Summary: "Merck is partnering with a digital health startup to see if smartphone data can be used to identify digital endpoints for Alzheimer’s drug development."...
How AI Can Improve CTA Analysis After Stroke and Heart Attack
Summary: "Computed tomography angiography (CTA) has been increasingly used in the diagnosis of vascular disease, and it's a modality that offers many potential clinical benefits. The question is,...
Radiobotics: “We’re on the cusp of a second wave of innovation”
Summary: "Health Tech World hears from Radiobotics, a Danish start up that is developing AI solutions to analyse musculoskeletal x-ray images, a relatively neglected area in the growing field of...
5 Startups That Are Changing the Mental Health Industry
Summary: "Digital mental health is no longer solely restricted to talk therapy or medication management. A host of companies--both startups and more established businesses--now offer psychedelic...
7 Women’s Health Tech Startups to Watch in 2021 and Beyond
Summary: "Women's health tech companies struggled for years to convince investors just how massive the market potential could be. In 2020, they finally broke through: Funding for female-focused...
RxAll grabs $3.15M to scale its drug checking and counterfeiting tech across Africa
Summary: "Research says that counterfeit medication is the cause of 1 million deaths per year. One-tenth of this number comes from Africa. Counterfeiting is hard to detect, investigate, quantify or...
Apple sued by medical device maker over Apple Watch Series 6 pulse oximetry
Summary: "Sometimes it seems like every time we turn around, someone is suing Apple. The latest lawsuit against Apple comes from a medical device manufacturer called Masimo. Masimo is a large...
US Digital Health Companies Attracted 85% of the VC Funding in the First Quarter of 2021
Summary: "The Digital Health sector saw a total of 21 different countries receiving venture capital (VC) funding, according to Mercom’s Q1 2021 Funding and M&A Report. Eighty-five percent of the...
Five AI-led healthtech startups selected for first Edison Accelerator
Summary: "Five healthtech startups have officially become the first cohort of the Edison Accelerator in EMEA - a healthcare startup and scaleup acceleration programme designed by GE Healthcare in...
Musculoskeletal medical startups race to enter personalized health tech market
Summary: "Avi Dorfman says going direct to consumers is the most effective way to treat chronic pain, so he founded Clearing. The digital health startup worked with a medical advisory board of...
Barcelona tiene poder: quinta ciudad europea en inversión en ‘digital health’
Summary: "Barcelona tiene poder. En un año que se presentaba difícil debido a la pandemia, la capital catalana ha escalado hasta la quinta posición en el ranking de las ciudades europeas con rondas...
52 Women-Led Startups Driving The Future Of HealthTech And FemTech
Summary: "Earlier this week an investor asked me why women can’t just get VC funding. “Am I missing something?” he asked. I took a deep breath and dropped the facts about the culture and economy of...
Intuition Robotics thinks companion robots could help doctors follow older patients at home
Summary: "Intuition Robotics today announced that it has expanded its AI-drive companion robot capabilities to provide care for older adults at home. Boston-based Intuition Robotics designed the...
35 Innovators Under 35
Summary: "The 35 Innovators Under 35 is our yearly opportunity to take a look at not just where technology is now, but where it’s going and who’s taking it there. More than 500 people are nominated...
Luz verde de la FDA a la terapia digital para Alzheimer de Cognito Therapeutics
Summary: "La compañía Cognito Therapeutics ha anunciado que su producto líder recibió la designación de dispositivo innovador de la Agencia del Medicamento de Estados Unidos (FDA por sus siglas en...
Amazon launches digital health accelerator with a focus on virtual care, analytics startups
Summary: "Amazon Web Services wants to help incubate early-stage digital health companies that can collaborate with the tech giant's healthcare customers and partners. Amazon's cloud division...
FDA greenlights Nuvo Group’s uterine activity module
Summary: "Remote pregnancy monitoring company Nuvo Group announced today the FDA has granted supplemental 510(k) clearance to add a new uterine activity module to its INVU system. INVU is a...
