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Truepill’s latest funding boosts valuation to $1.6B as it works on B2B side of healthcare

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After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents like health payers, providers and employer groups. We talk in technology that you are either arming the ‘rebels’ or the ‘empire,’ and in their case, they work with both.

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Commercializing AI in Healthcare: The Enterprise Buyer Perspective

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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. Barchi told us that his team’s definition of ROI depends on the use case.

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After raising $10M, Breeze breathes fresh air into a stagnant disability insurance market

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Similar to other insurance products, disability insurance was sold the same way for more than 20 years: using outdated technology, data science and underwriting that didn’t provide consumers an appropriate policy based on their occupation and health.

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End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business

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Five success factors for behavioral health startups. As consumers grew more comfortable with the web, marketplaces like eBay, Etsy, Expedia and Wayfair* emerged, enabling historically offline transactions to occur online. Justin Da Rosa is a vice president with Battery Ventures in San Francisco. More posts by this contributor.

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FintechOS nabs $60M for a low-code approach to modernizing legacy banking and insurance services

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“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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The gray revolution: Fundraising within the older adult space

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We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking. Don’t make a product “for old people” — make a product that helps older adults lead a healthier, more active, more connected life.

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Ivorian healthtech startup Susu has $1M to scale its family-centric insurance product across Africa

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Bola Bardet founded the company with Laurent Leconte (CTO) and Sandrine Egron (COO) after losing her father to complications from a chronic health condition due to poor management. “My The health issue was a complication from his hypertension that was poorly managed,” Bardet told TechCrunch over a call.

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