TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Southeast Asia’s mental health startups are getting more investor attention. Now Thoughtfull , another digital mental health platform focused on Asia, has raised $4 million in a pre-Series A round led by Sheares Healthcare Group. based senior care company called Iora Health that was acquired by One Medical.

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Dream It

MAY 13, 2020

Earlier this month, Adam Dakin , Managing Director of Dreamit Healthtech, joined Phase2 Health to share his insight on how the pandemic is changing healthcare. Enterprise Sales | Are health systems engaging with innovation right now? Reducing Burn | How are healthtech startups managing staffing during the pandemic?

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 23, 2023

Register SKS Capital , a venture capital and private equity firm based in Shanghai and Taipei, has announced its strategic investment of $5 million in Grace , Korea’s largest aggregator of international health and beauty brands. from 2020 to 2027.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Grassroots campaigns continue, and technology-wise, innovation in the wider women’s health sector is only gearing up. We still have a very long way to go in changing opinions about the importance of investing in women’s health. Janna Meyrowitz Turner, the founder of Synastry Capital, echoed similar sentiments. in 2019.

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Dream It

JULY 29, 2020

TrekIT Health (HT- ‘18) is a HIPAA compliant and secure, real-time workspace for synthesizing information across EHRs and care teams. TrekIT Health offers a novel solution to a problem that healthcare providers are just beginning to allocate meaningful resources toward fixing,” said Tech Council Ventures Managing Partner Jim Gunton. “We

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2022

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Last April, Alex and I reported CB Insights data showing that venture investment into mental health startups had dropped sharply in Q1 2022 compared to the preceding quarter. But it would be hard to argue that mental health needs have decreased.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Mental health app Intellect’s founder and CEO Theodoric Chew. Intellect , the Singapore-based mental health startup focused primarily on Asia-Pacific markets, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A. Singapore-based Intellect wants to lower barriers to mental health support in Asia. ThoughtFull gets $1.1M

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Africa Health Holdings , a healthcare startup running several hospitals, has secured $18 million in a Series A round, funds that will go toward building its “tech-forward healthcare system” across Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. Valiant Capital, Kepple Ventures and SUNU Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Called the Re/Wire Health Studio, the program will eventually select six startups that will win access to nine weeks of mentoring, business development expertise and cash grants. . The Re/Wire Health Studio is designed for growth and early-stage startups focused on “everyday health.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

mPharma, a Ghanaian health startup, has taken a controlling stake in Uganda’s Vine Pharmacy for an undisclosed amount, marking the firm’s entry into its latest market in Africa. But with Abraaj as its largest shareholder, the business had to resize once there wasn’t any more capital available for growth.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The role venture capital must play in all of this is becoming clearer: There has been a push to fund more reproductive health companies , include healthcare access in ESG investments , and reevaluate the safest places to open a business for women employees. Mecca Tartt , executive director, Startup Runway. The Dobbs v.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Mantra Health , a digital mental health startup focused on young adults, has raised $22 million in Series A funding led by VMG Partners. The round includes new investors New Market Venture Partners, Elements Health Ventures, 14W and Alumni Ventures.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We know startups are bad for mental health. How can venture capitalists promote human sustainability in entrepreneurship? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Nothing spells disaster for a startup like poor financial health. Many projects fail due to financial hurdles, and one studies have concluded that running short on capital was the second most likely reason for a startup’s failure. This is even more acute for a startup operating on lean resources.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

The virtual state of corporate venture capital today. It’s an entrepreneur’s market in digital health today, with startups raising record-breaking funding at soaring valuations and debuting on public markets to eager investors. billion, according to Mercom Capital Group. Corporate venture business strategies that work.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the process of finding, funding, and supporting startups that will transform their markets, investors can get caught up in KPIs, ROI, and other three-letter success indicators. The Startup Struggle is Real — and Shouldn’t Be Silently Endured The founder’s journey can be a lonely one. Founders are not machines. I’d argue not enough.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

Ryan Breslow, the brazen founder and former CEO of Bolt, told TechCrunch in 2022 that he was leaving the one-click checkout company to start a new company in the health and wellness sector called Love. million from investors, including Human Capital and MaC Venture Capital, last year. Love previously raised $7.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Mental health startup Ksana Health has received $2 million in seed funding led by re:Mind Capital, the mental health VC arm of Christian Angermayer and Apeiron Investment Group. It’s a move informed by two trends: passive data collection, and a burgeoning mental health crisis in teens and young adults. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Alyssa Jaffee is a partner at 7wireVentures , a digital health-focused venture capital firm, where she focuses on investments that empower consumers to become better stewards of their heath. This was a record-breaking year for private investment across digital health. Take access to mental health care, for example.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Goodman is a partner at Foley & Lardner and is a member of the firm’s national telemedicine and digital health industry team. Lacktman is a partner at Foley & Lardner and chair of the law firm’s national Telemedicine & Digital Health Industry Team. Telemedicine startups can survive and thrive under renewed regulation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

