#Pelotonad. Peloton has found itself in the middle of controversy as a recent television ad released by the company was panned by many as sexist. The roughly 30-second video, in which a husband purchases the connected exercise bike for his wife as a Christmas gift, has generated a backlash consisting of Twitter hashtags, viral parodies and a roughly 10% drop in Peloton’s stock price; however, the...
StartUp Health has added eight companies to its portfolio. This brings the number of companies that have been added to the program to 71. StartUp Health also released some demographic numbers about the companies that have been through the accelerator. These metrics included the total number of funding raised to date: $144 million, the percentage of physician and practitioner founders: 47 percent...
West Shell III, Co-founder & CEO, Conversa Health
Portland, Oregon-based GreenField Health, a subscription-based primary care clinic, has agreed to pilot Conversa Health's digital patient engagement platform to try out the startup's "digital checkups", which collect structured feedback on patients’ progress and outcomes between visits.
Earlier this month Conversa Health announced the...