| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.09.2025 | As insurers struggle with GLP-1 drug costs, some seek to wean patients off | By Jamie Ducharme, KFF Health News
After losing 50 pounds on the injectable weight loss medication Zepbound, Kyra Wensley received a surprising letter from her pharmacy benefit manager in April.
Her request for coverage had been denied, the... |
| 13.06.2025 | Life After GLP-1s: New Report Shows How to Avoid Weight Regain | What You Should Know:
– A new report released by Virta Health, a leader in diabetes reversal and sustainable weight loss, offers an optimistic counter-narrative to the prevailing belief that weight regain is inevitable after stopping GLP-1 ... |
| 04.06.2025 | Virta Health Launches Cost Guarantee for GLP-1s & Weight Loss | Source Credit Virta Health
What You Should Know:
– Virta Health, a provider of sustainable weight loss and diabetes reversal through a nutrition-first approach, today announced industry-first cost guarantees for its weight loss program.
– T... |
| 19.02.2025 | Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Expands Diabetes Care and Support for Members | What You Should Know:
– Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (Blue Cross) today announced expanded care options and support for members with diabetes.
– This partnership expands Blue Cross’s existing suite of virtual care options for dia... |
| 06.08.2024 | Physicians Reveals GLP-1s for Weight Loss are Overprescribed and Unsustainable | What You Should Know:
– A large majority of physicians feel GLP-1s are being overprescribed, according to a new survey from Virta Health, a leader in type 2 diabetes reversal.
– The Virta Health survey was conducted in partnership with Bere... |
| 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 ... |
| 24.04.2024 | Memora Health Expands Leadership Team to Accelerate Growth | Divya Bhat and Herman Ng join Memora bringing expertise to further transform care delivery using AI
SAN FRANCISCO, April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Memora Health, the leading intelligent care enablement platform, today announced an expansion ... |
| 25.03.2024 | Diabetes care vendors say scathing study doesn't tell full story | A scathing new study concluding that digital diabetes tools don't improve patients' health and increase overall spending doesn't tell the whole story, companies mentioned tell Axios.
Why it matters: The study is one of the first large-scale... |
| 24.03.2024 | Report: Digital Diabetes Management Tools Fall Short | Digital diabetes management tools fail to provide meaningful clinical benefits and increase health spending, a new report from the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) shows.
This is PHTI’s inaugural report after launching in July as... |
| 22.03.2024 | Report Reveals Digital Diabetes Management Tools Fail to Deliver Benefits, Increase Costs | What You Should Know:
– Digital diabetes management tools are failing to deliver meaningful health benefits to patients, according to a new evaluation by the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI).
– The report casts doubt on the effec... |
| 11.12.2023 | VCs are getting pickier about their weight-loss bets as startups rush to prescribe Ozempic | Healthcare VCs are getting pickier about their weight-loss bets as startups rush to prescribe Ozempic
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| 19.05.2023 | Digital Health Executive Hires & Departures: Ed Marx Departure, Particle Health CEO, Rhapsody CFO, Others | Health IT veteran Ed Marx announces his departure as CEO at Divurgent to launch his advisory company, Marx Advisory focused on helping healthcare executives & organizations achieve objectives and key results.
Particle Health appointed J... |
| 27.05.2022 | Komodo Health Appoints COO, Transcarent, Vytalize Health, RxBenefits, Other Digital Health Appointments | Komodo Health has named Dr. Aswin Chandrakantan as its Chief Operating Officer. Dr. Chandrakantan will also continue to serve as the firm’s Chief Medical Officer, a role he has held since 2016. Dr. Chandrakantan was one of Komodo Health’s e... |
| 10.11.2021 | Humana taps Virta Health to help its employer members reverse diabetes—and we expect more payers will follow in those footsteps | The news: Humana is teaming up with digital therapeutics (DTx) maker Virta Health to bring its digital diabetes treatment to Humana’s self-funded employer group members.
