What investors think about the state of digital health funding
Last week we briefed you on the record shattering funding streak of the first half of 2017. Then we sat down with two other investors, Bessemer’s Steve Kraus and Kaiser Permanente Ventures’ Liz Rockett to bring you a deeper look into:
- The most exciting opportunities in digital health
- How companies are being evaluated in this uncertain, albeit cash-rich, environment
- What we expect for the upcoming IPO market
- Whether or not unicorns are real
- What recent tech giant moves mean for the industry
- Where healthcare transformation is in its long process of digitization and maturation
Headlines
Tech Companies Wage War On Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes
Tweet | Reuters
Researchers Use CRISPR To Store A Movie In Living Bacteria
Tweet | STAT
Computer-Simulated Tests Eyed At FDA To Cut Drug Approval Costs
Tweet | Bloomberg
Meet The Investors Who Think They Can Pick Biotech Winners By Algorithm
Tweet | STAT
A New ‘Smart Glove’ Converts Sign Language Into Digital Text
Tweet | Vice
“VirusCam” Can Watch Individual Viruses to (Someday) Keep You From Getting Sick
Tweet | Smithsonian
The Smart-Medicine Solution To The Healthcare Crisis
Tweet | The Wall Street Journal
Recent Funding
- With $18.3M in new funding, Solera Health looks beyond diabetes prevention
- Our own Wellframe raised $15M for its patient engagement and care management software
- CellTrak Technologies raised $11M for its home healthcare platform
- Bright.md, which improves healthcare efficiencies and outcomes, raised $8M
- Healthify, a company that helps manage social determinants of disease, raised $6.5M
- Genoox closed $6M to make genetic data analysis more accessible for clinics
- iBeat, the modern smartwatch take on 'LifeAlert' extended its seed round to $4.5M
- BloomAPI locked down $2.4M to fix medical record releases