Millions of people worldwide suffer from macular degeneration and other low-vision disorders, conditions that cause severe visual impairment or even blindness. For those affected, even simple tasks...
Glóbulos rojos universales producidos en laboratorio podrían permitir transfusiones ilimitadas
El suministro de sangre es un componente esencial en la atención médica, pero el sistema actual, basado exclusivamente en donantes humanos, enfrenta serias limitaciones. La dependencia de donaciones...
YouShift: La plataforma que optimiza la gestión de guardias médicas
La gestión de los turnos y guardias médicas ha sido durante años una tarea compleja y manual, cargada de tensiones y dificultades para equilibrar las necesidades de los hospitales y las preferencias...
Meet Thryve: Leading the way in wearable data integration and insights
In healthcare, data generated by wearables, medical sensors, and connected devices is more fragmented than ever. Information silos prevent organizations from obtaining a comprehensive view of...
MeMind’, la nueva app del departamento de salud de Alcoy para prevenir suicidios
La Conselleria de Sanidad de la Comunitat Valenciana ha lanzado un innovador proyecto piloto en el departamento de salud de Alcoy, basado en la aplicación 'MeMind', que utiliza inteligencia...
Supernova challenge 2.0: A showcase of global innovation
The Supernova Challenge 2.0, the largest early-stage startup pitch competition in the world, wrapped up today at Expand North Star, showcasing groundbreaking innovations from across the globe. With...
A new headset aims to treat Alzheimer’s with light and sound
Summary: In the fight against Alzheimer’s, a groundbreaking initiative by startup Cognito Therapeutics is paving the way for a drug-free solution to combat cognitive decline. Based in Cambridge,...
Arediana, la startup que vela por la salud y el bienestar de las mujeres
Summary: Arediana, a brand established in September 2022, aims to counter misinformation about women's health circulating on the Internet. Recognizing the underexplored nature of women's health,...
Care.ai partners with Samsung to provide Smart Care Teams with high-fidelity virtual care experiences
AI-powered care facility automation platform care.ai has partnered with multinational electronics company Samsung to integrate its Smart Care Facility Platform into Samsung displays for use in...
La Fundación Ship2B lanza su programa S2B Health&Care para startups que revolucionarán la salud y la calidad de vida
La Fundación Ship2B ha lanzado su 15ª edición del programa S2B Health&Care, dirigido a startups enfocadas en la salud y la calidad de vida. El programa tiene como objetivo apoyar a emprendedores...
Xploro: la app que transforma la experiencia hospitalaria de los niños
Summary: Xploro es una aplicación diseñada para ayudar a los niños a comprender y enfrentar los tratamientos médicos y procedimientos. Esta aplicación aborda los desafíos emocionales que enfrentan...
Monitorización de pacientes con insuficiencia cardíaca a través de la voz
Summary: El Proyecto Cordio es una iniciativa innovadora que utiliza tecnología de procesamiento del habla para monitorizar de manera continua a pacientes con insuficiencia cardíaca. Consiste en una...
GE Healthcare acquires an innovative CT Navigation System for More Accurate Needle Placement
Summary: GE Healthcare has acquired IMACTIS, a small French med-tech company that designed an innovative navigation system to guide medical needles more precisely to their target inside the body....
This VC built a lab to make building biotech startups easier
Summary: "When you think of life sciences and biotech hubs in the U.S., where do you travel to in your mind? Boston? The Bay Area? Texas? Portal Innovations, a biotech VC firm based in Chicago, is...
Digital therapeutics startup Mindset Health scores $12M in Series A funding
Summary: "Launched in 2018, the company develops a range of hypnosis-based DTx apps which address health conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, menopause, and most recently, smoking cessation....
DigitalHealth.London Accelerator opens for applications
Summary: "DigitalHealth.London has opened applications to its flagship Accelerator programme, which aims to speed up the adoption of technology within London’s NHS to relieve pressure on services...
Nabla, a digital health startup, launches Copilot, using GPT-3 to turn patient conversations into action
Summary: "Healthcare has been pegged as a prime candidate for more AI applications — both to aid in clinical work and to lighten some of the more time-consuming administrative burdens that come...
Varjo, machineMD partner to detect brain disorders using VR
Summary: "In an exclusive interview, Varjo and machineMD discuss their partnership to develop Neos, a VR-powered eye-tracking tool that aims to help providers detect brain disorders." "Extended...
ADHD startups are exploding, and now there’s even a dedicated browser
Summary: "Was it the pandemic? Did everyone follow too many ADHD TikTokers? Have smartphones fried our brains? Whatever the case, there is a boom in ADHD tech solutions, from online drug deliveries...
mWell earns best innovation award at Mobile World Congress
Summary: "Metro Pacific Investments Corporation’s (MPIC) mWell gains its spot as among the best players in the digital world as it bags the highly- coveted 2023 Global Mobile Awards (GLOMO) Best...
El kit que abre la realidad virtual y la digitalización al tratamiento del ojo vago y otras patologías oftalmológicas
Summary: "Mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas es el fin último de la tecnología. En ocasiones, la dificultad está en encontrar ese punto de vista, esa necesidad en la que nadie ha reparado...
As Tech Valuations Shrink, Healthcare Startups Can Get Even Stronger
Summary: "As the tech industry’s valuations shrink, healthcare startups can take several steps to make it through the storm. Digital health startups have a particular opportunity to open up new...
Macmillan invests in Neutrocheck device for home-testing neutropenic sepsis
Summary: "Macmillan Cancer Support, the cancer charity, has invested in Neutrocheck – a portable device and accompanying app in development from 52 North Health – with the aim to help people with...
Dubai: DHA to focus on healthcare startups, tech companies this year
Summary: "Dr Ibtesam Al Bastaki, Director of Investments and PPP (Public Private Partnership) at the DHA, highlighted that Dubai’s strategic location, future-outlook, diverse and growing population,...
Emm aims to upgrade periods with a smart menstrual cup
Summary: "What exactly is a smart menstrual cup? In Emm’s case, it’s a suite of products that center around a wearable device that kind of looks like a shuttlecock-shaped ketchup cup. The reusable...
Which Digital Health Startups Are Most & Least Suited to Raise Capital in 2023?
Summary: "Last year’s digital health investment trends have left some startups feeling uneasy about their ability to raise capital in the new funding environment. Healthcare startups raised $3.4...
Digital health unicorn Innovaccer lays off 245 employees
Summary: "Innovaccer, a health data analytics startup that reached unicorn status in 2021, has laid off 245 workers, or about 15% of its workforce." "First reported by Inc42, the cuts mark the...
InnovationRx: A Mental Health Startup Unionizes; Plus, Covid Emergency To End In May
Summary: "Therapists at mental health startup Resilience Lab voted to unionize on Wednesday, one of the first successful unionization efforts at a digital health company. The move comes two months...
AI drug developer Alto Neuroscience raises $25M and more digital health fundings
Summary: "Alto Neuroscience, which uses AI to identify biomarkers to develop targeted psychiatric medicine options, announced it had closed a $25 million equity investment with new investor Alpha...
Put a (smart) ring on it: Movano on why its health wearable will put women first
Summary: "Movano Health turned heads at CES with an ouroboros-esque smart ring designed for women." "In the crowded field of fitness wearables, where the mainstream heavy hitter of the Apple Watch...
Starling Medical’s new urine-testing device turns your toilet into a health tracker
Summary: "If you enjoy some good toilet technology, then I think “urine” for a treat. Starling Medical is poised to launch its at-home urine diagnostic patient-monitoring platform, dubbed...
Philips, Masimo expand remote patient monitoring partnership
Summary: "Medtech companies Philips and Masimo are expanding their patient monitoring partnership to include the latter's new W1 wearable." "The collaboration allows vital sign data from the W1...
US-Based Startup Spike Enters The UAE To Offer Healthcare Providers Better Access To Data From Wearable Tech
Summary: "The next time you strap an Apple Watch or a FitBit onto your wrist, consider this for a second: every statistic saved onto this tiny device -including your heart rate, your blood sugar...
10 Innovative Health Start-ups in Nigeria in 2023
Summary: "The Nigerian digital health startup industry has been steadily growing over the years. Whether it is mhealth or e-health, they have been numerous exciting digital health start-ups in...
Digital Health, Cancer Therapeutics Accelerators Add 29 Participants
Summary: "A recent announcement from the Texas Medical Center Innovation (TMCi) noted that various startups, researchers, and entrepreneurs will join the spring 2023 Accelerator for HealthTech...
15 digital therapeutics startups to watch, according to investors
Summary: "It’s a good time to be a digital therapeutics startup. The sector is the fastest-growing healthtech segment, and the global market for startups offering digital and app-based treatment is...
Peppy raises $45M for U.S. expansion and more digital health fundings
Summary: "Founded in 2018, Peppy offers gender-related health services through employers, including care for menopause, pregnancy, fertility, early parenthood and men's health concerns. The company...
CVS Invests $25M in Virtual Mental Health Clinic
Summary: "Investors understand that virtual behavioral health services are not only here to stay, but are crucial to addressing the nation’s mental health crisis. That’s why CVS Health on Monday...
4 Health Systems Invest in a Cybersecurity Startup as Threats Loom
Summary: "MemorialCare, Ballad Health, Cedars-Sinai and UNC REX Healthcare recently participated in Censinet’s $9 million funding round. The company’s flagship product is a cloud-based network that...
Docline cierra una ronda de tres millones de euros liderada por Seaf y EmergingTech Ventures
Summary: "La compañía pretende consolidarse en España, al tiempo que exportar su modelo de negocio a mercados internacionales emergentes en los que existan oportunidades de “ayudar a las empresas a...
Lanzadera apuesta por la salud y selecciona seis nuevas empresas
Summary: "Biotech&Nutrition Research ha elaborado Retiprotek, un nuevo nutracéutico que podría ayudar a retrasar la pérdida de visión en personas afectadas por retinosis pigmentaria. Por otro...
5 tips for healthcare startups fundraising in a down market
Summary: "In fundraising, a founder’s greatest challenge is not selling any particular product or strategy. Instead, it is often unwinding and realigning the investor’s biases." "The competition is...
La startup catalana Onalabs abre una filial en Andorra para tratar salud y deporte
Summary: "Onalabs-Inno-Hub, start-up biotecnológica catalana que crea dispositivos y productos de monitorización de biomarcadores fisiológicos a través del sudor, ha creado la filial andorrana...
Virtual reality companies BehaVR and OxfordVR merge
Summary: "On Tuesday, VR behavioral health platform BehaVR and OxfordVR, a VR platform for severe mental health issues, announced their merger. The companies say their combination creates the...
