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Preventive medical technology pioneer Neko Health has finalized a $700M Series C funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and co-led by O.G. Venture Partners.The explosive pre-empted round values the Swedish-born company at nearly $7 billion—marking a staggering fourfold valuation leap from its $1.7 billion Series B milestone in January 2025.The hyper-capitalization round attracted an elite tier of global technology and celebrity builders, including Mark
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Hemispheric Emerges from Stealth with $52M Capitalization to Launch Descartes Brain-Decoding Model
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NeuroAI foundation company Hemispheric has officially emerged from stealth, announcing a $52M early-stage funding round co-led by Hanaco Ventures and OneMind/Awareness Capital to scale objective human brain decoding.The company has launched Descartes, a 6-billion-parameter neural foundation model that translates non-invasive, dry-electrode EEG electrical waves into quantitative, actionable clinical insights.Disrupting traditional sample-size limitations, Descartes was
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XRHealth Acquires Swing Therapeutics to Create Largest Extended Reality Chronic Pain Platform
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Extended reality (XR) clinical innovator XRHealth has announced the formal acquisition of digital therapeutics pioneer Swing Therapeutics, making it the largest multi-device XR digital health platform for chronic conditions.The transaction absorbs Swing’s flagship Stanza program, the first FDA De Novo–authorized prescription digital behavioral therapeutic indicated for the treatment of fibromyalgia symptoms, which impact 10 million Americans.Validated by a Phase 3
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Brain Health’s Infrastructure Era: Proving Clinical Outcomes with Integrated Neuromotor Tracking
The senior living operator runs brain health programming for hundreds of residents and still can't say, with confidence, which ones are genuinely improving. The rehabilitation provider clears a patient to return to activity based on symptoms, not on whether the underlying deficit is actually resolved. The sports organization has to decide, in real time, whether an athlete is truly ready to perform under pressure, often with little more than instinct and a stopwatch. The pharmaceutical company
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Thyme Care Appoints Dr. Brad Diephuis as CEO, Co-Founder Robin Shah Appointed Executive Chairman
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Value-based oncology leader Thyme Care has announced a comprehensive executive succession matrix: co-founder Robin Shah will transition to executive chairman, while current president and COO Brad Diephuis, M.D., will step into the CEO role, effective September 1, 2026.Dr. Diephuis, a primary care physician and cancer survivor, brings deep value-based policy expertise to the chief executive seat, having previously served as a senior advisor at the Center for Medicare and
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M&A: Lyric Acquires Concert to Scale AI-Powered Healthcare Decision Intelligence
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Healthcare decision intelligence leader Lyric has announced the acquisition of Concert, a precision health payment accuracy innovator specializing in translating machine-readable clinical policies into real-time claims workflows.The transaction embeds Concert’s proprietary policy intelligence directly within Lyric42, Lyric’s AI-powered Healthcare Decision Intelligence Platform, expanding its scale amid a surge in advanced genetic testing and precision therapies.The
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Wheel Launches Expanded Clinical Infrastructure for CMS ACCESS Model and Medicare GLP-1 Programs
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Clinical infrastructure pioneer Wheel has announced the commercial launch of expanded capabilities engineered explicitly to support healthcare organizations participating in CMS's value-based ACCESS Model and the Medicare GLP-1 Bridge program.The infrastructure rollout arrives as a direct technical response to the macroeconomic freeze on core database spending, enabling enterprise health networks and digital health brands to operationalize complex cardiometabolic pathways
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Capital Rx Rebrands as Judi Health Following $400M Expansion Round
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Transparent pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry pioneer Capital Rx has officially rebranded as Judi Health™, unifying its expanding enterprise healthcare software lines under a single, cohesive corporate identity.Backed by a major $400 million financing round, the company is shifting beyond its initial prescription drug core to launch Unified Claims Processing™—consolidating pharmacy, medical, vision, and dental benefits onto a single cloud-native system of record
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Sage Growth Partners Releases State of Maternal & NICU Care 2026 Impact Report
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Healthcare growth advisory firm Sage Growth Partners has published The Communication Chasm: Why Mothers Feel Lost in the System and How Health Plans Can Help, the second installment in its State of Maternal & NICU Care 2026 research series.Independent survey data from 300 recently pregnant women and 50 health plan executives exposes a profound care deficit: while 53% of mothers receive automated text reminders, only 28% find them valuable.Structural comprehension of
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Rock Health H1 2026 Digital Health Funding Recap: Startups Hit $7.4B in Venture Rebound
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Rock Health Capital H1 2026 Digital Health Funding Report, U.S. digital health funding reached $7.4B across 244 deals in H1 2026, outposing H1 2025 by $1B and establishing a clear multi-year recovery from the post-pandemic market resets of 2023 and 2024.Mega deals ($100M+) absorbed a staggering 45% of all deployed capital in H1 2026, consolidating nearly half of the market's total funding into just 8% of finalized transactions.Mental health secured its position as the
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