The prevalence of mental and behavioral health conditions has been on the rise in recent decades, further aggravated by the pandemic in the last two years. Social isolation, grief from the loss of loved ones, fear of contracting the virus, and financial worries were all major stress factors that increasingly affected the mental wellbeing of the population, and the resulting statistics are startling: the average share of adults with symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorders jumped from 1
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Q1 2022 Digital Health Funding Reaches $6B Across 183 Deals
What You Should Know: - Rock Health report reveals Q1 2022 digital health funding closed with $6.0B across 183 deals, and an average deal size of $32.8M. - Q1 2022 digital health funding was significantly behind Q4 2021’s $7.3B and the trailing twelve month quarterly average of $7.1B. Digital health funding reached a total of $6B in Q1 2022 across 183 deals, and an average deal size of $32.8M, according to Rock Health, a full-service venture fund
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Rural Health Startup Homeward Emerges with $20M to Support Rural Communities
What You Should Know - Homeward, a new company focused on improving access to high-quality, affordable primary and specialty care in rural communities launches with an initial $20M investment. - The organization is rearchitecting care for rural Americans who have a 23% higher mortality rate than those in urban communities. Homeward – a San Francisco, CA-based mobile, in-person, and telehealth hybrid care model (with specialty and primary care providers) for people
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Healthcare SPAC Deep Medicine Acquisition Announces Pricing of $110M IPO
What You Should Know: - Deep Medicine Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”), a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses announced today that it priced its upsized initial public offering of 11,000,000 units at $10.00 per unit. - The units are expected to be listed on The Nasdaq Global Market (“Nasdaq”) and trade under the ticker
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Pear Therapeutics Goes Public Via $1.6B SPAC Deal – Digital Health IPO
What You Should Know: - Pear Therapeutics, the leader in developing and commercializing prescription digital therapeutics to treat serious disease, and Thimble Point Acquisition Corp (Nasdaq: THMA), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) whose management team is associated with the Pritzker Vlock Family Office, today announced that they have entered into a definitive business combination agreement. - Pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement, upon closing of the
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Doximity’s Medical Social Network Launches Announces IPO at $4B Valuation
What You Should Know: - Doximity, a leading digital platform for U.S. medical professionals announced its initial public offering (IPO) of 23,300,000 shares of its Class A common stock. - The initial public offering price is expected to be between $20.00 and $23.00 per share. Doximity's Class A common stock is expected to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "DOCS." - Founded in 2010, Doximity is the leading digital platform for U.S.
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Led by Sequoia, Benchling Raises $200M to Accelerate R&D Cloud Platform
- Today Benchling, the leading life and sciences R&D cloud, announced a $200M Series E raise led by Sequoia Capital Global Equities and joined by Altimeter Capital, Byers Capital, and Elad Gil. This funding will be used to aggressively invest in product development and global expansion to support enterprise customers. The raise is also joined by existing investors Thrive Capital, Benchmark, Menlo Ventures, Alkeon Capital, ICONIQ, Lux Capital, Spark Capital, and Lead Edge Capital. -
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Q1 2021 Health IT/Digital Health PC/VE, M&A, IPOs/ SPACs Activity
The first quarter of 2021 has been one of investor optimism as the vaccine rollout continues ahead of expectations and economic activity begins to accelerate in response. Within the Health IT industry, the already strong investment and M&A trends seen in 2020 have only accelerated. Over the course of the quarter, we observed $7 billion in private equity and venture capital investment across 158 companies. By comparison, Q1 of 2020 saw $3.2 billion and 127 investments. Health IT
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Owlet Smart Baby Monitor to Go Public in SPAC IPO Deal
What You Should Know: - Owlet Baby Care Inc. (“Owlet” or the “Company”) and Sandbridge Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) co-sponsored by affiliates of Sandbridge Capital and PIMCO private funds have entered into a definitive merger agreement go public. The company plans to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol “OWLT.” - The combined company to have an implied initial enterprise value of approximately $1,074 million, with the
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Sharecare to Go Public in SPAC IPO Deal, Reaching $3.9B Valuation
What You Should Know: - Digital health company Sharecare and special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), Falcon Capital Acquisition Corp, today announced an agreement to merge to go public on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol SHCR at enterprise value of $3.9B. - The transaction is expected to be funded through a combination of Falcon's $345 million of cash in trust (assuming no redemptions) supported by a $425 million fully committed PIPE at $10.00 per share and the Anthem
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