#HealthTechDeals Episode 2: DexCare, Avaneer Health, Deepscribe, Little Otters, and Ianacare
Like the new intro? We sure do! In this episode of Health Tech Deals, Jess and I talk about the latest health tech deals and fundraising efforts: DexCare raises $50 million; Avaneer Health raises $50 million; Deepscribe raises $30 million; Little Otters gets $22 million; Ianacare gets $12 million.
-By Matthew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Tech Deals Avaneer Health DeepScribe DexCare Ianacare Jessica DaMassa Little Otters Matthew Holt Source Type: blogs
Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 241 | Papa, Sword, Trevueta, Trusted Health, Ieso, and Talkspace
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I talk about fundraising efforts this past week, as well as leadership issues within Talkspace. Papa raises 150 million dollars, bringing their total to 240 million. Sword raises 189 million dollars, with a secondary of 26 million dollars, bringing their total to 320 million dollars. Trevueta raises 105 million, and Trusted Health raises 149 million dollars. Ieso raises 57 million dollars. Talkspace had no growth in their third quarter, and their founding team left the company while their COO resigns after a review of conduct at a company offsite event. -Matthew Holt
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Source: The Health Care Blog - November 24, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health in 2 Point 00 Health Tech ieso Matthew Holt Papa Sword sword health Talkspace Source Type: blogs
A Jekyll And Hyde Emotion? Research On Anger, Digested
This study provided evidence of “the important role of anger in the psychological process underlying moral courage,” the team wrote. Of course, a person’s individual moral framework is crucial here, though. If the sight of women venturing outdoors alone or going to work, say, deeply offends you, then your resulting outrage will likely propel you to action, too.
Expressing anger can also make you seem more authentic and sincere. At least, this was suggested by a 2021 study of Kickstarter pitch videos. Entrepreneurs are often encouraged to be only positive about their ventures, commented the researchers. But they fo...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 12, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Anger Source Type: blogs
NowRx Launches $73 Million Series C Round on Equity Crowdfunding Platform SeedInvest; Funds Will be Used to Expand Same Day Delivery of Prescriptions and Telehealth Services
Digital health platform’s last equity fundraising round was oversubscribed and raised $20 Million; NowRx has since expanded into additional geographies and launched new telehealth services NowRx, a provider of same day prescription delivery and telehealth services, today announced that it is now accepting reservations for its $73 million Series C equity crowdfunding round on SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 8, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Cary Breese Health IT Funding Healthcare Crowdfunding NowRx Prescription Delivery Prescription Telehealth Ryan Feit SeedInvest Source Type: blogs
Nomad Health ’ s Next Move: $63M Raise Takes On-Demand Healthcare Staffing into Workforce Management
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Not all who wander are lost: Nomad Health lands a $63M Series D round after a year of 5X revenue growth for their tech-driven healthcare staffing marketplace that helps hospitals hire nurses on-demand. This round, led by Adams Street Partners with participation from all existing investors, brings the company’s total fundraising up to $113M. Co-founder & CEO Alexi Nazem stops by to tell us how the startup is not only planning to expand its focus from nurses to other types of healthcare providers but how the process of doing so will transform Nomad from an on-demand staffing agency to ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Jessica DaMassa WTF Health healthcare staffing Nomad Health Source Type: blogs
Scholarship tips for medical school [PODCAST]
“According to AAMC, the median debt for medical students in 2019 was $200,000. Unfortunately, fundraising for scholarships was difficult for many organizations due to the pandemic despite more students seeking out scholarships. Luckily, more anonymous generous donors have helped the next generations of physicians in recent years, but what happens if you are not asRead more …Scholarship tips for medical school [PODCAST] originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 25, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Medical school Source Type: blogs
AI-powered Woebot raises $90M to scale up digital self-therapy platform
‘Digital therapist’ Woebot perks up with $90M for AI-powered mental health platform (FierceBiotech):
In news sure to excite even the most melancholy of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, mental health platform Woebot has closed its series B funding round with a whopping $90 million.
The funds will go toward building out Woebot’s AI technology and digital therapeutics, as well as the teams responsible for the development and commercialization of the platform. Woebot’s technology centers around the eponymous “digital therapist,” which uses conversational AI software to form therapeutic bonds with users as ...
