What You Should Know: - Ordr, a company making the complex problem of securing every connected device — from traditional IT devices to newer and more vulnerable IoT, IoMT or OT — simple, today announced it has raised an additional $40M. The funding round was co-led by Battery Ventures and Ten Eleven Ventures, with participation from new investor Northgate Capital and continuing investors Wing Venture Capital, Unusual Ventures, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, and Mayo Clinic.
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Solv CEO Diversifies Cap Table, Adds 75 Female Investors as Part of $45M Series C
What You Should Know: - Today, Heather Fernandez, CEO and co-founder of healthcare on-demand app Solv Health shared her diversity plans for bringing on more women and first-time investors to the Cap Table as part of the company’s $45M Series C round. As a Filipino-Iranian woman, Heather knows “people like me” don’t get funded - or hired or invited to the table. Women are also more likely to be healthcare decision-makers for their families. - Heather created a Special Purpose
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AWS Launches New Healthcare Accelerator Focused on Health Equity
What You Should Know: - Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the launch of the next AWS Healthcare Accelerator—this year with a new focus on health equity. The Accelerator is open to startups with US operations and applications open today. - This is part of AWS’s efforts to help organizations use the power of the cloud to help tackle the health equity gap – other efforts include the $40 million AWS Health Equity Initiative, which AWS also provided an
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Intermountain Partners with VC Firm General Catalyst on Innovation
What You Should Know: - Intermountain Healthcare announced a strategic partnership with digital health venture capital firm General Catalyst that will involve jointly exploring opportunities to accelerate the shift to value-based care through digital and other solutions. - As part of the collaboration, Intermountain and General Catalyst will leverage the Health Assurance Network, which is a group of tech innovation companies within General Catalyst’s investment portfolio that are dedicated
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Health Tech VC Firm Flare Capital Partners Closes $350M Fund
What You Should Know: - Flare Capital Partners, a Boston-based healthcare technology venture capital firm closes its third fund with $350M, which follows up on its prior two funds raised in July 2019 and the inaugural fund raised in April 2015, respectively. - The most recent fund, establishes Flare Capital Partners as one of the largest, independent, early-stage venture capital firms dedicated to healthcare technology. “When we started the firm in 2014, over $4.5 billion was invested
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AmerisourceBergen Launches $150M Corporate Venture Fund
What You Should Know: - AmerisourceBergen, a global healthcare solutions company, announced the establishment of AB Health Ventures, a dedicated corporate venture capital fund that will invest in and partner with emerging healthcare startup companies working to transform healthcare for people and animals globally. - AB Health Ventures will build on AmerisourceBergen’s ongoing commitment to delivering innovation for its customers. AB Health Ventures Investment Thesis AB Health
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Echo Health Ventures Expands Investment Model to Nashville
What You Should Know: - Echo Health Ventures, a healthcare strategic venture capital and growth equity investment firm, today announced it is establishing a local presence in Tennessee led by Echo Health Advisors Principal Hayley Hovious, who joined the company in March following seven years as president of the Nashville Health Care Council. - Echo Health Ventures CEO Rob Coppedge expects the new location to drive innovation by developing connections between its portfolio companies, Echo
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Reema Health Secures $8M for Personalized, Community-Based Health Platform
What You Should Know: - Reema Health, a Minneapolis, MN-based community-based health technology platform raises $8M in seed funding led by MaC Venture Capital and DNA Capital. Combined with a previous $1.25 million pre-seed round and earlier preliminary investments, Reema’s has raised over $10 million to date. - Reema uses technology to power human relationships with the goal of improving health outcomes for people who are hardest to reach. Reema’s breakthrough health
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Day 3 HIMSS Roundup: Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT, GE Healthcare/AliveCor Integration
Venture Capital, Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT® to Expand Diabetes Offerings in France Glooko, a leading provider of remote patient monitoring and data management solutions for diabetes and related chronic conditions, today announced the acquisition of DIABNEXT, a Paris-based company whose digital health platform helps people with diabetes better manage their conditions and connects to their healthcare providers, so they can
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HIMSS22 Day 2 Roundup: Google Partners with MEDITECH, Microsoft’s Health Cloud Strategy Expansions
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity OptimizeRx Acquires EvinceMed, a Specialty Drug Prescription Initiation Platform OptimizeRx, a provider of point-of-care technology solutions helping patients start and stay on therapy announced a definitive agreement to acquire the EvinceMed platform and related assets. EvinceMed is a provider in delivering end-to-end automation for specialty pharmaceutical transactions. The acquisition includes the full Market Access Management Platform
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