Exo, a Silicon Valley company known for its in-development handheld ultrasound device, announced $40 million in new funding yesterday. GlaxoSmithKline's Investor Action Potential Venture Capital fund was among the Series B+ round's unnamed investors.
Exo said in its announcement that it will be using the funds to wrap up product development for that device, and to bring its data and workflow apps...
Correction: A brief originally included in this roundup, about Quip's funding, has been removed. The round in question was not new; it was previously reported here.
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With new investor, Klara heading to market. New York-based Klara, a healthcare messaging system, has secured a new investment from Stage 2 Capital. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. Klara brought Stage 2 in to help...
New York-based Klara, a healthcare messaging system, has just landed another $11.5 million in Series A funding in a round led by FirstMark Capital with participation from Lerer Hippeau, Project A Ventures, Atlantic Labs, and other individual investors.
“This is how we think about the business, we believe healthcare should be patient centric and in order to enable that all of the people who are...
Miami-based DermaSensor and NYC-based Klara have been named the champion startups among a pool of roughly 80 companies participating in Traction, Health 2.0’s startup pitch competition. The former unveiled a portable, handheld, highly accurate skin cancer sensor, while the latter demonstrated a secure and centralized platform for medical communications.
Both companies were praised by judges for...
GE Healthcare has launched a healthcare accelerator called five.eight to improve health outcomes for the world’s developing economies. So-named for the 5.8 billion people worldwide who lack access to quality, affordable healthcare, the accelerator will look for global health startups with aims to improve healthcare quality and accessibility in places with low resources.
The initial program will...
Healthcare messaging company Klara, which bills itself as a “professional WhatsApp” for medicine, has raised $3 million in funding in a round led by Lerer Hippeau and Project A Ventures. Existing investors, including German VC Atlantic Labs, also participated.
The new funding will be expand Klara’s messaging platform, which will connect medical teams and patients to centralize all patient-related...
Berlin-based Klara has raised $2.5 million from Partech Ventures; Creathor Venture; Stephan Schambach, founder of ecommerce service Demandware; and Heilemann Ventures.
Existing angel investors include Atlantic Labs, 6Wunderkinder CEO Christian Reber, former CEO of Bayer-Dermatology, Marc Lafeuille, and TA Venture.
Klara has developed an app, available on iOS and Android devices, that helps...