Japan’s health tech Ubie wants to fuel its US expansion with $19M Series C extension
Summary: "Ubie, a Tokyo-based startup providing an AI-powered symptom checker app and hospital SaaS products, has closed a $19 million extension to its previous Series C round. This brings the...
Inside One Company’s Approach to Improving Medicaid Members’ Outcomes and Patient Experience
Summary: "This summer, Adventist Health began a three-year partnership with Emcara Health, a primary care provider group that deploys community health workers into the places people live. Five...
Sonde Health Secures $19.25M for Voice-Based Health Monitoring
Summary: "Sonde Health, a Boston, MA-based health technology company committed to bringing accessible health monitoring to everyone raises $19.25 million in a Series B investment round led by...
Komodo Health lays off 9% of its workforce
Summary: "Health data startup Komodo Health has laid off 9% of its staff as part of a larger restructuring of its business." "The COVID-19 pandemic created opportunities for the analytics company,...
78 Healthcare Technology Startups and Companies on the Forefront of Modern Medicine
Summary: "Healthcare startups have emerged to take advantage of that growing emphasis on technology, coming up with novel ways to treat and diagnose patients, providing more affordable care options...
The HealthTech 250 is Galen Growth’s selection of the 250 most promising early-stage Digital Health ventures across the globe in 2022
Summary: "Since 2017, Galen Growth has tracked and reported on the Digital Health innovation across the globe. HealthTech Alpha’s unmatched data, intel and insights allow us to uniquely assess,...
Venture Capital Firms Are Partnering With Healthcare Organizations To Improve Digital Health
Summary: "Venture capital (VC) firms are increasingly playing a role in all aspects of healthcare. This is a growing trend globally, as healthcare organizations are eager for the resources,...
CardioWise wins health tech award
Summary: "Fayetteville-based digital healthcare company CardioWise was named a rising star in a health technology awards program hosted by an affiliate of the University of California." "San...
This Health Startup Is Mapping The Vaginal Microbiome Because No Bothered To Before
Summary: "Priyanka Jain and Laine Bruzek want to close the gender gap in healthcare. And they’re talking about vaginas, in particular." "With their new company, Evvy, which launched earlier this...
La inteligencia artificial que lleva a la España vaciada los últimos avances en detección y terapias contra el cáncer
Summary: "Comitas y Keyzell implantan una solución que permite a los radiólogos detectar si un paciente posee masa tumoral con una precisión del 92% y ofrece el diagnostico en menos de un minuto."...
Zoe, which went viral with its Covid-reporting app, raises $30M to track nutrition and health
Summary: "Zoe, a startup founded by doctors and researchers out of London and Boston, made its name during the pandemic with a popular — dare we say viral? — self-reporting Covid-19 app. Embraced...
MedTech Innovators: Tissium co-founder Maria Pereira on taking tech from bench to bedside
Summary: Maria Pereira, co-founder and chief innovation officer of Paris-based Tissium, was a PhD student in bioengineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when a surgeon asked her lab...
Exited telehealth founder launches €100m healthtech VC fund
Summary: "It’s a sign the sector is maturing — even though investment in European healthtechs is down 42% this year compared with the frothy days of 2021, according to Dealroom. But that drop is...
Exheus cierra una ronda de 900.000 euros liderada por Decelera Ventures
Summary: "La compañía española especializada en análisis de ARN también ha contado con el apoyo de WA4Steam y NextGen Venture Partners. Exheus utilizará los recursos para abrirse mercado en Europa."...
Almirall joins project to allow study participants to use trial data
Summary: "Project involves 27 partners including patient associations, hospitals and universities" "Almirall – a company focused on skin health – is participating in Facilitate, a patient-driven...
Digital health investors: Close your funding rounds now
Summary: "Yeshwant spoke on investing in a down-market economy while presenting at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas. He was joined on a panel by Andrew Adams, co-founder and managing partner of the...
Can Electricity Make Meditation Better?
Summary: "Does a little electrical head stimulation make meditation easier? The folks at Bodhi NeuroTech say yes; the South Carolina-based tech startup is planning the launch of a headset that...
Healthcare fintech PayZen raises $20M, receives $200M credit facility
Summary: "Founded in 2019, PayZen touts a "care now, pay later" model for healthcare. The startup pays providers for patients' invoices and then uses artificial intelligence to create individualized...
Nyra Medical Announces $20 Million Series A Financing for its Transcatheter Heart Valve Repair Technology
Summary: "Nyra is developing a transcatheter technology (CARLEN), which modifies the native mitral valve leaflets with a proprietary implant, to correct for deficiencies that otherwise lead to...
Sequoia India’s Surge backs health tech startup RedBrick AI in $4.6M funding
Summary: "Health tech startup RedBrick AI has raised $4.6 million in a funding round led by Sequoia India and Southeast Asia’s Surge as it plans to expand the market for its medical imagery...
Bringing wearable healthcare to life
Summary: "At Design Partners, designing medical-grade equipment for both the healthcare services industry and the consumer healthcare industry is a core pillar of our work. Because of the...
Health management platform Novi Health raises $5M in Series A funding round
Summary: "Founded in 2018, the company offers a healthcare platform that integrates clinical treatments with behavioural and lifestyle interventions to address chronic conditions." "It has two core...
Así es Noula: mentores virtuales para el cuidado reproductivo
Summary: "Noelle Acosta es la figura que se esconde detrás de la startup Noula Health. La joven emprendedora ha roto con todos los esquemas y obstáculos a los que se tienen que enfrentar los...
Medtech startup See-Mode gets Canada’s nod for AI breast, thyroid ultrasound analysis software
Summary: "See-Mode Technologies, a medtech startup based in Melbourne, Australia and Singapore, has received the approval of Health Canada for its software product that supports breast and thyroid...
SOUTHEAST HEALTHTECH FOUND NEW WAYS TO INNOVATE IN 2022
Summary: "While venture funding fell year-over-year, 2022 has still been lucrative for the Southeast HealthTech scene. 63 companies in the region closed venture rounds over the last 90 days,...
Meet The Female Founder Who Just Raised $7.2 Million For Her Virtual Care Platform Aiming To Reverse The Autoimmune Epidemic
Summary: "Three years ago, Ellen Rudolph hit rock bottom with unexplainable, debilitating symptoms ranging from brain fog to gastrointestinal symptoms to fatigue, and got to the point where she was...
Global Digital Health 100 – The Medical Futurist’s Top Choices in 2022
Summary: "We first published the list of the Top 100 Digital Health Companies in 2017, highlighting the mindblowing growth the sector registered in the previous year. “Global digital health...
This Ultrahuman ‘Metabolism-Tracking’ Ring May Be The Smallest Consumer Health And Fitness Wearable
Summary: "The company shot to prominence with the M1, a simple patch you stuck on your arm that constantly monitored your blood glucose levels (CGM). Working somewhat like the glucose-testing kits...
With $14M in Seed Funding, Midi Health Aims To Provide Midlife Hormonal Care Nationally
Summary: "The seed funding was co-led by Felicis Ventures and SemperVirens. Midi Health will use the $14 million to expand beyond California, form new partnerships and train and hire additional...
Tucuvi obtiene 5,5 millones de euros de Europa para su plataforma de telemedicina
Summary: "La compañía española ha recibido financiación por parte de la Comisión Europea (CE), en el marco del EIC Accelerator. De ellos, 2,5 millones de euros se otorgarán en forma de subvención a...
Digital Mental Health Investment Climbs to $700M in Q3
Summary: "The subtle uptick in funding comes as digital health investment as a whole continues to plummet. Health tech funding in Q3 was down by 36% quarter over quarter, according to CB Insights....
A new genome sequencing tool powered with our technology
Summary: "Genome sequencing provides a more complete description of cells and organisms, allowing scientists to uncover serious genetic conditions such as the elevated risk for breast cancer or...
Hand Tremors Reduced by Wrist-Worn Stimulator
Summary: "Cala Health is a California-based company that develops wearable therapeutic neuromodulation devices. The company funded a retrospective analysis study that was published recently in...
Sanarai, la startup que lleva la salud mental virtual al mercado hispano
Summary: "La salud mental ha sido, y es, un tabú en muchas culturas. Una de las regiones donde sigue siendo un estigma es en Latinoamérica. Según la Organización Mundial de la Salud, un cinco por...
Neuraxpharm entra en salud digital tras su acuerdo con mjn-neuro
Summary: "La farmacéutica especializada en el tratamiento de trastornos del Sistema Nervioso Central (SNC) comercializará junto a la start up su dispositivo médico para las crisis de epilepsia en la...
Startups that make healthcare more affordable, accessible will succeed: Ex-US health official
Summary: "Given the Indian government’s push on using technology in healthcare, this may be an opportune time for India and the US to come closer together, former US secretary of veterans affairs...
Telehealth unicorn Cerebral lays off 20% of staff for ‘operational efficiencies’
Summary: "A spokesperson for Cerebral confirmed the layoffs to TechCrunch but did not share the specific number of employees affected. According to the WSJ, which first reported the news, and...
A Wearable Patch That Could Revolutionise Health Monitoring
Summary: "Currently, India ranks second in the global diabetes epidemic which makes it necessary for providing instant diagnosis and treatment. It is not practical to use wearable devices for...
Biosymbiotic Devices: 3D-Printed Personalized, Wireless Wearables That Never Need a Charge
Summary: "University of Arizona engineers have developed a type of wearable they call a “biosymbiotic device,” which has several unprecedented benefits. Not only are the devices custom 3D-printed...
FDA-Approved At-Home Spirometer: Interview with Charvi Shetty, Co-Founder and CEO at Aluna
Summary: "The COVID-19 pandemic has put lung health firmly in our minds. For those with chronic lung diseases, such as asthma and COPD, an important way to keep track of lung health is to use a...
7 Must-Have Features of Healthcare App
Summary: "Healthcare is one of the fastest-growing industries, and it gained immense popularity during the pandemic and will continue to do the same. Even a study has showcased that COVID-19 has led...
4Moving Biotech Announces First Patient Enrolled in Phase I Clinical Trial on Osteoarthritis
Summary: " "We are so excited to have the first patient enrolled in our first-in-human phase 1 clinical study. This initial step is critical to evaluate the safety and tolerability of our OA drug...
Folx Health pulls in $30M to scale enterprise offering, virtual care for LGBTQ+ communities
Summary: "Folx Health, a virtual LGBTQ+ care provider, has clinched $30 million in a funding round. The round was led by 7wireVentures alongside participation from Foresite Capital, Bessemer Venture...
Robopedics cierra su primera ronda de financiación y capta 300.000 euros
Summary: "La compañía ha cerrado la ronda que tenía abierta a través de la plataforma Capital Cell. La empresa española destinará los recursos a fabricar sus primeros prototipos para iniciar ensayos...
