $60 million in series D funding, raising more than $108 million total, the company announced Thursday.
Chicago-based HealthJoy — which serves primarily employers, as well brokers and third... |
| 27.07.2022 | Caraway raises $10.5M seed to offer virtual care to college women | Photo: Luis Alvarez/Getty Images |
| 11.01.2022 | Accolade : Announces Results for Fiscal Third Quarter 2022 - Form 8-K | Accolade Announces Results for Fiscal Third Quarter 2022
● Fiscal third quarter 2022 revenue of $83.5 million, a 117% increase compared to fiscal third quarter 2021 revenue of $38.4 million
● Company introduces preliminary guidance for fisc... |
| 11.01.2022 | Accolade Announces Results for Fiscal Third Quarter 2022 | Fiscal third quarter 2022 revenue of $83.5 million, a 117% increase compared to fiscal third quarter 2021 revenue of $38.4 million Company introduces preliminary guidance for fiscal year 2023, expecting 25% growth in revenue and a reduction... |
| 28.12.2021 | Some of the biggest healthcare mergers and acquisitions of 2021 | They include deals from Microsoft, Humana, Optum, Intermountain, Oracle, and One Medical
After a hot 2020 in healthcare mergers and acquisitions, 2021 came out of the gate swinging, with over 30 new deals being announced in just the first t... |
| 27.12.2021 | Healthtech stocks are ending 2021 on a down note | Nearly all of the companies that went public over the last 2 years have lost value since October
A couple of months ago, I wrote about all the healthtech companies that had gone public over the last couple of years, taking advantage of a nu... |
| 15.12.2021 | PlanSource Welcomes Accolade to Partner Marketplace | ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PlanSource, a leading provider of cloud-based benefits administration technology, announced today that Accolade has joined the company's Partner Marketplace. With artificial intelligence at t... |
| 15.12.2021 | PlanSource Welcomes Accolade to Partner Marketplace | ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PlanSource, a leading provider of cloud-based benefits administration technology, announced today that Accolade has joined the company's Partner Marketplace. With artificial intelligence at t... |
| 29.10.2021 | Sam Holliday, CEO of Oshi Health on VatorNews podcast | New tech to diagnose and treat GI (gut) disorders, a condition impacting 60-70 million Americans
Vator · Interview with Sam Holliday, CEO of Oshi Health
Bambi Francisco Roizen interviews Sam Holliday, CEO of Oshi Health. Oshi Health is a vi... |
| 25.10.2021 | CareFirst launched a virtual primary care practice. It’s the first new company from the health insurer’s innovation team | Healthcare doesn’t just happen in a clinic.
It’s a theme that resonated before the pandemic, but came into particular view following a time when patients and healthcare professionals were connecting remotely.
Virtual care became a necessity... |
| 07.10.2021 | More healthtech companies are going public, but are they measuring up? | A number of 2021 healthtech companies are trading below their IPO price, with reduced market caps
Earlier this year I wrote a piece entitled, "A maturing space buoyed by the pandemic: 2021 will be the year of the healthtech IPO." ... |
| 07.10.2021 | Accolade : Launched Accolade One and Accolade Care, two new healthcare solutions that combine Accolade's intelligent technology, advocacy services and team-based healthcare delivery (Form 8-K) | Launched Accolade One and Accolade Care, two new healthcare solutions that combine Accolade's intelligent technology, advocacy services and team-based healthcare delivery
SEATTLE, October 7, 2021 -- Accolade, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCD) today annou... |
| 07.10.2021 | Accolade : Announces Results for Fiscal Second Quarter 2022 | Fiscal second quarter 2022 revenue of $73.3 million, a 99% increase compared to fiscal second quarter 2021 revenue of $36.8 million Introduced Personalized Healthcare category, focused on human relationships and personalization using data t... |
| 28.09.2021 | Accolade Care: True virtual primary and mental health care | At Accolade, we believe everyone deserves access to excellent primary and mental health care. That's why we're announcing that we're going to launch Accolade Care.
