At-home diagnostics company LetsGetChecked announced Tuesday it has completed the acquisition of BioIQ, a company that works with employers and health plans to offer lab testing, health screening and vaccination services.
As part of the deal, which was first announced in November last year, BioIQ will operate as a subsidiary of LetsGetChecked. The closing comes weeks after the company revealed...
Diagnostics giant Labcorp is partnering with Getlabs to offer at-home sample collection for lab tests.
With the service, dubbed Getlabs for Labcorp, users can schedule an appointment online for an at-home blood draw. The phlebotomist can collect other samples like saliva, stool, urine and breath, and also measure vital signs. The collection will cost a convenience fee starting at $25.
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Cue Health, a rapid diagnostics startup now working on a connected testing device, has closed $100 million in a Series C round announced this morning. Decheng Capital, Foresite Capital, Madrone Capital Partners, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, ACME Capital and other unnamed investment firms all participated in the raise.
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The San Diego-based company's leading product is the Cue...
Consumer healthcare businesses can describe their work a lot of ways: as wellness, as disease prevention or as healthcare outside the traditional health system. Or there's biohacking, a term that has emerged to describe all kinds of ways individuals can optimize their own health in the same way that tech-saavy folks optimize their computers.
At the annual Health 2.0 Fall Conference this month in...
Clinical lab and life science services company LabCorp has signaled its latest consumer-focused shift with the announcement of a self-administered wellness test and online results portal.
Called Pixel by LabCorp, the testing platform is ordered online by consumers, reviewed by a board-certified physician and then delivered to the consumer within a few days. After collecting a blood sample using...
Smartphone blood lab startup 1Drop Diagnostics (not to be confused with other very similarly-named startup 1Drop or One Drop) has raised $4.25 million in a Series A financing round, the company announced today. The funding was led by investor Christian Wildmoser, with additional backing and support by Swiss Startup Group investor Dr. Hans-Peter Strebel, Beat Schillig of IFJ Institute for Young...
Austin, Texas-based EverlyWell, which provides a platform for consumers to order lab tests online, provide their samples and receive the results in an easily readable format, announced its official public launch at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, following a three-month beta period during which the company gained nearly 1,500 paying customers across 45 states.
The company, which was founded...
Austin, Texas-based EverlyWell has raised $2.5 million for an at-home lab test service and announced its public beta launch.
"Diagnostic testing is a subpar experience for the individual," EverlyWell Chief Medical Officer Dr. Murdoc Khaleghi said in a statement. "EverlyWell has developed an innovative platform that places the consumer at the center, empowering the individual to order, understand...
San Diego, California-based Cue, not to be confused with fertility tracker company Clue, raised $7.5 million in a round led by SherpaVentures with participation from existing investor Immortalana.
SherpaVentures has previously invested in tech companies like Coin, DogVacay, and Uber, but this appears to be the firms first digital health investment.
Cue’s product, also called Cue, is a modular at-...