Meet Jenny Rooke, founder and Managing Partner at Genoa Ventures
Summary: "Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed! While there are more startups than ever, there's...
Japanese Startup Ubie Secures $26M for AI-Powered Symptom Checker
Summary: "Ubie is a Japanese health-tech startup founded by a medical doctor and an engineer in 2017. Using AI as its core technology, the company develops and provides an AI-powered patient...
AWS Names 10 Startups for 2022 AWS Healthcare Accelerator Cohort
Summary: "AWS names the ten digital health startups selected for its AWS Healthcare Accelerator cohort, focused on health equity." "Over the course of the four-week program, these 10 startups will...
This smart mood ring is supposed to monitor mental health — without changing colors
Summary: "Startup Happy Health is looking to give the mood ring a “smart” makeover. Instead of dubious color-changing stones, it has created the Happy Ring, which aims to alert users about their...
La startup Synchron vence a Musk e implanta el primer chip cerebral en un paciente
Summary: "Stentrode es el nombre que ha recibido el chip cerebral desarrollado por la startup Synchron. La compañía ha conseguido superar a su mayor rival, Neuralink, y ha anunciado el implante de...
Plume scoops up $24M for virtual transgender healthcare
Summary: "Plume, a startup focused on virtual care for transgender patients, raised $24 million in Series B funding." "Plume offers digital gender-affirming care, including prescriptions to hormone...
Cycle-focused femtech startup, 28, grabs backing from Thiel Capital
Summary: "Meet 28: A U.S.-based femtech startup founded by a wife and husband team that’s scored $3.2 million in seed funding in a round led by Thiel Capital with a fitness and wellness pitch that...
Health tech startups are more technologically advanced than ever. Their PR should be, too
Summary: "In the old days, PR used to be about who you knew: the personal connections that your PR agency had in the media industry. Today, PR is a much more democratized field in which the best...
Heart attack prediction startup Cleerly scores $192M and more digital health fundings
Summary: "The company offers an AI-backed tool that evaluates CT angiograms for plaque build-up on the heart arteries' walls, which Cleerly pitches as a way to catch heart disease early. It will use...
Digital health firm Oto raises $3.3m for tinnitus support tool
Summary: "The app – also called Oto and available for download from the App store and Google Play – provides a series of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), mindfulness, physician...
Menopause Startup Lisa Health Launches Its AI-Powered App Midday And Closes The 2.5$ Million Seed Round
Summary: "Lisa Health was founded by its CEO, Ann Garnier, and Chief Scientific Officer and neuroscientist, Massimiliano de Zambotti, Ph.D., who’ve both ‘clicked’ together around the same mission...
Veteran digital health pros found virtual eating disorder care startup
Summary: "For Amanda D’Ambra and Joan Zhang, the idea of starting and co-founding an eating disorder care startup was personal: Both struggled with an eating disorder, along with other...
The Ecosystem: Can start-ups thrive in the European Health Data Space?
Summary: Proposals to build a European Health Data Space (EHDS) have received a warm welcome from digital health start-ups, which are frustrated by obstacles to scaling-up within Europe. If the plan...
Persephone puts poop to work to explore and heal your gut microbiome
Summary: " Persephone Biosciences is a biotech startup that — with the help of $15 million and a lot of poop — is building a library of the human microbiome and assembling a...
Neuro startups form latest group of grads from PharmStars digital health accelerator
Summary: "Neurological disorders present all sorts of challenges that range from the screening of people who may have a particular disease to the monitoring of patients in their homes. PharmStars, a...
Meet the startups using AI to help doctors fight burnout
Summary: "Even before COVID-19, 40% of physicians said they felt burned out. But the pandemic was a tipping point. Working in jerry-rigged PPE in overcrowded, understaffed ICUs, more than 3,600 U.S....
Kindly makes hormonal health care more approachable
Summary: "Hormonal healthcare can be intimidating, since it touches on the most intimate parts of our lives. Kindly wants to make it accessible to more people, with a combination of at-home...
Nigerian at-home lab testing platform Healthtrack gets $1.5M, backed by feamle VCs
Summary: "Google Health has introduced research projects that promise to turn smartphones into disease=screening tools. One promising avenue involves using the onboard microphones on a...
Moving Analytics raises $20M to scale customer base for cardiac telehealth program
Summary: "Moving Analytics, an Irvine, California-based telehealth startup that provides remote cardiac rehab, recently announced it has raised $20 million in Series A funding." "The round was...
Most Digital Health Startups Are Not “Clinically Robust”
Summary: "When it comes to digital health products, accountability matters. The astounding growth in digital health care technology in the past decade may have come at the cost of startups being...
Navigating the medtech funding landscape
Summary: "For start-ups and scaleups within the medtech industry, attracting funding and investment is absolutely vital to the long-term success of the firm. Fundraising needs to considered from the...
How UCSF’s accelerator is helping health tech reach more low-income patients
Summary: "There are a bevy of reasons health technology can be inaccessible for low-income patients, according to Lyles. For example, a startup might only offer services in English or struggle with...
Teletherapy startup Sensible Care raises $13M
Summary: Photo: STEVE DEBENPORT/Getty Images Teletherapy provider Sensible Care scored $13 million in a Series A funding round led by Volition Capital with participation from Skyline Investors. WHAT...
Seed funding: Melbourne startup raises $9m for mental wellness game based on tending houseplants
Summary: "A Melbourne startup has raised $9m in funding for a mobile game aimed at mental wellness in what is said to be the largest venture capital seed investment for a game studio founded by...
The Promise of Digital Health: Then, Now, and the Future
Summary: "Over the past several decades, the development and accelerated advancement of digital technology has prompted change across virtually all aspects of human endeavor. The positive and...
Health2Sync, Sanofi partner to digitise insulin management in Japan
Summary: "A recent study by the Japan Diabetes Clinical Data Management Study Group found that the mean HbA1c level tends to increase among people living with diabetes mellitus. It also noted that...
Ria Health scores $18M for virtual alcohol use disorder treatment
Summary: "Virtual alcohol use disorder treatment company Ria Health completed an $18 million Series A funding round led by SV Health Investors." "Other participants in the round include SV limited...
Startups must warm up to provider workflows to create effective tech, healthcare CIO says
Summary: "Startups should co-develop products with healthcare providers and figure out how to plant themselves into hospitals and clinics’ operating models. This will allow them to create effective...
More AI-based innovation means start-ups can’t afford to ignore IP
Summary: "Protect business ideas, brainstorming and headhunter concepts. Intellectual property protection law and rights, copyright, artificial intelligence and patents concept." "The number of...
Inrobics abre una ronda de 275.000 euros para impulsar el crecimiento de su tecnología
Summary: "Inrobics busca capital. La compañía española ha abierto una ronda de financiación de 275.000 euros para impulsar el crecimiento de su tecnología. La ronda se tramita a través de la...
A New, Radically Collaborative Way to Fight Type 1 Diabetes
Summary: "StartUp Health and a consortium of diabetes leaders launch the first dedicated moonshot to prevent, manage, and cure Type 1 diabetes, rallying once-siloed entrepreneurs, investors,...
Alimetry gets FDA clearance for wearable gut disorder test
Summary: "Auckland-based health technology startup Alimetry has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration for its wearable device for diagnosing gastric disorders." "Gastric...
Here’s how PeerCapsule is building a collaboration platform to jumpstart medical research
Summary: "When Abdullah Norain was a resident surgeon at Mayo Clinic and frequently traveled to conferences, he was struck by the lack of an ability to continue the stimulating conversations he had...
Study: Many digital health startups lack clinical trials, regulatory filings
Summary: "Many venture-backed digital health startups aren't clinically robust, as measured by the number of regulatory filings and clinical trials, according to a study published in JMIR. " "The...
How a tech startup is using AI to find better treatments for autism
Summary: "Shao, who is the mother of four children with autism spectrum disorder, is a health industry veteran. She has held executive leadership roles at insurer UnitedHealth, healthcare services...
Met with AWS funding, Oben Health seeks to treat hypertension in at-risk groups without medication or surgery
Summary: "Oben Health, a San Francisco-based company developing a digital treatment platform to fight heart disease without medication or surgery. The platform is designed to treat Black and Brown...
StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups
Summary: "Equiva, an innovator in patient engagement and health relationship management solutions, commends the health systems participating in an initiative recently launched by the American...
Meta Pharmaceuticals lands $15M to make autoimmune drugs with AI, new immuno-metabolism tech
Summary: "Biotech startup Meta Pharmaceuticals sets itself an ambitious goal as it secures its initial investment. The Shenzhen-based company, which sets out to develop treatments for autoimmune...
For mental health startups, happiness is in niches
Summary: "The more the pandemic seemed to subside, the less venture capital investors seemed willing to commit to companies and sectors that had initially benefited from strong tailwinds when most...
Healthtech start-ups inspire with HIV project breakthrough
Summary: "It is estimated that 25 million – or 67% – of all people living with HIV, live in sub-Saharan Africa. Approximately 8.1 million of these people are virally unsuppressed." "Through...
Startup with bold goal to establish digital biomarkers for neurological disease diagnosis wins $25M
Summary: "Artificial intelligence is being leveraged to solve a variety of healthcare challenges, but its greatest promise remains its potential to detect and diagnose diseases better than humans...
Indian derma startup Clinikally developing AI-driven skin, hair treatment plan
Summary: "Founded in 2021, the startup is connecting patients and dermatologists through its web-based platform and delivers prescription products directly to consumers." "Its system works by users...
Disney for mental health! Berlin-based startup rethinks children’s entertainment and brings in €3 million
Summary: "Alarmingly, one in three children has suffered mental health problems since the outbreak of the pandemic. The global digital health market is predicted to be worth around $640 billion by...
Q&A: Why startups should work with the healthcare industry to improve maternal care
Summary: "Compared with other wealthy countries, the U.S. lags when it comes to maternal health outcomes. Maternal mortality rates have generally worsened since 1987, reaching 23.8 deaths per...
Meet the start-up: Sensing smarter care
Summary: "Anthropos is a technology platform, aiming to change the face of care in the UK. The platform connects to discreet, smart sensors around the home – which provide data we turn into usable...
Caregiver support startup Homethrive raises $20M
Summary: "Caregiver support platform Homethrive scored $20 million in a Series B funding round led by Human Capital." "Other participants in the fundraise include Allianz and existing...
Male fertility startup Legacy raises $25M to expand offerings
Summary: "Male fertility startup Legacy scored $25 million in a Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures." "Other investors participating in the raise include FirstMark Capital, Section...
«Startup like no other»: China’s Hengrui launches Luzsana with Big Pharma veternas at the top and a goal to improve drug access
Summary: "After 50 years establishing itself as one of the largest pharma companies in China, Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals is launching Luzsana Biotechnology targeted at the global market....
