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| 07.11.2025 | Digital Credit as Care: Rethinking How We Finance Health | Healthcare bills tend to make their presence felt when you’re not expecting them, whether it’s a sudden illness, a prescription refill, or a family emergency that can’t wait. For many, these costs arise when money is tight, insurance covera... |
| 29.09.2025 | The $78B Problem: Why Fragmented Communication is the Biggest Threat to Patient Safety | Saurin Shah, Chief Product Officer at TigerConnect
A single misrouted page in an ICU can delay treatment by hours — and cost lives. Across U.S. hospitals, those small lapses add up to billions in wasted dollars and untold patient harm in an... |
| 08.08.2025 | The PR Blindspot That’s Costing Healthcare Startups Their Next Funding Round | Danielle Sabrina, Publicist and Founder of Society22
In today’s investment landscape, artificial intelligence is changing the way venture capitalists conduct early-stage due diligence. And if you are a health tech founder preparing for your... |
| 13.01.2025 | GVX Venture Studio Launches FusionCare.AI, a Comprehensive Obesity Care Platform at JPM 2025 Future & Health Summit | FusionCare. AI Circle of Care
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| 23.09.2024 | Longevity Startups Are Getting Funding, But Not As Fast As We’re Aging | 13 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
We are all getting older. But never before have we been getting this much older.
In the U.S., at least one in six people is now over the age of 65. At the same time, in most developed countries olde... |
| 01.04.2024 | Here's the 16-slide pitch deck addiction care startup Pelago used to raise $58 million | Startups Here's the 16-slide pitch deck addiction care startup Pelago used to raise $58 million
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| 26.02.2024 | How a new recipe can help food win in an Ozempic world | The following op-ed is written by Scott Bowman, a managing director at Clareo and the co-founder of the NOURISH Movement and Wiles Kase, a senior consultant at Clareo.
The stunning rise of anti-obesity (GLP-1 agonist) medications has caught... |
| 07.02.2024 | UC Davis Health launches program to monitor PCI patients at-home | Patients will be given connected devices, with their vitals accessed by UC Davis Health clinicians
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a non-surgical procedure used to treat the blockages in a coronary artery; it opens up narrowed o... |
| 07.02.2024 | 44 startups to bet your career on in 2024 | Premium Startups 44 startups to bet your career on in 2024
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| 08.01.2024 | Biopharma M&A ripens as JPM launches | The JPMorgan Health Care Conference — the definitive launchpad for industry dealmaking — kicked off Monday.
Why it matters: As interest rates stabilize and the funding market for biotech rebounds, there will be plenty of white space in phar... |
| 02.01.2024 | Today’s at-home microbiome testing industry is fraught with snake oil | The blue muffin challenge. Food sensitivity tests. Microbiome test kits.
Self-help gastrointestinal health is all the rage. Rightly so: One in four Americans is affected by digestive disorders. And we’re all eating worse, sleeping less, and... |
| 27.12.2023 | The COVID-era mental health companies: where are they now? | Some companies have continued to raise funding, while many have had to cut staff
If there was a silver lining to the pandemic, it's that it spurring innovation and adoption of mental health tools, as every age group, racial and ethnic group... |
| 06.11.2023 | How AI Can Reinvent Nurse Staffing | Danielle Bowie, Chief Nursing Officer, Trusted Health
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way the healthcare industry operates, from clinical decision-making to front-office tasks to financial workflows. Perhaps one of the areas whe... |
| 21.09.2023 | Inside Kinhub’s plan to democratize employee wellness | Erika Brodnock describes herself as an outside-the-box thinker. That’s no surprise: Her father is a founder, and now she herself is an academic DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) researcher. Early, Brodnock had the drive and understandi... |
| 21.09.2023 | Q/A: LookDeep Health CEO Talks AI Adoption & Tackling Clinical Staff Skepticism
Can you describe the various forms of AI and which ones are most effective in clinical settings?
