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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.
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.
Senseonics, a Germantown, Maryland-based company working on a longterm implantable continuous glucose monitor, has filed to go public with an IPO that, for now at least, is valued at $51.
Boston-based Lifeguard Games, a kid-focused health education game company that did business as Wellapets, has changed its name to Wizdy and launched its first app, called Wizdy Pets, which teaches children about asthma management.
About the author: @DanGebremedhin is a Senior Associate at Flare Capital Partners, an early stage Health Technology and Services focused VC Firm.
Philadelphia-based accelerator Dreamit Health has announced that in its next class, it will offer the startups the option to keep their equity if they do not accept cash from the program.