Roundup: Free mental health app offered to UK NHS users, Dutch startup begins study on therapy for chronic disorders, and more briefs
Summary: "Free mental health app available to 1 million South Yorkshire NHS users" "An emotional wellness app is being offered to over 16s in the UK's South Yorkshire for free, to help manage low...
Sidekick Health grabs $55M for digital-first care programs
Summary: "Digital therapeutics plus pills? Iceland’s Sidekick Health has developed a gamified digital care platform that’s designed to support healthcare outcomes by applying personalized behavioral...
Irisbond se apoya en Apple para acelerar en Estados Unidos
Summary: "Irisbond gana cuota de mercado. La compañía española, dedicada al diseño de tecnologías de control de los movimientos de la mirada a través del seguimiento ocular, ha recibido la...
Mental Health Startup Uses Voice ‘Biomarkers’ To Detect Depression And Anxiety
Summary: "Kintsugi’s AI software analyzes the human voice to detect depression and anxiety, offering clinicians “a more well-rounded, 360-view of the patient” that sometimes gets lost in virtual...
Digital health firm Hello Heart raises $70m
Summary: "Hello Heart’s digital platform is based on a blood pressure monitor and smartphone app. It deploys artificial intelligence to help users track their blood pressure, pulse rate, weight and...
The 20 Healthtech Leaders in Latam in 2022
Summary: "The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated startup ecosystem growth across Latin America (LatAm), according to a January report from The Economist." "While international investors’ eyes have...
AcceXible busca más de dos millones de euros para acelerar su expansión
Summary: "AcceXible busca capital. La start up española especializada en detección y seguimiento de enfermedades a través del análisis del habla opta a más de dos millones de euros provenientes de...
What Medtech Startups Need to Know About Healthcare
Summary: "Healthcare is arguably one of the largest and most complex sectors in America. It’s big business too." "According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in 2020 alone,...
Japanese startup Ubie brings AI symptom checker to the US
Summary: "Japanese medtech startup Ubie has launched its AI symptom checker in the United States". "The web-based Ubie AI Symptom Checker generates relevant questions about a user's symptoms from...
Health startup myNurse to shut down after data breach exposed health records
Summary: "MyNurse, a healthcare startup that provides chronic care management and remote patient monitoring services, said it will shut down at the end of the month after reporting a data breach...
Ruth Health scores $2.4M for pregnancy, postpartum support
Summary: "Ruth offers virtual pelvic floor physical therapy, C-section recovery and lactation consulting. The startup said its pelvic floor therapy and lactation support can be accessed during...
Brave Health and the Doula Network partner for maternal mental healthcare
Summary: "Virtual behavioral health company Brave Health is partnering with the Doula Network, a service that pairs pregnant Medicaid patients with doulas, to offer maternal mental healthcare. As...
Transcarent Launches Oncology Care for Collaborative Cancer Care Experience
Summary: "Transcarent, a new, different, and better health and care experience company for employees of self-insured employers and their families launches Transcarent Oncology Care, a collaborative...
Corporate venture capital-backed funding for digital health startups increased sharply in 2021 – MedCity News
Summary: "According to a CB Insight's report, GV (formerly Google Ventures) funded the most digital health companies with 22 investments, making it most active investor in that sector for four years...
Telstra Health launches residential aged care app
Summary: "Digital health company Telstra Health has unveiled its latest mobile app for residential aged care. According to a press statement, the CareKeeper app enables staff to view, capture, and...
Medicina de precisión contra el cáncer: crean con IA los tratamientos más adecuados para cada paciente
Summary: "KeyZell desarrolla fármacos oncológicos novedosos y halla la combinación de tratamientos más eficiente según cada genética e historial clínico." "La investigación en la cura del cáncer se...
MeeToo mental health app shows positive results in study
Summary: "A study into the MeeToo mental health app has provided evidence that digital peer support helps young people to feel better, less alone and to find new ways to help themselves. Published...
Robotics startup NexStem announces launch of BCI headset, software
Summary: "Its BCI solutions can be used by mental health professionals to directly access patients' EEG data." "NexStem, a robotics startup based in Palo Alto, California with a R&D team in...
How corporate VCs, accelerators and incubators can prepare startups to work in healthcare
Summary: "During a session at HIMSS22, panelists discussed how provider-based venture capital firms, accelerators and incubators can help digital health startups understand and collaborate with the...
The 10 Mental Health Tech Unicorns with the Highest Valuations in 2021
Summary: "The mental health tech space raised $5 billion and created nine new mental health unicorns in 2021, according to new data from CB Insights. The number of unicorns — companies...
A startup provides medical data for testing AI health solutions
Summary: "When a pharmaceutical company needs to test a new drug, it employs a Contract Research Organisation (CRO). These are companies that specialise in designing clinical trials. But in today’s...
La industria digital del sueño quiere desterrar a los medicamentos: así quiere dormirnos Bodymatter
Summary: "Durante el día tomamos decisiones que más tarde tienen un gran impacto a la hora de dormir, o, al menos, así lo aseguran desde la startup Bodymatter (Newport Beach, California). La...
Menopause start-up extends NHS partnership and expands digital clinic
Summary: "A menopause health start-up has extended its partnership with the NHS in order to help expand its digital clinic for women’s health." "Bia Care was the first of its kind to partner with...
Digital mental-health medication provider Minded scores $25M
Summary: "The company is focused on providing patients mental health medications without having to go to an in-person healthcare visit. Patients first use the company's online assessment to fill out...
Abi Health aterriza en China y Japón para extender su servicio de telesalud
Summary: "La empresa española acaba de abrir una ronda de 7,5 millones de euros, asesorada por la firma de finanzas Clairfield, que debe servir para financiar su expansión a 35 países y llegar a...
Sincrolab cierra una ronda de un millón de euros liderada por Laboratorios Rubió
"La start up española, especializada en el diseño, desarrollo y distribución de terapias digitales para pacientes con trastornos del neurocognitivos en población infantil y tercera edad, ha...
Neurovascular Company Perfuze Raises €22.5m ($25m) Series A for New Stroke Treatment
Summary: "GALWAY, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Perfuze, a medical device company developing next-generation catheter-based aspiration technology to treat large vessel occlusion acute ischemic stroke,...
España, en la vanguardia de la digitalización del sector óptico: de optometrista a gestor de datos con esta tecnología
Summary: "Acudir al óptico de confianza cuando los síntomas de un problema visual ya son evidentes es la pauta más normalizada entre la población española que, en los últimos dos años, ha aumentado...
Dawako abre ronda de 1,2 millones para dar impulso a su tecnología de imagen biomédica
Summary: "Dawako Medtech, en busca de capital para crecer. La compañía española, especializada en tecnología de imagen médica de ultrasonidos, ha abierto una ronda de financiación de 1,2 millones de...
These startups aim to help cancer patients beyond the oncology ward
Summary: "Jasper Health is part of a wave of startups that hope to expand the notion of what cancer care is. The platform offers care management and a library of resources on everything from how to...
Adntro se apoya en Lanzadera para impulsar la comercialización de su ‘kit’ de detección genética
Summary: "La compañía especializada en la detección genética a través de muestras de saliva ha abierto una ronda de financiación con el objetivo de comercializar a gran escala su prueba de detección...
La inversión en ‘start ups’ de salud en Cataluña alcanza 238 millones de euros
Summary: "El biotech catalán, imparable. La inversión en start ups de salud de la región sigue al alza y ha vuelto a superar la barrera de los 200 millones por segundo año...
Innitius abre una ronda puente de un millón de euros para acelerar sus ensayos clínicos
Summary: "Innitius abre ronda puente para completar la fase de desarrollo de Fine Birth, su dispositivo enfocado a diagnosticar potenciales partos prematuros. De momento, la compañía española busca...
What Bubble? Digital Health Funding Year In Review 2021
Summary: "Coming off of almost two years of a global pandemic that has changed how consumers and clinicians seek and provide health care services, it’s not surprising to see continued growth in the...
GrayMatters Health Raises $10M for Biomarker-Based PTSD Therapeutics
Summary: "MH develops digital self-neuromodulation therapeutics for mental disorders to help patients regain agency over their emotion regulation." "About 250 million people worldwide live with...
Femtech Startup Diana Health Launches with $11M to Redesign Maternity and Women’s Health Programs
Summary: "The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is two times higher than any other developed country and five times higher than best-in-class programs. In addition,60,000 women annually experience...
Charco raises $10m for wearable device that could ease Parkinson’s symptoms; announces European Parkinson’s Disease Association partnership
Summary: "Cambridge, UK –Charco Neurotech, a medical technology company that develops solutions for people with Parkinson’s, has today announced its $10m seed investment round, co-led by technology...
El capital riesgo acelera: Seaya Ventures cierra su tercer fondo de 165 millones para invertir en startups europeas
Summary: "El fondo, sobresuscrito, logra su 'hard cap' por encima de su objetivo inicial de 125 millones y se convierte en uno de los más grandes del sur de Europa." "Seaya Ventures, fondo de...
Brainomix secures £16M to expand AI-based platform for biomarker imaging
Summary: "Brainomix recently took the decision to refocus on pharma partnerships and accelerate global market expansion. The funding will specifically be used to extrapolate new medical...
BitBrain entra en salud con Francia y Alemania en el punto de mira
Summary: "La start up aragonesa apuesta por el sector sanitario aupada por EIT Health, que le ofrece soporte en asuntos regulatorios y en análisis de mercados. La compañía está especializada en el...
Diabetes and mental health app reaches final of global innovation challenge
Summary: "A Cornwall-based mobile app has won a place in the final of a global innovationchallenge to find transformative diabetes solutions." Article written by Med-Tech Innovation...
Nine digital health pioneers to join Bayer’s G4A program
Summary: "A total of nine companies have been accepted into Bayer’s Digital HealthPartnership Program, as annouced on the EU Startups website recently. In 2021, the...
HotSpot gets hotter with $100M raise to push toward clinic
Summary: "HotSpot Therapeutics, the allostery-focused biotech that works on what it calls “natural hotspots” — hence the name — is getting a bit hotter in its valuation from investors. And to that...
4 recently launched digital health incubators
Summary: "Here are four incubators that have been launched in the past five months to accelerate the growth of digital health startups." Article written by Katie Adams 18|11|2021 Source:Becker's...
Mental health provider Ieso lands $53M for digital therapeutics backed by real-world data
Summary: "U.K.-based mental health firm Ieso raised $53 million in a series B round for its development of digital therapeutic systems, the startup announced Tuesday." Article written by Rebecca...
