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Knownwell Secures $20M for Weight-Inclusive Primary Care
Knownwell’s $20 million Series A funding round was led by A16Z and included participation from Flare Capital Partners. The company also launched an adolescent metabolic health program.
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Obesity Care Startup Launches With $3M in Funding
Ilant Health launched out of stealth Tuesday. The company serves employers and payers and helps identify patients in need of obesity treatment and matches them to the care best for them.
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Midi Health Snags $25M Led by Google Ventures
Midi Health’s Series A funding round was led by Google Ventures. In total, Midi Health has raised $40 million, including from Felicis, Semper Virens, Icon, 25M and Operator Collective. The company offers virtual care for those going through perimenopause or menopause.
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Evvy Secures $14M for Vaginal Healthcare Platform
Evvy’s $14 million funding round was led by Left Lane Capital and included participation from General Catalyst, LabCorp Venture Fund, RH Capital, Ingeborg Investments, G9 Ventures, Virtue and Amboy Street Ventures. In total, Evvy has raised $19 million.
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Digital Health Funding Steadied in Q1 After a Year of Decline
Global funding for digital health companies finally stabilized in Q1 of this year. The sector raised $3.4 billion — this marks the first time the digital health world didn’t experience a quarter-over-quarter funding decline since Q4 of 2021. By holding steady, digital health startups defied the dwindling fundraising totals seen across the broader venture capital landscape, where funding dropped by 13% quarter-over-quarter.
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MedArrive Rakes In $8M for Home Care Platform
MedArrive’s new $8 million funding was led by Cobalt Ventures, a subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City. With the funding, the company will grow its team, as well as improve on its product and technology, said Dan Trigub, CEO and co-founder of MedArrive.
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Consumer / Employer, Health Tech
Kindbody Secures $100M To Expand Fertility Services Into New Markets
Kindbody’s $100 million funding, announced last week, was led by Perceptive Advisors. It brings the company’s total equity and debt funding to more than $290 million and its valuation to $1.8 billion. It will use the money to add 10 new locations.
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Consumer / Employer, Health Tech
Tuned Secures $3.5M To Grow Hearing Care Platform for Employers
The funding round was led by Distributed Ventures and included participation from Idealab NY and Elements Health Ventures. Tuned plans to use the funding to contract with more employers and third party administrators, said Danny Aronson, co-founder and CEO of the startup.
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Trayt Health Seeks to Increase Access to Diagnoses and Treatments
CEO Malekeh Amini explains how Trayt Health can bridge the gap for patients seeking neurological care.
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NY Innovation Report Shows Funding Plummet for Women’s Health; Biotech Startups Gain Interest
New York healthcare startups received $3.9 billion of funding in 2022, compared to $9 billion in 2021, according to a new DHNY report. Biotech startups represented 22% of total funding in 2022, a stark difference from women’s health only representing 2%.
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Digital Health Insurance Provider Angle Health Pulls in $58M
The $58 million funding round was led by Portage and included participation from PruVen Capital, Wing Venture Capital and others. With the funding, Angle Health plans to expand into additional markets and grow its membership.
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Former VA Secretary Teams up With Daughter to Launch Chronic Pain Care Startup
Override provides chronic pain patients with a care team that includes a pain physician, a physical therapist, a psychologist and a coach. The company has received $3.5 million in seed funding and has acquired Take Courage Coaching.
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Viome Life Sciences snags $67M to expand DTC pipeline of at-home tests and wellness products
The funding was led by Bold Capital Group. Other investors of the company include Khosla Ventures, WestRiver Group and Glico. In total, Viome has raised more than $150 million.
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Nimbus Therapeutics secures $125M in financing for clinical programs
This funding round was led by Bain Capital Life Sciences and SV Health Investors. They join existing investors, including Bill Gates and Access Biotechnology. The money will be used to support several clinical trials.
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Artificial Intelligence, BioPharma
Flagship Pioneering’s Senda Bio secures $123M for new ‘programmable medicines’
Biotech startup Senda Biosciences is developing technology that yields a new type of medicine with two programming components: one directs the therapy to go to a particular destination in the body while the second tells the therapy what to do once it gets there. With the Series C financing, Senda aims to reach the clinic in 2024.