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| 08.09.2025 | Regulatory Landscape of Digital Health in Asia | Share
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Digital health is rapidly evolving across Asia and transforming what patients, healthcare providers, and health authorities think about care delivery. The emergence of AI, reimbursement frameworks, and pandemic... |
| 31.05.2024 | Akili to merge with Virtual Therapeutics in $34M deal | Photo: kupicoo/Getty Images
Akili, the company behind video game-like prescription and over-the-counter digital therapeutics for individuals with ADHD, has signed a definitive merger agreement with mental health and fitness company Virtual ... |
| 22.05.2024 | Click Therapeutics acquires Better Therapeutics assets | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Click Therapeutics, a provider of prescription treatments via a smartphone, has acquired assets of Better Therapeutics.
Why it matters: Several companies have made early headway in the space only to s... |
| 08.12.2023 | Ментальное Здоровье и ИИ: Как ChatGPT меняет Игру в Психологической Помощи" | Как может выглядеть будущее психологической помощи, ментального здоровья, благополучия с применением технологий искусственного интеллекта
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Революция в области искусственного интеллекта переписывает правила игры в сф... |
| 29.09.2023 | The rise, fall, and rise of digital therapeutics | Pear Therapeutics closed down this year as digital therapeutics companies struggle to gain adoption
It wasn't very long ago that Dr. Carolyn Bradner Jasik, Chief Medical Officer at Omada Health, a company that seeks to help prevent chronic ... |
| 08.03.2023 | Akili reports first public full-year earnings as it focuses on ADHD | Photo courtesy of Akili Interactive |
| 02.02.2023 | Akili to Participate in the Cowen 43rd Annual Health Care Conference | BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–February 2, 2023–
Akili, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKLI), a leading digital medicine company, will participate in the Cowen 43rd Annual Health Care Conference in Boston next month.
On March 8, Akili sessions are scheduled for the... |
| 24.01.2023 | Q4 Was Digital Health’s Worst Quarter for Funding in 5 Years | In 2020 and 2021, investors were taking risks amid low interest rates and there was a mammoth influx of investment dollars into startups. They were willing to pay more amid high valuations to get a piece of innovative healthcare businesses.... |
| 06.10.2022 | This next-generation video game requires a prescription | On the frosty planet of Frigidus, a virtual world full of icy caverns and treacherous waterfalls, your mission is to race down a track and target the animals that come flying your way. This isn’t exactly easy: Bumping into walls — you navig... |
| 09.09.2022 | Q&A: How Akili plans to make its DTx routine ADHD treatment | Photo: Akili Interactive |
| 22.08.2022 | ADHD digital therapeutic maker Akili goes public | Photo: Martin Barraud/Getty Images |
| 07.06.2022 | FDA slams small pharma for misleading ad with a dearth of safety info and dubious stat calculations | Roche is throwing its support behind bladder cancer awareness with a social media campaign to help address stigma around the disease. Supporting the World Bladder Cancer Coalition’s “Don’t Go Red” campaign, Roche’s recent Facebook posts fea... |
| 07.06.2022 | Akili taps new commercial chief in advance of fall marketing launch for ADHD video game therapy | As Akili Interactive preps its ADHD video game therapy for commercial launch – and builds out its new Roblox partnership – it’s tapping commercial veteran Matt Franklin to lead the way.
Matt Franklin
Franklin will join Akil... |
| 17.08.2021 | Aurinia gets two new assets in acquisition, licensing deal; Shorla preps T-cell leukemia drug for commercialization | Aurinia has acquired two new pipeline assets through a buyout and research collaboration, the Canadian biotech announced Tuesday.
The first new compound comes from Thunderbolt Pharma, which Aurinia acquired in an all-stoc... |
| 10.06.2021 | Health Games Akili Interactive by Alexander Gornyi | The post was originally published in Russian on Startup of the Day. Alexander kindly agreed to republish what we think is of great value to our readers.
Сomputer games are an example of something pleasant, whereas, medicines are a sample o... |
| 28.05.2021 | Akili Interactive Raises $160M in Funding | Akili Interactive, a Boston MA-based digital therapeutics company, raised $160M in funding.
