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Report: Digital Health Funding Tops $333M in April 2013

by Jasmine Pennic 05/10/2013 2 Comments

This week health & wellness academy, StartUp Health released their “April 2013 Digital Health Funding Insights Report” reporting 67 digital health deals in April totaling $332.72M in total funding.
The report shows significant growth in digital health funding compared to the 14 deals for a total of $64.04M that was raised in April 2012.

The report prepared by Brian T. Edwards (Health Insights & Research Fellow), Ron Golan (Healthcare Transformer Fellow), and Tanner Yager (Insights Fellow) states that a total of $918.71M in digital health funding was raised from 50 known investors in the first four months of 2013.

Top 3 sectors for funding in April are:

  • Sensors
  • Analytics
  • Personal Health

The top 5 deals in April include:

Startup

Round

Amount

Description

Blue Health Intelligence

Series B

$36M

Big data and analytics for all things healthcare

WorldOne

Series D

$35M

Healthcare market research platform

Watermark Medical

Series C

$32M

Home sleep monitoring platform, wearable, & software

RainDance Technologies

Series E

$20M

Tech toolmaker for genetic research

Welltok

Series B

$19M

Social health platform

Accelerators, incubators, and academies spur early stage growthOther key highlights in the report below include:

  • Significant growth investments were made in developers of sensors.
  • Several large telemedicine deals were closed this month. HealthSpot leads telehealth funding with a $10.4M Series C round

See the full Digital Health Funding Insights Report for April below to get a complete breakdown of digital health funding activity last month.

April 2013 StartUp Health Insights Funding Report from StartUp Health

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