Source: SharpBrains - July 26, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Peak Performance Technology & Innovation artificial intelligence chatbot cognitive behavior therapy dialectical behavior therapy digital self-therapy digital therapeutics interpersonal psychotherapy mental health c Source Type: blogs
Lifespan.io Succeeds in Crowdfunding a 200 Person Rapamycin Study
It is possible in principle to organize low-cost human trials capable of providing potentially interesting data; much of the cost of formal clinical trials is unrelated to the essentials. The Lifespan.io staff and volunteers have demonstrated this point by successfully raising the modest amount needed to run a 200 person study of the impact of rapamycin use on aging-related biomarkers of health. Rapamycin inhibits mTOR, both the mTORC1 and mTORC2 protein complexes, which have different effects on metabolism. mTOR signaling is involved in the beneficial response to calorie restriction and upregulation of the cellular mainte...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 21, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Biden ’s Programs Would Fail for Many Reasons
Chris EdwardsPresident Biden is proposing to expand federal intervention in many areas that are the responsibility of state and local governments and the private sector. His $2.3 trillion jobsplan would subsidize broadband, automobiles, the electric grid, manufacturing, highways, transit, water systems, and much else. His $1.8 trillion familiesplan would subsidize pre ‐school, child care, colleges, paid leave, health care, food programs, and many other things. Every dollar spent on Biden’s plans would be extracted from elsewhere in the economy through higher taxes now or in the future.Biden ’s plans would impose l...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 30, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Kaia Health Raises $75 Million Series C to Optimize MSK and COPD Care in the U.S. and Europe
Kaia Health is announcing a $75 million Series C round (total raised to date: $125 million) to expand clinical capabilities and transform the treatment path for Musculoskeletal (MSK) and Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care in the U.S. and Europe. Fundraising was led by an unnamed leading growth equity fund with support from existing investors, […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 28, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT 3VC A Round Capital Balderton Capital capital300 COPD Care Digital Therapeutics Digital Therapeutics Funding Eurazeo Health IT Funding Heartcore Capital Kaia Gateway Kaia Healt Source Type: blogs
Hoarders and Collectors
Andy Warhol ' scollection ofdental models Pop artist Andy Warhol excelled in turning the everyday and the mundane into art. During the last 13 years of his life, Warhol putthousands of collected objects into 610 cardboard boxes. TheseTime Capsules were never sold as art, but they were meticulously cataloged by museum archivists and displayed in a major exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum. “Warhol was a packrat. But that desire to collect helped inform his artistic point of view. ” Yet Warhol was aware of his compulsion, and itdisturbed him: “I ' m so sick of the way I live, of all this junk, and always dragging...
Source: The Neurocritic - April 25, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Too Much of a Focus on What is Easy, Too Little on What Could Greatly Increase Lifespan
It is comparatively easy to build companies that sell customized mixes of various supplements shown to modestly slow aging in mice, and the same goes for companies that offer personalized advice on health matters relating to aging. Neither of these options are going to do much to meaningfully extend the healthy human life span. As participation in the longevity industry grows, it will inevitably be the case that a great many participants will gravitate towards safer businesses and returns on investment, while doing very little to change the healthy human life span. I feel that we shouldn't encourage this sort of behavior. ...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 9, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 18th 2021
In this study, Desferal, deferoxamine mesylate for injection, which is approved for the treatment of acute iron intoxication and chronic iron overload, was used to explore the beneficial effects on preventing aging-induced bone loss and mitigating dysfunction of aged BMSCs. High-dose Desferal significantly prevented bone loss in aged rats. Compared with controls, the ex vivo experiments showed that short-term Desferal administration could promote the potential of BMSC growth and improve the rebalance of osteogenic and adipogenic differentiation, as well as rejuvenate senescent BMSCs and revise the expression of stemness/se...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 17, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The 2020 Year End Fundraiser Brought in More than $2 Million for the SENS Research Foundation
The SENS Research Foundation represents the best of charitable organizations working on the treatment of aging as a medical condition. It is well run, focuses on approaches capable of rejuvenation rather than merely modestly slowing aging, devotes funds and attention towards those projects in rejuvenation research that most need support in order to advance, and has a great track record when it comes to helping development programs to make the leap from academic laboratories to commercial development in startup biotech companies.
The SENS Research Foundation is near entirely supported by philanthropy, including the d...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 14, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
#Healthin2Point00, Episode 177 | The biggest funding year for health tech ( & more deals!)
We should be celebrating the biggest fundraising year ever for healthcare tech and instead where are we? Not at JP Morgan. Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we chat about the mind-blowingly big numbers for health tech funding this year—Startup Health reported $21.5 billion for the year, Rock Health $14.1 billion. On Episode 177, Jess asks me about Aspen RxHealth raising $23 million in a Series B for their online pharmacy network, Monument getting $10 million for alcohol treatment, Carrum Health raising $40 million for their centers of excellence play, and yet another mental health startup Valera Health raising $4.7 million....
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health in 2 Point 00 Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Carrum Valera Health Source Type: blogs