Professional services firm rolls out digital musculoskeletal care program
Summary: "As more digital health companies look to bundle together point solutions, employee benefits firms are doing the same. One of them, professional services firm Aon, is launching a benefit...
Meet the mobile therapy startup backed by Christian Angermayer’s re:Mind Capital
Summary: "Mental health startup Ksana Health has received $2 million in seed funding led by re:Mind Capital, the mental health VC arm of Christian Angermayer and Apeiron Investment Group. It’s a...
FDA authorizes machine learning software to help diagnose autism
Summary: "The system, developed by digital health startup Cognoa, uses information from questionnaires and videos to help pediatricians diagnose autism. It received marketing authorization from the...
How to Successfully Advance Digital Health Applications
Summary: "The benefits of digital health applications are numerous and include the flexibility to self-monitor your illness from home with a mobile device. One caveat: Digital health applications...
Exclusive: Medallion Raises $20M To License Clinicians
Summary: "Medallion is out to reduce the amount of administrative work health care providers do so they can spend more time with patients. The San Francisco-based startup, which was founded in 2020...
StartUPDATES: New developments for healthcare startups
Summary: "Read about new developments from Stellar Health, Paige, venBio, and more." Article written by MEDCITY NEWS 04|06|2021 Source:MedCity...
Advanced Human Imaging’s smartphone-based derma AI gets CE mark
Summary: "Australian smartphone-based medical imaging company Advanced Human Imaging disclosed last week that it received a CE Mark for the dermatology artificial intelligence component in its...
Bayer’s investment arm leads digital health startup’s $90M round
Summary: "Leaps by Bayer led a $90 million investment round into Ada, a German digital health startup with an AI-based symptom checker. As part of the deal, the two companies are also striking a...
LA EMPRESA EMERGENTE CATALANO-DANESA ABZU CAPTA SEIS MILLONES
Summary: "No es habitual que una empresa se cree simultáneamente en Barcelona y Copenhague. Así decidió hacerlo la startup Abzu. La apuesta por una sede compartida se explica por la dificultad de...
Pharma and Digital Health. What’s Happening?
Summary: "It was not too many moons ago that speaking ‘Digital Health’ and ‘Pharma’ in the same breath would have been oxymoronic to the max." Article written by Gary Monk 26|05|2021 Source:Swipe...
Mayv, Your Holistic Partner for Chronic Pain Management
Summary: "Mayv aims to empower chronic pain patients with knowledge and resources that are holistic in nature. They do not believe that pain management is one-size-fits-all. Every person and the...
Longevity startup Gero AI has a mobile API for quantifying health changes
Summary: "Sensor data from smartphones and wearables can meaningfully predict an individual’s ‘biological age’ and resilience to stress, according to Gero AI. The ‘longevity’ startup — which...
Ada Health closes $90M Series B led by Leaps by Bayer
Summary: "The digital health space continues cooking on gas: Berlin-based Ada Health has closed a $90 million Series B round of funding led by Leaps by Bayer, the impact investment arm of the German...
Swedish digital healthcare company Doktor.se announces €50M funding boost
Summary: "Stockholm-based digital healthcare provider Doktor.se has received a funding boost of €50 million (SEK510 million) to expand its services and deliver its aim to provide safe and accessible...
CVS Health launches $100M digital health investment fund
Summary: "CVS Health has unveiled a $100 million venture capital fund targeting early-stage health technology companies. Called CVS Health Ventures, it will be on the lookout for digital health...
Yes Health Partners With Gympass To Bring Digital Health Prevention Platform to World’s Largest Corporate Fitness and Wellbeing Platform
Summary: "Yes Health, a leading digital health provider focused on weight loss, diabetes prevention and concierge health coaching, has today announced a partnership with Gympass, the world’s largest...
Overture Life cierra una ronda de 15 millones liderada por Octopus Ventures
Summary: "La compañía impulsada por el fundador de Jazztel en España también ha recibido el apoyo financiero de Google Ventures y de antiguos inversores como Khosla Ventures, Felicis Ventures y Marc...
StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups
Summary: "Read about new developments from Emulate, Cellino, Heru and more." Article written by MEDCITY NEWS 19|05|2021...
How a pair of ‘middle school graduates’ developed and sold their respiratory health tech company
Summary: "When Seattle natives Nikolas Ioannou and Sage Khanuja met at an early entrance program for the University of Washington after dropping out of high school after 10th grade, they quickly...
How a smartphone app launched Perioperative Services at Lehigh Valley Health Network into the future
Summary: "Now, in addition to using the app in the operating room, Lehigh Valley uses it in its post-anesthesia care units, intensive care units and catheterization laboratories." Article written...
Digital health startups saw better-than-expected revenue during the pandemic
Summary: "According to a survey conducted by Catalyst @ Health 2.0, a whopping 41% of digital health companies said their revenue was above expectations last year. Despite reporting longer sales...
Osler Technology launches ‘Netflix-styled’ healthcare education app
Summary: "Osler Technology, an Australian developer of online healthcare portfolios and learning applications, has unveiled a new education platform for healthcare professionals." Article written...
Elucid Raises $8M in Series A Round During the ‘Zoom Era’
Summary: "The Boston, MD-based company has developed ElucidVivo, an artificial intelligence software solution to help with the detection of cardiovascular disease." Article written by Omar Ford...
EureKARE raises $60M to create EU synbio and microbiome startups
Summary: "EureKARE has raised a $60 million series A round to fund the creation and advancement of synthetic biology and microbiome startups. The cash will enable eureKARE to build companies around...
Five innovative startups improving the lives of people with diabetes
Summary: "The diabetes epidemic is a growing concern in many parts of the world. In the UK, over 3.9 million people have the chronic illness, which Diabetes UK estimates will increase to 5 million...
Digital can help unclog your elective care back-log
Summary: "New digital solutions that support asynchronous communication between clinicians could transform elective care and aid in tackling the expanding waiting lists" Article written by HSJ...
Digital-Health Startups Are Booming. Their Customers Are Overwhelmed.
Summary: "Digital-health startups have boomed during the pandemic, raising record amounts of capital for a range of services. The message from some of their customers: Enough, already." Article...
4 strategies for building a digital health unicorn
Summary: "It’s an entrepreneur’s market in digital health today, with startups raising record-breaking funding at soaring valuations and debuting on public markets to eager investors." Article...
Do Health Apps Really Make Us Healthier?
Summary: "Findings that mobile and wearable devices and apps do lead patients to change their behaviors in ways that can positively affect their health provide offer not just patients but also care...
British digital health start-up launches free app to help improve inhaler technique and reduce asthma attacks
Summary: "Manchester-based digital health start-up Clin-e-cal has launched a free app to help people with respiratory diseases to monitor and improve their inhaler technique. The Clip-Tone Buddy app...
Indian biotech startup reports early cancer detection breakthrough
Summary: "A team of Indian scientists says it has achieved a stunning breakthrough in early cancer diagnosis with a discovery rooted in a contentious segment of cellular biology that, if validated...
Investment management firm launched for digital health and medtech start-ups
Summary: "Claudio D’Angelo, former co-founder and co-managing partner of Ryse Asset Management, has launched a new venture – an investment management firm designed to help digital healthcare...
Roundup: Caresyntax raises €83M for AI operating tech, InterSystems partners with Cognetivity and more briefs
Summary: "Berlin-based healthtech company Caresyntax has raised €82.8 million ($100 m) in a Series C round. The investment was led by PFM Health Sciences LP, Optum Ventures, Intel Capital and...
StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups
Summary: "Read about news from life science companies Emulate, Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals and Bone Health Technologies." Article written by MEDCITY NEWS 07|05|2021 Source:Med-City...
Germany: A beneficial digital health ecosystem for startups
Summary: "Germany is on the rise in digital health, which is why the market size is expected to reach 57 billion euros by 2025. Factors such as new regulations, the presence of successful...
THIS WEARABLE + EYE TRACKING MEDICAL DEVICE HELPS PATIENTS IN THE ICU COMMUNICATE THEIR NEEDS FOR REAL-TIME MEDICAL TREATMENT!
