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Health Tech

What Do Value-Based Care Startups Need to Do to Attract Investors?

As the value-based care market gets more crowded, startups in this space will have to nail down the fundamentals in order to attract capital from investors, healthcare business expert Paul Campbell said during a virtual conference. He encouraged startups to be crystal clear about what their value proposition is for three main stakeholders — patients, providers and payers.

Lumiata’s vision for ‘predictive-first healthcare’ draws new investors, $6M more to Series A

A new group of investors is backing big data startup Lumiata‘s analytics platform that combines “the brilliance of physicians with the analytical power of big data” to make care more proactive, informed and efficient. BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, Sandbox Industries and AmeriHealth Inc. have funneled $6 million into the company, Lumiata said today,  joining Khosla […]

Devices & Diagnostics

An obesity treatment that looks like a pill but acts like a device takes in $12M from investors

A young Boston company thinks it has what could be a safe, effective and noninvasive way to help overweight and obese people drop those dangerous extra pounds. Investors including PureTech Ventures and a group of prominent senior leaders from the pharmaceutical, biotech and finance sectors have just entrusted Gelesis with $12 million to continue developing […]

SolveBio scores $2M to clean up & index genomic data for developers

Now that the $1,000 genome has arrived, the healthcare industry has wasted no time putting the mass amount of genomic data being generated to work. Hospitals and companies are building analysis tools that compare an individual’s DNA data against other people’s to guide diagnosis and treatment. One challenge in doing that, according to SolveBio, is […]