Why is it so impo... | Narinder Singh, co-founder and CEO at LookDeep Health
The potential of AI in clinical settings is clear, yet adoption of the technology continues to lag. Despite the myriad ways it can alleviate the burden placed on healthcare professionals... |
| 07.09.2023 | For the love of poop, rebrand your microbiome startup! | Editor’s Note: Adam Hanft – an advisor to AgFunder, [disclosure: AgFunder is AgFunderNews’s parent company]– is a widely-respected brand strategist who advises Fortune 500 companies, and the world’s most innovative startups. He sits on the ... |
| 03.07.2023 | Pharma can’t let Big Tech win the race for medical AI | Five years from now, when patients walk into a doctor’s office presenting symptoms of almost any condition you can envision — whether migraine, multiple sclerosis, or obesity — their physician will offer a new kind of treatment plan that in... |
| 02.07.2023 | Consumer acceptance of AI in healthcare – are we ready for the future? | The headlines from global healthcare meetings such as the annual Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) are notable in their singular focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and its application across the care continuum. No... |
| 31.05.2023 | Largest Health Breach? Latest Ransomware Attack Compromises Sensitive Medical Data of Over 8.9 Million People | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 31 May 2023, 03:05 pm
Ransomware attacks are hitting companies across all industries, including healthcare. The latest data breach reportedly exposed medical data from nearly nine million patients, Dental insurer Ma... |
| 22.05.2023 | Digital health news, funding round up in the prior week; May 22, 2023 | BetterUp partnered with Carahsoft; HippocraticAI raised $50M; CVS shuts down clinical trial business
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Steer Health, an AI-driven Automation & Growth Platform, announced the launch of its self-service patient platform for ... |
| 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... |
| 12.04.2023 | Glooko integrates with Hedia for personalized insulin dosing | The Hedia Diabetes Assistant provides insulin dosing advice based on each individual's habits
Over 37 million Americans have diabetes, a disease that can have detremental effects on other parts of the body: 69% have high blood pressure, 44%... |
| 17.03.2023 | The staggering financial burden of a proposed HIPAA rule | The already beleaguered U.S. health care system is facing a new and costly threat that will affect patient care and ultimately may lead to hospital closures: paying for and processing a torrent of medical record requests.
While the news med... |
| 16.03.2023 | We got the presentation health-tech veteran Jonathan Bush used to land $40 million for his new startup Zus Health | Jonathan Bush, the founder and CEO of Zus Health. Zus Health This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Jonathan Bush, a cofounder and former CEO of software company Athenahealth, is... |
| 12.03.2023 | Cerebral Confirms Sharing 3.1 Million Patients' Data With Meta, TikTok, Google | Trisha Kae Andrada, Tech Times 12 March 2023, 11:03 am
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Participant hold their laptops in front of an illuminated wall at the annual Chaos Computer Club (CCC) computer hackers' congress, called 29C3, on Dec... |
| 02.03.2023 | Felicis funded 50% more deals last year than in 2021, some as prices were still rising — and it says it has no regrets | Felicis, a now 17-year-old, San Francisco- and Menlo Park-based venture firm, is announcing today that it has closed its ninth flagship fund with $825 million, compared with the $600 million core fund that it announced in the summer of 2021... |
| 17.02.2023 | These investor-backed mental health startups are healing our brains | At least 1 in 5 people will experience mental illness at any time.
Yet for many, treatment is prohibitive due to long-waiting lists for mental health professionals, hospital bed shortages, and medication that comes with adverse side effects... |
| 01.02.2023 | Building Bridges Between Data Silos: Mayo Clinic Platform’s Ambitious Endeavor To Enable A Learning Healthcare System | Platforms have long been disrupting industries, including healthcare, and are in an unmatched position to solve complex problems endemic to healthcare. For Dr. John Halamka, president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, the drive for platform disr... |
| 31.01.2023 | HealthJoy Publishes Report on Member Health Goals | HealthJoy Publishes Report on Member Health Goals January 31, 2023 / Nueterra Capital Marketing
Nueterra Capital portfolio company HealthJoy has published a report that shows employees are more committed to addressing short-term health goal... |
| 26.01.2023 | Pearl Health, which uses data science to power value-based healthcare, raises $75M
Show your support for our mission by joining our Cube Club and Cube Event Community of experts. Join the community t... | Medical technology startup Latitude Health Inc., which likes to be known as Pearl Health, said today it has closed on an oversubscribed $75 million funding round, bringing its total amount raised to date to more than $100 million.
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| 13.01.2023 | Here are 5 winners and 4 losers from the healthcare industry's most important event of the year | Westend61/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
The healthcare industry's most influential investor conference was held in person this week. The J.P. Morgan Healthc... |
| 23.11.2022 | The 10 people transforming business across sectors, chosen by Insider readers — including execs from ABC News, Shopify, and Cart.com | Insider Graphics
Insider's 100 People Transforming Business highlights 100 leaders across 10 industries who are driving unprecedented change and innovation.
