What You Should Know:
- MBX Capital has secured over $100M in capital commitments to invest in early-stage biotech and health tech companies, specifically focusing on "deep health" solutions that address diseases linked to environmental toxins and synthetic exposures.
- Backed by institutional heavyweights like Industry Ventures and the State of New York, the firm plans to deploy checks ranging from $1 million to $4 million into startups that move beyond symptom management
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Ritten Raises $35M to Scale AI-Powered Behavioral Health Platform
What You Should Know:
- Ritten, a leading AI-powered system of record for behavioral health providers, today announced a $35 million USD Series B funding round led by Five Elms Capital with participation from existing investors Threshold Ventures, 8VC, Bienville Capital, and others.
- This investment will support Ritten's expansion across mental health and addiction treatment providers spanning all levels of care.
A Unified Platform Purpose-Built for Behavioral Health
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OpenAI-Backed Chai Discovery Raises $130M to Tackle “Undruggable” Targets with Generative AI
What You Should Know:
- Chai Discovery has secured a $130M Series B financing round, propelling its valuation to $1.3 billion just months after emerging from stealth.
- Co-led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst, the funding validates Chai’s proprietary AI models, which can predict biochemical interactions and design drugs for targets previously considered "undruggable."
- With backing from industry heavyweights like OpenAI and Thrive Capital, Chai is positioning itself
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Auxira Health Raises $7.8M to Solve the Cardiology Shortage with Virtual Clinical Pods
What You Should Know:
- Auxira Health, a virtual cardiology company co-developed by MedStar Health, has secured $7.8M in seed funding to address the growing cardiologist shortage and clinician burnout crisis.
- Unlike standard telehealth platforms, Auxira embeds dedicated "clinical pods" of nurses and advanced practitioners directly into existing practice workflows, training them on-site to ensure seamless integration.
- The funding will fuel the company's expansion,
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Valinor Raises $13M to Predict Clinical Trial Outcomes Using Multi-Omic AI
What You Should Know:
- Valinor has launched with $13M in seed funding to tackle one of the pharmaceutical industry's most expensive challenges: clinical trial failure led by CRV and Harpoon Ventures.
- The company uses proprietary AI models trained on matched multi-omic samples and clinical outcomes to predict how specific patient populations will respond to new therapies. This "response-first" approach aims to drastically de-risk drug development by identifying responders
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Subsense Raises $10M to Replace Brain Implants with Nasal Nanoparticles
What You Should Know:
- Subsense Inc. has raised an additional $10M, bringing its total funding to $27M, to develop a non-surgical brain-computer interface (BCI) that relies on engineered nanoparticles rather than implanted chips.
- Administered nasally to cross the blood-brain barrier, this technology aims to record and modulate brain activity with high precision without the risks associated with invasive surgery.
- The funding from Golden Falcon Capital
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Accenture Invests in Ryght AI to Accelerate Clinical Trials with Agentic AI and Digital Twins
What You Should Know:
- Accenture has made a strategic investment in Ryght AI through its venture capital arm, aiming to modernize the sluggish clinical trial process. Ryght AI utilizes "agentic AI" and its proprietary AI Site Twin platform to create dynamic digital replicas of research sites, allowing pharmaceutical companies to optimize site selection and patient enrollment.
- The strategic collaboration seeks to remove the manual bottlenecks that delay life-saving therapies,
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AngelEye Health Raises $9M Series C to Bring AI-Driven Insights to the NICU
What You Should Know:
- AngelEye Health secures $9M Series C funding round led by Mountain Group Partners, with strategic investment from Nationwide Children’s Hospital and a new debt facility from Live Oak Bank.
- The capital will fuel the commercial launch of AIVision, an AI-driven monitoring tool designed to provide earlier safety insights for neonatal care teams. Currently serving over 350 hospitals and 20% of NICU families in the U.S., AngelEye is pivoting from family
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Paradigm Health Raises $78M & Acquires Flatiron Health’s Clinical Research Business
What You Should Know:
- Paradigm Health’s acquisition of Flatiron Health’s Clinical Research Business, coupled with a long-term strategic partnership, marks a structural shift in how oncology trials are conducted and how patients across the country gain access to them.
- The deal brings together the nation’s most extensive tech-enabled oncology research network with an AI-powered trial infrastructure, creating a unified ecosystem designed to expand trial capacity, reduce operational
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Artera Hits $100M ARR and Secures $65M in Funding to Lead Agentic AI Adoption in Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Artera, a leader in AI-powered patient communications secures $65M in growth investment led by Lead Edge Capital, following the milestone of reaching $100M in Contracted Annual Recurring Revenue (CARR) by the end of 2025.
- The funding accelerates the adoption of its Agentic AI solutions, which have already engaged over 200 million patients and demonstrated the ability to complete 94% of conversations without staff intervention. The company's decade of deep
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