NEXT Life Sciences Secures $2.5M for ‘Plan A’ Male Birth Control | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Jan 23, 2024
“With Plan A™, our goal is to change lives by giving men the ability to participate equally in family planning, so that couples have a more equitable relationship and the tools needed to be intentional about their futures,” said Health Transformer L.R. Fox, CEO & Founder of NEXT Life Sciences.
NEXT Life Sciences, a company in the StartUp Health community that makes the male contraceptive product Plan A™, raised an oversubscribed $2.5M round of funding to help advance its mission of bringing Plan A to market. The round, which brought total seed funding to date to $4M, was led by The Family, with participation from StartUp Health, Transform VC, Brock Pierce, Pay It Forward Venture Capital, Particular Ventures, Keno Peer, Unpopular Ventures, and Joy Fund. <source>
Other health innovation funding reported this week included:
Elephas, a Madison, WI-based company developing an oncology imaging platform to assess how live patient biopsies respond to immunotherapies, raised $55M led by Venture Investors Health Fund and State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB), with participation from Northpond Ventures, ARCH Ventures, Sands Capital, Moore Strategic Ventures, Tao Invest, and WARF Ventures. <source>
Forta, a San Francisco, CA-based company using AI to improve access to dependable quality care starting with autism therapy, raised $55M led by Insight Partners, with participation from Exor Ventures, Alumni Ventures, and individual investors. <source>
Turquoise Health, a San Diego, CA-based startup selling software to reduce the complexity of healthcare pricing data, raised $30M led by Adams Street Partners, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, BoxGroup, and Yosemite. <source>
Sano Genetics, a Cambridge, UK-based provider of a software platform for precision medicine clinical trials, raised $11.4M led by Plural. <source>
Avante, a Seattle, WA-based health tech startup still in stealth, raised $10M led by Fuse Venture Partners. <source>
CardioSignal, a Turku, Finland- and Palo Alto, CA-based provider of solutions for the detection of heart diseases using digital cardiac biomarkers, raised $10M led by DigiTx Partners, with participation from Sandwater and Maki.vc. <source>
Acorai, a Helsingborg, Sweden-based medical device manufacturer, raised $4M led by Solardis Health Ventures, with participation from KHP Ventures, Carma Fund, CerraCap Ventures, and others. <source>
You Are Accountable, a New York, NY-based addiction recovery startup, raised $2M led by GEHA Ventures. <source>
Apprio, a Washington, DC-based provider of specialized healthcare technology solutions and services for hospitals and health systems, raised an undisclosed amount from HCAP Partners. <source>
Archway Dental Partners, a Danbury, CT-based provider of a dental platform, raised an undisclosed amount from Martis Capital and Din Ventures. <source>
Data is from StartUp Health Insights, the most comprehensive funding database for health innovation. Sign up for StartUp Health Insider™ to get funding insights, news, and special updates delivered to your inbox.
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