The Readers' Choice list includes leaders from such organizations as ABC News, Shop... |
| 24.10.2022 | Digital-health veteran Halle Tecco said she'd never start another healthcare company. Then she launched a startup to reimagine how egg donors get paid. | Halle Tecco, Lauren Makler, and Arielle Spiegel, Cofertility's cofounders. Cofertility This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 17.10.2022 | Meet the 16 pioneering biotech VCs who are taking new approaches to investing and reshaping the industry's future | Canaan; SciFounders; a16z; Global Health Investment; Istock; Vicky Leta/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Insider found 16 pioneers in the world of biotech venture c... |
| 28.09.2022 | Venture capital investment in telehealth companies has fallen $4.5 billion so far this year, according to a top analyst | Luis Alvarez/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 06.09.2022 | 6 AI companies disrupting healthcare in 2022 | Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here.
Investments in AI-enabled healthcare have exploded over the past few years. But even with belt-tightening in 2022, digi... |
| 30.08.2022 | The Benefits of Applying Machine Learning | 0 shares
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| 25.08.2022 | Fair Square Medicare Just Raised Its Series A. Here’s How It And Other Digital Health Platforms Are Guiding Seniors Through The U.S. Healthcare Maze | Daniel Petkevich is an American entrepreneur pursuing the American dream following his parent’s immigration from the old Soviet Union. But, while his entrepreneurial story could shape up to be the quintessential experience that every immigr... |
| 11.08.2022 | Why Digital Health Startups Are Struggling To Gain Traction And What They Can Do About It | Paddy Padmanabhan, founder and CEO of Damo Consulting Inc., is a digital health entrepreneur, author and host of The Big Unlock podcast. |
| 03.08.2022 | Lack of diversity in clinical trials costs billions of dollars. Incentives can spur innovation | The lack of diversity in clinical trials unfairly skews American medicine and costs billions of dollars a year in early deaths and poor health. Proven economic incentives to recruit more diverse participants can dramatically change the pict... |
| 25.07.2022 | Technology As A Safety Net For Critical Environments | Kelly Feist is managing director at Ascom Americas. |
| 19.07.2022 | How To Raise The Bar And Overcome Barriers In The Digital Health Space | VP Product-Marketing at Itamar-Medical | Digital Health Expert | Business Growth Mentor | mHealth Israel | G-CMO. |
| 03.06.2022 | Alarming Cyber Statistics For Mid-Year 2022 That You Need To Know | Global cyber futuristic financial network security concept. Fast speed internet connection. Block ... [+] chain network getty |
| 02.06.2022 | The Evolution And Future Of Remote Patient Monitoring | Co-Founder and Ceo of FitPeo Inc. An initiative to provide better preventive care to those who need it the most. |
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts announced the launch of the Health Equity Business Accelerator. The nine month long program is designed to provide ... |
| 08.04.2022 | LionBird, AmerisourceBergen launch new venture funds focused on health startups | Photo: Kwanchai Lerttanapunyaporn/Getty Images |
| 05.04.2022 | Why Digital Transformation Is Imperative to Combat Healthcare’s Labor Crisis | Juan Pablo Segura, Co-founder of Babyscripts
As the coronavirus pandemic first spread across the globe, health systems turned to technology and virtual care while focusing their efforts on COVID-19 and its consequences. Physicians deployed ... |
| 10.03.2022 | Amazon Pharmacy to Offer Prescription Drug Discount Cards to Blue Cross Blue Shield Customers | Sophie Webster, Tech Times 10 March 2022, 11:03 pm
Amazon Pharmacy announced the launch of the prescription drug discount card to Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance customers. This card is available in five states: New Jersey, Alabama, Nebras... |
| 03.03.2022 | Drug discovery startup ArrePath scores $20M and more digital health fundings | Photo: filadendron/Getty Images |
| 28.02.2022 | Paying Cash For Healthcare? New Tool Helps You Find The Price | Paying by cash getty |
| 18.02.2022 | From picking up groceries to primary care: How digital health can help retailers become a one stop shop | 7wireVentures Partner Alyssa Jaffee shares her thoughts on how retailers can leverage their expansive footprints in local communities across the nation and partner with digital health companies to help overcome some of the access gaps plagu... |
| 14.02.2022 | Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; February 14, 2022 | Amazon expanded its on-demand health solution; Medable partnered with CVS; COVID deaths passed 900k
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Amazon Care, the company's on-demand healthcare solution, expanded to employees in all 50 states
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| 02.02.2022 | Three Things C-Suite Leaders In Healthcare Should Focus On In 2022 | Paddy Padmanabhan, founder and CEO of Damo Consulting Inc., is a digital health entrepreneur, author and host of The Big Unlock podcast. |
| 24.01.2022 | Telemedicine startups can survive and thrive under renewed regulation | Nathaniel M. Lacktman Contributor
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| 17.01.2022 | MedCity News: What will digital health M&A look like in 2022? | 7wireVentures Partner Alyssa Jaffee predicts we’ll see continued M&A activity in behavioral health and women’s health in 2022, especially given the large amount of investment in fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum care. Read more via M... |
| 29.12.2021 | What will applied AI look like in 2022? | 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!