Patient communication platform Luma Health raises $130M
Summary: "Patient communication and scheduling company Luma Health has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round led by FTV Capital. Luma said the new funding round brings its total raise to...
UK-based mental health provider ieso raises $53M armed with an ‘unprecedented’ data set
Summary: "U.K.-based digital therapy company ieso announced a $53 million Series B round on Tuesday. The round is the funding the company needs to move in a brand new direction: creating more...
SWORD Health Raises $163M Series D to Expand MSK Solutions, Reaches $2B Valuation
Summary: "SWORD Health, a virtual and digital physical therapy provider, has announced its Series D round with $163M, bringing its value to $2 billion. This round brings the total primary and...
In competitive market for MSK, Sword valued at $2B
Summary: "Facing an increasingly competitive market for musculoskeletal care, Sword Health recently struck a $2 billion valuation after closing an oversubscribed series D round. The company...
London becomes top hub for healthtech, investments increase to $1B
Summary: "As per the latest data from London & Partners and Dealroom, the UK and US are driving forward the rapid growth of the global healthtech sector. It shows that the $51.3 billion funds...
AppliedVR raises $36M, pursues FDA clearance of first digital therapeutic
Summary: "AppliedVR closed another round of funding as it pursues clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for its first digital therapeutic. The company, which aims to use VR for pain...
Femtech startup illumigyn secures $33M to provide women with accessible and affordable medical care
Summary: "The Israel-based startup announced the closing of its $33 million funding from investors, including Yozma Group Korea and Ubicom Holdings Japan. The company did not provide the other...
Clinical call automation startup Infinitus Systems lands $30M
Summary: "Healthcare call automation company Infinitus Systems announced a $30 million Series B funding round. GV led the round with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Coatue Management and others....
Healthcare startup Africa Health Holdings lands $18 million Series A funding to roll-out tech-enabled services
Summary: "Africa Health Holdings, a healthcare startup running several hospitals, has secured $18 million in a Series A round, funds that will go toward building its “tech-forward healthcare system”...
Saudi’s HealTec raises $1.2M in inaugural funding round
Summary: "A Saudi-based healthcare startup has successfully raised $1.2 million in its first round of funding, it has been confirmed. Co-founded last year, HealTec – described as a “dedicated B2B...
Neurotech startup Beacon Biosignals scores $27M to bring AI to EEG analysis
Summary: "Electroencephalography is a decades-old technique for capturing brain activity, data that are used to evaluate brain disorders. Beacon Biosignals is applying artificial intelligence to...
Rad AI Nabs $25M to Automate Radiology Impressions, Save Time, Reduce Burnout, Improve Patient Care
Summary: "Rad AI Omni automatically generates a customized impression from the findings and clinical indication dictated by the radiologist, using the most advanced neural networks. It learns each...
RwHealth raises £6.1m in Series A funding to fight NHS backlog
Summary: "RwHealth has raised around £6.1million ($8.4million) in funding and is aiming to use the money to help tackle the NHS backlog caused by the Covid pandemic. As a supplier of artificial...
Hinge Health rakes in $600M investment from Coatue, Tiger Global, boosting valuation to $6.2B
Summary: "Fast-growing digital health company Hinge Health clinched $400 million in a financing round amid soaring demand for virtual physical therapy services." Article written by Heather Landi...
PUBLIC and Amazon Web Services launch UK healthcare accelerator
Summary: "PUBLIC, a government technology company, will be bringing its extensive experience in managing accelerator programme, to the first UK-based cohort of the Amazon Web Services (AWS)...
Korean startup introduces AI sleep disorder diagnostic tool
Summary: "HoneyNaps, a South Korea-based healthcare startup, has unveiled its medical software that uses artificial intelligence to diagnose sleep disorders." Article written by Adam Ang. Photo by...
Forth secures £1.6m funding to support hormone mapping product
Summary: "Leading the team at Forth is CEO and co-founder Sarah Bolt, who said: “Today, more and more people are realising that understanding and measuring your body’s biochemistry is key for a long...
Acute mental healthcare provider Valera Health scores $15M
Summary: "Valera Health announced a $15 million funding round last week for its telehealthplatform focused on patients with acute mental health conditions. The latest infusion of cash was led by...
This startup is making at-home fertility treatment affordable
Summary: "One British startup wants to change that. Béa Fertility, co-founded by David O’Rourke and Tess Cosad, are launching what they call the first at-home...
These are Europe’s top startups tackling menopause
Summary: "Since “femtech” was coined in 2016 the industry has been steadily expanding and is expected to be a $50bn market by 2025. While many startups have built products and services around...
Q3 2021 digital health funding: To $20B and beyond!
Summary: "Digital health funding continues to break records during 2021’s blockbuster year, with the three highest-funded quarters ever. After the impressive sprint of Q2’s $8.2B (a quarter that...
Simulation for Digital Health
Summary: "Co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Simulation for Digital Health (SimDH) is a free programme supporting health tech start-ups and SMEs to innovate, develop and deliver...
Healthtech firm wins £500k funding boost for medication adherence tech
Summary: "A Lancashire healthtech firm has won a £500,000 funding boost to develop its technology that helps patients better manage their medicines in their own homes." Article written by Med-Tech....
Click Therapeutics raises $52M, looks to advance digital therapeutics
Summary: "Less than a year after its last financing, Click Therapeutics raised $52 million to develop its portfolio of software-based treatments. The New York-based startuprecently raised a series B...
Docty offers patient centric services through complete set of geo located digital solutions
Summary: "In an exclusive conversation with the Financial Express Online, Ramya Subramanian shares how Docty addresses societal health disparity by making healthcare solutions accessible to one and...
Private Investment and Digital Health: Continuing Reimbursement Is Key to Health Equity
Summary: "Ten years ago, investment in digital health was approximately $1.1 billion annually. By March of this year, the market was seeing the same investment made weekly." Article written...
DTx company Click Therapeutic scores $52M in Series B funding
Summary: "This morning prescription digital therapeutic company Click Therapeutic announced a $52 million Series B funding round. H.I.G. BioHealth Partners and Accelmed Partners ll led the round,...
Limbix releases clinical trial data on a self-guided mental health app for teens
Summary: "In October, Limbix, a company creating digital therapeutics for adolescents, released data from a trial on its new product: SparkRx. SparkRx is a self-guided therapy program for teens run...
Navina secures $15 million Series A for AI primary care platform
Summary: "The Israeli startup uses medically-informed artificial intelligence to replace disorganized patient data with a logical grid to assist primary care physicians in making complex decisions."...
Online platform Top Doctors scores $13 million in Series B round
Summary: "Health tech firm Top Doctors has secured $13 million (€11.2 million) in Series B funding for its online platform, which enables patients to find and contact private healthcare...
Virtual eating disorder company Equip launches in new states
Summary: "Navina is not only data-centric, patient data-centric, it is first and foremost, physician-centric. Addressing the specific “pain points” and business needs of the intended customers is...
UK startup Stress Point Health presents research on digitalised neurofeedback
Summary: "A study by Imperial College London found the therapy was more effective in treating stress, anxiety and PTSD than popular meditation apps." Article written by Tammy Lovell. Photo by...
Maven Clinic nabs $110M funding round and a boost from Oprah to reach unicorn status
Summary: "Maven Clinic, a female-founded company focused on women's and family health, has reached unicorn status, a first for the sector." Article written by Heather Landi 17|08|2021 Source:Fierce...
Lark Health nabs $100M to pour into AI health coaching platform – MedCity News
Summary: "Lark Health, a provider of chronic disease prevention and management programs, raised $100 million in a Series D funding round. The round was led by Deerfield Management Company, and it...
Start-up secures £700k funding for dementia-friendly app
Summary: "Isle of Man-based healthtech start-up, Memory Lane Games, has secured £700,000 to improve quality of life for carers and people living with dementia." Article written by Med-Tech...
Canadian pediatric virtual healthcare platform KixCare raises $2M in seed funding
Summary: "KixCare, a Canadian pediatric virtual healthcare platform, announced that it has raised $2 million in seed funding. Esplanade Ventures, Canada’s leading digitalhealth venture capital firm,...
GI-focused startup Oshi lands $23M and other digital health fundings
Summary: "Digital gastrointestinal care startup Oshi Health announced Tuesday it had raised $23 million in Series A funding." Article written by Emily Olsen. Photo by filadendron/ Getty Images....
Digital autism care startup Elemy scores unicorn status with $219 million Series B
Summary: "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." Article...
NowRx turns to equity crowdfunding to raise $73M for expansion, tech investment
Summary: "The online pharmacy aims to raise $73 million series C funding through SeedInvest, an equity crowdfunding platform." Article written by Heather Landi. Photo by NowRx. 11|10|2021...
Noruega y la innovación en salud: de cápsulas para pacientes infecciosos a sensores contra las migrañas
Summary: "En Forskningsparken (en noruego, parque de investigación), situado estratégicamente entre la Universidad de Oslo y un hospital local, se levanta el Science Park de la ciudad. Un edificio...
Tech-driven clinical trial startup TrialSpark lands $156M in Series C
Summary: "TrialSpark, a health tech platform that lets providers become clinical trial sites, scored a whopping $156 million as part of a Series C funding round to start developing its own molecular...
Women’s digital health rakes in $1.3B in 2021 buoyed by investor interest in more integrated care
Summary: "Digital health startups focused on women's health care pulled in $1.3 billion in funding across 26 deals so far in 2021—nearly doubling all of 2020's funding with four months still left to...
TailorMed Raises Funding To $25M To Expand Reach Across Healthcare
Summary: "Israeli financial navigation firm TailorMed announced last week that has extended its round of funding, increasing the overall investment to $25 million." Article written by NoCamels...
NHSX backs 14 digital health projects after funding round
Summary: "NHSX, the government agency tasked with digitally transforming NHS England, has granted funding to 14 projects in its first digital health award competition." Article written by Phil...
Asabys invierte más de un millón de euros para el lanzamiento de Nuage Therapeutics
Summary: "Asabys Partners pone el broche de oro a su primer fondo de salud impulsando el nacimiento de una nueva spin off." Article written by A.Escobar. 28|09|2021...
The Healthcare Revolution At Home
Summary: "In November, the federal government announced it would start reimbursing home- hospital services for 60 different conditions at the same rates as in-hospital services. Like many trends in...
AWS Healthcare Accelerator announces 10 finalists
Summary: "AWS Healthcare Accelerator announced the 10 finalists and participants for its inaugural year of operation. These ten companies were selected from 427 applications from 31 countries around...
Xealth Secures $24M to Scale Digital Prescription Platform
Summary: "Xealth, a Seattle-based provider enabling digital health at scale, today announced that the company has secured $24 million in Series B funding led by Advocate Aurora...
