Surgical collaboration app Chiefy announced this week it had raised $4.2 million in a seed funding round led by LionBird with participation from Nina Capital and Emerge Ventures.
WHAT IT DOES
The startup offers a chat and communication platform that allows members of the surgical team to hold a pre-operation briefing virtually, instead of relying on in-person meetings or text messages, emails and...
Indian health tech company Pristyn Care has bought Lybrate, a mobile health platform, for an undisclosed amount as part of its expansion into primary care.
Founded in 2014, Lybrate helps connect over 300,000 doctors to patients. It claims to have managed more than 200 million annual interactions in India over the last five years. The company also runs a doctor-facing app called GoodMD which...
Surgery tech company Apella scored $21 million in a Series A funding round led by Casdin Capital.
Other investors in this round of financing include Vensana Capital, PFM Health Sciences, Twine Ventures, Upside Partnership and Operator Partners.
WHAT IT DOES
Apella’s first digital surgery products are AI-enabled sensors that can be installed in an operating room to collect data on surgeries. That...
Avail Medsystems, maker of a telemedicine platform fine-tuned for remote procedure room collaborations, has claimed $100 million in a Series B raise headed by D1 Capital Partners. 8VC and the company's existing investors – a list that includes Lux Capital, Coatue, Sonder Capital, Playground Global, Baidu Ventures and Refractor Capital – also participated.
WHAT IT DOES
The Palo Alto, California...
Sam Glassenberg, CEO of Level Ex, dodged the family business of medicine and went into video game design. But his path led him right back to the world of medicine
“All of this came to a head in 2012 when my father, who is an anesthesiologist, finally gave up and said ‘All right Sam, you’re not going to medical school. It’s too late. So at least put this game silliness to good use and make me a...
London-based FundamentalVR, a digital health company that uses virtual reality (VR) to help train surgeons, today announced the expansion of its educational platform Fundamental Surgery.
Its new education modality @HomeVR brings educational simulations, accredited by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons, to standalone VR headsets such as Oculus Quest and...
Telecoms giant Vodafone has launched its 5G network in seven cities across the UK earlier today, switched on by five-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton in London.
From expanding virtual reality training to telemedicine or remote monitoring, experts say 5G will accelerate adoption and stimulate innovation in healthcare in the coming years.
WHY IT MATTERS
“Everyone talks about speed and...
Durham, North Carolina-based RelayOne has raised $500,000 in seed funding from Cofounders Capital, a tech-focused venture fund located in Cary, North Carolina.
WHAT THEY DO
Founded by two frustrated medical device sales reps, RelayOne is focused on solving communication issues in the operating room.
The crux of the problem is that surgeries can often take a longer or shorter time than expected,...
Chicago-based ExplORer Surgical, developer of a software platform for surgical teams and device makers, has raised $5 million in a follow-on round to its 2017 Series A. Aphelion Capital led the investment, with additional participation from prior backers as well as new, unnamed investors.
WHAT THEY DO
ExplORer Surgical’s provider-facing platform looks to help surgical teams better coordinate...
Giblib, a medical education streaming service with offerings including both VR and traditional videos of medical lectures and surgeries, has raised $2.5 million in seed funding, with participation from some notable strategic investors.
Those include Mayo Clinic, the Venture Reality Fund, Wavemaker 360, USC Marshall Venture Fund and Michelson 20MM.
“With our partners’ support, Giblib is uniquely...