AI adoption has skyrocketed throughout the last 1... |
| 29.12.2021 | What will applied AI look like in 2022? | Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more
AI adoption has skyrocketed throughout the last 18 months. Besides Joe McKendrick, who wrote t... |
| 23.12.2021 | Digital surgery startup Apella scoops up $21M | Photo: Morsa Images/Getty Images |
| 08.12.2021 | Exclusive: Grand Rounds, now Included Health, is gearing up for an IPO in early 2022 | Owen Tripp, the CEO of Grand Rounds. Grand Rounds This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 01.12.2021 | Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; November 29, 2021 | Amazon Health sells healthcare services to Hilton; Athenahealth acquired for $17 Billion
Where tech meets weight and mental health. Mental health struggles and unintentional weight fluctuations are strongly linked. Experts state that stress... |
| 22.11.2021 | Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; November 21, 2021 | How Microsoft can transform healthcare delivery; Trusted has raised $94M; Aptihealth landed $50
Sanofi makes $270M bet that a startup’s AI tech can boost its cancer drug R&D. Sanofi wants to see how digital technologies can improve its ... |
| 19.11.2021 | Medping, the African startup revitalizing the global healthcare system through blockchain technology | --> -->
Standard healthcare services usually involve patient care with health data privacy, easy access to health data, and health data completeness with cost control. The promise of blockchain technology in health services combined w... |
| 16.11.2021 | How Amy Abernethy is rejiggering one of Verily's biggest bets to change clinical research and propel the Google spin-off into the future | Dr. Amy Abernethy, Verily's president of clinical research. Verily This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 07.11.2021 | 6 technologies aiding vaccine development | Unsurprisingly, vaccines have taken center stage this year as researchers continue to work to find immunizations for COVID-19.
Here are six of the critical technologies -- from 3D printing to telemedicine -- spurring progress on those and o... |
| 04.11.2021 | How To Empower Today’s Healthcare Consumer | Co-Founder & Managing Partner of 7Wire Ventures |
| 29.10.2021 | The Role Blockchain Could Play in Strengthening Patient-Provider Relationships | Matthew Doyle, COO & Head of Investor Relations at Chicago Pacific Founders
With conversations about NFTs and blockchain prominent in the news today, the future of such technology is a hot topic. The integration of blockchain technology... |
| 25.10.2021 | Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; October 25, 2021 | Biden doubts Medicare benefits expansion; SonderMined acquires predictive analytics platform Qntfy
Highlights from our Q3’21 State Of Healthcare report from CB Insights. The report includes: healthcare startups saw a record 1,904 deals in Q... |
| 22.10.2021 | Daily funding roundup - October 22, 2021 | Egle Therapeutics raised $46.4M; Zerigo Health landed $43M; Hyperproof secured $16.5M
VideoAmp: VideoAmp is a L.A.-based company that helps advertisers target and measure the impact of their ads across platforms such as TV and mobile. Video... |
| 13.10.2021 | Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; October 11 | CVS Health turning drugstores into super-clinics; BetterUp raises another round for $5B valuation
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A number of 2021 healthtech companies are trading below their IPO price, with reduced market caps. More healthtech c... |
| 08.10.2021 | Daily funding roundup - October 8, 2021 | Notion raised $275M; Twin Health landed $140M; Modern Treasury picks up $85M
Notion: Notion is a San Francisco-based note-taking app. Notion has raised $275 million in new funding led by Coatue Management and Sequoia Capital. Read more
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| 06.10.2021 | Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; October 4 | Amazon expanding senior health leaders; Mayo Clinic and Lisa Health team up for menopause initiative
Amazon's getting more serious about healthcare. Amazon's 10 most recent healthcare job openings include: Manager of revenue cycle for Amazo... |
| 28.09.2021 | Daily funding roundup - September 27, 2021 | Dice raised $122M; Delix Therapeutics landed $70M; Astera Labs secured $50M
Dice: Dice is a London-based live event discovery and booking platform. Dice has raised $122 million in Series C funding led by SoftBank, with participation from Fu... |
| 22.09.2021 | Why food delivery companies are eyeing prescriptions | “They probably have figured out that the items that are usually available at a pharmacy overlap very nicely with what’s at a convenience store,” said Pandya, and “it’s an easy transition for them to go and say, okay, we’re going to do pharm... |
| 22.09.2021 | Why food delivery companies are eyeing prescriptions | Third-party food delivery services are betting that adding prescription delivery can help them get closer to profitability.