This is part of Humana’s overarching goal of improving health outcomes... |
| 13.09.2021 | How a ‘fatally, tragically flawed’ paradigm has derailed the science of obesity | I’ve been a science reporter for 40 years. I’ve wanted to assume that the experts I interview can be trusted to understand their subjects. Put simply, to get it right. But watching researchers in the field of obesity almost blindly follow a... |
| 27.07.2021 | Q&A: Head of Happify Health Chris Wasden unpacks how digital therapy makers can tackle consumer and provider adoption barriers | Digital therapeutics (DTx) were gaining popularity as tools to cut down on chronic disease costs, but the pandemic vaulted the tech into the spotlight and it's gaining much more attention from healthcare incumbents. Health insurers, pharma ... |
| 29.06.2021 | Docs debate the value of virtual diabetes therapies | The news: Physicians debated the clinical value of digital therapeutics (DTx) at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) annual meeting that was held June 25-29, according to STAT.
While some doctors agreed programs like Livongo for Diabete... |
| 30.04.2021 | Diabetes Reversal Leader Company Virta Health Raises $133 Million | Virta Health — the leader in type 2 diabetes reversal — announced $133 million of equity financing led by Tiger Global. These are the details.
Virta Health — the leader in type 2 diabetes reversal — announced $133 million of equity financin... |
| 20.04.2021 | Digital diabetes company Virta Health lands $133M to "reverse diabetes" | Photo by Virta Health |
| 20.04.2021 | Virta Health bags $133M—putting it on track to expand its diabetes reversal program to 100M users by 2025 | Digital therapeutics (DTx) company Virta Health scored $133 million in a Series E funding round led by Tiger Global, which it’ll use to expand its telehealth-powered diabetes reversal program across the US and support R&D of its product... |
| 19.04.2021 | Diabetes Reversal Leader Virta Health Raises $133M Series E to Take Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Mainstream | Virta Health, the leader in type 2 diabetes reversal, today announced $133 million of equity financing led by Tiger Global. The latest funding round will accelerate Virta's efforts to drive widespread adoption of its telehealth-powered diab... |
| 19.04.2021 | Virta Health Raises $133M in Series E Funding | Virta Health, a San Francisco, CA-based type 2 diabetes reversal company, raised $133m in financing.
The round was led by Tiger Global.
The company intends to use the funds for research and product innovation, and increase of demand for dia... |
| 19.04.2021 | Virta Health Raises $133M to Expand Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Platform | What You Should Know:
– Virta Health, a San Francisco, CA-based company raises $133M led by , to scale its virtual metabolic clinic and approach to reversing chronic metabolic conditions (type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, and obesity) to the ma... |
| 19.04.2021 | Virta Health raises another $133 million to tackle the diabetes crisis in the U.S. | The company is now valued at $2 billion, almost doubling its valuation in just five months
As dangerous as COVID is for the general population, it's even deadlier for people with comorbidities, such as asthma or heart disease. One of the mo... |
| 03.12.2020 | Virta Health Raises $65M Series D Round |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Virta Health, the first company dedicated to reversing type 2 diabetes without medications or surgery, has raised $65 million in Series D funding.
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| 02.12.2020 | Virta Health : Raises $65 Million Series D to Scale Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Treatments | Virta Health, the first company dedicated to reversing type 2 diabetes without medications or surgery, today announced that it has raised $65 million in Series D funding. Led by Sequoia Capital Global Equities, the financing will support th... |
| 02.12.2020 | Diabetes care platform Virta Health raises $65M and becomes a unicorn | With this funding the company has now raised over $230M and is valued at $1.1B
Even before COVID hit, the number of people with diabetes was at crisis levels: in 2018, 34.2 million Americans, or 10.5 percent of the population, had it. While... |
| 02.12.2020 | Virta becomes the next digital health unicorn, adding $65M in Series D funding | |
| 02.12.2020 | Virta Health Raises $65M in Series D Funding | Virta Health, a San Francisco, CA-based company dedicated to reversing type 2 diabetes without medications or surgery, raised $65m in Series D funding.
