A record $51.3 billion (£38.1bn) has been invested in global healthtech this year, up 280% on 2016 levels.
The COVID-19 pandemic has catalysed investment in an already growing healthtech sector, with new funding highs reached for companies using technology to improve research, delivery, payment and consumption of care.
The US leads globally with $31.9 billion (£23.7bn) in venture capital...
Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures (later renamed GV) who left the company earlier this year, has reportedly raised $230 million for a new fund that will focus on healthcare investments.
As Recode reports, sources close to Maris said regulatory filings related to the funding will be released as early as this week. The fund is called Section 32, and will largely be run by...
As we do every quarter, MobiHealthNews has rounded up our Q2 2016 coverage into a handful of longform stories. This section is on funding. In the second quarter of 2016, MobiHealthNews tracked funding for health tech companies that totaled about $500 million, not including an $80 million raise from tech-savvy health insurance company Bright Health, which is given an honorable mention at the end...
Khosla Ventures, the investment firm headed up by noted venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla, is increasingly making investments in mobile health startups. Khosla Ventures has made three investments in mobile health companies in as many months. In April we noted that Khosla had contributed to Misfit Wearables' $7.6 million second round of funding and just this morning...
BodyMedia has raised more than $2.7 million in a recent round of funding that it hopes will soon hit $10 million, according to an SEC filing that MedCity News spotted. The company stated that the first equity sales occurred on March 13, 2012. So far the round of funding has included participation from four investors, according to the regulatory document.
BodyMedia's last round of funding,...