The $110m equity round, which brought total equity funding to date to $230M, was led by Neuberger Berman Funds with participation from new investors... |
| 26.05.2021 | Prescription video game developer Akili snags $160M to launch ADHD treatment | In a far cry from the old adage that too much screen time will rot the brain, Akili Interactive is developing video games clinically proven to improve cognitive function—backed by an FDA green light last summer and, now, a monster $160 mill... |
| 26.05.2021 | Akili Secures $160 Million in Financing; Poised to Deliver on the Promise of Digital Therapeutics | Akili Interactive (“Akili” or “Company”), maker of EndeavorRx™, the first and only prescription video game treatment, today announced $160M in combined equity and debt financing. Akili is a pioneer of a new class of medicine and treatments ... |
| 26.05.2021 | Akili Secures $160M in Equity and Debt |
BOSTON, MA, Akili Interactive announced $160M in combined equity and debt financing.
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| 26.05.2021 | Akili Interactive Labs, Inc. announced that it has received $110 million in funding from a group of investors | On May 26, 2021, Akili Interactive Labs, Inc. closed the transaction. The company announced that it has received $110,000,000 in its series D round of funding led by new investor Neuberger Berman Group LLC and included participation from ne... |
| 26.05.2021 | Video game-based therapeutic developer Akili Interactive scores $160 million | Photo courtesy of Akili |
| 23.12.2020 | 8 Digital Health Predictions For 2021 | getty |
| 14.10.2020 | VR, AI, And Volumetric Data Are Redefining Cognitive Assessment | Virtual RealityImage from Shutterstock |
| 28.09.2020 | Mental health startup eQuoo will be distributed by Unilever in new global youth campaign | Last December (yes, in the before-times) U.K.-based mental health startup eQuoo had a round of announcements, becoming the NHS-approved mental health game, as well as signing Barmer, the largest insurance company in Germany, as a client.
It... |
| 21.07.2020 | Sprout's in-home autism care platform launches with $10M seed funding | |
| 15.06.2020 | In a first, FDA clears video game for kids with ADHD | “We’re proud to make history today with FDA’s decision, Akili CEO Eddie Martucci said in a news release. “With EndeavorRx, we’re using technology to help treat a condition in an entirely new way as we directly target neurological function t... |
| 12.11.2019 | No one knows how effective digital therapies are, but a new tool from Elektra Labs aims to change that | Depending on which study you believe, the wearable and digital health market could be worth anywhere from $30 billion to nearly $90 billion in the next six years.
If the numbers around the size of the market are a moving target, just think ... |
| 10.08.2018 | Term Sheet — Friday, August 10 | MORE DEBT
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| 09.08.2018 | Akili Raises $13M; Brings Total Series C Funding to $68M | Akili Interactive, a Boston, MA-based prescription digital medicine company developing novel treatments for cognitive dysfunction and brain-related conditions, raised $13m in new funding as an extension of its Series C financing, which was ... |
| 09.08.2018 | Digital therapeutics maker Akili adds extra $13M to earlier $55M funding round | |
| 09.08.2018 | Akili Raises Additional $13 Million, Bringing Total Series C Funding to $68 Million | OSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Akili Interactive, a leading prescription digital medicine company developing novel treatments for cognitive dysfunction and brain-related conditions, has raised $13 million in new funding as an extension of its Seri... |
| 25.07.2018 | Prescription apps are gaining ground — and drug makers’ backing — as digital therapeutics | If it’s developed like a drug, has endpoints like a drug’s, and is prescribed like a drug, it might be a drug. Or, lately, it might also be a smartphone application. The first prescription apps are about to arrive on the market, and major p... |
| 10.05.2018 | Term Sheet — Thursday, May 10 | BIG BUCKS
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| 09.05.2018 | Singapore’s Temasek leads $55m Series C funding round in US-based Akili | Premium
Singapore’s state investment fund Temasek Holdings has led a $55-million Series C funding round into Akili Interactive, which is developing prescription video game treatments for disorders such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity dis... |
| 09.05.2018 | Akili Closes $55M Series C Financing | Akili Interactive, a Boston, MA-based prescription digital medicine company developing novel treatments for cognitive dysfunction, closed a $55m Series C financing.
