StartUp Health Insider: Looking Back at a Record Year of Health Innovation Funding
A recap of this week’s health innovation news from the StartUp Health Media Network
Top Headline
Record-Breaking Year for Health Innovation Funding Sets the Stage for New Era of Health Moonshot Progress
In April of 2020 many people thought that health innovation funding was going to go into hibernation due to the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, investors and industry leaders responded to the challenge, adapting to new ways of doing business and tripling down on the companies solving health moonshots. In this, the first of our two-part StartUp Health Year-End Insights Report, we look back on how 2020 ended as the most-funded year on record, and how these trends will shape the year to come.
StartUp Health TV
Aver CEO Bill Nordmark Is Helping Healthcare Payers and Providers Design, Implement, and Administer Value-Based Programs
With Aver, Nordmark and his team are solving some of the most complex back-end technical work required for companies to transition from traditional fee-for-service business models to value-based care models.
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Salesforce Takes on Health: A StartUp Health Fireside Chat With Dr. Ashwini Zenooz, GM and Chief Medical Officer at Salesforce
In an exclusive gathering with Health Transformers, Dr. Zenooz shares how the tech giant is exploring the many ways the company’s relationship management technology can be applied to health, from vaccine rollouts to individual patient records.
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StartUp Health Insights
Over $788M in Digital Health Funding to Wrap Up the Old Year and Start the New Year
Only a few days into 2021, we’ve already seen several significant health innovation raises, including $310M for Hinge Health and $167M for Color.
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StartUp Health Companies in the News
Wisdom From Caremerge Co-founder: What a COVID-19 Vaccine Could Mean for Senior Living
Forbes
5 Venture Capital Deals That Signal Major Trends for 2021: Cityblock Health
Inc.
UCHealth Taps Conversa Health to Track COVID-19 Vaccine Effects on Frontline Healthcare Workers
HIT Consultant
OTAWA Health Develops AI-based Solution to Detect COVID
Medicina S / A
Quit Genius’ Digital Tools Can Help Employees Struggling With Addiction
Employee Benefit News
The 15 Largest US Tech Startup Funding Rounds of Dec 2020: Cityblock Health
The 13 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of 2020: Cityblock Health
AlleyWatch
January Is National Glaucoma Awareness Month: Prevent Blindness in Partnership With Responsum Health Launches “The Glaucoma Community”
Highland County Press
AireHealth Won the Rollins College Venture Plan Competition and Orlando’s First-Ever Rise of the Rest Competition
Orlando Business Journal
LucidAct Health Selected and Presents at Remote Patient Monitoring Innovation Challenge 2020
Adaptation Health
81 Startups That Will Boom in 2021, According to the Startup Experts — Venture Capitalists: Particle Health
Business Insider
Six Ways That Tech Is Being Used to Combat COVID-19: Fruit Street Health
International Banker
NOBA 2020: Flosonics Medical Is the Recipient of 2020 Innovation Award
Northern Ontario Business
Ride Health and ACTIV-2 Partner to Provide Transportation for Nationwide COVID-19 Therapeutic Study
PR Newswire
Edamam Announces a Unique Dataset for Food Logging and Meal Suggestions
EIN News
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Jan 11
Featuring Gennev
Investing in the Future of Healthcare & Moonshot Thinking w/ Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures
Jan 12
StartUp Health Fireside Chat
Beyond Resolutions: Innovation in the Nutrition & Fitness Moonshot
Jan 14
Health Transformer Showcase
HHS and CMS Get Serious About Patients’ Right to Access
Jan 20
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Today’s StartUp Health Insider was written and produced by India Edwards, Nicole Kinsey, and Logan Plaster. Additional research for health innovation funding and news by Tara Salamone, Anne Dordai, and Jennifer Hankin. Follow us on Twitter and the StartUp Health blog for up-to-date information about top health entrepreneurs from the StartUp Health portfolio.