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StartUPDATES: New developments for healthcare startups

Read about new developments from Stellar Health, Paige, venBio, and more.

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Stellar Health is pleased to announce the appointment of JoRel Nye, former Senior Vice President of Technical Product Management at Aledade as its new Chief Product Officer.

Stellar Health is a point-of-care, cloud-based platform that helps primary care providers continually engage with their patients by providing them real-time information and tangible action-based incentives for improving quality of care. Stellar Health’s mission is to enable all providers to engage and succeed in VBC by bridging the incentive gap between providers and payors.

To read more, click here.


Paige co-founder Dr. David Klimstra has been named Chief Medical Officer, a role that will start in August. Klimstra is currently Chair of the Department of Pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. In his new role, Klimstra will lead the clinical implementation and evidence generation for Paige’s technology and will shape product strategy for the most compelling use cases, helping pathologists realize the benefits of the enhanced clinical workflows enabled by Paige’s technology.

Paige builds computational pathology products designed so patients and their care teams can make effective, more informed treatment decisions. To read more, click here.


venBio has closed its fourth life sciences venture capital fund, venBio Global Strategic Fund IV, LP, exceeding its target and closing on approximately $550 million in capital commitments in an oversubscribed fundraise.

The new fund will continue to invest primarily in therapeutics companies that are developing biopharmaceuticals for unmet medical needs. The venBio team takes an active role with each of their portfolio companies, providing strategic guidance on a range of business activities including intellectual property, chemistry, manufacturing and controls (CMC), as well as assisting with clinical trials: from trial design to endpoints to regulatory deliberations. To read more, click here.


Our startup pitch contest, INVEST Digital Health Pitch Perfect, is now accepting submissions. There are three categories for the contest this year:

  • Home health
  • Chronic disease management and value-based care
  • Tech to boost payer/provider efficiency

The pitch contest is part of the INVEST Digital Health conference scheduled for September 21-23.

To access the application form, click here.

The application deadline is 5pm PT on Friday, June 25. There is no fee to apply. Startups that have pitched at a MedCity event in the past 12 months are not eligible to apply.

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