The round was led by Temasek with participation from Baillie Gifford, Amgen... |
| 09.05.2018 | Akili Completes $55M Series C Financing |
BOSTON, MA, Leading prescription digital medicine company developing novel treatments for cognitive dysfunction, today announced that it has successfully closed a $55 million Series C.
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| 09.05.2018 | Akili raises $55M to bring video game ADHD treatment to market | Akili Interactive has raised $55 million to bring its prescription video game treatment for ADHD to market. The Temasek-led series C round comes five months after Akili posted positive data from a pivotal clinical trial of its digital medic... |
| 09.05.2018 | Akili raises $55M to bring video game ADHD treatment to market | Akili Interactive has raised $55 million to bring its prescription video game treatment for ADHD to market. The Temasek-led series C round comes five months after Akili posted positive data from a pivotal clinical trial of its digital medic... |
| 09.05.2018 | Akili Completes $55 Million Financing | BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Akili Interactive (“Akili” or “Company"), a leading prescription digital medicine company developing novel treatments for cognitive dysfunction, today announced that it has successfully closed a $55 million Ser... |
| 09.05.2018 | Akili raises $55M as it prepares to submit prescription video game for people with ADHD for FDA approval | Last year the company made a series of hires, including the addition of Cubist Pharmaceuticals veteran Rob Perez as executive chairman. Perez had previously worked as a commercial adviser at Akili. The business also added executive advisers... |
| 09.05.2018 |
Amgen Ventures Backs Akili In $55M Funding
| Amgen Ventures, the venture capital arm of Thousand Oaks-based Amgen, is one of the investors in a Boston biotech company, Akili Interactive. Akili said Tuesday that it has raised $55M in a Series C funding, which was led by Temasek, and al... |
| 09.04.2018 | The top 25 mental/behavioral health startups that have raised funding | They include Iora Health, Quartet Health, Headspace, AbleTo, Ginger.io and Joyable
Healthcare is such a massive space, one that takes up a sixth of the entire U.S. economy, that just one small piece of that pie can be extremely lucrative. T... |
| 22.10.2017 | NeuroPlus brain-controlled games help improve your concentration | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The brain is like a muscle, and you can train it to improve your concentration. That’s the idea behind NeuroPlus, a startup that has cr... |
| 22.10.2017 | NeuroPlus brain-controlled games help improve your concentration | The brain is like a muscle, and you can train it to improve your concentration. That’s the idea behind NeuroPlus, a startup that has created a brain-training device that helps people with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) impr... |
| 10.07.2017 | Sci-fi author Rob Reid targets book at the tech-savvy crowd via Medium | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Marketing a new science fiction book isn’t what i... |
| 15.05.2017 | Rob Reid and Adam Gazzaley on putting the science in sci-fi | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Two of our speakers at GamesBeat Summit 2017 really embodied the confluence of tech, science fiction, and games. Rob Reid, founder of L... |
| 17.03.2017 | The DeanBeat: Experiential Technology event shows how far VR has to go | I attended the Experiential Technology Conference (XTech) in San Francisco this week to hear talks about creating virtual experiences that truly immerse you in another world. It showed me that virtual reality has only scratched the surface.... |
| 17.03.2017 | The DeanBeat: Experiential Technology event shows how far VR has to go | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
I attended the Experiential Technology Conference (XTech) in San Francisco this week to hear talks about creating virtual experiences t... |
| 10.03.2017 | Your ability to focus has probably peaked : Here’s how | Having a hard time focusing lately? You’re not alone. This article provides practical research-backe
Having a hard time focusing lately? You’re not alone. Research shows interruptions occur about every twelve minutes in the workplace, and e... |
| 24.01.2017 | It’s called virtual “reality” for a reason | Tim Chang Contributor
Tim Chang is a partner at Mayfield who champions entrepreneurs creating companies that leverage new media/tech platforms, populist commerce and digital health.
