Ophelia

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By  Jessica Hagen 11:49 am April 6, 2023
DarioHealth, a digital chronic condition management platform, announced that Eitan Shay is joining the company in the newly created position of chief product officer. Shay was previously in leadership roles at Livongo, Teladoc Health and Meta.  Arnaud Robert is also joining Dario as a strategic advisor to the company's CEO, Erez Raphael. Robert recently served as executive vice president and...
Robbert Zusterzeel
By  Emily Olsen 01:27 pm August 23, 2022
Woebot Health, maker of a mental health chatbot, recently appointed Dr. Robbert Zusterzeel as vice president of regulatory science and strategy. Zusterzeel comes to Woebot from IQVIA, where he served as senior director of U.S. regulatory science and strategy. He'd previously worked at the FDA for nearly 10 years.  "We believe in and have embraced regulation from the start and have expanded our...
Money
By  Laura Lovett 11:00 am December 14, 2021
Ophelia, which provides a digital opioid-use-recovery tool, landed $50 million in Series B funding. Tiger Global Management led the round, with participation from Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, Refactor Capital, 640 Oxford Ventures, Interplay Ventures and individual contributors.  This news comes less than a year after Ophelia announced its $15 million Series A funding. As of today, the...
By  Alexandra Mullin and Ian Chiang 01:16 pm January 29, 2021
The alarming scale of the opioid use disorder (OUD) epidemic has resulted in unprecedented human and economic devastation, and there is significant opportunity for digital tools to alter the gold standard of care to one that is ongoing and on-demand. The epidemic has only worsened since the onset of COVID-19, given heightened economic instability, social isolation, disruption to transportation...
By  Laura Lovett 01:31 pm May 15, 2020
Earlier this week digital substance-abuse-recovery platform Ophelia landed $2.7 million in seed funding, according to Forbes reports. The latest round was led by General Catalyst, Refactor Capital and Y Combinator.  WHAT THEY DO  Ophelia focuses on helping folks with an opioid use disorder quit. Patients first are required to go to an in-person visit with a physician in order to get a...