Med247, a health tech startup in Vietnam, has raised $4.5 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round led by Altara Ventures.
The round also drew the participation of Pavilion Capital, MiRXES, and angel investors East Ventures and Venturra Ventures.
WHAT IT DOES
Launched in 2019 with seed funding from venture capital investment firm KK Fund, Med247 operates under an offline-to-online...
Jio Health, a digital healthcare provider in Vietnam, has scored $20 million in a Series B funding round led by health-focused investor Heritas Capital from Singapore.
The investing round was also joined by Fuchsia Ventures, Kasikorn Bank Group, and Monk’s Hills Ventures, which previously led its Series A round in 2019 when it raised $5 million.
WHAT IT DOES
Launched in 2014, the digital health...
MiyaHealth, a health tech startup from Singapore, has scored SG$6.5 million ($4.8 million) in a pre-Series A funding round led by Singapore Technologies Engineering Ventures, the venture capital arm of listed engineering group ST Engineering, and deep tech investor Elev8.
This brings its total investments raised to over SG$9 million ($6.6 million).
WHAT IT DOES
Established in 2019, MiyaHealth is...
Regulatory body approves POC use of Cue Health's COVID-19 test in India
Cue Health, a California-based health tech company, has recently got regulatory approval from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation for its COVID-19 test for professional point-of-care use in India.
The company claims its molecular-based diagnostic test provides "highly accurate, lab-quality results" that are sent...
Siilo, the secure collaboration app for healthcare workers, has announced a raise of €9.5 milliion in Series A funding.
European digital health VC Heal Capital is at the forefront of the investment, backed by Germany’s private health insurers. Also participating in the round are Philips Health Technology Venture Fund and current investor EQT Ventures.
WHAT IT DOES
Founded in 2016 by former...
Tampere, Finland-based startup Combinostics, maker of data-driven clinical assessment software, has secured €3.9m in a Series A funding round led by Industrifonden and NordicNinja VC, it was announced at Slush, a startup event taking place in Helsinki, this morning.
WHAT THEY DO
Founded in 2014, Combinostics aims to support healthcare professionals in the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases,...
Israel’s Sheba Medical Center and Telesofia Medical, provider of personalised videos that aim to improve patient engagement, are introducing a telemedicine programme to help cancer patients talk to their doctors straight from their homes, enabling oncologists to better monitor their condition and offer support.
The initiative is starting as a pilot in the oncology department at the hospital,...
While the HIMSS Global Conference is often thought of as a health IT conference for physicians and CIOs, the annual event actually caters to a wide variety of stakeholders in healthcare including entrepreneurs, investors, informaticists, and a wide variety of clinicians and executives.
In order to highlight that diversity of attendees and offerings, this year HIMSS is organizing HIMSS Circles, an...
According to IDC, 20 percent of healthcare organizations will be using blockchain by 2020. So should startups in the healthcare space be using it now? Well, not necessarily. While many digital health startups are putting blockchain to good use, for others it might be premature, or even extraneous.
“I think companies over the last couple years have been asking the question ‘I want to use...
In many ways, the Pulse@MassChallenge startup incubator operates like any other startup accelerator. But the differences are key -- the program, part of a public-private partnership with the Commonweatlh of Massachusetts, takes no equity in the startups and doesn't accept startups unless a major healthcare stakeholder wants to work with them as a "champion" in a relationship that's half...
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