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According to Rock Health's new end-of-the-year funding report, total digital health funding was down to $4.
Venture capital firm Digitalis, which was founded last year and has offices in New York and California, has launched a $100 million fund to spur innovation in healthcare by investing in early and seed stage companies that leverage math, science and technology to address human health problems.
This year was a big one for digital health, with 2016 marking the beginning of the health sector’s “Moonshot Movement,” according to the year-end report from StartUp Health.
Oscar is raising another round of at least $150 million that could raise its valuation to $3 billion, according to a report over at Fortune.
San Diego-based Thrive Feeding has raised a $500,000 seed round to develop smart baby feeding products.
New York City-based Greatist, an online publication and media brand that focuses on health and wellness content, has raised $4.
It's been a few months since MobiHealthNews' last crowdfunding roundup and so there are several new digital health-focused campaigns on Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
A piece of long-awaited good news for fitness wearable maker Jawbone -- $165 million in new equity funding -- came with two more pieces of bad news: a subsequent drop in valuation and the departure of its recently hired president Sameer Samat, who returned to Google.
About two weeks after reports of it shutting down surfaced, HealthSpot, which offered telemedicine kiosks for workplace and retail locations, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation, according to a report in Columbia Business First.
UK-based Babylon, a remote care company, has raised $25 million in a round led by Investment AB Kinnevik with participation from Hoxton Ventures, Innocent Drinks cofounders Richard Reed, Adam Balon, and Jon Wright, as well as Deepmind cofounders Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman.