Aditi Pai
Gender diversity in leadership roles can improve the performance of a company, but that diversity is still hard to find in digital health, according to a report from seed fund Rock Health.
San Diego-based Thrive Feeding has raised a $500,000 seed round to develop smart baby feeding products.
Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced on Twitter yesterday -- by posting screen shots from his Apple Notes app -- that he is planning to launch a digital health company focused on fitness.
Seattle, Washington-based EveryMove has shifted its business strategy and announced a new product that helps health plans with member engagement and behavior change, called Tandem.
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.
Samsung may be launching a new fitness tracking smartwatch soon, according to Sammobile.
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.
Healthcare IT funding, spread across 574 deals, reached $4.
Call9, which offers emergency care via video visits to nursing homes, raised $10 million in a round led by Index Ventures with participation from Y Combinator Partner Ali Rowghani, previously an exec at Pixar and Twitter; Palantir Cofounder Joe Lonsdal; and 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki.