Host Jonah Comstock, MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett and MobiHealthNews Associate Mallory Hackett welcome StartUp Health President Unity Stoakes to discuss Q1 2021 digital health funding. With more than $7 billion raised according to MobiHealthNews' tracker and more than $8 billion according to StartUp's, we can all agree it was an impressive quarter. But how do those numbers compare...
The virtual care platform Conversa announced this week it has raised an additional $8 million for its Series B funding round, bringing the total amount for this raise to $20 million.
The company first announced it had raised $12 million last June led by Builders VC and Northwell Ventures. In addition to the co-leaders, the now completed Series B round also had participation from UH Ventures, P5...
Medical-billing startup Inbox Health scored $3.5 million earlier this month. Healthy Ventures was the lead investor this round, with participation from Collaborative Fund. Commerce Ventures, Connecticut Innovations, I2BF Global Ventures and StartUp Health.
WHAT THEY DO
The Connecticut-based startup pitches its services as a way to personalize patients’ billing, payments and communications. Its...
Yesterday morning addiction focused digital therapeutic Quit Genius scored $11 million in Series A funding. Octopus Ventures led the round with participation from Y Combinator, Startup Health and Triple Point Ventures.
This brings the company's total funding pot to $13.5 million.
WHAT THEY DO
The company is geared at treating individuals with tobacco-, opioid- and alcohol-use disorder through...
Startups can have a difficult time striking a balance between the fast pace of tech culture and healthcare’s slow-and-steady validation culture.
In part, the culture clash is a West Coast-East Coast divide, with tech giants congregating for the most part in California and hospitals and pharma in the Northeast, according to a panel moderated by CNBC’s Christina Farr at the MassBio Digital Health...
Genneve, an online telehealth service serving women experiencing menopause, has raised $4 million in a funding round led by BlueRun Ventures. Maven Ventures, Startup Health and an unnamed angel investors also participated.
WHAT THEY DO
Founded by former Microsoft and Neutrogena executives, Genneve is a platform offering video appointments with practitioners specializing in menopause care. Users...
The first quarter of 2019 is behind us and both Rock Health and Startup Health have released their funding report for the quarter.
Both agree that funding for Q1 2019 is down relative to other recent years. But both see other reasons to be optimistic about digital health investment.
Rock Health tracked $986 million of investment across 61 digital health deals in the US, which is lower than both...
Look out Silicon Valley and the Big Apple — new cities are starting to gain steam in the digital health funding game. A recently released end of year report from StartUp Health shows that while San Francisco, New York and Boston are still leading the pack in digital health funding amounts and deals, the industry is beginning to see more action emerging in cities like Beijing, Nashville and...
The third quarter of 2018 was the biggest funding quarter for digital health ever, according to StartUp Health Insights. The research group attached to healthcare startup alliance StartUp Health reported $4.5 billion in digital health funding.
With $11.1 billion invested so far, investment is only $600 million short of last year’s overall total, even including the fourth quarter.
The top five...
What’s happening?
This morning StartUp Health, a digital health group that supports, connects, and finances startups, announced that it raised $31 million in funding from Novartis, Ping An Group, Chiesi Group, GuideWell, Otsuka, Masimo, and other private investors.
Why it matters
StartUp Health works with young digital health companies by coaching, mentoring, and helping them to network....
