Goldman Sachs

By  Laura Lovett 02:07 pm April 24, 2020
Computational pathology platform Paige scored an additional $5 million from Goldman Sachs this week, closing its Series B funding at $50 million – exactly double its Series A funding amount. As part of the news, Paige announced that David Castelblanco, managing director at Goldman Sachs, will be joining its board of directors. In December, the company announced its initial $45 million round that...
By  Laura Lovett 01:21 pm September 25, 2019
Behavioral health and wellness prediction company Catasys has inked a deal with banking firm Goldman Sachs to secure $45 million in debt financing.  WHAT THEY DO  Catasys uses artificial intelligence and data analytics to pinpoint health plan members who may have a behavioral health condition. The idea is to catch untreated mental illness before the issue becomes worse. The system then works on...
By  Aditi Pai 11:48 am December 8, 2015
Lyndhurst, New Jersey-based physician rating site Vitals has raised $41 million from the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs. This brings the company's total funding to at least $86 million. Vitals, which was founded in 2007, initially offered a provider search website for consumers, but has since added other features. Users can also review physicians, find doctors near them, and compare...
By  Jonah Comstock 12:03 pm April 20, 2015
An Oscar-branded Misfit Flash device. New York City-based health insurance startup Oscar raised $145 million in a round led by Peter Thiel and Brian Singerman from Founders Fund. Other contributors to the round include new investors Li Ka-shing of Horizons Ventures, the Wellington Management Company and Goldman Sachs, in addition to all existing investors, a group that includes Box Group, ...
By  Aditi Pai 05:10 am February 3, 2014
Cost transparency company Castlight Health has filed paperwork for an initial public offering with the SEC, according to a report by Dan Primack over at Fortune. The report also says Castlight is expected to seek a valuation upwards of $2 billion. Goldman Sachs is slated to lead the offering and Morgan Stanley is expected to serve as underwriter. The company's IPO has been expected for just under...
By  Neil Versel 07:20 am November 13, 2012
It's purely speculative, but a survey of entrepreneurs working in digital health suggests that Practice Fusion, Castlight Health and ZocDoc could be the next companies in the sector to go public. Venture capital firm InterWest Partners queried more than 100 entrepreneurs about the future of digital health and found that 26 percent of them thought Practice Fusion, the current darling of the small-...
By  Brian Dolan 01:44 pm January 30, 2012
This week's talk of the planned Facebook initial public offering got me thinking about a story from late last year: Which mobile health company is likely to IPO first? Some investors have already placed their bets. At the end of November last year, investment bank and securities firm Goldman Sachs held a quiet, stealthy event that included presentations from about two dozen startups that the...
By  Chris Gullo 01:15 pm September 22, 2011
ZocDoc announced this week that it has raked in $25 million in funding from Goldman Sachs, bringing total investment in the company to $95 million. The news comes hot on the heels of ZocDoc expanding its service to Boston last week. ZocDoc's last round of funding came in the form of $50 million from DST Global, which made the move just last month. ZocDoc is a free iPhone, Android, or web app that...