What You Should Know:
- KēlaHealth
announced their Series A round (combined seed and Series A) of $12.9M led by
Sante Ventures and new innovation VC, Intuitive Ventures.
- KēlaHealth, is a surgical intelligence engine that
applies a dynamic cycle of patient-specific predictions, stratified
interventions, and outcomes tracking to reduce surgical complications
- KēlaHealth is the first investment for Intuitive
Ventures, a new innovation fund spun out of Intuitive Surgical,
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Nice Healthcare Nabs $5M to Power ‘Frictionless’ Virtual Primary Care
What You Should Know:
- Nice Healthcare raises
$5M in seed funding to power the next phase of growth of its in-home and
virtual primary care services.
- Nice contracts directly with employers to provide
unlimited access to its service under a transparent and capitated rate of $30 -
$36 per employee per month.
Nice Healthcare, a Minneapolis, MN-based provider of in-home and virtual primary care services, today announced it has raised $5 million in seed funding to pioneer the
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Human API Raises $20M+ to Scale User-Controlled Health Data Ecosystem
What You Should Know:
- Human API, the consumer-controlled health data platform
announced it has closed a Series C round of $20M+ this week.
- Human API’s consumer-controlled platform gives users a
streamlined means of accessing and sharing their personal health records with
physicians, trusted startups and enterprises, and insurers.
- The platform harnesses a machine learning-powered data pipeline
that structures health data into a consistent format, making it easier for
medical
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98point6 Lands $118M to Expand Text-Based Primary Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- On-demand text-based primary care platform 98point6
raises $118M in Series E funding to further invest in research and development
and expand its robust medical practice.
- 98point6 offers patients easy access to primary care in the same way they’ve grown accustomed to receiving the majority of services today—on their schedule and via a mobile app.
98point6, an on-demand digital primary care service that delivers personalized consultation, diagnosis, and
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Ori Biotech Lands $30M for Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Platform
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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