Northwell Holdings

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By  Jessica Hagen 01:29 pm June 14, 2023
Northwell Holdings and Aegis Ventures company Caire, a virtual care creation platform, has appointed former emeritus president and CEO of Mayo Clinic, Dr. John Noseworthy, as executive chairman. Noseworthy will join the company's board of directors and lead its Caire Collaborative, a consortium of health systems that act as investors, partners and early adopters of Caire's in-person and virtual...
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By  Emily Olsen 12:36 pm May 9, 2023
Aegis Ventures and Northwell Holdings, the investment arm of the New York-based health system, on Tuesday launched Optain, a company that aims to use AI-backed retinal imaging to catch early signs of disease. The partners also provided an initial seed investment of $12 million.  Though the startup is new to the U.S. market, Aegis and Northwell said the tech can be traced back to Australian...
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By  Emily Olsen 12:00 pm November 10, 2022
Northwell Holdings, the investment arm of New York-based health system Northwell Health, and startup studio Aegis Ventures announced Thursday they had signed an agreement to launch Upliv, a virtual menopause care company. Upliv is the first company formed through Northwell and Aegis' partnership focused on equity in women's healthcare. In April, the startup studio announced plans to invest at...
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By  Emily Olsen 12:41 pm October 5, 2022
Hume AI scored $3 million from Northwell Holdings, the investment arm of New York-based health system Northwell Health, to continue developing machine learning models that aim to understand speech and expression. WHAT IT DOES The startup builds natural language-understanding tools that take text, audio, video or images and try to capture meaning, as well as emotion and other expressions....