Summary: "The stress and impact that ICUs can have on the mental health of patients typically result in prolonged hospital stays. Troubling cycles typically ensue as soon as...
NuvoAir app records coughing to help diagnose respiratory conditions
Summary: "Stockholm-based respiratory health startup NuvoAir is rolling out a new app that can record coughs in a home setting in order to help clinicians detect possible conditions like asthma and...
FDA Authorizes Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton for Stroke Rehab
Summary: "Medical device startup Neurolutions' IpsiHand — a brain-computer interface (BCI) that uses an exoskeleton to assist with stroke rehab — has just been authorized by the FDA. "Thousands of...
Q Bio Launches Clinical “Digital Twin” Platform, Whole Body Scanner
Summary: "Q Bio, a Redwood City, CA-based company building technology for the Physical of the Future, unveiled its “digital twin” platform, the first to capture and monitor comprehensive baseline...
Digital-Health Startups Are Booming. Their Customers Are Overwhelmed.
Summary: "Digital-health startups have boomed during the pandemic, raising record amounts of capital for a range of services. The message from some of their customers: Enough, already." Article...
Amwell Integrates Biobeat’s Wearable RPM Devices with Virtual Care Platform
Summary: "Amwell, who has collaborated with Biobeat, and will integrate Biobeat’s AI-powered wearable remote patient monitoring solutions into its Converge virtual care platform." Article written...
IDE Group, Kipuwex team up to develop new telehealth solutions
Summary: "Australian startup studio IDE Group has announced a partnership with Kipuwex, a Finnish health device maker, to develop new telehealth solutions over the next two to three years." Article...
Melio se expande en España y llega a 41 nuevas ciudades
Summary: "La start up especializada en análisis de sangre amplía su cobertura nacional ya que hasta el momento ofrecía su servicio en Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao, Sevilla, Córdoba y Málaga."...
Biotecnología para crear un modelo de negocio de genética y salud personalizada
Summary: "Combinar las analíticas clínicas de toda la vida con la biogenética. Esta es la propuesta de la biotecnológica española Made of Genes para aterrizar un modelo de negocio disruptivo en el...
UK remains the European leader in health tech research
Summary: "Dealroom, Inkep Capital and MTIP have released a report powered by a database dedicated to mapping and tracking the health innovation ecosystem. The report looks at 76,275 startups, 38,907...
Startup Boundless Bio brings in $105M to break the circle behind cancer growth
Summary: "Boundless Bio’s research has uncovered a previously unknown driver of cancer growth and drug resistance. With $105 million in Series B financing, the biotech is on a path to bring to the...
Cigna covers Ginger’s mental health app as in-network benefit
Summary: "Insurer Cigna plans to cover mental health startup Ginger’s coaching services as a covered benefit. Investors are pouring more funds into mental health startups as they companies and...
Capsule becomes a unicorn with latest funding, Caresyntax scores $100M, direct healthcare payment platform Sesame lands $24M and more digital health fundings
Summary: "Digital pharmacy Capsule has completed another massive funding round, this time worth $300 million, according to Bloomberg. The added investments value the New York-based startup at more...
Outcomes4Me Raises $12M for AI-Powered Cancer Patient Empowerment Platform
Summary: "Outcomes4Me Inc., a Cambridge, MA-based developer of an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered platform to empower cancer patients to navigate their care, today announced it has raised $12...
Men’s fertility startup Legacy raises $10M to expand services
Summary: Legacy is born out of the Harvard Innovation Labs incubator program and focuses on helping men understand their fertility. Clients can send away for a mail-order kit, which is able to...
Alimetry Leaves Stealth Mode to Announce CE Mark on New Wearable Medical Device for Gastric Diseases and Investment
Summary: "Alimetry, a digital healthcare and diagnostic devices start-up, announced today that it has achieved CE Mark for its first product, a pioneering medical device for enabling diagnosis of...
