Rock Weekly: 23andMe makes up with the FDA

Rock Weekly

June 23, 2014

The FDA is up to their neck in digital health. First, in a rare move, they announced they’ll be hands-off with certain mobile medical apps that happen to resemble HealthKit. Then they told pharma and medical device companies what they can and can’t tweet. They finished the week off by launching a review into a new 510(k) application—this time from 23andMe as part of its first step to re-enter healthcare.

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Funding

Company Amt Investors Source
ClearCare $11M Bessemer Venture Partners, Cambia Health Solutions, Voyager Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Harbor Pacific Capital VentureBeat
Peloton Interactive $10.5M Tiger Global peHUB
Pascal Metrics $9.9M Undisclosed SEC
Augmedix $7.3M DCM, Emergence Capital Partners San Francisco Chronicle
Valencell $7M WSJ Joshua Fund, TDF Ventures, True Ventures, Best Buy Capital MobiHealthNews
MDSave $2M Undisclosed Nashville Business Journal
Calm.com $578K Launch, Matt Mullenweg, Matt Cheng TechCrunch

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