What You Should Know:
- Strive Health, a provider of value-based kidney care announced it has secured $550M, consisting of a $300M Series D equity round and $250M in debt financing.
- The equity funding was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with additional investments from a syndicate of leading financial institutions, including CVS Health Ventures, CapitalG, and BlackRock, Inc.. Hercules Capital led the debt financing.
- The funding will enable Strive and its team of
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Pathwork Raises $3.5M to Modernize Insurance with AI-Powered Distribution Platform
What You Should Know:
- Pathwork, an autonomous distribution platform modernizing the $160 billion life and health insurance market, has raised a $3.5 million seed round led by Costanoa, with participation from Logos Fund, American Family Ventures, Meridian Ventures, and prominent industry angels.
- The funding will help accelerate adoption among brokers and carriers nationwide.
Transforming Manual Processes into Intelligent Systems
Pathwork is an AI-native platform designed to
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How Digital Therapeutics Are Reshaping Chronic Care for the Better
Key Takeaways:
Chronic diseases are a major health and financial burden in the U.S., yet current care models remain outdated, reactive, and fragmented.Digital therapeutics (DTx) offer personalized, clinically validated, software-based interventions that provide continuous, real-time support and monitoring for chronic conditions.DTx addresses key failures in traditional care through behavioral reinforcement, AI-driven personalization, and integration with clinical workflows.Despite
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WeightWatchers Launches Menopause Program with Queen Latifah
What You Should Know:
- WeightWatchers, has announced the launch of WeightWatchers for Menopause, a new program designed to support women through every stage of their menopause journey.
- To launch the program, the company is partnering with Grammy and Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated actress and producer Queen Latifah as its first official spokesperson.
WeightWatchers for Menopause Program
The WeightWatchers for Menopause program takes a comprehensive approach, combining the
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Amazon Pharmacy Expands RxPass to Texas, Offering $5 Monthly Prescriptions for Chronic Conditions
What You Should Know:
- Amazon Pharmacy has announced the expansion of its RxPass subscription service to Texas.
- The service, which costs Prime members just $5 per month, provides access to over 50 commonly prescribed medications that treat chronic conditions like anxiety, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease.
- Texas ranks fourth in the percentage of U.S. adults with three or more chronic conditions, making the expansion a significant move for the state. The
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Signos Launches First FDA-Cleared Glucose Monitoring System for Weight Management
What You Should Know:
- Signos, a metabolic and weight management company, has announced the launch of the Signos Glucose Monitoring System.
- The system is the first FDA-cleared, over-the-counter glucose monitoring system for weight management. It is also the first non-pharmacological approach cleared by the FDA for glucose management that not only helps those who are overweight but also helps prevent those who are at-risk.
Enterprise-Grade Capabilities, Consumer-Friendly
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Living Optics and NVIDIA Jetson Showcase Real-Time Hyperspectral Imaging
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- Living Optics, a leader in hyperspectral imaging (HSI), has announced its latest real-time blood perfusion demonstration, which was built on the NVIDIA Jetson platform. The demonstration offers a glimpse into the future of edge AI for healthcare, life sciences, and precision imaging.
- The live demo showcases how the company’s spectral vision technology can distinguish between oxygenated and deoxygenated blood in real-time. This capability provides critical
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M&A: Remedy Meds Acquires Thirty Madison in All-Stock Deal Valued at over $500M
What You Should Know:
- Remedy Meds, LLC, a consumer virtual-care and pharmacy platform, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Thirty Madison, Inc. ("Thirty Madison").
- The transaction creates a larger, multi-brand platform across women's, men's, and metabolic health. The transaction, which is valued just north of $500M, will be funded through an all-stock deal.
Expanding Access Through a Unified Multi-Brand Ecosystem
Thirty Madison, a leading
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MedTech M&A Surges in 2025: Why Startups Are Now Ripe for Acquisition
After a few mixed years in medical technology (MedTech) mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity, 2025 is shaping up to be a landmark year, particularly among cash-rich medical device strategics. In Q1 2025, there were 57 MedTech M&A transactions totaling $9.2 billion, compared to 62 deals worth $2.7 billion in Q1 2024, according to J.P. Morgan’s MedTech sector report.
First quarter venture capital (VC)
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Parasym Launches Nuropod, a Non-Invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation Device
What You Should Know:
- Parasym has launched Nuropod, the first ear-based, clinically studied vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) device in the U.S. that does not require surgery.
- The wearable device is designed to reduce symptoms such as persistent fatigue, anxious states, and markers related to inflammation by activating the vagus nerve to restore the body’s "rest and digest" state. The device is backed by more than 50 completed clinical studies.
A Non-Surgical Alternative
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