Elemy, an autism-focused digital health company out of San Francisco, scored a whopping $219 million in Series B funding last week, bringing its total raise to $1.15 billion.
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the round, with participation from Goodwater Capital Premji Invest, Amity Ventures, Avidity Partners, Metrodora Ventures, Sound Ventures and Whale Rock Capital, as well as existing investors.
The...
This morning Sprout, a tech-enabled autism care and treatment program, launched its service on the back of $10 million in seed funding from institutional investors General Catalyst, Bling Capital and Felicis Ventures.
WHAT THEY DO
Sprout's approach combines prompt in-home assessments and applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy from a live therapist with a tech platform that delivers ongoing...
Owlet, baby activity tracker
A month ago, MobiHealthNews put together a list of activity trackers for babies that launched this past summer. A few weeks later, an Iowa health department program that promotes healthy pregnancy went national with a web app and around the same time Pamela Johnson, Voxiva’s Chief Medical Officer, teased a new texting alerts program geared towards expectant women...
This week Nike announced the 10 startups that would enter the first Nike+ Accelerator, which the digital sport company is offering in partnership with accelerator network TechStars.
As MobiHealthNews reported in December, Nike sought out startups that can leverage Nike+ technology and data to help people be more active. While Nike+ specifically calls its users “athletes”, the company also...
