NexHealth, a New York based developer of an app-based patient communication and appointment booking platform, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding led by iSeed Ventures. The digital health startup plans to utilize the funding to invest in growing its network of doctors and patients as well as product offerings. Founded in 2015 by Alamin Uddin, NexHeatlh's secure patient booking platform integrates with a physician practices' existing calendar to provide its patients access their office
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Zipline Lands $25M to Expand Automated Medical Drone Delivery
Zipline, a San Francisco-based drone delivery startup has raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Visionnaire Ventures, with participation from Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. The latest round will allow it to expand its operations to new countries/territories across the world and brings Zipline’s total funding to $43 million. According to Zipline, more than two billion people lack adequate access to essential medical products, often due to challenging terrain and gaps in
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Revenue Cycle Management Vendor Recondo Lands $16M to Fuel Solutions Growth
Recondo Technology, a Greenwood Village, CO-based provider of cloud-based revenue cycle management solutions has raised $16 million in debt and capital funding led by Lehmi Ventures with Bridge Capital serving as the debt partner. The company plans to utilize the funding to support product development investments, particularly in areas of API-enabled revenue cycle content, expanded claims statusing, and authorization automation—all solutions designed to measurably improve financial
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Zipongo Nabs $18M to Expand Digital Nutrition App
Zipongo, a San Francisco, CA-based personalized digital nutrition platform has raised $18 million in Series B funding led Mayfield with participation from Excel Venture Management. The company plans to utilize the funding to expand its operations further enabling Nutriomics and behavior science to empower health providers and disease management systems to measurably leverage food as medicine.. Founded by Jason Langheier, MD, MPH in 2010, Zipongo provides a software-as-a-service platform that
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Janssen Taps StartUp Health for Three Year Health Innovation Program
Janssen Research & Development, LLC is teaming up with StartUp Health on a three-year collaboration program to connect its senior leaders more directly to digital health entrepreneurs, innovators and disruptors. As part of the three year deal, StartUp Health will provide Janssen’s leaders with ongoing insights on emerging technologies, business models and overarching trends in digital health. Additionally, it will create multiple pathways to help them more effectively collaborate with
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Peerwell Lands $2.1M for Surgery Prep App to Help Patients Recover Faster
PeerWell, a San Francisco, CA-based digital health startup provider of a mobile platform that helps patients prepare both physically and mentally for surgery to recover faster has raised $2.1 million in seed funding led by XSeed Capital. The company plans to utilize the funding to expand its PreHab platform by launching smartphone based tracking for key orthopedic outcomes including range-of-motion, sit/stand testing and six-minute walk tests. Additionally, it plans to accelerate the development
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Cohero Health Raises $9M to Expand Connected Respiratory Disease Solutions
Cohero Health, a NYC-based digital health company developing connected health tools and technologies to empower respiratory patients and improve care through smart mobile devices, has raised $9 million in Series A funding. The funding round is led by Three Leaf Ventures, an affiliate of the Broe Group, with continuing participation from Zaffre Investments, the investment arm of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and BioAdvance. To date, the company has raised $11 million in total
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OurCrowd Launches Israel’s First $50M Digital Health Fund
OurCrowd, an Jerusalem-based global equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors has launched Israel's first $50 million fund to invest in digital health startups. The new fund called OurCrowd Qure will focus on digital health startups at seed and series A stages in Israel, the US and the Asia Pacific region. Allen Kamer and Dr. Yossi Bahagon has been appointed to lead the fund.OurCrowd Qure has established a collaboration with Johns Hopkins University to provide validation of value,
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PediaQ Nabs $4.5M for On-Demand App for Nurse Triage, House Calls
PediaQ, a Dallas, TX-based company that has launched a mobile app platform for on-demand nurse triage and house calls has landed its first partnerships with Memorial Hermann Health System (Houston) and Baylor Scott&White Health (Dallas). In addition, the company has raised $4.5 million in funding which brings its total funding to date at $6.5M since its inception in late 2014. The funding will be utilized to expand the company’s growth in Dallas, Houston and Austin, and will also allow for
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Telehealth Startup Tyto Care Receives FDA Clearance for Digital Stethoscope
Tyto Care Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for its digital stethoscope, a device that will be part of its advanced set of examination tools now being introduced to the world of telehealth. TytoCare is launching a comprehensive telehealth solution that includes digital health tools for examining the ears, throat, skin, heart, lungs, and temperature and a cloud-based platform with video conferencing. By enabling a more
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