What You Should Know:
- Create Health Ventures, a venture capital firm dedicated to early-stage digital health startups, announced the closing of its $21M inaugural fund.
- The VC firm will invest in B2B solutions that address critical challenges within the healthcare industry, including improving patient engagement, enhancing care delivery, and optimizing clinical trials.
Founding Team
Founded by healthcare industry veterans Cartmell and Amit Aysola, Create Health Ventures brings
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State of Digital Health 2023: From Gold Rush to Consolidation in a Cooling Market
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The year 2023 marked a stark shift for digital health, transitioning from the heady days of record-breaking funding to a harsh reality of tightening belts and consolidation, according to a new report from CB Insights.
- The CB Insights report, State of Digital Health 2023, reveals that while the pandemic initially fueled a gold rush of innovation, the tide has turned, leaving a landscape of both challenges and opportunities.
Funding Plummets, Deals Dry Up
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7wireVentures Launches $217M Growth & Opportunity Fund to Support Later-Stage Digital Health Investments
What You Should Know:
- 7wireVentures, one of the country’s leading digital health venture capital firms, today announced the successful completion of a $217 million Growth & Opportunity “GO” Fund, its largest to date.
- The new venture fund will support later-stage digital health investments in high-potential companies from existing portfolios as well as new opportunities. The closing of the $217M GO Fund brings the Firm’s assets under management (AUM) to over $500M.
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Rev1 Ventures Launches $30M Fund to Support Research-Based Healthcare Innovation
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Today, Rev1 Ventures, the venture studio that helps entrepreneurs and corporations accelerate innovation, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and The Ohio State University announce expanded support for life sciences companies with the launch of Rev1 Catalyst Fund III, a $30 million fund that delivers capital and strategic services for pre-seed, seed stage and early-stage healthcare innovators. Following the success of Rev1 Catalyst Fund II, Rev1
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Lucem Health Secures $7.7M for Agnostic AI-Powered Platform
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Lucem Health, a Mayo Clinic Platform portfolio company, has closed a Series A venture capital funding round of $7.7M led by Mayo Clinic, Granger Management and Mercy (St Louis).Lucem Health helps clinical AI innovators transform data science into innovative, trusted solutions that can detect diseases earlier and optimize care delivery, positively impacting patient lives, improving the physician and provider experience, and ultimately producing improved
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OXOS Medical Raises $23M to Deliver ”Radiology Department in a Box”
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OXOS Medical, the MedTech innovator developing simple and safe X-ray solutions, announced a $23 million Series A funding from Parkway Venture Capital and Intel Capital, bringing its total funding to $45 million.OXOS continues to build on its traction across outpatient clinics, the military, the Veterans Administration, sports teams, hospitals, imaging centers, and bioskills labs. To help accelerate the company’s growth, Gregg Hill, Parkway Venture Capital co-founder and
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Amboy Street Ventures Launches $20M Fund to Support Femtech Startups
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- Amboy Street Ventures, the world's first venture capital firm focused on women's health and sexual health for all genders, closed its debut $20 million fund.
- Amboy Street plans to invest in the Seed and Series A stages of women’s health and sexual health startups to both lift associated stigmas and usher forward a new world of inclusive health and wellbeing.
Investment Thesis & Portfolio
The world is undergoing a massive social reformation
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Angle Health Raises $58M for Digital-First Health Insurance
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- Angle Health, a digital first health insurance carrier raises $58M in Series A funding, making health insurance more convenient, approachable, and affordable for employers and members. The round was led by Portage with participation from PruVen Capital, Wing Venture Capital, SixThirty Ventures, Mighty Capital, Wormhole Capital, Mindset Ventures, Crew Capital, Aloft VC, and Pilot founder Waseem Daher; and support from existing investors Blumberg Capital,
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2022 Healthcare Investment, M&A, IPO Market Trends/Insights
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- The latest edition of SVB's Healthcare Investments and Exits report provides information on VC fundraising, investments and M&A and IPO trends - along with subsector analysis and video commentary for each.
- Healthcare trends indicate US healthcare VC investment was healthy in 2022 despite an economic downturn. There's plenty of dry powder to deploy; however, investments and exits are slowing due to the volatile market.
Trends and Insights – Healthcare
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How My Telehealth Company Used Revenue-Based Financing – not VC – to Get Mental Health Services to Underserved Seniors
Beyond just the impact of COVID-19, the need for tele-mental healthcare and telepsychiatry services continues to expand, especially for rural communities. With the unpredictable venture capital market, startups offering telehealth services increasingly find themselves evaluating alternative financing options.
I’ve noticed a number of alternatives have emerged in the last several years. These can be especially helpful for startups that need quick decisions and have predictable revenue growth
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