What You Should Know
- Today DispatchHealth announced the closing of $135.8 million growth capital financing led by Optum Ventures and included participation from existing and new strategic investors.
- The additional funding enables DispatchHealth to
continue to provide in-home medical care to even more vulnerable, high-needs
patients by growing its existing 19 markets, expanding to new markets, and
launching additional services.
- Many health systems, including Renown Health and
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Somatus Lands $64M to Expand Value-Based Kidney Care Model
What You Should Know:
- Somatus raises $64M in Series C funding led by Longitudinal
Capital to fuel the expansion of its value-based kidney care model.
- Somatus will use the funding to continue to scale its
model nationally and invest in technology and product development to better
support patients and health plan partners.
Somatus, a McLean, VA-based provider of value-based kidney care, today announced it has completed a Series C funding round of $64 million led by Longitude
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BrightInsight Raises $40M for Regulated Digital Health Platform for Biopharma & Medtech
What You Should Know:
- BrightInsight, provider of the leading global regulated
digital health platform for biopharma and medtech, today announced a Series B
funding round of $40 million, led by global venture capital and private equity
firm, Insight Partners.
- Already the partner of choice to four global pharmaceutical leaders—AstraZeneca, Roche, CSL Behring, and Novo Nordisk—the Series B financing will enable BrightInsight to speed up hiring, expand its global footprint and add
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Cedar Nabs $102M to Modernize Patient Financial Experience
What You Should Know:
- Cedar raises $102M to fuel the next phase of Cedar’s vision of evolving from a patient financial engagement solution to a comprehensive healthcare consumer engagement platform.
- Cedar combines healthcare, tech, and design to create a seamless financial experience for every patient. From pre-visit registration to post-visit billing, Cedar personalizes the care journey to take each patient to payment with ease.
- The company also announced it has partnered with
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Kaia Health Lands $26M to Expand AI-Driven Digital Therapeutics for MSK Conditions & COPD
What You Should Know:
- Digital therapeutics company Kaia Health raises $26M in
Series B funding to help grow its digital therapy solutions for musculoskeletal
(MSK) conditions, and expand into new conditions.
- The investment was led by Optum Ventures, Idinvest and
capital300, plus participation from Balderton Capital, Heartcore Capital and
Symphony Ventures, an investment partnership with world #1 golfer Rory McIlroy.
- Kaia Health’s smartphone-based
approach to managing chronic
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careMESH Raises $5M to Scale Healthcare Communications Platform
What You Should Know:
- careMESH raises $5M in seed funding to scale the adoption of its first-of-a-kind healthcare communications platform.
- careMESH is a single service for hospitals, health systems, and other healthcare delivery organizations which offers a National Provider Directory, patient event notifications, secure communications, and transition of care workflows.
careMESH, a Reston, VA-based healthcare communications platform announced it has raised $5M in seed funding
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Unite Us Acquires SDoH Data Analytics Company Staple Health to Expand Capabilities
What You Should Know:
- Unite Us acquires social determinants of health (SDoH)
analytics company Staple Health to greatly expand its valuable predictive data
analytics capabilities.
- Predictive analytics and outcome data are essential as
Unite Us supports local communities, addressing needs and providing proactive
social care infrastructure where it is lacking.
- The acquisition of Staple Health brings 10 years of
data experience and a database of 270M individuals, with notable
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Abacus Insights Nabs $35M for Interoperability Platform to Help Health Plans Liberate Data
What You Should Know:
- Abacus Insights raises $35M in Series B funding for its data integration platform that enables health insurers to reconcile thousands of unique attributes to create a more personalized healthcare experience in everything from diabetes care and wellness programs to managing the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Abacus Insights’ data platform standardizes, curates, and enriches valuable healthcare data that is currently sitting idle, moving it out of restrictive silos, and
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Augmedics Lands $15M for FDA-Cleared Augmented Reality Guidance System for Surgery
What You Should Know:
- Augmented reality surgical image guidance startup Augmedics
raises $15M in Series B funding led by its U.S. staff in an effort to
secure and successfully launch the company as venture capital (VC) all but
evaporated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The xvision system, the first augmented reality
guidance system for surgery, allows surgeons to see the patient’s anatomy
through skin and tissue as if they have “x-ray vision,” and to accurately guide
instruments and
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EnsoData Raises $9M to Accelerate Waveform AI Platform for Clinicians
What You Should Know:
- EnsoData announces its official launch and a $9M Series A funding round to accelerate analysis and understanding of human health, starting with sleep disorder diagnoses.
- Using AI, EnsoData’s technology transforms billions of waveform data points (outputs from heartbeats on an EKG, eye movement through an EOG, brain waves through an EEG, etc.) collected from sensors in medical devices and wearables into an easy-to-read report.
- EnsoData saves clinics and
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