How Does Venture Or Startup Contribute To Healthcare? – ICT&health
Summary: "Speijer was a judge at “Get In The Ring 2021” – an annual event where startups and ventures from around the world get the opportunity to pitch their technological innovation while...
AI Startup Navina Leverages The Amazon Cloud To Improve Patient Care
Summary: "Navina is not only data-centric, patient data-centric, it is first and foremost, physician-centric. Addressing the specific “pain points” and business needs of the intended customers is...
Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge Names Eight Finalists
Summary: "Attracting more than 2,600 startup applicants in the past five years, the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge supports finding innovative approaches and solutions to help create...
Medial EarlySign signs deal with Roche to develop AI-enabled cancer detection tool
Summary: "With an eye on the oncology space, Israeli startup Medial EarlySign has inked a deal with pharma giant Roche Diagnostics International to commercialize an artificial intelligence tool that...
Medtech Incubators and Accelerators: Where Are the Hubs for Medical Device Innovation?
Summary: "We’ve taken our 2017 list (26 Medtech Incubators and Accelerators You Need to Know) and expanded it. Check out the more than 50 organizations supporting young medical device, diagnostics,...
Cardiomatics bags $3.2M for its ECG-reading AI – TechCrunch
Summary: "Poland-based health tech AI startup Cardiomatics has announced a $3.2 million seed raise to expand use of its electrocardiogram (ECG) reading automation technology." Article written...
Israel’s DiA gets $14M to expand AI-driven ultrasound analysis
Summary: "Israel-based AI healthtech company, DiA Imaging Analysis, which is using deep learning and machine learning to automate analysis of ultrasound scans, has closed a $14 million Series B...
Top 25 HealthTech startups
Summary: "These amazing businesses all make the grade for our list of Top 25 Healthtechstartups..." Article written by Sareena Bhatoa. 01|08|2021...
Eli Lilly joins $30M Series A financing for startup bringing AI analysis to endoscopy
Summary: "Endoscopy enables gastroenterologists to examine the digestive tract, scouting for pre-cancerous polyps. Startup Iterative Scopes is developing technology that employs artificial...
Beacon Biosignals Secures $27M to Scale EEG Neurobiomarker Discovery Platform
Summary: "Beacon Biosignals, a neurotechnology company applying artificial intelligence to EEG (electroencephalography) to unlock precision medicine for any condition affecting the brain, has...
RealView receives FDA clearance for its ‘HOLOSCOPE-i’ system for medical holograms | Auganix.org
Summary: "RealView Imaging Ltd., an Israeli start-up working in the field of interactive live holography, has today announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its HOLOSCOPE-i...
Employee mental health platform Oliva raises $2.2M pre-seed round led by Moonfire Ventures – TechCrunch
Summary "Oliva’s on-demand, professional-led mental healthcare for employees and managers has now attracted investment to the tune of a $2.2 million pre-seed investment round, led by Moonfire...
Deep Genomics raises $180M for AI-enabled RNA therapeutic discovery
Summary: "Canadian startup Deep Genomics scored $180 million in Series C funding for its artificial intelligence technology designed to help program and prioritize transformational RNA therapeutics...
WHO Data Scientist, Ayodele O, builds relevant infrastructure for TeleHealth in Africa.
Summary: "Ayodele O, a WHO’s approved data scientist has identified a growing gap in the healthcare delivery market and launched Pneumacare-an intelligent telemedicine platform." Article written by...
Is Digital Health an Ultra Endurance Sport?
Summary: "A4i Digital Therapeutic co-founders Amos Adler and Dr. Sean Kidd reflect on how their (mis)adventures in endurance sports are a metaphor for the pain, the gain, and, did we mention the...
Amwell scoops up two digital health companies for $320M as tech M&A heats up
Summary: "Amwell is acquiring two digital health companies for $320 million to expand its services beyond telehealth visits." Article written by Heather Landi. 28|07|2021 Source:FIERCE...
Cayaba Care Launches with $3.2 Million in Financing to Enable a Community-Based Maternity Platform for Underserved Women
Summary: "Cayaba Care, a maternal health company offering community-based clinical services via technology-enabled multidisciplinary care teams, launched today and announced the closing of $3.2...
Merck, Evidation to test if smartphone data can be used to detect early Alzheimer’s
Summary: "Merck is partnering with a digital health startup to see if smartphone data can be used to identify digital endpoints for Alzheimer’s drug development."...
How AI Can Improve CTA Analysis After Stroke and Heart Attack
Summary: "Computed tomography angiography (CTA) has been increasingly used in the diagnosis of vascular disease, and it's a modality that offers many potential clinical benefits. The question is,...
Radiobotics: “We’re on the cusp of a second wave of innovation”
Summary: "Health Tech World hears from Radiobotics, a Danish start up that is developing AI solutions to analyse musculoskeletal x-ray images, a relatively neglected area in the growing field of...
5 Startups That Are Changing the Mental Health Industry
Summary: "Digital mental health is no longer solely restricted to talk therapy or medication management. A host of companies--both startups and more established businesses--now offer psychedelic...
7 Women’s Health Tech Startups to Watch in 2021 and Beyond
Summary: "Women's health tech companies struggled for years to convince investors just how massive the market potential could be. In 2020, they finally broke through: Funding for female-focused...
RxAll grabs $3.15M to scale its drug checking and counterfeiting tech across Africa
Summary: "Research says that counterfeit medication is the cause of 1 million deaths per year. One-tenth of this number comes from Africa. Counterfeiting is hard to detect, investigate, quantify or...
Axuall Raises $10.4M to Expand Workforce Intelligent Network for Healthcare
Summary: "Axuall, a Cleveland, OH-based workforce intelligent network that enables healthcare providers to share their authenticated credentials and qualifications in real-time has raised $10.4M in...
Apple sued by medical device maker over Apple Watch Series 6 pulse oximetry
Summary: "Sometimes it seems like every time we turn around, someone is suing Apple. The latest lawsuit against Apple comes from a medical device manufacturer called Masimo. Masimo is a large...
US Digital Health Companies Attracted 85% of the VC Funding in the First Quarter of 2021
Summary: "The Digital Health sector saw a total of 21 different countries receiving venture capital (VC) funding, according to Mercom’s Q1 2021 Funding and M&A Report. Eighty-five percent of the...
Five AI-led healthtech startups selected for first Edison Accelerator
Summary: "Five healthtech startups have officially become the first cohort of the Edison Accelerator in EMEA - a healthcare startup and scaleup acceleration programme designed by GE Healthcare in...
Musculoskeletal medical startups race to enter personalized health tech market
Summary: "Avi Dorfman says going direct to consumers is the most effective way to treat chronic pain, so he founded Clearing. The digital health startup worked with a medical advisory board of...
Barcelona tiene poder: quinta ciudad europea en inversión en ‘digital health’
Summary: "Barcelona tiene poder. En un año que se presentaba difícil debido a la pandemia, la capital catalana ha escalado hasta la quinta posición en el ranking de las ciudades europeas con rondas...
52 Women-Led Startups Driving The Future Of HealthTech And FemTech
Summary: "Earlier this week an investor asked me why women can’t just get VC funding. “Am I missing something?” he asked. I took a deep breath and dropped the facts about the culture and economy of...
Intuition Robotics thinks companion robots could help doctors follow older patients at home
Summary: "Intuition Robotics today announced that it has expanded its AI-drive companion robot capabilities to provide care for older adults at home. Boston-based Intuition Robotics designed the...
35 Innovators Under 35
Summary: "The 35 Innovators Under 35 is our yearly opportunity to take a look at not just where technology is now, but where it’s going and who’s taking it there. More than 500 people are nominated...
Luz verde de la FDA a la terapia digital para Alzheimer de Cognito Therapeutics
Summary: "La compañía Cognito Therapeutics ha anunciado que su producto líder recibió la designación de dispositivo innovador de la Agencia del Medicamento de Estados Unidos (FDA por sus siglas en...
Amazon launches digital health accelerator with a focus on virtual care, analytics startups
Summary: "Amazon Web Services wants to help incubate early-stage digital health companies that can collaborate with the tech giant's healthcare customers and partners. Amazon's cloud division...
FDA greenlights Nuvo Group’s uterine activity module
Summary: "Remote pregnancy monitoring company Nuvo Group announced today the FDA has granted supplemental 510(k) clearance to add a new uterine activity module to its INVU system. INVU is a...
Professional services firm rolls out digital musculoskeletal care program
Summary: "As more digital health companies look to bundle together point solutions, employee benefits firms are doing the same. One of them, professional services firm Aon, is launching a benefit...
Meet the mobile therapy startup backed by Christian Angermayer’s re:Mind Capital
Summary: "Mental health startup Ksana Health has received $2 million in seed funding led by re:Mind Capital, the mental health VC arm of Christian Angermayer and Apeiron Investment Group. It’s a...
FDA authorizes machine learning software to help diagnose autism
Summary: "The system, developed by digital health startup Cognoa, uses information from questionnaires and videos to help pediatricians diagnose autism. It received marketing authorization from the...
How to Successfully Advance Digital Health Applications
Summary: "The benefits of digital health applications are numerous and include the flexibility to self-monitor your illness from home with a mobile device. One caveat: Digital health applications...
Exclusive: Medallion Raises $20M To License Clinicians
Summary: "Medallion is out to reduce the amount of administrative work health care providers do so they can spend more time with patients. The San Francisco-based startup, which was founded in 2020...
StartUPDATES: New developments for healthcare startups
Summary: "Read about new developments from Stellar Health, Paige, venBio, and more." Article written by MEDCITY NEWS 04|06|2021 Source:MedCity...
Advanced Human Imaging’s smartphone-based derma AI gets CE mark
Summary: "Australian smartphone-based medical imaging company Advanced Human Imaging disclosed last week that it received a CE Mark for the dermatology artificial intelligence component in its...
Bayer’s investment arm leads digital health startup’s $90M round
Summary: "Leaps by Bayer led a $90 million investment round into Ada, a German digital health startup with an AI-based symptom checker. As part of the deal, the two companies are also striking a...
LA EMPRESA EMERGENTE CATALANO-DANESA ABZU CAPTA SEIS MILLONES
Summary: "No es habitual que una empresa se cree simultáneamente en Barcelona y Copenhague. Así decidió hacerlo la startup Abzu. La apuesta por una sede compartida se explica por la dificultad de...
Pharma and Digital Health. What’s Happening?
Summary: "It was not too many moons ago that speaking ‘Digital Health’ and ‘Pharma’ in the same breath would have been oxymoronic to the max." Article written by Gary Monk 26|05|2021 Source:Swipe...
Mayv, Your Holistic Partner for Chronic Pain Management
Summary: "Mayv aims to empower chronic pain patients with knowledge and resources that are holistic in nature. They do not believe that pain management is one-size-fits-all. Every person and the...