The round, which brought total funding to more than $230m and valued Virta Health at ove... |
| 02.12.2020 | Virta Health Reaches Unicorn Status After Raising $65M to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes | What You Should Know:
– Virta just closed a $65 Series D round, to scale its virtual clinic and approach to reversing chronic metabolic conditions (T2D, prediabetes, and obesity) to the masses.
– The financing, led by Sequoia Capital Global... |
| 02.12.2020 | Virta Health’s behavioral diabetes treatment service is now worth over $1 billion | A new $65 million investment led by the growth capital and public investment arm of Sequoia Capital will give Virta Health, a developer of a behavioral-focused diabetes treatment, a valuation of over $1 billion.
Virta’s approach, which uses... |
| 01.12.2020 | Obvious Ventures outlines the ‘world-positive’ impact of its startups and shares what’s next | Today, the early-stage, mission-focused, San Francisco-based venture firm Obvious Ventures released a very readable overview of how each of its portfolio companies is benefiting the world in its own way.
Its report shines a light on the gro... |
| 20.10.2020 | Blue Cross NC Launches No-Cost Virtual Programs to Quit Smoking and Reverse Diabetes | What You Should Know:
– Today, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina partners with Carrot Inc. and Virta Health to help address two of the largest ongoing health issues facing Americans today – smoking and type 2 diabetes.
– Virta an... |
| 14.01.2020 | Diabetes startup Virta Health raises $93M | “This latest funding is validation for the consistency and durability of our health and economic outcomes in both clinical trial and commercial patients,” Virta Health CEO and Co-Founder Sami Inkinen said in a news release. “We can now inve... |
| 12.01.2020 | Virta Health Raises $93M Series C | - |
| 10.01.2020 | Virta Health Raises $93M to Expand Clinically Proven Treatment to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes | – Virta Health raises $93M in Series C funding round to expand its clinically proven treatment to reverse type 2 diabetes.
– Funding will enable investing in growth and research to meet the demand for T2D reversal from employers, health pla... |
| 27.06.2019 | Blue Shield of California launches marketplace with a new approach to wellness | “We realized that that the old way of doing things, which was identifying a single point solution and putting that out to members wasn’t going to work,” said Bryce Williams, Blue Shield of California’s vice president of lifestyle medicine.
... |
| 26.04.2019 | Роботаблетки, карманное УЗИ, синтетические микробы, лекарство от старости и ещё 21 перспективная разработка медстартапов Статьи редакции... | Как изменится медицина в ближайшем будущем.
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| 21.12.2018 | За параноиками реально следят, но не так тщательно, как за сахаром в крови. Цифровая терапевтика. Часть вторая | Цифровая таблетка от компании Proteus WSJ
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Представьте, что у вашего собеседника параноидальная шизофрения, и он говорит вам, что за ним следят, с помощью миниатюрного передатчика в его же... |
| 14.11.2018 | Virta Health Puts 100% of Fees at Risk with New Value-based Care Model | Virta Health unveils new value-based care model that makes every dollar performance-based, with the majority tied to health outcomes for diabetes reversal.
Virta Health, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a clinically-proven treatment to... |
| 22.10.2018 | How big data is being used to advance precision health | At SplashX Precision Health, execs from UCSF, Helix, Stanford, HP, Bigfoot Biomedical, Virta Health
At SplashX Invent Health - Precision Health, tech pioneers and health incumbents talked about how they’re using big data to move toward more... |
| 08.04.2018 | Virta Health Raises $45M Series B from Venrock | SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Virta Health, the first company with a clinically-proven treatment to safely and sustainably reverse type 2 diabetes (T2D) and other chronic metabolic diseases without the use of medications or surgery, annou... |
| 06.04.2018 | Vitra Health Nabs $45M to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes | Virta Health, a San Francisco, CA-based company delivering the first clinically-proven treatment to safely and sustainably reverse type 2 diabetes (T2D) and other chronic metabolic diseases without the use of medications or surgery has rais... |
| 05.04.2018 | Virta Health Raises $45M in Series B |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Virta Health has raised a $45 million Series B funding round.