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| 21.01.2017 | Amazon Alexa Fund, Amgen Ventures among 1K first time digital health investors in 2016 | The report noted that there were more than 1,000 first time investors in digital health companies last year. One frequently hears how so many investors are beginning to move into digital health — so much so that it just becomes another talk... |
| 09.12.2016 | Study: Using a video game to spot early signs of Alzheimer’s gets positive clinical validation | Two years after forming a strategic collaboration, a double blind study by Akili Interactive Labs and Pfizer offered some encouraging findings for using a video game a screening tool to spot early signs of cognitive decline when patients ar... |
| 15.08.2016 | The next wave of transformative digital health | Raj Ganguly Contributor
Raj Ganguly is a co-founder and general partner at B Capital Group.
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| 29.07.2016 | Digital health companies raised more than $149M in July | During the month of July, MobiHealthNews reported on 16 digital health companies that raised venture funding. The deals total $149.3 million, which is lower on average when compared to other months this year so far but that's expected for t... |
| 20.07.2016 | Akili Interactive Labs Raises $11.9M More for Its Series B Round | Akili Interactive Labs - a Boston-based digital health care company working on non-pharmacological therapeutics for various cognitive disorders - just closed another $11.9 million for its Series B funding raised in January of this year. The... |
| 20.07.2016 | Akili Adds $11.9M Expansion to Recent Series B |
BOSTON, MA, digital medicine company developing novel, non-pharmacological therapeutics and diagnostics for cognitive disorders, today announced an $11.9 million expansion of its recent Series B financing.
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| 20.07.2016 | ADHD game developer Akili Labs raises another $11.9M | Funding came from Amgen Ventures and Merck Ventures BV, known in the U.S. and Canada as M Ventures. This is on top of $30.5 million raised already from investors Jazz Venture Partners, Canepa Advanced Healthcare Fund and PureTech Health.
Ma... |
| 20.07.2016 | Akili Raises $11.9M Series B | BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Akili Interactive Labs, Inc., a digital medicine company developing novel, non-pharmacological therapeutics and diagnostics for cognitive disorders, today announced an $11.9 million expansion of its recent Series B ... |
| 20.07.2016 | Digital Medicine Company Akili Interactive Labs Raises $11.9m in Series B Funding | Akili Interactive Labs, Inc., a Boston, MA-based digital medicine company, raised an $11.9m in an extension of its recent $30.5m Series B financing.
Merck Ventures BV, a subsidiary of Merck KGaA (known as M Ventures in the United States and... |
| 20.07.2016 | Akili Interactive Labs raises another $12M for cognitive health game | Digital medicine company Akili Interactive Labs announced an $11.9 million expansion of its recent Series B funding, adding new investors into the round and bringing the series total to $42.4 million.
The Dutch subsidiary of Merck Ventures,... |
| 03.02.2016 | Akili Interactive Labs CEO wants to see its video game platform prescribed as digital medicine | Akili is in the preliminary stages of preparing its platform for FDA clearance for physicians prescribe it as “digital medicine,” and part of that involves setting up a randomized control study. Depending on the results, the lead indication... |
| 22.01.2016 | Akili Interactive Labs Raises $30.5M |
BOSTON, MA, Company focused on developing clinically validated digital medicine for cognitive assessment and personalized treatment, announced today that it has raised $30.5M.
>> Click here for more funding data on Akili Interactiv... |
| 22.01.2016 | Akili Interactive Labs Raises $30.5M in Equity Funding | Akili Interactive Labs, Inc., a Boston, MA-based company focused on developing clinically validated digital medicine for cognitive assessment and personalized treatment, raised $30.5m in equity funding.