Longevity startup Gero AI has a mobile API for quantifying health changes
Summary: "Sensor data from smartphones and wearables can meaningfully predict an individual’s ‘biological age’ and resilience to stress, according to Gero AI. The ‘longevity’ startup — which...
Ada Health closes $90M Series B led by Leaps by Bayer
Summary: "The digital health space continues cooking on gas: Berlin-based Ada Health has closed a $90 million Series B round of funding led by Leaps by Bayer, the impact investment arm of the German...
Swedish digital healthcare company Doktor.se announces €50M funding boost
Summary: "Stockholm-based digital healthcare provider Doktor.se has received a funding boost of €50 million (SEK510 million) to expand its services and deliver its aim to provide safe and accessible...
CVS Health launches $100M digital health investment fund
Summary: "CVS Health has unveiled a $100 million venture capital fund targeting early-stage health technology companies. Called CVS Health Ventures, it will be on the lookout for digital health...
Yes Health Partners With Gympass To Bring Digital Health Prevention Platform to World’s Largest Corporate Fitness and Wellbeing Platform
Summary: "Yes Health, a leading digital health provider focused on weight loss, diabetes prevention and concierge health coaching, has today announced a partnership with Gympass, the world’s largest...
Overture Life cierra una ronda de 15 millones liderada por Octopus Ventures
Summary: "La compañía impulsada por el fundador de Jazztel en España también ha recibido el apoyo financiero de Google Ventures y de antiguos inversores como Khosla Ventures, Felicis Ventures y Marc...
StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups
Summary: "Read about new developments from Emulate, Cellino, Heru and more." Article written by MEDCITY NEWS 19|05|2021...
How a pair of ‘middle school graduates’ developed and sold their respiratory health tech company
Summary: "When Seattle natives Nikolas Ioannou and Sage Khanuja met at an early entrance program for the University of Washington after dropping out of high school after 10th grade, they quickly...
How a smartphone app launched Perioperative Services at Lehigh Valley Health Network into the future
Summary: "Now, in addition to using the app in the operating room, Lehigh Valley uses it in its post-anesthesia care units, intensive care units and catheterization laboratories." Article written...
Digital health startups saw better-than-expected revenue during the pandemic
Summary: "According to a survey conducted by Catalyst @ Health 2.0, a whopping 41% of digital health companies said their revenue was above expectations last year. Despite reporting longer sales...
Osler Technology launches ‘Netflix-styled’ healthcare education app
Summary: "Osler Technology, an Australian developer of online healthcare portfolios and learning applications, has unveiled a new education platform for healthcare professionals." Article written...
Elucid Raises $8M in Series A Round During the ‘Zoom Era’
Summary: "The Boston, MD-based company has developed ElucidVivo, an artificial intelligence software solution to help with the detection of cardiovascular disease." Article written by Omar Ford...
EureKARE raises $60M to create EU synbio and microbiome startups
Summary: "EureKARE has raised a $60 million series A round to fund the creation and advancement of synthetic biology and microbiome startups. The cash will enable eureKARE to build companies around...
Five innovative startups improving the lives of people with diabetes
Summary: "The diabetes epidemic is a growing concern in many parts of the world. In the UK, over 3.9 million people have the chronic illness, which Diabetes UK estimates will increase to 5 million...
Digital can help unclog your elective care back-log
Summary: "New digital solutions that support asynchronous communication between clinicians could transform elective care and aid in tackling the expanding waiting lists" Article written by HSJ...
Digital-Health Startups Are Booming. Their Customers Are Overwhelmed.
Summary: "Digital-health startups have boomed during the pandemic, raising record amounts of capital for a range of services. The message from some of their customers: Enough, already." Article...
4 strategies for building a digital health unicorn
Summary: "It’s an entrepreneur’s market in digital health today, with startups raising record-breaking funding at soaring valuations and debuting on public markets to eager investors." Article...
Do Health Apps Really Make Us Healthier?
Summary: "Findings that mobile and wearable devices and apps do lead patients to change their behaviors in ways that can positively affect their health provide offer not just patients but also care...
British digital health start-up launches free app to help improve inhaler technique and reduce asthma attacks
Summary: "Manchester-based digital health start-up Clin-e-cal has launched a free app to help people with respiratory diseases to monitor and improve their inhaler technique. The Clip-Tone Buddy app...
Indian biotech startup reports early cancer detection breakthrough
Summary: "A team of Indian scientists says it has achieved a stunning breakthrough in early cancer diagnosis with a discovery rooted in a contentious segment of cellular biology that, if validated...
Investment management firm launched for digital health and medtech start-ups
Summary: "Claudio D’Angelo, former co-founder and co-managing partner of Ryse Asset Management, has launched a new venture – an investment management firm designed to help digital healthcare...
Roundup: Caresyntax raises €83M for AI operating tech, InterSystems partners with Cognetivity and more briefs
Summary: "Berlin-based healthtech company Caresyntax has raised €82.8 million ($100 m) in a Series C round. The investment was led by PFM Health Sciences LP, Optum Ventures, Intel Capital and...
StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups
Summary: "Read about news from life science companies Emulate, Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals and Bone Health Technologies." Article written by MEDCITY NEWS 07|05|2021 Source:Med-City...
Germany: A beneficial digital health ecosystem for startups
Summary: "Germany is on the rise in digital health, which is why the market size is expected to reach 57 billion euros by 2025. Factors such as new regulations, the presence of successful...
THIS WEARABLE + EYE TRACKING MEDICAL DEVICE HELPS PATIENTS IN THE ICU COMMUNICATE THEIR NEEDS FOR REAL-TIME MEDICAL TREATMENT!
Summary: "The stress and impact that ICUs can have on the mental health of patients typically result in prolonged hospital stays. Troubling cycles typically ensue as soon as...
NuvoAir app records coughing to help diagnose respiratory conditions
Summary: "Stockholm-based respiratory health startup NuvoAir is rolling out a new app that can record coughs in a home setting in order to help clinicians detect possible conditions like asthma and...
FDA Authorizes Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton for Stroke Rehab
Summary: "Medical device startup Neurolutions' IpsiHand — a brain-computer interface (BCI) that uses an exoskeleton to assist with stroke rehab — has just been authorized by the FDA. "Thousands of...
Q Bio Launches Clinical “Digital Twin” Platform, Whole Body Scanner
Summary: "Q Bio, a Redwood City, CA-based company building technology for the Physical of the Future, unveiled its “digital twin” platform, the first to capture and monitor comprehensive baseline...
Digital-Health Startups Are Booming. Their Customers Are Overwhelmed.
Summary: "Digital-health startups have boomed during the pandemic, raising record amounts of capital for a range of services. The message from some of their customers: Enough, already." Article...
Amwell Integrates Biobeat’s Wearable RPM Devices with Virtual Care Platform
Summary: "Amwell, who has collaborated with Biobeat, and will integrate Biobeat’s AI-powered wearable remote patient monitoring solutions into its Converge virtual care platform." Article written...
IDE Group, Kipuwex team up to develop new telehealth solutions
Summary: "Australian startup studio IDE Group has announced a partnership with Kipuwex, a Finnish health device maker, to develop new telehealth solutions over the next two to three years." Article...
Melio se expande en España y llega a 41 nuevas ciudades
Summary: "La start up especializada en análisis de sangre amplía su cobertura nacional ya que hasta el momento ofrecía su servicio en Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao, Sevilla, Córdoba y Málaga."...
Biotecnología para crear un modelo de negocio de genética y salud personalizada
Summary: "Combinar las analíticas clínicas de toda la vida con la biogenética. Esta es la propuesta de la biotecnológica española Made of Genes para aterrizar un modelo de negocio disruptivo en el...
UK remains the European leader in health tech research
Summary: "Dealroom, Inkep Capital and MTIP have released a report powered by a database dedicated to mapping and tracking the health innovation ecosystem. The report looks at 76,275 startups, 38,907...
Startup Boundless Bio brings in $105M to break the circle behind cancer growth
Summary: "Boundless Bio’s research has uncovered a previously unknown driver of cancer growth and drug resistance. With $105 million in Series B financing, the biotech is on a path to bring to the...
Cigna covers Ginger’s mental health app as in-network benefit
Summary: "Insurer Cigna plans to cover mental health startup Ginger’s coaching services as a covered benefit. Investors are pouring more funds into mental health startups as they companies and...
Capsule becomes a unicorn with latest funding, Caresyntax scores $100M, direct healthcare payment platform Sesame lands $24M and more digital health fundings
Summary: "Digital pharmacy Capsule has completed another massive funding round, this time worth $300 million, according to Bloomberg. The added investments value the New York-based startup at more...
Outcomes4Me Raises $12M for AI-Powered Cancer Patient Empowerment Platform
Summary: "Outcomes4Me Inc., a Cambridge, MA-based developer of an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered platform to empower cancer patients to navigate their care, today announced it has raised $12...
Men’s fertility startup Legacy raises $10M to expand services
Summary: Legacy is born out of the Harvard Innovation Labs incubator program and focuses on helping men understand their fertility. Clients can send away for a mail-order kit, which is able to...
Alimetry Leaves Stealth Mode to Announce CE Mark on New Wearable Medical Device for Gastric Diseases and Investment
Summary: "Alimetry, a digital healthcare and diagnostic devices start-up, announced today that it has achieved CE Mark for its first product, a pioneering medical device for enabling diagnosis of...
30 Under 30 Asia: The Young Entrepreneurs Innovating In Healthcare
Summary: "To Ryuichi Onose, launching his own business was led by deeply personal reasons. When his grandfather was diagnosed with cancer, Onose struggled to get a second opinion. The former trading...
Female-Founded Telehealth Startup Calibrate Announces $22.5 Million Series A
Summary: "When Calibrate—the female-founded telehealth startup trying to disrupt the $70 billion weight loss industry—came out of stealth mode in June, it was operating in three states, had 10...
New Omada care program cuts down on PCP visits by making its own adjustments to patient meds
Summary: "Omada's new Physician-Guided Care Program is looking to help patients cut down on frequent trips to the doctor with its virtual cardiometabolic clinic, which provides telemedicine...
French Healthcare Company Alan Raises €185M At €1.4 Billion Valuation
Summary: "French healthcare platform Alan, cofounded by Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve and Charles Gorintin, announced today that it has raised a €185M Series D which puts the company in the unicorn...
La disrupción sanitaria copa el programa de aceleración ‘deeptech’ Barcelona Activa
Summary: "De los 10 proyectos elegidos, seis pertenecen a este sector. Entre ellos, un sistema de transporte de medicamentos por el sistema nervioso o una tecnología que predice recaídas del cáncer...
