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How COVID-19 is Changing Digital Health

Dream It

Earlier this month, Adam Dakin , Managing Director of Dreamit Healthtech, joined Phase2 Health to share his insight on how the pandemic is changing healthcare. The group discussed different healthtech topics including venture investment, trends, reducing burn, enterprise sales, and market performance, highlighted below.

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Commercializing AI in Healthcare: The Enterprise Buyer Perspective

Andreessen Horowitz

Positioning the product (with the enterprise buyer in mind) Frame the problem you’re trying to solve In a recent conversation with Daniel Barchi, CIO of CommonSpirit Health, he compared AI software purchasing to buying a car with lane assist technology. Each organization’s culture around these questions is different.

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Meet Super.mx, the Mexico City-based insurtech that raised $7.2M from VCs and unicorn CEOs

TechCrunch

The company soon plans to expand to also offer health insurance. . He was also once a solvency expert for life and health insurance lines at MetLife, and has developed financial models for several P&C carriers. Some have blamed the lack of insurance coverage on the country’s culture but Super.mx Villarreal lived in the U.S.

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Psychedelics startups are on a long journey to consumer markets, but these 5 VCs are taking the ride

TechCrunch

“Like a pressure cooker, COVID blew the lid off what was a simmering mental health crisis for over a decade,” VC Tim Schlidt told TechCrunch. According to the World Health Organization, the global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25% in the first year of the pandemic.

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Call center automation software vendor Replicant raises $78M

TechCrunch

. “[With the new capital,] we plan to ramp up investment in our customer success team to onboard new customers,” cofounder and CEO Gadi Shamia told TechCrunch via email. We will increase our sales and marketing investment to capture the significant demand we see.

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Quickly Unpacking Amazon’s Acquisition Of PillPack

Haystack

One analyst estimated $15b+ of incumbent market value was wiped out. . “Reinventing the direct mail pharmacy business” doesn’t have the sexiest appeal, sure, but it’s clear reading all the reports the team thought deeply about each process and succeeded at creating value for all stakeholders in its orbit.

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Monzo Makes Money Work For Everyone

Y Combinator

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. This did not happen by magic. expectations.