What You Should Know: - Q1 2024 Digital health funding in the U.S. reached $2.7B across 133 deals, with an average deal size of $20.6M, according to Rock Health’s Q1 2024 Digital Health Funding Report. - The report reveals the digital health funding landscape has undergone a significant shift in Q1 2024, marking a transition from a period of rapid growth to a more measured environment focused on long-term sustainability. This signals a shift towards smaller check sizes, indicating a more
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Digital Health Funding Reaches $6.1B in First Half of 2023
What You Should Know: Digital health funding in H1 2023 shows fewer deals, lower check sizes, and a smaller cohort of sector investors, according to the latest Rock Health report. Founders, investors, and healthcare innovators are adjusting to the new status quo, with some startups pursuing unlabelled raises, seasoned investors looking for the next big startups, and companies making decisions to sunset their businesses while their assets may continue as acquisitions or relaunched
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Q1 2023 Digital Health Funding Reaches $3.4B Across 132 Deals
What You Should Know: 2023 started off with the hallmarks of a rebound year. While Q4 2022 signaled the tail end of the digital health funding cycle, January and February funding numbers began to suggest that sector investment was slowly but surely inching back upwards. Inflation was easing ever so slightly. Investors were rediscovering their confidence and launching new projects, signaling optimism in the sector, according to a new Rock Health report. However, recent news—the collapse of
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Digital Health Funding Reaches $15.3B in 2022 Across 572 Deals, Rock Health Reports
What You Should Know: - In a downtrodden market climate, things don’t need to feel doom and gloom, according to Rock Health’s Annual 2022 digital health funding report. 2022 was a necessary reminder that investment is cyclical and that strong players build resilience in weathering funding climate changes. - Analysts expect that 2023 will be built up on slow, steady, and maybe even boring strategies for healthcare startups and enterprises alike: managing cash, restructuring to accommodate
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Intel Invests $20M in Biofourmis’ Virtual Care Offerings
What You Should Know: - Biofourmis, a Boston-based global leader in virtual care and digital medicine, today announced that Intel Capital, the strategic investment arm of chipmaker Intel Corporation, has joined its Series D financing in an extension that brings the total funding raised in the round to $320M. - The initial Series D funding round was announced in April and was led by global growth equity firm General Atlantic with participation by CVS Health (NYSE:CVS), Trevor
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Q1 2022 Digital Health Funding Reaches $6B Across 183 Deals
What You Should Know: - Rock Health report reveals Q1 2022 digital health funding closed with $6.0B across 183 deals, and an average deal size of $32.8M. - Q1 2022 digital health funding was significantly behind Q4 2021’s $7.3B and the trailing twelve month quarterly average of $7.1B. Digital health funding reached a total of $6B in Q1 2022 across 183 deals, and an average deal size of $32.8M, according to Rock Health, a full-service venture fund
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3 Themes Driving Today’s State of Gender Equity at Healthcare Startups & VCs
- Latest Rock Health reports reveal the in-depth survey results of 218 men, women, and non-binary respondents working at healthcare startups and VCs to understand perceive how their organizations are actively advancing gender equity. - The report reveals we are far from gender parity and the most common initiatives to promote gender equity may not be the most effective approach. - Conversations with leaders outline five core strategies for building a workplace supportive of gender equity.Despite
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Rock Health: 3 Central Themes Driving Digital Health Consumer Adoption
- Rock Health and the Stanford Center for Digital Health release their findings from the 2019 Consumer Adoption Survey. - In 2019, overall consumer adoption of digital health leveled off in 2019 near the 2018 high water mark. - Findings reveal consumer-clinician dialogue and transparency around data collection and sharing will be central to the growth of digital technology in healthcare.Digital health consumer adoption has leveled off in what appears to a slight moderation of digital health
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Q3 2019 Digital Health Funding Levels Off At $1.3B, Rock Health Reports
- New Rock Health report finds digital health funding reaches $1.3B in Q3 2019 for a total of $5.5B year to date. - Large digital health funding round are driving the overall funding trend in digital health with the average deal size at $20.9M, in line with 2018’s $21.7M average deal size. - Rock Health projects the number of digital health deals in 2019 will be 5-10% lower than in 2018.Digital health funding reached a total of $1.3B in Q3 2019 for a total of $5.5B year to date, leveling off
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Rock Health Report: Is 2019 The Year of the Digital Health IPO?
Digital health funding reached a new record of $4.2 billion across 180 deals in the first half of 2019, according to Rock Health, a full-service venture fund dedicated to digital health. The digital health sector is on track for an $8.4B year in 2019—and may even break 2018’s annual funding total. The report also validates the continued trend of the large $100M+ mega deals, attributing to 30% of venture funding in H1 2019. The 2019 Midyear Digital Health Market Update reflects a maturing digital
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