ORLANDO – Pawan Kohli, strategic advisor at Redesign Health, spoke at HIMSS24 Venture Connect on experiencing failure and the lessons startups can learn to ensure they thrive in an ever changing digital health market.
Global digital health funding was cut substantially in 2023 compared with 2022, while deals dropped to the lowest level since 2016. Additionally, there were just three mega-rounds...
Though health tech investment dropped last year, there's still plenty of need for innovation in healthcare, said Peter Micca, audit and assurance partner and national health tech leader at Deloitte.
Micca sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss the consulting firm's recent report on the health tech investment environment and the growing role of platform-enabled ecosystems.
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Digital health startups raised $3.4 billion across 132 deals in the first quarter, according to Rock Health's latest funding report.
Though investment in Q1 surpassed the last two quarters – where companies notched $2.7 billion in Q4 and $2.2 billion in Q3 – the authors noted this probably isn't a return to the booming funding environment seen in 2021 and early 2022.
"Overall, Q1’s mega-deal...
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, a firm popular with tech startups and investors, could have lingering effects on the digital health ecosystem as the sector adjusts to a slowing funding environment, said venture capital panelists at ViVE 2023.
Emily Melton, managing partner of Threshold, said institutions like SVB are important to encourage people to take risks on new innovation, a critical...
Biotech and digital health funding soared in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but both sectors slowed down in 2022.
Elena Viboch, partner at General Catalyst, said startups need to focus on the end goal — building technology or therapies that can help patients. She sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss her takeaways from this year and her predictions for 2023.
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After digital health startups scooped up huge amounts of investor dollars last year, the market slowed down significantly in 2022. But it's still a relatively new field, and there's plenty of room for startups that can prove their ability to improve care, says John Beadle, managing partner at Aegis Ventures.
He sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss the growth in partnerships with health systems...
After a year of mega-rounds, skyrocketing valuations and a parade of growing digital health startups, the investment landscape looked a lot more tepid in 2022.
But there are still plenty of opportunities for startups, especially for companies that can demonstrate their value amid a challenging economic environment, said Dr. Sunny Kumar, partner at GSR Ventures. Kumar sat down with MobiHealthNews...