When you’re dealing with health issues, worrying about how you’re going to pay for care can be a major additional stressor. So they teamed up in 2021 to build Thatch , a startup that aims to simplify health payments for employers and employees alike. “We Ellis had started his career as a cancer researcher at MIT.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Verana Health, a company focused on collecting and organizing troves of medical data, announced a $150 million Series E funding round on Friday. Existing investors GV (formerly Google Ventures), Casdin Capital and Brook Byers joined the round. New investors include Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, THVC and Breyer Capital. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In its quest to offer healthcare that’s high-quality, accessible and affordable, Simple HealthKit is expanding its portfolio of diagnostic testing to include diabetes, sexual health and the “tripledemic,” which is COVID, the flu and RSV. Simple HealthKit is operating in a global diabetes diagnostic market expected to reach $42.4

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 14, 2023

This disruptive platform enables the detection of crop health faster and easier than legacy practices, resulting in improved crop quality and yield providing better financial returns for farmers. We’re eager to add nutrient testing to our suite of solutions for in-field assessment of crop health to our customers.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The latest raise is led by Base10 Partners, with existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Obvious Ventures also returning to back the startup. The startup is shooting to expand and scale its platform to 90% of the U.S. healthcare. We’re excited to accelerate our growth to affect even more change.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Data analyst and former COO of Goldman Sachs, Ramakant Vempati is the co-founder of 2022 FDA breakthrough device Wysa , an AI-based digital companion for behavioral health. Now, as venture capital funding within health tech has fallen 41.2% Now, as venture capital funding within health tech has fallen 41.2%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

For Kate Ryder, the founder of women’s health clinic and benefits platform Maven, business is personal. Maven announced that it has raised $110 million in a Series D financing co-led by Dragoneer Investment Group and Lux Capital. Should startups build or buy telehealth infrastructure?

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Pipo Saude , a startup that developed a platform that sells and manages healthcare benefits for Brazilian companies, has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding. Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital led the round, marking the first time the New York-based venture firm has led an investment in a Brazilian startup.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Adding to the myriad unicorn layoffs we have seen recently is now Carbon Health , a healthcare company offering virtual care, which said in a letter Thursday that it laid off 250 people, or 8% of its workforce. Bali started Carbon Health six years ago after leading education marketplace Udemy. Any company would be lucky to have them.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

This week, Bill Taranto, president of Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund, wrote a TechCrunch+ article that explored six digital health trends his corporate VC fund is tracking as we enter 2022. Between Q1 and Q3 2021, healthcare startups landed $21.3 Capital is a commodity. Capital is a commodity.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

As the pandemic unevenly roars on, Emily Melton , founder and managing partner of Threshold VC , is reflecting on a previous public health crisis: the Spanish flu. And, Melton, a lead investor in health tech startups including Livongo, Tia and Calibrate, says the care pathway ages well. What’s happening in our society?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

JBalvin, the Prince of Reggaeton, has been candid with his fans about his mental health struggles and healing journey. I’m human just like anyone else and I felt I had this mission to make the world a better place starting with mental health.” The bar for behavioral health startups just got higher.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

But in Uganda, the industry had already taken off, albeit slowly, through Rocket Health , a startup working to transform the delivery of medical care using technology. Launched in 2012, Rocket Health’s offers online medical consultation, collection of samples and the delivery of medicines. Rocket Health call center.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Digital healthcare continues to thrive globally following the effects of the pandemic last year, but venture capital inflows differ regionally with Africa lagging behind the rest of the world. H owever, investors have paid attention to a few innovative health tech startups, putting over $77 million across 56 deals last year.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The funding round was co-led by Accelerator Life Science Partners (ALSP) and ClavystBio, a Temasek-backed accelerator focusing on global health solutions. ClavystBio’s core mission is to act as a catalyst for global health solutions originating from Singapore.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Some of digital health’s best-capitalized startups are struggling. While these companies are all targeting different corners of the healthcare world — from direct-to-consumer healthcare to virtual mental health support — the layoffs show a similar response to the macroeconomic environment. Let’s take a look. The layoffs.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Series A of its funding round was participated by prominent regional payers including 450 Ventures, Create Health Ventures, Gratitude Railroad, Loud Capital, and Wanxiang Healthcare Investments. It has a number of plans that include NextBlue of North Dakota, Priority Health, and Vermont Blue Advantage, among others.

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