Digital health startup EverlyWell, today announced it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding to expand its suite of regulatory-compliant at-home diagnostic tests. The Austin, TX-based startup is transforming traditional health testing by providing consumers with convenient access to tests and easy-to-read results. The company's e-commerce platform enables customers to buy a variety of test kits online, easily collect their sample at home, and get informative results at their fingertips.
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StartUp Health Launches ‘Longevity Moonshot’ to Change Face of Aging
StartUp Health, a New York-based global entrepreneurship development company for Healthcare Transformers, today announced the launch of StartUp Health’s Longevity Moonshot, a mission to extend and enhance healthy life by 50+ years and change the face of aging. Building off its participation in the White House Cancer Moonshot and The Cancer Moonshot 2020, the Longevity Moonshot is the first moonshot of focus that StartUp Health is organizing for its community of Healthcare Transformers.
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Health IT VC Funding Tops $1.4B in Q1 2016: 10 Things to Know
Health IT VC funding increased 27 percent quarter over quarter (QoQ), coming in at $1.4 billion in 146 deals compared to $1.1 billion in 145 deals in Q4 2015, according to a new Mercom Capital Group report. The report highlights 615 companies funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for the Healthcare Information Technology (IT) / Digital Health sector for the first quarter of 2016. Here are ten key things to know: 1. Healthcare practice-centric companies received 42 percent of
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Livongo Health Pulls In $45M to Expand Diabetes Management
Livongo Health, a consumer digital health company that is empowering people with chronic diseases to live better has raised $44.5 million in Series C funding from investors including Merck Global Health Innovation Fund; Cowen Private Investments; Sapphire Ventures; Zaffre Investments, the investment arm of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts; Wanxiang America Corporation. Existing investors General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), DFJ, and 7wire Ventures. also
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Mobile Engagement Provider mPulse Mobile Raises $13M in Oversubscribed Round
mPulse Mobile, a mobile engagement solution provider that spun out of the healthcare division of mobileStorm has raised $13 million in Series A funding. Less than a year since the company’s founding, the latest financial investment in mPulse Mobile, from partners Cambia Health Solutions (Cambia) and Rincon Venture Partners, brings the total amount raised to more than $13M, oversubscribing and closing the Series A round. In January, the company announced it secured $10M in its first close of
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Bright Health Nabs $80M for Tech-Enabled Consumer Insurance Plans
Bright Health, a new health insurance startup co-founded by industry veterans, including former CEO of UnitedHealthcare has raised $80 million in Series A funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation by Flare Capital Partners and others. The startup will utilize the funding to expand its nationwide rollout to the individual health insurance marketplace. The startup is led by Bob Sheehy, former CEO of UnitedHealthcare; Kyle Rolfing, co-founder
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Sunquest Acquires GeneInsight: 5 Things to Know
Sunquest Information Systems Inc. has announced the acquisition of GeneInsight Inc., an IT company that streamlines the analysis, interpretation and reporting of complex genetic tests. Since first partnering with GeneInsight, Sunquest has advanced the precision medicine capabilities of GeneInsight, including the addition of a filtration algorithm that allows users to pare down long lists of variants gleaned from the whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing tests and more quickly identify and
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Cedars-Sinai + Techstars Healthcare Accelerator Unveils Inaugural Class of 11 Startups
Techstars Healthcare Accelerator, in partnership with Cedars-Sinai, today announced that 11 companies have been selected to participate in its inaugural class. From mobile health solutions to new devices and disruptive services, these innovative healthcare-focused startups are working to transform health and healthcare delivery as part of the Los Angeles-based accelerator program.The three-month accelerator will offer mentorship and guidance from clinicians & administrators at Cedars-Sinai,
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AARP Unveils 10 Finalists for Health Innovation@50+ LivePitch
On Wednesday, AARP unveiled the ten finalists companies for its fifth Health Innovation@50+ LivePitch event which will be held Wednesday, April 27, at Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, CA. Ten health tech startups focused on caregiving were selected from over 200 applicants to pitch their businesses at this unique one day dual-pitch event. AARP’s Health Innovation@50+ LivePitch is a one day pitch competition for emerging startups in the healthy living space with a focus on caregiving.The
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Health Tech Accelerator Relevant Health Showcases Inaugaral Class of Startups
Relevant Health, a five month Rockville, MD-based health technology accelerator announced the showcase of their inaugural 2016 class of startups at their first annual Demo Day held at the Rockville Innovation Center. The first class of health tech startups is composed of seven startups solving a diverse set of problems in the healthcare industry from digital therapeutic software system for self-managing gestational diabetes (Werbie) to providing a predictive analytics platform to determine the
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