Today, Rock Health, a San Francisco-based accelerator for digital health startups announced a partnership with AngelList to create a special fund for accredited investors to fund their V5 graduating class of startups.
General Solicitation Ban Lifted
Back in July, The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lifted an 80-year ban on “general solicitation”, allowing startups to now publicly advertise their need for funding. Starting on September 23rd, 2013, under Title ll of the JOBS Act (crowdfunding), entrepreneurs will be permitted to publicly advertise that they are fundraising for their startups to under Rule 506 of Regulation D and Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. Only accredited investors are permitted to invest in startups that are generally soliciting.
Rock Health V5
With an acceptance rate under 3%, this fifth class of startups represent a diverse group of innovators, from Google Glass to population health management. To date, these startups have already raised a total of $5.5M before Demo Day:
- Amplify Health gives at-risk providers the tools to proactively manage their patients and reduce avoidable healthcare costs.
- Anapsis is a research platform and marketplace for scientific and statistical computing.
- Augmedix is a service for doctors powered by Google Glass.
- CancerIQ is harnessing big data to scale personalized cancer care.
- CRIXlabs builds software for de-risking drug development.
- Lift Labs makes active stabilization tools for people living with tremor.
- Sensentia automates complex healthcare administration tasks that until now required human intervention, driving higher efficiency and better quality of service at lower costs.
- Smart Patients is an online community for cancer patients and their caregivers.
- Spire is a next-generation wearable for productivity and wellbeing.
- ThriveOn delivers mental health on demand.
Rock Health/AngelList Fund
The fund can accept up to 100 accredited investors. This fund will be invested equally across the companies in the form of a convertible note. Company founders include the former Chief Health Strategist at Google, the co-founder of Pursuit (sold to Facebook), and the founder of the Calming Technology lab at Stanford.
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