Leveraging the primary care model at PlushCare, Accolade Care is a solution ... |
| 24.09.2021 | Accolade Introduces New Healthcare Category: Personalized Healthcare | -Personalized Healthcare is focused on human relationships and personalization using data to enable value-based care.
-Accolade also announces two new healthcare solutions — Accolade One and Accolade Care — for employers, their members and ... |
| 21.09.2021 | Bringing Personalized Healthcare to life: Accolade's capabilities and solutions | Over the past year, we've added 2nd.MD and PlushCare to the Accolade family. This unique combination of companies delivering advocacy, expert medical opinion, and primary care and mental health services have enabled us to announce an entire... |
| 21.09.2021 | Accolade : There's a better way. Introducing Personalized Healthcare. | Abraham Lincoln once said, "I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." Today, we are going to talk about using the wisdom we've accumulated in the past 18 months to make healthcare work for our peop... |
| 16.09.2021 | Accolade : to Announce Fiscal Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results | SEATTLE, Sept. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Accolade, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCD) today announced that it will release fiscal second quarter 2022 financial results on Thursday, October 7, 2021, after the market closes. In conjunction, the company w... |
| 08.09.2021 | Accolade : How Accolade bends the healthcare cost curve | As most businesses and consumers alike are acutely aware, healthcare costs in the U.S. continue to increase each year. Under the traditional healthcare model, there is no end in sight when these rises will stop. In fact, health spending has... |
| 26.08.2021 | Accolade : Save your HR team time and bandwidth | Your HR team is tasked with the essential job of securing and retaining talent. But when they're flooded with questions about healthcare benefits and claims, it makes it impossible to focus on the larger organizational strategy.
Instead of ... |
| 23.08.2021 | Supporting employee mental health: Advice from Dr. Brian Wong | We sat down with Brian Wong, MD, MBA, and medical director of population health at Accolade to ask him what he sees as the most pressing mental health issues facing employees and their families, and what employers can do about it. Accolade
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| 11.08.2021 | Accolade : 5 tips on how to talk to your CFO about healthcare advocacy | HR professionals know that healthcare costs continue to rise faster than inflation. Their chief financial officers (CFO) know it too. If you believe that personalized advocacycan help save costs, how do you convince your CFO?
Here are five ... |
| 22.07.2021 | Accolade Welcomes Carrot Fertility to the Trusted Supplier Program | |
| 08.07.2021 | Accolade : Announces Results for Fiscal First Quarter 2022 | Fiscal first quarter 2022 revenue of $59.5 million, a 66% increase compared to fiscal first quarter 2021 revenue of $35.9 million
Company raises guidance for fiscal year 2022 to $300 million - $305 million, a 78% increase at the midpoint co... |
| 26.06.2021 | Startup leaders need to learn how to build companies ready for crisis | It’s been a tough year for business. From ransomware attacks and power outages to cloud downtime and supply-chain disruptions, it’s never been more important to communicate to customers and stakeholders about what’s going wrong and why. Yet... |
| 06.05.2021 | ACCOLADE, INC.
Accolade : Initiates guidance for fiscal year 2022 revenue in the range of $260 million to $265 million, with Adjusted EBITDA in the range of $(38) million to $(42) million | Initiates guidance for fiscal year 2022 revenue in the range of $260 million to $265 million, with Adjusted EBITDA in the range of $(38) million to $(42) million
● Acquisition of 2nd.MD and proposed acquisition of PlushCare increase address... |
| 06.05.2021 | ACCOLADE, INC.
CORRECTION -- Accolade Announces Results for Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 | Fiscal fourth quarter 2021 revenue of $59.2 million, a 33% increase compared to fiscal fourth quarter 2020 revenue of $44.4 million
Fiscal year 2021 revenue of $170.4 million, a 29% increase compared to fiscal year 2020 revenue of $132.5 mi... |
| 05.05.2021 | ACCOLADE, INC.