30 Under 30 Asia: The Young Entrepreneurs Innovating In Healthcare
Summary: "To Ryuichi Onose, launching his own business was led by deeply personal reasons. When his grandfather was diagnosed with cancer, Onose struggled to get a second opinion. The former trading...
Female-Founded Telehealth Startup Calibrate Announces $22.5 Million Series A
Summary: "When Calibrate—the female-founded telehealth startup trying to disrupt the $70 billion weight loss industry—came out of stealth mode in June, it was operating in three states, had 10...
New Omada care program cuts down on PCP visits by making its own adjustments to patient meds
Summary: "Omada's new Physician-Guided Care Program is looking to help patients cut down on frequent trips to the doctor with its virtual cardiometabolic clinic, which provides telemedicine...
French Healthcare Company Alan Raises €185M At €1.4 Billion Valuation
Summary: "French healthcare platform Alan, cofounded by Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve and Charles Gorintin, announced today that it has raised a €185M Series D which puts the company in the unicorn...
La disrupción sanitaria copa el programa de aceleración ‘deeptech’ Barcelona Activa
Summary: "De los 10 proyectos elegidos, seis pertenecen a este sector. Entre ellos, un sistema de transporte de medicamentos por el sistema nervioso o una tecnología que predice recaídas del cáncer...
7 Healthtech Startups Helping To Fight Against COVID-19
Summary: "Needless to say, the ongoing pandemic has exposed the wide gaps underlying the healthcare sector over decades. Higher case loads, low availability of beds, lack of ventilators and rising...
Five innovative startups improving the lives of people with diabetes
Summary: "The diabetes epidemic is a growing concern in many parts of the world. In the UK, over 3.9 million people have the chronic illness, which Diabetes UK estimates will increase to 5 million...
TytoCare & GIVA Care Partner to Bring Telehealth to Ukraine
Summary: "TytoCare has partnered with GIVA Care Group, a leading healthcare distribution company, to bring its all-in-one remote examination solution to the Ukrainian healthcare industry." Article...
New app aims to address disparities in care for Black and brown mothers
Summary: "Irth allows Black and brown patients to search for and create reviews of their OB/GYN, birthing hospitals, postpartum care and pediatricians up to an infant's first year." Article written...
The Future Of Healthcare Is Coming Home: Three Major Trends To Leverage For Startups
Summary: "What goes around, comes around. It was routine in the 1950’s for doctors to make house calls and deliver a high level of service to their patients. Well, here we are in 2021, and we might...
Startup Adapts AI Used In Space To Advance Healthcare On Earth
Summary: Maarten Sierhuis, a NASA alum, had made the comment to Rachna Dhamija, a tech veteran and his future cofounder. Both were dealing with aging parents who had health issues. Sierhuis had...
Béa Fertility raises $1m to bring at-home fertility treatments to the UK | Digital Health Technology News
Summary: "Founded by embryologist David O’Rourke and femtech specialist Tess Cosad, Béa Fertility is focused on democratising access to affordable, effective fertility treatments for couples and...
La inversión en ‘start ups’ de salud en Cataluña alcanza 226 millones de euros en 2020
Summary: "El sector de la salud en Cataluña acelera. En un año, 2020, que se presentaba difícil debido a la pandemia, las start ups de salud consiguieron sumar 226 millones euros de...
New app helps prevent skin cancer using AI and ML
Summary: "Monitor the size of moles and skin lesions with Miiskin, an app that can help your doctor see changes more easily. (...)TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Jon Friis, CEO and founder of...
Healthcare Is Experiencing A Boom In Female Entrepreneurs And Leaders
Summary: "While specific data is hard to find, anecdotal evidence seems to show more women are founding or leading efforts in the healthcare and life sciences industries. And even though women still...
Virtual therapy startups tackle the gap in mental health care for kids and teens
Summary: "When Alex Alvarado and his co-founders started their virtual therapy company Daybreak Health in February 2020, they saw a “massive need” for better mental health options for teens. Then...
Eye wellness app developer Plano partners with myopia education platform
Summary: "The partnership aims to produce new educational content for eye care professionals." "Plano, a Singapore-based eye wellness app developer, has teamed up with US-based myopia education...
