What You Should Know:
- Biotech startup Ori Biotech raises $30M in Series A
funding to scale its cell and gene therapy (CGT) manufacturing platform.
- Ori Biotech helps pharmaceutical and biotech companies
develop and manufacture cell and gene therapies. Its patented technology aims
to reduce the manufacturing cost of these life-saving treatments by up to 80%,
allowing them to be more widely accessible for patients.
Ori Biotech Ltd (Ori),
a leading innovator in cell and gene therapy
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Curation Health Raises Series A Funding for Clinical Decision Support Platform
What You Should Know:
- Curation Health raises an undisclosed Series A round of funding to accelerate the adoption of its advanced clinical decision support platform.
- Curation Health provides an advanced clinical decision
support platform for providers and health plans that aids in managing risk
contracts and improving quality performance.
Curation Health, an Annapolis, MD-based advanced clinical decision support platform for value-based care, today announced the completion of
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Remote Medical Documentation Startup Augmedix Closes $25M, Reverse Merger with Malo Holding
What You Should Know:
- Augmedix closes $25 million in private placement
funding and completion of a reverse merger transaction with Malo Holdings Corp.
- Following the transaction, the merged entity will be
named "Augmedix, Inc.", and will continue the historic and innovative
business of Augmedix.
Augmedix, a company
specializing in providing remote medical documentation and live clinical
support services, today announced the closing of a $25 million private
placement
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HealthTech Arkansas Unveils Latest Cohort of 5 Digital Health Startups
What You Should Know:
- HealthTech Arkansas unveils its latest cohort of five
digital health startups selected for the 2020 HealthTech Arkansas healthcare
accelerator.
- Each participating company will receive $75k in seed
investment through a convertible note and the opportunity to pilot their
solutions.
Today, HealthTech Arkansas, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Arkansas Heart Hospital, Arkansas Urology, Baptist Health, CHI St. Vincent, Conway Regional Health System, Mercy,
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Parexel Acquires Healthcare NLP Provider Roam Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Parexel acquires healthcare software company Roam
Analytics, Inc. to strengthen and enhance Parexel’s pharmacovigilance (PV)
services.
- The acquisition provides significant opportunities to
apply Roam Analytics’ natural language processing (NLP) technology to further
streamline and extract insights from unstructured data.
- Parexel will also use Roam’s AI technology to leverage
various data, from clinical notes, medical images, patient surveys,
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Healthcare VC Firm Longitude Capital Closes $585M Fund
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare venture capital firm Longitude Capital announces the close of its $585M Longitude Venture Partners IV, L.P. (“LVP4”) fund to invest in transformative healthcare companies.
- LVP4 will invest opportunistically across all stages of
a company’s development through a variety of approaches that include
traditional venture capital investing and special situations such as spin-outs,
equity-linked transactions, and private investments in public
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Beyond Limits Nabs $133M to Drive Global Expansion of AI Technology
What You Should Know:
- Beyond Limits, an AI provider that uniquely uses 45
technologies developed at Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab to provide
business intelligence for healthcare raises $133M in funding.
- Beyond Limits’ AI predictive model is helping
healthcare professionals fight against COVID-19 including determining the
percentage of patients that may need ventilators and ECMO in the ICU and
dialysis units.
Beyond Limits, an LA-based industrial and enterprise-grade AI
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Backed by Kaiser, Osso VR Raises $14M for VR Surgical Training Platform
What You Should Know:
- Osso VR raises $14M in Series A funding led by Kaiser
Permanente Ventures (KPV) to expand its virtual reality (VR) surgical training
platform.
- Using immersive VR technology, Osso VR’s scalable platform offers a realistic, hands-on training environment that leads to real-world performance gains and ultimately improved patient outcomes.
Osso VR, a Palo Alto, CA-based validated Virtual Reality (VR) surgical training platform, today announced it has raised $14M
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Olive Raises Another $106M for AI-Powered Digital Employee Platform
What You Should Know:
- The company that built healthcare’s first digital employee, Olive, today announced an additional $106M in financing in a round led by General Catalyst and Drive Capital.
- Hospitals were implementing an AI workforce to manage
administrative tasks before the pandemic started, and recent events have kicked
adoption into overdrive.
- Olive’s quick growth is a testament to hospitals’
urgent need for administrative efficiency as they navigate the public
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Ready Raises $54M to Become The Uber of On-Demand Healthcare Services
What You Should Know:
- Ready, a company described as the “Uber” of on-demand health
service, just raised $54 million in its Series C funding round.
- Ready’s on-demand care model is evolving the healthcare
industry with customer service and mobility, just like Uber did for ride
sharing and Postmates for food delivery.
Ready, an New Orleans,
LA-based on-demand healthcare service, today announced that it closed $54
million of new funding to finance the expansion of its operations and
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