>> Click here for more funding data on Virta Health
>> To export Virta Health funding data to PDF and Excel, click here
Virta Health, the fi... |
| 05.04.2018 | Virta Health raises $45M to reverse type 2 diabetes | The company will be implementing more AI and machine learning to help eradicate the disease
When people talk about the diabetes problem they typically talk about controlling the problem through medication, usually insulin, but they don't ty... |
| 04.04.2018 | Telehealth startup that sees a way to cure Type 2 diabetes closes $45M Series B round | Program participants work with a physician and an online health coach. They also receive nutrition, guidance on changing their habits, biometric feedback, and peer support.
Virta added new investors with the Series B round, including Founde... |
| 04.04.2018 | Virta Health Raises $45M in Funding | Virta Health, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a clinically-proven treatment to reverse type 2 diabetes (T2D) and other chronic metabolic diseases without the use of medications or surgery, raised a $45m Series B funding round.
Backers... |
| 18.09.2017 | CG Health Ventures invierte en Virta Health y Skingdom | 18/09/2017
CG HEALTH VENTURES INVIERTE EN VIRTA HEALTH Y SKINGDOM.
El fondo CG Health Ventures, impulsado por Carlos Gallardo Piqué, consejero del grupo farmacéutico Almirall, ha entrado en el accionariado de la startup norteamericana Vir... |
| 29.06.2017 | Fighting Diabetes With Food | In the summer of 2012, Sami Inkinen was 36, wealthy, and semiretired. Trulia, the online real estate company he cofounded and nurtured from a startup to a business with some 20 million users, had filed to go public, and he had decided to ce... |
| 05.06.2017 | The consumerization of healthcare | Sam Myers Contributor
Sam Myers is an investor at Balderton Capital, where he is responsible for the firm's Nordic portfolio and focuses on investments in security, healthcare, automotive and mobile internet technologies.
Recently, I regist... |
| 04.04.2017 | Report: Digital health startups raise $2.5B in Q1 even as deal volume declines to six-year low | “Even though [venture capital firms] are betting less, they’re betting bigger,” the report noted.
Like Ping An Good Doctor’s $500 million round last year, Grail was also a spinout — in this case from Illumina. Although Grail is considered a... |
| 09.03.2017 | How technology is changing the doctor/patient relationship | Ian Shakil, Ron Gutman, Sami Inkinen and Arnaud Bernaert will discuss at Splash Health on March 23
Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco, and we're going to have some great speakers, inclu... |
| 08.03.2017 | Virta Health Raises $37m in Funding | Virta Health, a San Francisco, CA-based company launched to reverse type 2 diabetes, raised $37m in funding.
Backers included Venrock, Allen & Company, Ev Williams’ Obvious Ventures, Redmile Group, and PayPal and Affirm founder Max Levc... |
| 08.03.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, March 8 | HEAVY LIFTING
Good morning! In today’s guest column, Fortune writer Robert Hackett weighs in on Uber’s terrible, no good, very bad start to 2017—plus discusses one of the biggest cyber deals of the week: CA Technologies’ acquisition of Vera... |
| 08.03.2017 | Virta Health Raises $37M from Venrock | SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Virta Health, a new company founded by a team of physicians, scientists, and technologists trained at Stanford, MIT, and Harvard, launches today with a bold mission to reverse type 2 diabetes—a chronic, progr... |
| 08.03.2017 | Backed by $37M, startup Virta launches with aim to reverse type 2 diabetes through digital coaching and nutrition plans | San Francisco-based startup Virta Health officially launched today with a mission to reverse type 2 diabetes. Formed by a team of doctors, scientists and technologists hailing from Stanford, MIT and Harvard – and backed by $37 million from ... |
| 08.03.2017 | From real estate to healthcare: Trulia cofounder’s new health IT venture takes on Type 2 diabetes (Updated) | Two years after Zillow acquired online real estate company Trulia in a $2.5 billion deal, Trulia’s Cofounder and former president Sami Inkinen has moved into healthcare with the launch of telehealth startup, Virta Health. The digital health... |
| 08.03.2017 | Virta Health Launches with $37M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Virta Health, a new company founded by a team of physicians, scientists, and technologists trained at Stanford, MIT, and Harvard has raised $37 million in funding.
