StartUp Health
StartUp Health's Unity Stoakes joins the MobiHealthNews team to look back at a groundbreaking quarter for investment.
The automated care platform has been deployed at several health systems to remotely monitor, analyze and communicate with patients across a range of conditions.
Healthy Ventures was the lead investor this round, with participation from Collaborative Fund, Commerce Ventures, Connecticut Innovations, I2BF Global Ventures and StartUp Health.
The round was led by Octopus Ventures with participation from Y Combinator, Startup Health and Triple Point Ventures.
Rock Health tracked just under a billion dollars in investment for the quarter, while Startup Health's more expansive methodology had the figure at $2.8 billion.
San Francisco, New York and Boston topped the funding charts this year but Beijing was on their heels.
A new report from StartUp Health Insights shows large, late-stage deals are driving the trend.
StartUp Health, a group that support and fosters digital health startups, has just landed another $31M in funding to help grow its portfolio.
Venture capitalists invested a total of $2.
Rock Health and StartUp Health, two groups that track investment in digital health, have come out with their respective quarterly reports on funding in the space, and both agree on a couple of interesting insights: that Q1 2018 is the largest Q1 yet, that larger late-stage deals contributed disproportionately to that total, and that investment is increasingly coming from non-traditional investors, especially providers.