7 Healthtech Startups Helping To Fight Against COVID-19
Summary: "Needless to say, the ongoing pandemic has exposed the wide gaps underlying the healthcare sector over decades. Higher case loads, low availability of beds, lack of ventilators and rising...
Five innovative startups improving the lives of people with diabetes
Summary: "The diabetes epidemic is a growing concern in many parts of the world. In the UK, over 3.9 million people have the chronic illness, which Diabetes UK estimates will increase to 5 million...
TytoCare & GIVA Care Partner to Bring Telehealth to Ukraine
Summary: "TytoCare has partnered with GIVA Care Group, a leading healthcare distribution company, to bring its all-in-one remote examination solution to the Ukrainian healthcare industry." Article...
New app aims to address disparities in care for Black and brown mothers
Summary: "Irth allows Black and brown patients to search for and create reviews of their OB/GYN, birthing hospitals, postpartum care and pediatricians up to an infant's first year." Article written...
The Future Of Healthcare Is Coming Home: Three Major Trends To Leverage For Startups
Summary: "What goes around, comes around. It was routine in the 1950’s for doctors to make house calls and deliver a high level of service to their patients. Well, here we are in 2021, and we might...
Startup Adapts AI Used In Space To Advance Healthcare On Earth
Summary: Maarten Sierhuis, a NASA alum, had made the comment to Rachna Dhamija, a tech veteran and his future cofounder. Both were dealing with aging parents who had health issues. Sierhuis had...
Béa Fertility raises $1m to bring at-home fertility treatments to the UK | Digital Health Technology News
Summary: "Founded by embryologist David O’Rourke and femtech specialist Tess Cosad, Béa Fertility is focused on democratising access to affordable, effective fertility treatments for couples and...
La inversión en ‘start ups’ de salud en Cataluña alcanza 226 millones de euros en 2020
Summary: "El sector de la salud en Cataluña acelera. En un año, 2020, que se presentaba difícil debido a la pandemia, las start ups de salud consiguieron sumar 226 millones euros de...
New app helps prevent skin cancer using AI and ML
Summary: "Monitor the size of moles and skin lesions with Miiskin, an app that can help your doctor see changes more easily. (...)TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Jon Friis, CEO and founder of...
Healthcare Is Experiencing A Boom In Female Entrepreneurs And Leaders
Summary: "While specific data is hard to find, anecdotal evidence seems to show more women are founding or leading efforts in the healthcare and life sciences industries. And even though women still...
Virtual therapy startups tackle the gap in mental health care for kids and teens
Summary: "When Alex Alvarado and his co-founders started their virtual therapy company Daybreak Health in February 2020, they saw a “massive need” for better mental health options for teens. Then...
Eye wellness app developer Plano partners with myopia education platform
Summary: "The partnership aims to produce new educational content for eye care professionals." "Plano, a Singapore-based eye wellness app developer, has teamed up with US-based myopia education...
AstraZeneca working with Mass General on tech for heart failure, asthma
Summary: "The organizations said the collaboration will use AstraZeneca's AMAZE disease management platform to deliver insights to clinically validate digital health solutions." Article written...
BCN3D’s 3D printing technology creates biomedical models that improve cancer surgeries
Summary: "BCN3D, a leading 3D printer manufacturer based in Barcelona (Spain), today announced that its 3D printing technology is helping surgeons to create biomedical models and apply them in their...
Top 15 Health Tech Startups To Watch
Summary: "Using biometric data, mobile apps, and wearables, these 15 health tech startups are bringing innovation to the health care industry by promoting healthier lives for patients." Article...
This Mental Health Startup Is Open 24/7 To Refill Your Medications
Summary: "Minded, a telehealth startup that renews and delivers mental health medications, announced its launch today for patients in the New York City area with $5 million in venture funding."...
AI startup steps in to unlock the puzzle of infertility with machine learning
Summary: "As it matures, machine learning has been applied to more and bigger challenges. One of the latest is women’s health tech, a space where research has traditionally lagged, and that few...
La inversión en ‘start ups’ de salud en Cataluña alcanza 226 millones de euros en 2020
Summary: "El sector de la salud en Cataluña acelera. En un año, 2020, que se presentaba difícil debido a la pandemia, las start ups de salud consiguieron sumar 226 millones euros de inversión, la...
Desktop Metal launches a health-focused business line
Summary: "Mass manufacturing may be the future of 3D printing (one hopes), but health products are very much its present. From orthodontics to prosthesis, medical needs are right in the sweet spot...
Corify
"CORIFY Care SL (Corify) is a medical start-up focused on cardiac arrhythmias. We are developing a novel technology to improve the treatment of atrial fibrillation, which affects more than 30M...
Startup says A.I. helped it find treatment for rare lung disease in record time
Summary: "Artificial intelligence is making rapid inroads in helping with the discovery of potential medicines. In the latest example, a Hong Kong–based biotechnology company, Insilico...
StartUPDATES: New developments for healthcare startups
Summary: "Read about news from Seven Bridges, Outcomes4Me, Carrum Health and more." Article written by MEDCITY NEWS 08|02|2021 Source:MedCity...
Health HUB Vienna – Transformation of the Healthcare System
Summary: "Health Hub Vienna is a platform for open innovation in healthcare. Pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, private and public insurance companies, healthcare...
Ashfield turns to Popit for digital patient support tool
Summary: "Ashfield Engage has agreed a deal to incorporate Popit’s digital tools in its patient support programmes, with the aim of improving adherence to treatments." "Finnish startup Popit has...
A Female-Founded Startup Is Using AI to Improve In Vitro Fertilization Success
Summary: "Undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) is no easy process and therefore it is only untaken by those who deeply desire to have a child. However, these individuals often find their dreams...
Eat this, exercise now; new personalized software predicts and helps prevent blood sugar spikes
Summary: "Not everyone has Type 2 diabetes, the disease that causes chronically high blood sugar levels, but many do. Around 9% of Americans are afflicted, and another 30% are at risk of developing...
Analíticas a demanda, un nuevo paso hacia la medicina digital y personalizada
Summary: "Contamos los pasos que damos cada día, nuestras pulsaciones, las calorías que ingerimos, nuestras horas de sueño… Cada vez estamos más pendientes de diferentes parámetros relacionados...
Startup Ozette unveils AI approach to understanding the immune system
Summary: "Ozette applies artificial intelligence to immune monitoring to gain greater insight into a cancer patient's immune system. Beyond informing treatment decisions, the technology can guide...
StartUPDATES: New developments for healthcare startups
Summary: "Carrum Health, an innovative surgery benefit offered to self-insured employers, announced that it is expanding the availability of complex cardiac care for its members with Cleveland...
Biotech entrepreneur George Church launches gene therapy startup to design safer viral vectors
Summary: "Adeno-associated viruses have become popular vectors for the delivery of gene therapies. But, despite their relatively safe profile, they can trigger some unwanted immune responses,...
‘Smart pill’ startup etectRx strikes partnership with Pear Therapeutics
Summary: "EtectRx, which makes wireless sensors embedded in medications, struck a partner with Pear Therapeutics. The companies hope to build products together combining medication adherence data...
This new startup wants you to treat mental fitness like going to the gym
Summary: "Here was a pro athlete, among the best of the best, and he was openly talking about his vulnerability. Here was a man who had spent the better part of his life building his body into an...
Malaysia-Sweden collaborate to launch Digital Health Innovation Challenge
Summary: "The initiative invites startups registered in Malaysia to identify next-generation solutions for healthcare challenges, esp. non-communicable diseases (NCD)" "The initiative is a...
Estos exoesqueletos, creados y fabricados en España, reducen los tiempos de rehabilitación
Summary: "Al repetir de forma consciente y continuada un movimiento, por ejemplo, cuando un exoesqueleto te hace andar, nuestro cerebro, como tiene espasticidad, las neuronas son capaces de...
Swiss startup first to launch blood pressure bracelet
Summary: "Aktiia releases clinical device bracelet ahead of Fitbit, Apple and other tech giants." "Swiss startups Aktiia has beaten Fitbit, Apple and other tech giants to become the first company to...
Female-Founded Telehealth Startup Calibrate Announces $22.5 Million Series A
Summary: "When Calibrate—the female-founded telehealth startup trying to disrupt the $70 billion weight loss industry—came out of stealth mode in June, it was operating in three states, had 10...
The European startups hacking the ageing process
Summary: "For the first time in human history, more people die from diseases that come as a consequence of old age — such as cancer and heart attacks — than infectious disease. It is also the first...
How AI Has Completely Transformed Medtech
Summary: "Artificial intelligence has disrupted every industry under the sun and healthcare is no exception. There are countless ways in which AI is transforming medtech, which explains why the...
Introducing the EIT Health startup database – a European healthtech community
Summary: "We’re pleased to launch the EIT Health startup database. The new open-access platform is dedicated to tracking EIT Health supported startups. EIT Health provides acceleration...
EL AUGE DE LA TELEMEDICINA IMPULSA EL BARCELONA HEALTH HUB
Summary: "Este nodo de innovación potencia el desarrollo de las startups de salud digital desde el Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau, haciéndolas convivir bajo un mismo techo con grandes...
London startup Spill that provides remote mental health treatments via Slack raises £2M
Summary: "London-based mental health startup Spill provides remote mental health support for companies via Slack, a workplace messaging tool. The startup offers all-in-one mental...
At the height of digital wellness, are we missing the human touch?
Summary: "Medicine will never progress without technology—there’s no denying that. But for the foreseeable future, human interaction remains an instrumental part of the healthcare experience." "The...
CES 2021: Japanese startup demos non-invasive glucose monitor
Summary: "A startup from Japan claims they have a continuous non-invasive glucose monitor. They are demoing a prototype at CES 2021." "Non-invasive glucose monitoring is considered to be the holy...
Biotech Voices: Next-gen therapies are evolving fast. The drug development model needs to keep up
Summary: "In the current regulatory environment, after an important discovery is made, a trial alteration is required, which is a costly and lengthy process that limits the ability to bring novel...
AI Drug Discovery Startup Valo Raises $190 Million And Unveils Cancer Therapy Programs
Summary: "Valo Health, which is developing a drug discovery platform powered by both artificial intelligence and large patient datasets, announced Monday that it’s working on multiple targets that...
AI startup that captures vital signs via phone cameras launches new corporate wellness solution
Summary: "One artificial intelligence health startup that offers video-based health tracking sees big opportunities among insurance companies and employers with the growing demand for health...
Forecast: Health Care In 2021 Will Focus On ‘Digitization Of The Patient Experience’
Summary: "Digital health startups are likely to see continued opportunity, investment and initial public offerings in the new year as people rethink the way health care is delivered." "Investors in...