Accolade Announces Results for Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 | Fiscal fourth quarter 2021 revenue of $59.2 million, a 33% increase compared to fiscal fourth quarter 2020 revenue of $44.4 million
Fiscal year 2021 revenue of $170.4 million, a 29% increase compared to fiscal year 2020 revenue of $132.5 mi... |
| 26.04.2021 | Accolade scoops up telehealth firm PlushCare in a $450M deal | Digital health benefits platform Accolade announced plans to scoop up telehealth company PlushCare in a deal worth up to $450 million. Accolade will offer PlushCare’s virtual primary care and mental health care services directly to its memb... |
| 23.04.2021 | Accolade Acquires Virtual Primary Care Platform PlushCare for $450M | What You Should Know:
– Accolade, Inc. today announced an agreement to acquire PlushCare, a leading provider of virtual primary care and mental health treatment.
– Under the terms of the agreement, the purchase price of up to $450 million w... |
| 23.04.2021 | Accolade to acquire PlushCare as telehealth competition intensifies | In a bid to beef up the services it can provide directly to customers, Accolade announced on Friday that it plans to acquire telehealth provider PlushCare in a deal worth up to $450 million.
It’s the latest in a spate of acquisitions in whi... |
| 04.02.2021 | New Independent Study Finds Accolade Significantly Bends the Healthcare Cost Curve for Employer | |
| 14.01.2021 | Healthtech firm Accolade is buying telemedicine start-up 2nd.MD for $460 million, sources say | Accolade is close to announcing the acquisition of Houston-based Innovation Specialists, parent company of 2nd.MD, for about $460 million, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
The transaction will be half in cash and the res... |
| 17.09.2020 | Accolade Introduces First Employer Health and Benefits Solution that Integrates Employee Mental and Physical Healthcare | |
| 10.07.2020 | Weekly Wrap #10: Deals, Dealz, Deal$ | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
Seeding a trillion dollar company
Last Sunday marked 26 years since Amazon was founded in Bezos’ garage. W... |
| 25.06.2020 | Accolade, a Philly-Seattle health IT company, announces terms for IPO | Connected healthcare company Accolade, with headquarters in Plymouth Meeting and Seattle, set terms this week for its IPO, GeekWire first reported.
Founded in 2007, Accolade could be the first company in both regions to go public in 2020. T... |
| 27.03.2020 | GeekWire 200 startup leaders share leadership advice on navigating the COVID-19 crisis | Clockwise, from top left: Accolade CPO Mike Hilton; PayScale CEO Scott Torrey; DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson; Auth0 CEO Eugenio Pace; Moz CEO Sarah Bird; Act-On Software CEO Kate Johnson; Remitly CEO Matt Oppenheimer; Puppet C... |
| 02.03.2020 | Accolade will take its health benefits navigation business to public investor markets | |
| 28.02.2020 | Accolade Files Form S-1 Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering | Seattle, WA (February 28, 2020) – Accolade, Inc. (“Accolade”), which provides personalized, technology-enabled solutions that help people better understand, navigate, and utilize the healthcare system and their workplace benefits, today ann... |
| 08.11.2019 | Research: October Health IT M&A Activity, Public Company Performance | – Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health merger & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of October 2019
During the month of October, Health IT continued its evoluti... |
| 29.10.2019 | Accolade Names Dr. Shantanu Nundy as Chief Medical Officer | Seattle, WA,(October 29, 2019) - Accolade, a personalized health and benefits solution for employers, health plans and their members, today announced at the HLTH 2019 conference that it is expanding its executive and clinical leadership tea... |
| 24.10.2019 | Accolade Expands Partner Ecosystem with New Trusted Supplier Program, Integrating Best-in-class Benefit Solutions for Employers | Seattle and Las Vegas, NV (October 24, 2019) - Accolade, a personalized health and benefits solution for employers, health plans and their members, announced today its new Trusted Supplier Program (TSP). With the Accolade TSP, employers hav... |
| 10.10.2019 | Humana Expands Partnership with Accolade | Seattle and Louisville, KY (October 10, 2019) - Accolade and Humana Inc. (HUM) announced today an expansion of their existing partnership that includes a $20 million strategic investment from Humana. The investment comes as Humana affirms i... |
| 01.08.2019 | New Accolade Total Care Guides People to the Best Providers and Supports Them at Every Stage of Care to Improve Health Outcomes and Reduce Employer Healthcare Costs | Seattle, WA (August 1, 2019) - Accolade, the leader in personalized advocacy solutions for employers, today announced a new solution that guides employees and their dependents ("members") to the highest performing doctors and give... |
| 02.07.2019 | Accolade Welcomes Dawn Lepore to its Board of Directors | Seattle, WA (July 2, 2019) – Accolade, a personalized advocacy solution for employers, health plans and their members, today announced Dawn Lepore, former chairman and CEO of drugstore.com, to its board of directors, effective today. |
| 03.05.2019 | Revealed: GeekWire Awards 2019 winners crowned as we celebrate the best of Pacific Northwest tech | (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper)
The strength and success of the people and companies across the Pacific Northwest tech ecosystem was on full display Thursday night at the GeekWire Awards.
