Well Dot, an artificial intelligence startup that uses data and behavioral economics to provide daily health recommendations, has closed a $40 million Series A round that combines debt and equity funding. General Catalyst, John Doerr, Mosaic Health Solutions and Hellman & Friedman partners all returned after participating in the startup's $25 million seed funding round from last year.
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Host Jonah Comstock welcomes John Sharp to the show on the occasion of his retirement from HIMSS. Until recently the director of thought advisory at HIMSS, John has worn many hats in his career and become one of the most well-known, respected and beloved voices in the digital health community.
We talked about that community, John's career, and all the ways the space has changed and developed – ...
MedArrive, a startup seeking to bridge the gap between telehealth and in-person care, launched last week on the back of $4.5 million in seed funding. Kleiner Perkins and Define Ventures co-led the round.
The startup employs and coordinates EMS providers who are deployed to the home of a patient. There, they can conduct basic clinical services and loop in the patient's physician virtually if...
In today's episode of HIMSSCast, guest host Laura Lovett, managing editor of MobiHealthNews, checks in with Maria Velissaris, founding partner at Steel Sky Ventures and Colette Courtion, founder and CEO of Joylux about some of the challenges facing the burgeoning women's health and reproductive health, or femtech, industry. In particular, they chat about advertising double standards, funding...
This morning Medable, a digital platform focused on decentralizing clinical trials for the life science industry, announced a whopping $91 million Series C funding. The new round was led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from GSR Ventures, PPD, Inc and Streamline Ventures.
In total the digital health company has raked in $136 million. The Palo Alto, California-based startup has created a...
Healthcare voice AI company Suki recently fleshed out its leadership team with six new appointments.
Chief among these are Tracy Rentz, former VP of implementation at Evolent Health, as Suki's VP of customer success and operations; former Qventus Regional Director Brian Duffy as Suki's director of Sales-East; and Brent Jarkowski, previously the senior client development director at Kyyrus, as...
In today's HIMSSCast we're once again looking at the COVID-19 telehealth boom, but this time through the lens of staffing and workforce. Host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett are joined by Michelle Davey, CEO of Wheel, to discuss how a rise in virtual care is changing how physicians work.
This episode is brought to you by AmWell.
Talking points:
What Wheel does.
How...
While the third quarter of 2020 may not be remembered for its volume of M&A deals, it will likely be bookmarked as a clear example of front-runner consolidation within digital health.
Over the last three months, MobiHealthNews tracked and covered only nine confirmed M&A deals, plus one credibly reported acquisition (not counting deals involving special purpose acquisition companies [...
With its recent launch of the Digital Health Center for Excellence, the FDA has shown a new spotlight on its ongoing work of changing how the regulation of digital health and digital therapeutics works, to better match the realities of modern technology. But is the organization taking the right steps for the right reasons? Or is it heading into dangerous territory for developers and their end...
The first six months of the year have painted a picture of extraordinary investor interest in digital health, but no quarter has made a stronger case than the past three months of record-breaking fundraising.
In Q3 2020, MobiHealthNews covered an unprecedented 109 investment deals and announcements that brought a total of more than $4.6 billion to digital health startups and health tech...