This year, the delivery-only convenience store GoPuff began testing a virtual pharmacy in Philadelphia, according to... |
| 22.09.2021 | Unite Us scoops up NowPow—but becoming a giant entity won’t be a golden ticket to SDOH success | The news: Unite Us acquired fellow social determinants of health (SDOH) startup NowPow, creating the largest SDOH company on the market.
Together, they’ll combine NowPow’s personalized referral platform with Unite US’ end-to-end social care... |
| 21.09.2021 | Healthcare Leaders: The Importance of Embracing Patient Engagement | Carina Edwards, CEO of Quil
We are incredibly lucky to live in a historically connected world. The internet, smartphones, and technology of all kinds have brought people together in ways unimaginable just a few decades ago. These massive co... |
| 23.08.2021 | Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; August 23 | Maven Clinic raised $110M; Beckley Psytech landed $80M; Carrot Fertility secured $75M; ClosedLoop.ai
Maven Clinic: Maven Clinic is a NY- based female founded digital health company which focused on women's and family health. Maven Clinic an... |
| 21.08.2021 | Google Dismantling Health Division | NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 29: A person wears a face mask outside Google's offices in Chelsea as ... [+] the city continues Phase 4 of re-opening following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus on September 29, 2020 in ... |
| 10.08.2021 | The EHR Is Dead. Long Live The EHR Platform (2 Of 2) | What does Jonathan Bush, CEO of Zus Health and former CEO of Epic competitor athenahealth, think about Epic and other EHRs today? The answer lies in the 1939 children’s book by Virginia Lee Burton, ‘Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel’.... |
| 09.08.2021 | Daily funding roundup - August 9th, 2021 | Snorkel AI raised $85M; Cadence landed $41M; Canopy Servicing secured $15M Eyevensys picks up $12M
Trendyol: Trendyol is a Turkey-based e-commerce platform that ranks as the largest of its kind in the country. Trendyol has raised $1.5 billi... |
| 30.07.2021 | Health care innovation can’t quit now that we are ahead | As health care companies raised a record-breaking $31.6 billion during the first quarter of 2021, investors drove home two big points:
Health care providers adopted digital technologies like virtual care solutions in astonishing numbers as ... |
| 28.07.2021 | Amwell heats up the telehealth space with two new acquisitions | The news: Telehealth giant Amwell is acquiring digital mental health platform SilverCloud Health and automated virtual healthcare company Conversa Health for a combined $320 million. This comes around 10 months after Amwell was first mullin... |
| 28.07.2021 | How digital therapy vendors can win over doctors | The news: Musculoskeletal (MSK) digital therapy vendor Kaia Health published a new peer reviewed clinical study showing its computer vision tech is on par with physical therapists’ (PT) recommendations in suggesting exercise corrections to ... |
| 21.07.2021 | Apps and video games are changing the way we treat diseases. Experts say they’re prime M&A targets for telehealth firms. | A patient uses Pear’s reSET-O app to treat opioid use disorder. Pear Therapeutics
Apps and video games that can treat health conditions nabbed $US1.2 ($AU2) billion in VC dollars in 2019.