It was so much fun celebrating with more than 900 of... |
| 19.02.2019 | Meet these 47 companies hiring tech talent at NET/WORK Philly on Feb. 26 | Dubbed the Super Bowl of job fairs, NET/WORK returns next week on Tuesday, Feb. 26, and The Fillmore Philadelphia in Fishtown is the place to be if you’re looking for a new opportunity in tech.
Come out for the annual event to connect with ... |
| 28.12.2018 | 3 Trends Impacting Digital Health Strategy & Leadership Roles in 2019 | As always, this year was full of interesting developments in healthcare. As the year comes to a close, we’ve rounded up three trends that we feel are going to significantly impact the landscape of health tech and digital health in 2019 and ... |
| 12.10.2018 | Meet 3 companies that are hiring at NET/WORK Suburbs | Next week, jobseekers will want to head to Paoli for Technical.ly’s annual job fair, NET/WORK Suburbs. The event will be held at Turn5’s 90,000-square-foot headquarters, offering room for “so many activities” and a cornucopia of professiona... |
| 04.09.2018 | FY 2018: Ben Franklin Approved $10.3 Million in 60 Companies | |
| 27.08.2018 | To improve its health and benefits solution, Accolade is keeping UX top of mind | “We work with employees to improve how they’re utilizing healthcare by helping them answer questions and get connected to the right benefits,” Christine Van Egeren, Accolade’s senior manager of user experience, explained in a phone intervie... |
| 31.07.2018 | Ben Franklin Approved 1.8M in 14 Early Stage Companies | |
| 02.04.2018 | HealthTech Company Accolade Announces $50M in Financing | Accolade announced $50M in funding led by existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Carrick Capital Partners, Madrona Venture Group and McKesson Ventures, with participation from new investors including Cross Creek Advisors and Madera Technol... |
| 30.03.2018 | Accolade Raises $50M in Financing | Accolade, a Seattle, WA-based provider of a personalized health and benefits solution, raised $50m in funding.
The round was led by existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Carrick Capital Partners, Madrona Venture Group and McKesson Venture... |
| 30.03.2018 | Term Sheet — Friday, March 30 | HEALTHCARE WARS
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| 30.03.2018 | Accolade raises $50 million as part of expansion plan to court mid-sized employers | New investors taking part in the round included private equity firm Cross Creek Advisors and Madeira Tech Partners. They were joined by returning investors Andreessen Horowitz, McKesson Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, and Carrick Capital P... |
| 30.03.2018 | Accolade Lands $50M for On-Demand Health & Benefits Solution | Accolade, a Seattle, WA-based provider of a personalized health and benefits solution has raised $50 million in funding led by existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Carrick Capital Partners, Madrona Venture Group and McKesson Ventures, wi... |
| 15.02.2018 | Meet Michael Yang, Managing Director at Comcast Ventures | Firm celebrates 20th anniversary and explores VR/AR and drones
As entrepreneurship has become a global meme, with the title of "Founder" worn like a badge of accomplishment, there's no shortage of emerging investors on hand to fun... |
| 22.09.2017 | More than 25 companies are looking for that suburban talent | Hey, friend. Don’t miss your chance to attend NET/WORK Suburbs 2017. Due to Vanguard’s strict building security, all attendees will need to register by this Sunday, Sept. 24. No walk-ins will be allowed at the event. RSVP
You don’t have to ... |
| 17.03.2017 | Seattle Week in Review: Budget Cuts, Health IT, Alexa on iOS & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It was a full week with Pi Day, the Ides of March, and St. Patrick’s Day. Tech was busy, too.
