Money pours into health insurance startups
April 13, 2015
What do patient data, EHRs, and health insurance as we know it have in common? They’re all in serious need of an overhaul and dominated the digital health Twitterverse last week. The feds called out EHR vendors for not playing nice in the sandbox when sharing patient records, while money is pouring into startups tackling the outdated world of health insurance—thanks in part to the explosion of health data.
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Funding
| Company | Amt | Investors | Source |
| Sharecare | $25M | Wellington Management, Trinity Health | Atlanta Business Journal |
| Livongo | $20M | KPCB, DFJ, General Catalyst Partners | The Wall Street Journal |
| Novu | $20M | Noro-Moseley Partners, SSM Partners | MobiHealthNews |
| Catalyze | $4M | Baird Capital, Chicago Ventures, Arthur Ventures, others | Xconomy |
| Maven | $2.2M | Great Oaks Venture Capital, BoxGroup, F Cubed | TechCrunch |
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