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Oaktree Capital Management has closed its Life Sciences Lending Fund with a total capital commitment of $2.3B, representing the largest pool of capital ever raised dedicated to the space. Oaktree’s Life Sciences Lending Fund aims to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns by providing bespoke capital solutions to innovative companies across the life sciences sector globally, with a focus on high-growth subsectors, such as biopharma and medical
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Shoni Health Ventures Launches Health Tech VC Fund
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Shoni Health Ventures, a new health tech VC fund announces it’s official launch affiliated with ARC Innovation at Sheba Medical Center. The affiliation with Sheba Medical Center gives portfolio companies access to global ecosystem partners, including leading health systems and medical personnel, and more than 25 years of medical data. The fund will invest in early-stage (pre-seed and seed stage) startups and will utilize its unique resources to support entrepreneurs
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DUOS Raises $10M to Empower Older Adults to Live Independently
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DUOS, a digital health company focused on empowering older adults to live independently, announced today an additional $10M in funding led by Primetime Partners, SJF Ventures, and CEOC's Aging Innovation Fund managed by Castellan Group. Founded in 2020, DUOS focuses on older adults' aging needs and maximizes their well-being by connecting them with untapped health plan benefits and building high-trust relationships. The DUOS' System of Aging technology connects
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Medical AI: AccurKardia Secures $2.7M for Clinical Grade ECG Analytics
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AccurKardia, Inc., a New York-based medical AI software company delivering clinical-grade ECG interpretation software to cardiac monitoring companies raises $2.7M in seed funding led by Popular Impact Fund alongside other private investors. AccurKardia combines proprietary AI and non-AI-based techniques to provide near-real-time ECG analytics in the cloud, on device and at the edge
Clinical-grade, device-agnostic, API-accessible ECG analytics.
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Aledade Raises $260M to Expand Services for Network of Primary Care Practices
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Aledade, a Bethesda, MD-based network of independent primary care practices raises $260M in a Series F funding round led by new investor Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Venrock, Avidity Partners, OMERS Growth Equity, and Fidelity Management & Research Company.The new funding will be used to further accelerate the growth of Aledade’s primary care network and strategic alliances with national and regional health plans while continuing to
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DexCare Raises $75M to Accelerate Care Access Platform
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DexCare, Inc., a Seattle-based patient demand and care access platform raises $75M in Series C funding led by ICONIQ Growth with participation from existing partners Transformation Capital, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, and others. The funding will advance DexCare’s platform, which extends limited health-system capacity to serve patients faster and to precisely manage the supply and demand of digital-care access. The new funding brings the total raised to
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Outbound AI Raises $16M for AI-Powered Virtual Agents
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Outbound AI, a Seattle-based conversational AI platform for healthcare announced it has raised $16M in seed funding co-led by Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group and SpringRock Ventures.Founded in 2021, Outbound AI is breaking new ground with cloud technologies that serve as workforce multipliers to drive productivity while improving the daily job experience for human talent. The company’s inaugural offering includes a portfolio of AI-powered virtual agents
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Wound Company Launches With $4.25M to Fix Inequities in Wound Care
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The Wound Company, a multi-channel on-demand wound and ostomy care delivery company that improves patient outcomes, today announced its launch from stealth with $4.25M in seed funding from Susa Venturesand Sozo Ventures. The funding will be used to expand the company’s national footprint, hire top talent, and to continue improving health outcomes in the most cost-effective way possible while bringing dignity to the over 13 million people in need
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Virtual Digestive Care Platform Oshi Health Receives Strategic Investments
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Oshi Health today announced strategic investments by the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) and the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) GI Opportunity Fund.The landmark support of both gastroenterology (GI) associations signals the importance of evidence-based, multidisciplinary care delivered through hybrid collaborative models to address the urgent and growing problem of limited access to digestive healthcare in
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Finni Health Raises $3.2M to Improve Access to Autism Care
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Finni Health, a Santa Monica, CA-based company empowering autism care providers to go independent raises $3.2M seed round led by General Catalyst, with participation from YCombinator, Wayfinder Ventures, Andrew Adams (Headway), and Divya Bhatt (Virta). According to the CDC, 1 in 36 kids are diagnosed with autism in the US today, and this is growing at 12% each year. There’s about 40K autism providers in the US, growing 10% year over year, but this is still not
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