Only a few commercial products have been launched so... |
| 21.07.2021 | Apps and video games are changing the way we treat diseases, and now the sector is ripe for M&A | A patient uses Pear's reSET-O app to treat opioid use disorder. Pear Therapeutics
Apps and video games that can treat health conditions nabbed $1.2 billion in VC dollars in 2019.
Only a few commercial products have been launched so far, and... |
| 20.07.2021 | Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; July 18 | With $150B already invested, VC is set to have another recording breaking year
With $150B already invested, VC is set to have another recording breaking year. There was $75 billion invested across an estimated 4,302 deals in the second quar... |
| 17.07.2021 | How F1 got the data crunched for its new race car | Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here.... |
| 13.07.2021 | If everyone already knows about a new biotech startup, why does it ‘launch’? | Biotech companies often linger in a corporate version of Schrödinger’s box — of existence and un-existence — for quite some time before officially announcing a “launch.”
Sana Biotechnology, for example, spent a year in limbo before its comm... |
| 12.07.2021 | Intermountain Healthcare hands off retail pharmacy operations to CVS | The news: Utah-based health system Intermountain Healthcare is closing most of its retail pharmacies (25 of 26) by next month and shifting its operations to CVS Pharmacy.
The health system cited low usage as the impetus behind this decision... |
| 09.07.2021 | Health systems link up with Olive to solve healthcare admin woes with AI | The news: Provider-owned incubator Innovation Lab is teaming up with healthcare AI company Olive to develop AI-driven automation tools to improve and optimize healthcare operations and clinical workflows. Together, they’ll leverage Innovati... |
| 07.07.2021 | “The Doctor Will See You Now” and Other Things Patients Won’t Hear Post-COVID | Arun K. Buduri, VP – Engineering/IT and CISO, Innovaccer
Following a year of social distancing and strict lockdowns, patients were forced to fundamentally change the way they interacted with their physicians. By April of last year, about ha... |
| 02.07.2021 | Find Your Zeitgeist Moment: How The Spirit Of Time Can Create Market Leverage | Entrepreneur & investor with a passion for early-stage startups. CEO of leAD – leading sports & health tech investment ecosystem. |
| 01.07.2021 | Ro scooped up a home testing co, but may have missed the home diagnostics boat | The news: Direct-to-consumer virtual care provider Ro acquired 17-month old at-home diagnostics startup Kit, which offers home testing like blood pressure tests and finger prick blood assays.
How we got here: This is Ro’s third acquisition ... |
| 15.06.2021 | Insurtech company Bright Health hits NYSE with 60M shares in public offering | Photo credit: Kwanchai Lerttanapunyaporn/Getty Images |
| 14.06.2021 | AI drug discovery startup latest to go public via $2.8B SPAC merger | AI drug discovery startup Valo announced it’s going public via a $2.8 billion SPAC merger with Khosla Ventures, expected to close in Q3 2021. Here’s what it does: Valo’s primary product Opal Computational Platform uses AI to identify new dr... |
| 10.06.2021 | Clover Health CEO made millions overcharging NJ hospital patients, critics say | More On: hospitals
Hospital robots face attacks by hackers after security flaws found Hochul packs $220B spending plan to recover from Brian Benjamin corruption scandal Woman fighting for life after routine tummy tuck goes horribly wrong Ma... |
| 10.06.2021 | Clover Health CEO made millions overcharging NJ hospital patients, critics say | More On: hospitals
Alaska’s largest hospital implements crisis care standards Man dies after being turned away from 43 ICUs too full from COVID patients No baby: Vax mandate resignations force NY hospital to ‘pause’ deliveries 4 injured, pa... |
| 26.05.2021 | Expanding Behavioral Health Access For Underserved Populations: Solomé Tibebu's Mission | There’s a reason that venture capital-backed mental and behavioral health startups in the U.S. received nearly $2 billion in funding in the first few months of 2021, according to Dealroom data. From investors, entrepreneurs and digital heal... |
| 24.05.2021 | AMN Healthcare scoops up virtual care provider Synzi Holdings for $42.5 million in cash | Photo: Fat Camera/Getty Images |
| 20.05.2021 | Bright Health’s IPO is another sign that health insurtechs are here to stay | Bright Health officially filed for an IPO, joining the ranks of other publicly traded insurtechs like Oscar Health and Clover Health. Rumors of a Bright Health IPO started circulating this April after Bloomberg reported its plans to raise $... |