AstraZeneca working with Mass General on tech for heart failure, asthma
Summary: "The organizations said the collaboration will use AstraZeneca's AMAZE disease management platform to deliver insights to clinically validate digital health solutions." Article written...
BCN3D’s 3D printing technology creates biomedical models that improve cancer surgeries
Summary: "BCN3D, a leading 3D printer manufacturer based in Barcelona (Spain), today announced that its 3D printing technology is helping surgeons to create biomedical models and apply them in their...
Top 15 Health Tech Startups To Watch
Summary: "Using biometric data, mobile apps, and wearables, these 15 health tech startups are bringing innovation to the health care industry by promoting healthier lives for patients." Article...
This Mental Health Startup Is Open 24/7 To Refill Your Medications
Summary: "Minded, a telehealth startup that renews and delivers mental health medications, announced its launch today for patients in the New York City area with $5 million in venture funding."...
AI startup steps in to unlock the puzzle of infertility with machine learning
Summary: "As it matures, machine learning has been applied to more and bigger challenges. One of the latest is women’s health tech, a space where research has traditionally lagged, and that few...
La inversión en ‘start ups’ de salud en Cataluña alcanza 226 millones de euros en 2020
Summary: "El sector de la salud en Cataluña acelera. En un año, 2020, que se presentaba difícil debido a la pandemia, las start ups de salud consiguieron sumar 226 millones euros de inversión, la...
Desktop Metal launches a health-focused business line
Summary: "Mass manufacturing may be the future of 3D printing (one hopes), but health products are very much its present. From orthodontics to prosthesis, medical needs are right in the sweet spot...
Corify
"CORIFY Care SL (Corify) is a medical start-up focused on cardiac arrhythmias. We are developing a novel technology to improve the treatment of atrial fibrillation, which affects more than 30M...
Startup says A.I. helped it find treatment for rare lung disease in record time
Summary: "Artificial intelligence is making rapid inroads in helping with the discovery of potential medicines. In the latest example, a Hong Kong–based biotechnology company, Insilico...
StartUPDATES: New developments for healthcare startups
Summary: "Read about news from Seven Bridges, Outcomes4Me, Carrum Health and more." Article written by MEDCITY NEWS 08|02|2021 Source:MedCity...
Health HUB Vienna – Transformation of the Healthcare System
Summary: "Health Hub Vienna is a platform for open innovation in healthcare. Pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, private and public insurance companies, healthcare...
Ashfield turns to Popit for digital patient support tool
Summary: "Ashfield Engage has agreed a deal to incorporate Popit’s digital tools in its patient support programmes, with the aim of improving adherence to treatments." "Finnish startup Popit has...
A Female-Founded Startup Is Using AI to Improve In Vitro Fertilization Success
Summary: "Undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) is no easy process and therefore it is only untaken by those who deeply desire to have a child. However, these individuals often find their dreams...
Eat this, exercise now; new personalized software predicts and helps prevent blood sugar spikes
Summary: "Not everyone has Type 2 diabetes, the disease that causes chronically high blood sugar levels, but many do. Around 9% of Americans are afflicted, and another 30% are at risk of developing...
Analíticas a demanda, un nuevo paso hacia la medicina digital y personalizada
Summary: "Contamos los pasos que damos cada día, nuestras pulsaciones, las calorías que ingerimos, nuestras horas de sueño… Cada vez estamos más pendientes de diferentes parámetros relacionados...
Startup Ozette unveils AI approach to understanding the immune system
Summary: "Ozette applies artificial intelligence to immune monitoring to gain greater insight into a cancer patient's immune system. Beyond informing treatment decisions, the technology can guide...
StartUPDATES: New developments for healthcare startups
Summary: "Carrum Health, an innovative surgery benefit offered to self-insured employers, announced that it is expanding the availability of complex cardiac care for its members with Cleveland...
Biotech entrepreneur George Church launches gene therapy startup to design safer viral vectors
Summary: "Adeno-associated viruses have become popular vectors for the delivery of gene therapies. But, despite their relatively safe profile, they can trigger some unwanted immune responses,...
