Rock Weekly: Trick or Term Sheet

October 28, 2013

Applications to Rock Health are rolling, but if you apply this week, you’ll hear back from us next month.  A few things to note:

  • We’ll be your first money in, or co-invest at existing terms if you’re raising a seed round.
  • We’ll help you scale.  Our sweet spot is helping companies get bigger and badder, faster. Looking to develop pricing strategy? We’ll build you a model. Want to roll out your product? We’ve got your back. We don’t sit around and advise – we do real work on your behalf.
  • You don’t have to work out of our brand new officeBut you’ll want to.

Tell your friends.  
 

Headlines

Six Spooky Facts You Need to Know About Healthcare
Forbes

Why the Government Never Gets Tech Right
New York Times

Debugging the HealthCare.gov Hearings: A Spectacle of Tech Illiteracy and Buck-Passing
Slate

Why a ‘Tech Surge’ Isn’t Going to Save HealthCare.gov
VentureBeat

Healthcare Law Creates Opportunity for Startups
USA Today 

Why the UK Wants a Genomic National Health Service
Technology Review

32% of Americans Want More Health Messaging
MobiHealthNews

Can Mobile Health Technologies Transform Healthcare?
Journal of the American Medical Association

 

Funding

Name Amt Investors Source
NextCODE Health $15M Polaris Partners and ARCH Venture Partners MedCity News
Zen Planner $10M Mainsail Partners Xconomy
Cureatr $5.7M Cardinal Partners, Milestone Venture Partners and others VentureBeat
Happify $3.8M Founder Collective, BtoV Partners and others TechCrunch
BetterDoctor $2.6M SoftTechVC, 500 Startups, Burrill & Co. and others VentureBeat
WellBe $1.1M Undisclosed Wisconsin State Journal
Prevently $1M Alec Bowers, Cooley LLP and others MobiHealthNews

 
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