Startups
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UCSF Spinout Raises $12M for Platform That Facilitates Secure AI Development
BeeKeeperAI — which offers a platform to facilitate the development and deployment of healthcare AI models — raked in $12.1 million in Series A funding led by Santé Ventures. The startup was spun out of UCSF last year.
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DexCare Rakes In $75M to Optimize Health Systems’ Digital Care Management
Providence spinout DexCare recently closed a $75 million Series C funding round, bringing its total funding to date to $146 million. The startup gives health systems a platform that helps them coordinate and manage digital care services so they can better address the modern healthcare consumer’s demands for convenience and immediacy.
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Healthcare VC Jumpstart Foundry Now Accepting Applications for Fall Funding
Early-stage healthcare innovation fund Jumpstart Foundry is accepting Fall funding applications through September 30th. Read on to find out why Jumpstart Foundry could be the missing piece in your startup’s journey to making a lasting difference in healthcare.
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Pharma, Artificial Intelligence, BioPharma
Flagship Startup Emerges to Find Drugs in Promising Hunting Ground—Our Bodies
Scientists at Empress Therapeutics say molecules that co-evolved with humans over millennia are a promising source of new drugs. With its AI-driven technology platform, the Flagship Pioneering-founded startup finds them.
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Meet Zuri — The Startup That Just Launched to Help People Navigate Infertility
A new startup named Zuri Fertility recently launched. Its platform provides resources for patients who are trying to conceive — including telehealth, at-home testing, prescriptions, mental health services, education and care coordination.
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Heal’s Co-Founders Launch New Startup to Help Older Patients & Their Caregivers
Renee Dua and Nick Desai —the husband-and-wife duo who founded physician house call company Heal in 2014 — have launched another healthcare startup. The company, called Together by Renee, said it is the first app to use generative AI to manage time-consuming healthcare tasks for older patients, those with chronic diseases and their stressed-out caregivers.
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Medivis Snags $20M to Enhance Surgical Navigation With Augmented Reality
Medivis recently raised $20 million in a Series A funding round that included investments from Mayo Clinic, Bob Iger and Kevin Durant. The New York City-based company’s technology can be thought of as a “virtual GPS system” for surgeons — it helps them navigate complex anatomical landscapes during operations and gives them a more accurate, intuitive understanding of the anatomy with which they’re dealing.
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Health Tech, Hospitals, Startups
Laudio Snags $13M for Platform that Tackles Nurse Managers’ Burnout
Laudio — a startup providing software that automates administrative tasks for frontline nurse managers — recently raised $13 million in Series B funds. The company’s platform helps managers complete tasks like patient rounding and schedule making more quickly, as well as provides recommendations on how to better engage staff members.
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AstraZeneca Teams Up With Startup Quell in Type 1 Diabetes, IBD Cell Therapy Pact
AstraZeneca is paying $85 million to kick off an alliance with Quell Therapeutics focused on developing new cell therapies for autoimmune diseases. Type 1 diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease are the focus of the research collaboration.
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Upperline Health Snags $58M for Its Network of Value-Based Specialty Care Clinics
Upperline Health, a provider network focused on value-based specialty care, recently raised $58 million. The startup identifies patients who are seeing specialists four or more times a year and provides them with an interdisciplinary care team that treats them at a clinic, in their home or via phone.
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Don’t Be Caught Unprepared: How to Develop a Crisis Communications Plan
On any given day there may be more pressing issues to handle, and many companies believe “it won’t happen to us” – that is, until it does happen to you, and then it’s more important than ever to be prepared and confident with your crisis communications plan.
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Yuvo Health Rakes In $20.2M to Help FQHCs Thrive in Value-Based Care Models
Yuvo Health — a startup focused on enabling value-based care at FQHCs — recently raised $20.2 million in Series A funding. The company is using the money to expand its reach from New York to Ohio.
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INVEST Pitch Perfect Spotlight: How OmniLife Health Is Streamlining Organ Transplants
OmniLIfe Health, based in Lexington, Kentucky, won the MedCity News INVEST Pitch Perfect contest on May 23, beating five other payer/provider startups. The company works to streamline workflows for organ transplants.
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INVEST Pitch Perfect Spotlight: How Prana Thoracic Can Help Treat Lung Cancer Sooner
Prana Thoracic, a startup focused on earlier detection and intervention for lung cancer, recently won the medical devices track of the MedCity News INVEST Pitch Perfect contest. The company is developing a minimally invasive electrosurgical device to help thoracic surgeons better excise smaller and intermediate-size lung nodules.
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Hyro Raises $20M for Conversational AI Assistant Used by Intermountain, Novant & More
Hyro — a New York-based startup selling a conversational AI platform for providers — recently closed a $20 million Series B funding round. The platform is “mostly plug-and-play” and requires minimal effort and resources from providers, CEO Israel Krush said.
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A Father’s Vision for New Kind of Gene Therapy Leads to a $100M Financing
Ray Therapeutics’ gene therapy is independent of the causative genes driving inherited vision disorders, which CEO Paul Bresge says is important for reaching a broad patient population. Rare disease retinitis pigmentosa is the first disease target, but the startup also plans to test its approach in more prevalent eye disorders.
