Two health-focused venture funds made their debut this week, supported with millions of dollars to invest in healthcare startups. Earlier this week, pre-scale digital health investor LionBird announced an $85 million fund.
Just a day before, healthcare company AmerisourceBergen unveiled a new $150 venture fund focused on emerging healthcare startups dubbed AB Health Ventures.
Israel-based...
Israeli digital health device maker Tyto Care raised $4 million in a round led by OrbiMed Israel Partners with additional funding from LionBird.
Tyto Care is developing a handheld device that can help patients examine their mouth, throat, eye, heart, lung, and skin. The device can also measure the patient's temperature. These exams can be guided by a physician online or guided by the device...
Fertility tracker Ovuline raised $1.1 million from repeat investors Lightbank Ventures, LionBird Ltd, Bullet Time Venture, CEO Paris Wallace told MobiHealthNews. This brings the company's total announced funding to $2.5 million.
"We're going to continue the commercialization of our fertility product and continue to build and launch our pregnancy product in the next few months," Wallace said....
A Kit Check scanning station.
Washington, DC-based Rock Health startup Kit Check has raised $10.4 million in a round of funding led by New Leaf Venture Partners. Sands Capital Ventures, Easton Capital Investment Group and LionBird also participated in the round.
Although Kit Check has been in hospitals since April 2012, this is the company's first funding round of any kind.
"We took the Rock...
