CB Insights: What can we learn from 5 years of digital health investment?
CB Insights blog entry looking at the past five years of digital health gives a big picture glimpse of the pace, size and stage of investments.
Infographic: The anatomy of life sciences startups
Market research firm CB Insights just put out a nifty infographic that denotes how 69 different life sciences startups fit within the body.
Reducing Clinical and Staff Burnout with AI Automation
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
In snapshot of $1.3B mHealth investment landscape, concierge care and telemedicine take up more real estate
"There's an enormous supply of remote physicians for telehealth and on-demand services," New Enterprise Associates Partner Mohammad Makhzoumi said. "By and large, sophisticated health systems are viewing this as an opportunity not a threat."
Thanks, IPOs and M&A! Charting the huge growth of 2014 healthcare venture exits.
It’s not just M&A that’s driving profitable exits for healthcare venture firms: IPO activity has been strong as well. Last year, more than 60 VC-backed healthcare companies went public – a 65 percent increase over 2013, a new report from CB Insights says. Indeed, almost half the VC-backed exits in healthcare came from IPOs. This […]
Report: Healthcare, consumer wellness account for 14 percent of VC deals in Q1
Wearable devices helped fuel an appetite for mobile healthcare and consumer health deals, according to a report by CB Insights tracking venture capital dealflow in the first quarter. These mobile health deals accounted for about $100 million invested in companies such as Augmedix and Advanced Health. By CB Insights’ reckoning, $1.9 billion was invested across […]
CB Insights: Tech exits up 58% in 2014 but early stage exits dominate VC backed co’s
A new report by technology M&A tracker CB Insights on technology exits seems to dovetail with some digital health trends. Internet and mobile companies accounted for 80 percent of venture-backed exits. Although digital health continues to be more a funding story than an exit story, consolidation will continue to increase and mean more dealflow in […]
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Market Trends to Watch for Health Systems and Their Specialty Pharmacies
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
Now there’s a periodic table for the Internet of Things
After the attention CB Insights got for its periodic tables for technology and healthcare, it has taken on the Internet of Things category and condenses the technology subsector into the most vital parts. It includes eight healthcare companies including the usual players like Proteus Digital Health and implantable glucose monitoring company Senseonics. It also spotlights […]
A periodic table for healthcare
Road maps for patient engagement, nifty life sciences maps. And now, periodic tables. After putting out “The Periodic Table of Tech,” venture capital database CB Insights said it received numerous requests for a similar guideline applied to the complicated world of the life sciences and healthcare ecosystem. Alas, today the Periodic Table of Healthcare is […]
Venture-backed healthcare deals rise to $2.7B in Q2
About $13.88 billion in venture capital backed 974 deals in the second quarter, the highest level since the first quarter of 2001, according to a new report by CB Insights. Healthcare accounted for a significant part of that. About $2.7 billion was invested across 161 deals in the sector. CB Insights’ Venture Capital Activity report […]
Top 10 cities for healthcare venture capital deals in Q3
Wondering where the venture capital funding has gone in the healthcare industry? According to CB Insights, it’s the following 10 cities–for Q3 ’13 at least. (Listed in order of amounts of deals; note that though San Francisco saw more deals, San Diego saw more funding.) San Francisco, Calif.: 7 deals, $77 million San Diego, Calif.: […]
The Funding Model for Cancer Innovation is Broken — We Can Fix It
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
Don’t let the IPOs fool you. Healthcare deal activity and funding were down in Q3
Womp womp. Though Q3 saw 13 healthcare industry IPOs–a five-quarter high, the past quarter also had the lowest financing amount for healthcare in the last five quarters, according to CB Insights. Funding declined 36 percent from Q2. Medical devices represented 33 percent of healthcare venture capital financing. Surprisingly, Series A and seed funding combined pulled […]
Q2 Corporate VC healthcare deals, funding both up more than 30 percent
Corporate venture capital may be what fills in the large gaps VC has left behind, with CVC deals about 60 percent larger than VC deals on the whole. Healthcare corporate venture capital deals are up nearly 40 percent compared to Q1 and funding is up 34 percent, according to a report from CB Insights. There were […]
Healthcare venture deals jump 33 percent in third quarter
Health startups in search of cash have more to be happy about these days, because healthcare venture capital deals jumped 33 percent in the third quarter, according to a new report. The report noted 184 healthcare deals in the third quarter, the highest amount since the third quarter of 2009.