OurCrowd Launches $200M Global Health Equity Fund
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- Global venture firm OurCrowd launches the $200M Global Health Equity Fund (GHEF) in collaboration with the WHO Foundation.
- The fund team will be led by OurCrowd CEO, Jon Medved, and OurCrowd Managing Partner, Dr. Morris Laster, with the support of the WHO Foundation’s Chief Impact Investment Officer, Geetha Tharmaratnam. It will be managed by an OurCrowd team of clinical experts with decades of experience in
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Scratch Financial Raises $35M for Patient Financing Solution
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- Today Scratch Financial, an LA-based financial technology company connecting patients andmedical practices in the care now, pay later economy announced it has raised $35M in Series C funding led by Norwest Venture Partners.
- Scratch, a business-to-business buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) fintech company helps patients focus on what’s most important - caring now - for themselves or for their pet - and paying later in a way that better meets their needs.
Simplest
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Lyfegen Raises $8M for Value-Based Contracting for High-Cost Drugs
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- Lyfegen, a global health tech SaaS company driving the world’s transition from volume to value-based healthcare for high-cost drugs raises $8M in Series A financing round led by aMoon, with additional participation from APEX Ventures and others.
- Lyfegen’s value-based contracting software is used by healthcare payers and leading pharma companies, including Novartis, Roche, MSD, Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) and Johnson & Johnson.
Value-Based
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Pretzel Therapeutics Launches With $72.5M to Pioneer Mitochondrial Therapies
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- Pretzel Therapeutics, a biotechnology company harnessing the intricacies of mitochondrial biology to develop groundbreaking therapies, launched today with $72.5M in Series A financing to pioneer novel therapies to modulate mitochondrial function.
- The financing was led by ARCH Venture Partners and Mubadala Capital with participating investors HealthCap, Cambridge Innovation Capital, Cambridge Enterprise, Angelini Ventures, GV, Invus, Eir Ventures, GU Ventures, and
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Zócalo Health Raises $5M to Launch Primary Care Services for Latinos
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Zócalo Health, a Latino-founded healthcare service designed for Latino patients, announced that it’s closed on $5M in seed funding to support its launch of virtual primary care services in California, Texas, and Washington this year.
The seed funding was co-led by Animo Ventures, Virtue, and Vamos Ventures. The round includes other notable investors including Necessary Ventures, Able Partners, and angel investors Toyin Ajayi, Freada Kapor Klein, Nikhil
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HCA Makes Strategic Investment in Cardiac Monitoring Wearable VitalConnect
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- VitalConnect®, Inc., a leader in remote and in-hospital wearable biosensor technology, has just announced the completion of an investment funded by Health Insight Capital, the investment arm of HCA Healthcare Inc., (NYSE: HCA), one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers.
- The investment will go toward further accelerating VitalConnect’s rapidly growing cardiac monitoring business segment while advancing key Remote Patient Monitoring of individuals who
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Redesign Health Raises $65M to Build Next-Gen Health Startups
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- Redesign Health, a healthcare company that researches, builds and launches other healthcare companies raises $65M in Series C funding led by General Catalyst with participation from CVS Health Ventures, UPMC Enterprises (the innovation and venture capital arm of leading health system UPMC), Eden Global Partners, Euclidean Capital, Samsung Next, TriplePoint Capital, and founding investor Declaration Partners.
- In addition, General Catalyst,
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Enzee Health Nabs $1.5M for Cloud-Based Compliance Management Platform
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- Enzee Health, formerly ZapIT! Medical is announcing it has secured $1.5M in seed financing, led by Rev1 Ventures with participation from Tamarind Hill, Harbor Street Ventures, M7 NEO, Redgrave Investments, Service Provider Capital and others.
- Enzee empowers hospital personnel to easily perform and track required quality testing within departments, eliminating the inefficiencies of paper record keeping, and making it easier for administrators to assess whether
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PurpleLab Secures $40M for No-Code Healthcare Analytics Platform
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- PurpleLab, Inc. raises $40M in Series B funding led by Primus Capital, which joins existing investor Edison Partners.
- Founded in 2017, PurpleLab has a strong pedigree in proprietary methodologies for data organization, cleansing, management, and governance to solve key challenges across the healthcare industry.
No code needed to create fully configured analytical reports
HealthNexus™, the company's no-code analytics platform empowers life science,
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CertifyOS Secures $14.5M for Frictionless Provider Intelligence
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- New York City-based CertifyOS raises $14.5M in Series A funding led by General Catalyst and has received Accreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving healthcare quality.
- CertifyOS delivers API-first credentialing, licensing, and enrollment to payors, health systems and rapidly-scaling digital health companies.
Provider Intelligence Platform
Started by former Oscar Health
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