We’re reviewing the potential impact of the Trump administration’s proposed budge... |
| 03.03.2017 | Intermountain Healthcare launches startup to improve efficiencies and reduce healthcare costs | Intermountain claims that the ProComp program created operational efficiencies that saved $90 million by reducing supply costs and shortening hospital stays.
“The collaboration between Intermountain Healthcare and Empiric Health will help c... |
| 23.02.2017 | Telehealth startup for Spanish speakers raises $4.9M to expand staff and product development | ConsejoSano (which means healthy advice), will use the money to expand its workforce of 10 to 25 or 35 in the next 18 months, according to Abner Mason, the founder and CEO.
“A good number of them would be added to our tech team to build out... |
| 07.02.2017 | Q&A: Concur co-founders on their new venture, and the transformation of Seattle’s startup scene | Raj Singh (left) and Mike Hilton (right), co-founders of Concur and now leaders at healthcare tech startup Accolade. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop)
When Raj Singh and Mike Hilton co-founded Concur with Steve Singh more than two decades ago,... |
| 31.01.2017 | Trump poised to kill Obama’s plan to allow foreign entrepreneurs to build startups in the U.S. | (BigStock Photo).
Well, that was fast. The Trump administration has reportedly set the wheels in motion to undo former President Obama’s plan to help immigrant entrepreneurs build startups in the U.S., just three weeks after the provision w... |
| 19.01.2017 | Jiff CEO Derek Newell prepares for his new role at Castlight Health | “In order for [point solutions] to be adopted en masse, there would have to be healthcare delivery built into them.”
As far as getting contracts for them was concerned, it made more sense for these solutions to be integrated into one place.... |
| 08.12.2016 | Philadelphia now has a $6 million fund to back local health IT startups | Early-stage health IT startups in Philly are getting one more door to knock on for seed capital: a new $6 million investment fund focused exclusively on local startups, backed by public-private venture firm Ben Franklin Technology Partners,... |
| 21.11.2016 | Health IT investors share lessons learned from early investments | If you were to ask a healthcare investor what their investment strategy is, it is likely the product of some brilliant foresight, a little luck, and some lessons learned from bad experiences or near misses.
In a series of phone and email in... |
| 17.11.2016 | Check Out the Agenda for Xconomy Intersect in Seattle Dec. 8 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
We’re excited to hear from a great group of leading entrepreneurs, investors, and researchers at our next event in Seattle, Xconomy Intersect, coming up on Dec. 8. We’ve just ... |
| 16.11.2016 | ACA or Not, Accolade Sees Growing Demand For Healthcare Innovation | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As if innovating in healthcare wasn’t difficult enough, companies engaged in the endeavor now face an uncertain landscape as the incoming Trump Administration takes aim at the... |
| 11.10.2016 | Announcing Xconomy Intersect: GGV, Accolade, OfferUp, Textio & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The most interesting innovations are found where disciplines, industries, and cultures intersect—where intelligent machines edit human writers, drones plant trees, and cloud c... |
| 11.09.2016 | AI is for real and intelligent apps is its vehicle according to Madrona Group’s Matt McIlwain | Jasper Kuria Contributor
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| 02.09.2016 | Digital health companies raised almost $224 million in August | Digital health funding in August
So far this year, MobiHealthNews has tracked digital funding that has reached nearly $1.35 billion. August was a healthy month for funding, bringing in $223.86 million across 19 deals, putting it slightly ab... |
| 29.08.2016 | Here’s how payers are betting on digital health | Startups Health Catalyst (Series E), Livongo Health (Series C), Omada Health (Series C), Proteus Digital Health (Series D), and ZeOmega (Growth Equity), have been the biggest beneficiaries, according to venture capital database CB Insights,... |
