Sonde Health, a Boston-based digital medicine company developing a vocal biomarker device to transform the way we monitor and diagnose our mental and physical health has raised $16 million in Series A funding. The round was led by M Ventures (the corporate venture capital arm of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany), with participation from MP Healthcare Venture Management, Inc. (the corporate venture capital arm of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation), Neoteny 4, LP, Canepa Healthcare, and founder
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Medidata Launches New Life Sciences Company, Acorn AI
Life sciences digital transformation company Medidata, today announced the launch of Acorn AI, a new company designed to provide actionable insights across the entire drug continuum – from R&D to commercialization. In addition, the company has appointed Rama Kondru, Ph.D., as the chief information officer for Medidata and Acorn AI’s first CIO to lead the company’s enterprise data strategy, architecture and future platform development – all helping the company to accelerate the creation of
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Diameter Health Raises $9.6M to Expand Clinical Data Integration Platform
Diameter
Health, a Farmington, CT-based provider of clinical data integration
solutions has raised $9.6 million in Series A funding led by Optum Ventures. Optum
Ventures joins existing Diameter Health investors Activate Venture Partners, Connecticut Innovations, Excelerate Health Ventures and LRV Health.
Brining Order to Complex Clinical Data
Founded in 2013 by former Allscripts
executives Eric Rosow and John D'Amore, Diameter Health’s scalable clinical
data
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Deep Lens Lands $14M to Scale AI-Driven Digital Pathology Platform
Deep Lens, Inc., a Columbus, OH-based AI-driven digital pathology company focused on clinical trial recruitment at the time of diagnosis has raised $14 million in Series A funding. The Series A round was led by Northpond Ventures with participation from existing investors Rev1 Ventures, Sierra Ventures, and Tamarind-Hill Partners. The funding comes months after Deep Lens emerged from stealth in October 2018 with a $3.2M seed round, which brings their funding to date total to $17.5
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HealthVerity Raises $25M for Cloud Marketplace for Licensing Patient Data
HealthVerity, a Philadelphia, PA-based company focused on the rapid creation, exchange, and management of healthcare and consumer data has raised $25 million in Series C funding led by existing investor Foresite Capital with participation from Flare Capital Partners, Greycroft Partners, and other existing investors. The company plans to use the funding to support continued growth and investment in HealthVerity’s technology platform and go-to-market activities.HealthVerity BackgroundFounded in
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Medical Informatics Corp. Raises $11.9M for FDA-Cleared Patient Monitoring and Predictive Analytics Platform
Medical Informatics Corp. (MIC), a Houston, TX-based provider of an FDA-cleared patient monitoring and predictive analytics platform has raised $11.9M in Series A funding led by Data Collective Venture Capital (DCVC) with significant participation from Intel Capital and the Texas Medical Center (TMC) Venture Fund.The Inaccurate State of Today’s Predictive Analytics in Hospital SystemsHospital systems across the country are searching for ways to use machine learning and AI to get ahead of
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HealthAxis Group Acquires BI/Data Warehouse Company Analytics Partners
HealthAxis Group, an IT solutions provider for healthcare payers, including TPA's and insurance companies has acquired Analytics Partners, a provider of business intelligence and data warehouse solutions for healthcare organizations. Under terms of the acquisition, HealthAxis Group will acquire Analytics Partners stock and assets and will begin consolidating all business under the HealthAxis Group brand.Analytics Partners OverviewAnalytics Partners specializes in analytics solutions such as
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HealthQuest Capital Closes $440M Fund to Invest in Innovative Growth-Stage Companies
HealthQuest Capital, a Silicon Valley-based growth capital firm has closed a $440 million fund to invest growth-stage companies delivering innovation across all sectors of the healthcare industry to improve patient outcomes, enhance efficiency and reduce costs. Fund III was oversubscribed and closed at a hard cap. Target markets for Fund III include growth- and commercial-stage companies focusing on medical technologies, diagnostics, digital health, and innovative services.HealthQuest Capital
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Rock Health Q1 2019: Digital Health Funding Breaks $986M
Digital health funding reached $986M across 61 digital health deals in Q1 2019, according to Rock Health, a full-service venture fund dedicated to digital health. The Q1 2019 funding represents about half of the $1.62B that was raised a year ago in Q1 2018 but in line with 2017 and 31% below 2016.
Compared to the $1.2B in Q4 2018, quarterly funding has averaged $1.4B over the past two years (Q1 2017-Q1 2019). Rock Health signals the $986M invested in this past quarter are somewhat below
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Behavioral Health Startup Blueprint Nabs $1.3M for Mental Health Assessment Platform
Blueprint (formerly known as HelloJoy), a Chicago, IL-based behavioral health company whose software allows mental health clinicians to efficiently practice measurement-based care (MBC) has raised $1.3M in seed funding led by Lightbank and Hyde Park Angels. The company plans to use the capital to expand its clinician outreach and grow its engineering and sales teams.
Impact of Measurement-based
Care (MBC)
Today, 43 million Americans suffer from a mental illness,
but there are only 28K
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