>> Click here for more funding data on Virta Hea... |
| 08.03.2017 | With $37 million in funding, health startup Virta aims to cure type 2 diabetes by watching what you eat | Type 2 diabetes is a disease affecting 415 million people globally and Virta, a Silicon Valley-based health startup, believes it has something unique to reverse it – remote monitoring of everything you eat.
Most people with the disease end ... |
| - | Report: Digital health startups raise $2.5B in Q1 even as deal volume declines to six-year low | This post has been updated with data from Rock Health’s Q1 report
Digital health startups raised $2.5 billion across 124 deals in the first quarter of the year — a record high amount for the first quarter but lowest deal volume since 2011, ... |
| - | Humana taps Virta Health to help its employer members reverse diabetes—and we expect more payers will follow in those footsteps | The news: Humana is teaming up with digital therapeutics (DTx) maker Virta Health to bring its digital diabetes treatment to Humana’s self-funded employer group members.
This is part of Humana’s overarching goal of improving health outcomes... |
| - | High cost of weight loss drugs drives employers to require nutrition counseling, in boost for startups | Employers are increasingly requiring workers on GLP-1 medications to enroll in nutrition and lifestyle coaching programs.
Startup Virta Health saw 60% revenue growth last year, topping $100 million, driven by demand for its employer weight ... |
| - | Telehealth startup that sees a way to cure Type 2 diabetes closes $45M Series B round | Virta Health endocrinologist Caroline Roberts and Virta Health physician Jeff Stanley
Virta Health, a healthcare startup that’s focused on reversing Type 2 diabetes, has closed a Series B round. The $45 million raised by the business will b... |
| - | Blue Shield of California launches marketplace with a new approach to wellness | In a nod to changing trends in the wellness industry, San Francisco-based insurer Blue Shield of California has built a new network meant to connect members with vetted community-based programs and digital therapeutics.
Done in partnership ... |
| - | Docs debate the value of virtual diabetes therapies | The news: Physicians debated the clinical value of digital therapeutics (DTx) at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) annual meeting that was held June 25-29, according to STAT.
While some doctors agreed programs like Livongo for Diabete... |
| - | Q&A: Head of Happify Health Chris Wasden unpacks how digital therapy makers can tackle consumer and provider adoption barriers | Digital therapeutics (DTx) were gaining popularity as tools to cut down on chronic disease costs, but the pandemic vaulted the tech into the spotlight and it's gaining much more attention from healthcare incumbents. Health insurers, pharma ... |
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Медицинские стартапы становятся одной из лидирующих отраслей венчурной индустрии. Поэтому се... |
| - | Diabetes startup Virta Health raises $93M | Virta Health’s app lets patients with type 2 diabetes track weight, blood sugar and ketones. The digital health company raised $93 million in January.
In the crowded field of diabetes startups, a new entrant, Virta Health, claims it can rev... |
| - | Virta Health’s Reversal Treatment Prevents Progression to Type 2 Diabetes in 97% of Prediabetes Patients, New Research Shows | SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 2, 2021--
Today Virta Health, the type 2 diabetes reversal leader, announced the publication of new peer-reviewed research in Nutrients. In this publication, Virta reports best-in-class outcomes in diabet... |
| - | Office Hours: Virta Health’s Sami Inkinen on Changing How Type 2 Diabetes Is Perceived and Treated | Sami Inkinen’s first taste of entrepreneurship was running an online bulletin board system from a farm in Finland.
On this episode of Office Hours, the Virta Health founder and CEO joins host Spencer Rascoff to discuss how to find a compati... |
| - | From real estate to healthcare: Trulia cofounder’s new health IT venture takes on Type 2 diabetes (Updated) | Virta Health physicians Caroline Roberts and Jeff Stanley
This post has been updated to include comments from a phone interview with Virta Health cofounder and CEO Sami Inkinen.
Two years after Zillow acquired online real estate company Tru... |
