Health Transformers Ed and Todd Park are aiming to improve the healthcare system for seniors. Now, with their company’s recent $1.2 billion raise, they can bring the Devoted Health experience to people nationwide.
Four years ago, Ed and Todd Park launched Devoted Health with one simple goal: to dramatically improve the health and wellbeing of older Americans by caring for each and every person like they are members of their own family. …
Led by co-founders Dr. Keith Tsui and Luis Ulloa, this question-answering search tool is designed to help medical professionals with clinical decision-making at the point of care.
Investors, get a first look at how you can back health moonshots through StartUp Health’s new rolling impact fund.
Challenge
Imagine you’re at a doctor’s appointment and you notice your physician is Googling something. How do you feel? Are you worried, concerned, uncertain? All of the above? Rightfully so. The internet is filled with inaccurate information, so watching your doctor Googling a diagnosis can feel frightening.
According to NewsGuard, a…
StartUp Health Insights: Devoted Health Raises Record-Breaking $1.2B Series D | Week of Oct 13, 2021
This week’s remarkable $2.5B in reported funding features rounds for two StartUp Health portfolio companies: Devoted Health and Pivotal Analytics.
Our team tracked more than $2.5B in health innovation funding reported this week, led by Devoted Health, a next-generation health company for older Americans, which joined StartUp Health in 2018. The historic $1.2B Series D funding round was co-led by Uprising and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with participation from GIC…
Browse the list of the 40+ StartUp Health portfolio companies who will be joining us at the 2021 HLTH conference in Boston.
Investors, get a first look at how you can back health moonshots through StartUp Health’s new rolling impact fund.
HLTH 2021 kicks off on Sunday, October 17. The four-day annual event will bring together senior leaders to solve healthcare’s most pressing problems and realize the most promising opportunities to create health’s future. This year, HLTH takes place at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and will feature inspiring content…
Lee Shapiro, an icon of digital health investing, has worn a few hats. In addition to heading up 7wireVentures, he served as President of Allscripts and stepped in as CFO of Livongo to lead its 2019 IPO. Now, Shapiro is backing a diverse portfolio of early-stage health founders through the StartUp Health Moonshot Impact Fund. We dialed him up to learn what makes a great health investment and find out why he’s backing StartUp Health now.
Q+A
StartUp Health: How did you first get into health innovation investing?
Lee Shapiro: Glen Tullman and I have been investing together for more than 25 years. When we started, the idea was to use technology to fix broken business processes. We did that in several industries before we got to…
In this conversation, Dr. Rhew broke down Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare and explained how the broader suite of Microsoft tools — from natural language processing to using Teams for telehealth — can help healthcare startups scale more quickly.
Investors, get a first look at how you can back health moonshots through StartUp Health’s new rolling impact fund.
A Q+A with Microsoft’s David Rhew, MD
Founders Robhy Bustami and Salman Khan are using AI to give an instant second opinion to ultrasound techs, offering a lifeline to overworked OB/GYNs.
Investors, get a first look at how you can back health moonshots through StartUp Health’s new rolling impact fund.
Challenge
For expectant moms, the prenatal ultrasound is a rite of passage. During the first trimester, it’s the ultrasound tech who first identifies a heartbeat and prints out the inscrutable scans to be shared far and wide as proof of what is to come.
In the second trimester, things get even…
We’ve compiled a list of the startups in our portfolio that are innovating in the Children’s Health Moonshot.
Investors, get a first look at how you can back health moonshots through StartUp Health’s new rolling impact fund.
For 2021, we’re excited to introduce Moonshot Programming in which we highlight leading Health Transformers focused on our 12 Health Moonshots. This month, we’re highlighting the startups in our portfolio that are focused on creating a world where every child has access to quality care.
Remarkable progress has been made…
StartUp Health portfolio company Mediktor has raised a new funding round for its AI triage and pre-diagnosis medical assistant.
More than $545M in health innovation funding was reported this week, including €11M ($13M) for Mediktor led by MTIP, with participation from Alta Life Sciences. The Barcelona, Spain-based company, which joined StartUp Health in 2016, is on a mission to improve access to healthcare worldwide, guiding patients to the right…
With $30B+ Raised in Three Quarters, Global Health Innovation Funding Is on Pace for 100% YOY Growth
We tracked $9.7B in global health innovation funding this quarter, continuing the sector’s steep growth and setting 2021 up for a record-breaking year-end total.
In the third quarter of 2021, StartUp Health tracked $9.7B in health innovation funding globally, bringing the year’s total funding to just north of $30B, which is significantly higher than any previous full year on record. …