Backers included JAZZ Venture Partner... |
| 22.01.2016 | Akili Interactive Labs raises $30.5M to advance clinical trials as it readies for FDA application | Project: EVO is based on a platform technology exclusively licensed from the lab of Dr. Adam Gazzaley at the University of California, San Francisco. A pilot study of Project: EVO was shown to improve attention, inhibition and working memor... |
| 22.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 22, 2016 | FiveStars raised $50M; IVP led $30M round for Qubole; Iterable closed $8M Series A funding
D-Eye, a Padua, Italy-based startup that has developed a “digital eye” into the state of the human body, raised €1.5 million (approximately $1.6 mill... |
| 22.01.2016 | Armed With $30M, Akili Plans Bigger Trial of Therapeutic Video Game | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Akili Interactive Labs has worked for five years to develop mobile video games that can help assess and treat cognitive disorders—and with that work, to accumulate enough clin... |
| 22.01.2016 | Akili Interactive Labs Nabs $30.5M for Digital Medicine Gamification | Akili Interactive Labs, Inc. (“Akili”), a company focused on developing clinically validated digital medicine for cognitive assessment and personalized treatment through gamification has raised $30.5 million in new equity funding. The inves... |
| 21.01.2016 | Akili Interactive Labs raises $30.5M for cognitive video game intervention | Boston, Massachusetts-based Akili Interactive Labs, which has developed a video game intervention for cognitive conditions, raised $30.5 million in a round led by PureTech Health with participation from Jazz Venture Partners and Canepa Adva... |
| 03.12.2015 | Announcing the 2015 50 on Fire Winners | Tonight we unveiled the 2015 50 on Fire winners during our annual 50 on Fire celebration. These 50 winners represent a group of diverse individuals and organizations who are driving the innovation economy in Boston and beyond.
To select the... |
| 03.04.2014 | Convergence & unconventionality: One venture firm’s philosophy on early-stage innovation | Akili Interactive Labs, founded by PureTech along with UCSF cognitive neuroscientists and game designers, is an illustration of that. The startup made headlines earlier this year for striking a deal with Pfizer to test its mobile video game... |
| 30.01.2014 | Will the Next Great Boston Tech Company Please Stand Up? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Here we are in early 2014, and it feels like a zeitgeist-y moment for the Boston tech scene. So I wanted to weigh in and connect a few dots around town—and get people thinking... |
| 09.01.2014 | Akili, Pfizer, and the Rise of Videogame Brain Therapies | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The idea that playing video games can affect your brain has been around for a while. Now a startup and a big drug company are setting up a clinical trial to answer a specific ... |
| - | Akili raises $55M as it prepares to submit prescription video game for people with ADHD for FDA approval | Akili Interactive Lab’s video game digital therapeutic Project EVO
Akili Interactive Labs, a digital therapeutics company that’s developed a video game to improve attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, has closed a $55 million Series C r... |
| - | ADHD game developer Akili Labs raises another $11.9M | Akili Interactive Labs announced that it has raised another $11.9 million allowing it to become “more aggressive” in building its commercial infrastructure in preparation for a 2017 launch of its digital app to treat pediatric attention def... |
| - | Akili Interactive Labs raises $30.5M to advance clinical trials as it readies for FDA application | This post has been updated with a comment from Akili Interactive Labs CEO.
Cognitive reasoning has been a particularly hot area for investment in digital health, particularly as companies explore the potential of interactive approaches to c... |
| - | Study: Using a video game to spot early signs of Alzheimer’s gets positive clinical validation | This screenshot of Akili Interactive Lab’s ADHD treatment product Project: EVO is similar to the company’s Alzheimer’s disease screening tool but with distinct algorithms and sensory stimulus.
Despite the disappointments in the quest to dev... |
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| - | Convergence & unconventionality: One venture firm’s philosophy on early-stage innovation | Daphne Zohar, the founder of PureTech Ventures, isn’t afraid to take big technical risks when it comes to funding new innovations. Nor is she necessarily put off by technologies that demonstrate clinical proof-of-concept without a clear exp... |
| - | In a first, FDA clears video game for kids with ADHD | An image of EndeavorRx, Akili’s video game used to improve attention in children with ADHD. Photo courtesy of Akili
Can a video game substitute prescription drugs as a treatment for ADHD? That was the question posed when Akili first submitt... |
| - | Akili Interactive Labs CEO wants to see its video game platform prescribed as digital medicine | Following its recent $30 million fundraise to advance its video game platform for neurological conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and Alzheimer’s disease, Akili Interactive Labs Co-founder and CEO Eddie Martucci too... |
| - | Amazon Alexa Fund, Amgen Ventures among 1K first time digital health investors in 2016 | Mercom Capital Group came out with an overview of the 2016 health IT investment landscape. Its report tallied up health IT deals valued at a total of $5 million, a new milestone for this category.
“For three years in a row, we have seen fun... |
