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By  Jessica Hagen 02:22 pm October 22, 2024
Counsel Health, a virtual healthcare practice focused on message-based care, has launched with $11 million in seed funding in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz ("a16z") Bio + Health. Floodgate Fund, Asymmetric Capital Partners, Pear VC and numerous healthcare startup founders participated in the round.  WHAT IT DOES The company offers an AI-enabled asynchronous care platform that provides...
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By  Jessica Hagen 10:54 am October 16, 2024
Oshi Health, a digital gastrointestinal health company, announced it scored $60 million in Series C funding in a round led by Oak HC/FT.  The round also included existing investors CVS Health Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Takeda Digital Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and First Cressey Ventures.  WHAT IT DOES Oshi Health provides patients with gastrointestinal issues with virtual access...
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By  Jessica Hagen 11:57 am October 15, 2024
Alchemy, a company that helps develop and scale in-house pharmacy programs focused on HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV) patient populations, announced it closed $31 million in seed financing led by Andreessen Horowitz ("a16z") Bio + Health. Professional basketball player turned investor Earvin "Magic" Johnson participated in the round alongside Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, Banc of California and...
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By  Jessica Hagen 10:25 pm October 11, 2024
Glooko, the maker of a digital platform for managing diabetes and other chronic diseases, has secured $100 million in Series F funding and announced Mike Alvarez as the company's newly appointed CEO. Georgian led the round with participation from Canaan, Health Catalyst Capital, and other investors and business partners.  Alvarez formerly held the CEO role at Qardio, a remote patient monitoring...
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By  Jessica Hagen 03:50 pm October 10, 2024
RadiantGraph, a company that uses machine learning and AI to drive consumer engagement for healthcare, announced it raised $11 million in Series A funding just weeks after releasing news of launching integration capabilities with Amazon Web Service (AWS), Google Cloud platform, Snowflake and Databricks. M13 led the Series A round with participation from XYZ Ventures and True Ventures.  WHAT IT...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:44 pm October 10, 2024
Suki, maker of an AI-backed healthcare voice tool, announced it raised $70 million in Series D funding, bringing its total raise to $165 million. Hedosophia led the round, with additional investment from Venrock and participation by existing investors Flare Capital, March Capital, inHealth Ventures and Breyer Capital. WHAT IT DOES Suki's offerings include Suki Assistant, an AI-enabled voice tool...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:05 pm October 9, 2024
MARAbio Systems, a tech-enabled precision immunology company, has received $19 million in Series A financing led by MAK Capital One. MAK Capital's Michael A. Kaufman and Craig Nemiroff will join MARAbio's board of directors. The company has developed a proprietary blood test to detect, treat and prevent Maternal Autoantibody Related Autism (MARA), a biological subtype of autism identifiable by a...
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By  Jessica Hagen 10:20 am October 4, 2024
Empathy Health Technologies announced it has secured $2.3 million in seed funding to expand its Sober Sidekick app.  Investors include Nina Capital, HealthX Ventures, 46 Ventures, the Venture Center, Ikigai Growth Partners, Suncoast Ventures, High Street Equity Partners and angel investors. WHAT IT DOES The company's Sober Sidekick app is a free sobriety app with a peer-led program to help...
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By  Adam Ang 04:22 am October 4, 2024
Mental health app Lissun bags $3M for AI integration  Mental health platform Lissun in India has scored $2.5 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by RPSG Capital Ventures. With its fresh funds, the startup plans to integrate AI into its suite of digital mental health solutions which target corporates, schools, and families of children with neurodevelopmental conditions. The new funds will...
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By  Jessica Hagen 12:06 pm October 3, 2024
Rippl, a company focused on providing mental health solutions to seniors with dementia and other cognitive conditions, announced it closed a $23 million Series A funding round. Tina Hoang-To, Kin Ventures' founding general partner, led the round, with participation from the company's seed investors General Catalyst, ARCH Ventures, GV (Google Ventures), Mass General Brigham Ventures, F-Prime and...