‘Smart pill’ startup etectRx strikes partnership with Pear Therapeutics
Summary: "EtectRx, which makes wireless sensors embedded in medications, struck a partner with Pear Therapeutics. The companies hope to build products together combining medication adherence data...
This new startup wants you to treat mental fitness like going to the gym
Summary: "Here was a pro athlete, among the best of the best, and he was openly talking about his vulnerability. Here was a man who had spent the better part of his life building his body into an...
Malaysia-Sweden collaborate to launch Digital Health Innovation Challenge
Summary: "The initiative invites startups registered in Malaysia to identify next-generation solutions for healthcare challenges, esp. non-communicable diseases (NCD)" "The initiative is a...
Estos exoesqueletos, creados y fabricados en España, reducen los tiempos de rehabilitación
Summary: "Al repetir de forma consciente y continuada un movimiento, por ejemplo, cuando un exoesqueleto te hace andar, nuestro cerebro, como tiene espasticidad, las neuronas son capaces de...
Swiss startup first to launch blood pressure bracelet
Summary: "Aktiia releases clinical device bracelet ahead of Fitbit, Apple and other tech giants." "Swiss startups Aktiia has beaten Fitbit, Apple and other tech giants to become the first company to...
Female-Founded Telehealth Startup Calibrate Announces $22.5 Million Series A
Summary: "When Calibrate—the female-founded telehealth startup trying to disrupt the $70 billion weight loss industry—came out of stealth mode in June, it was operating in three states, had 10...
The European startups hacking the ageing process
Summary: "For the first time in human history, more people die from diseases that come as a consequence of old age — such as cancer and heart attacks — than infectious disease. It is also the first...
How AI Has Completely Transformed Medtech
Summary: "Artificial intelligence has disrupted every industry under the sun and healthcare is no exception. There are countless ways in which AI is transforming medtech, which explains why the...
Introducing the EIT Health startup database – a European healthtech community
Summary: "We’re pleased to launch the EIT Health startup database. The new open-access platform is dedicated to tracking EIT Health supported startups. EIT Health provides acceleration...
EL AUGE DE LA TELEMEDICINA IMPULSA EL BARCELONA HEALTH HUB
Summary: "Este nodo de innovación potencia el desarrollo de las startups de salud digital desde el Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau, haciéndolas convivir bajo un mismo techo con grandes...
London startup Spill that provides remote mental health treatments via Slack raises £2M
Summary: "London-based mental health startup Spill provides remote mental health support for companies via Slack, a workplace messaging tool. The startup offers all-in-one mental...
At the height of digital wellness, are we missing the human touch?
Summary: "Medicine will never progress without technology—there’s no denying that. But for the foreseeable future, human interaction remains an instrumental part of the healthcare experience." "The...
CES 2021: Japanese startup demos non-invasive glucose monitor
Summary: "A startup from Japan claims they have a continuous non-invasive glucose monitor. They are demoing a prototype at CES 2021." "Non-invasive glucose monitoring is considered to be the holy...
Biotech Voices: Next-gen therapies are evolving fast. The drug development model needs to keep up
Summary: "In the current regulatory environment, after an important discovery is made, a trial alteration is required, which is a costly and lengthy process that limits the ability to bring novel...
AI Drug Discovery Startup Valo Raises $190 Million And Unveils Cancer Therapy Programs
Summary: "Valo Health, which is developing a drug discovery platform powered by both artificial intelligence and large patient datasets, announced Monday that it’s working on multiple targets that...
AI startup that captures vital signs via phone cameras launches new corporate wellness solution
Summary: "One artificial intelligence health startup that offers video-based health tracking sees big opportunities among insurance companies and employers with the growing demand for health...
Forecast: Health Care In 2021 Will Focus On ‘Digitization Of The Patient Experience’
Summary: "Digital health startups are likely to see continued opportunity, investment and initial public offerings in the new year as people rethink the way health care is delivered." "Investors in...