Rock Weekly: Mo’ money, mo’ products
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
Greetings health geeks, and welcome back from Burning Man, BBQs, hacking, or however you spent your Labor Day Weekend!
We shared some pretty big news last week: each Rock Health startup will now receive a 100k investment. So if you, a loved one, neighbor, or frenemy has a great health startup idea, applications are open now until September 16th, so get ’em in quick!
Headlines
New Tests Could Divine a Baby’s Genome Before Birth
Technology Review
Overtreatment is Taking a Harmful Toll
New York Times
Five Personal Data Tracking Innovations to Watch
The Next Web
Low Calorie Diet Doesn’t Prolong Life – At Least in Monkeys
New York Times
Rock Health in the News
Kleiner Perkins Partners With Rock Health To Give Health Tech Startups A Boost
TechCrunch
Rock Health Investors up Seed Funding for Startups to $100K
MobiHealthNews
Investors Work to Place the Right Bets on Healthcare
GigaOM
Can Designers And Developers Save Health Care?
Fast Company
Rock Health Innovation Summit Preps Attendees for a Healthcare Revolution
MDDI Online
Funding & Acquisitions
BestDoctors.com Raises 45.5M
Boston Herald
NuScript Closes $5M Round
Greenville News
Former CVS Caremark Executives Raise $2M for Smoking Cessation Startup
Nashville Business Journal
View the Digital Health Venture Funding Database