Health tech deals
Popai Health, the voice AI platform that supports phone-based patient conversations, has raised US$11m in funding. The funding will “strengthen Popai's go-to-market efforts, drive faster adoption across health systems, medical groups, health plans, and ACOs, and enable the team to scale with increasing market demand”, the firm said. Popai aims to eliminate what it calls [...]
Inviga Healthcare Fund (IHF) has acquired a 21 per cent stake in Indian ophthalmic diagnostics specialist Forus Health, backing the scale-up of its AI-integrated eye screening platforms in India and global markets. The deal marks Inviga’s second major transaction, following its 2024 investment in vaccine start-up Mynvax, and underlines the fund’s focus on Indian-built health [...]
US-based mental health provider Amae Health has raised US$25m in pre-empted Series B financing to expand its AI-enabled outpatient clinics for people living with severe mental illness (SMI), taking total funding to more than US$50m. The round was led by Altos Ventures, with participation from all existing investors, including Quiet Capital, Bling Capital, Cedars-Sinai Ventures, [...]
DoseMe has acquired Firstline, creating a single path from therapy choice to personalised dosing so clinicians can reach optimal care faster. Financial terms were not disclosed. Jupiter, Florida-based DoseMe is a portfolio company of Fairlong Capital. Firstline, based in Vancouver, Canada, provides clinical decision support used by healthcare organisations worldwide. Firstline’s mobile-first software makes infectious [...]
US-based obesity medicine specialist Knownwell has raised $25m in an oversubscribed, strategic-led round as it looks to scale its weight-inclusive primary care model nationwide. The financing was led by CVS Health Ventures, with participation from MassMutual Catalyst Fund, Intermountain Ventures and others. Existing investors a16z Bio + Health and Flare Capital Partners also joined the [...]
Britain will struggle to be a life sciences superpower without reforming drug pricing, GSK’s outgoing chief executive has warned. Emma Walmsley said she was “hopeful and ambitious” that the standoff between the pharmaceutical industry and government could be resolved, as ministers draw up proposals to increase NHS spending on new medicines by up to 25 [...]
DocGo has acquired virtual care provider SteadyMD in a deal aimed at combining nationwide telehealth capabilities with DocGo’s technology-enabled mobile health and medical transportation services. The Nasdaq-listed company said the acquisition will enable it to offer a more comprehensive “last mile” care platform by pairing its in-the-field mobile clinicians with SteadyMD’s 50-state virtual workforce and [...]
Propel Healthtech West Yorkshire is calling on innovators with healthtech solutions to apply for its accelerator programme. The programme is free for successful applicants and provides enhanced business support, regulatory guidance, NHS networking and scaled growth advice. The accelerator has recently been allocated £4.5m in funding from the West Yorkshire Mayor’s investment Zone. The funding [...]
Imprivata has announced the acquisition of Verosint, a leader in Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) solutions. The acquisition represents Imprivata’s latest strategic investment in modernising enterprise access management with solutions that deliver advanced, frictionless, and passwordless access for every user type, including frontline staff, knowledge workers, and third-party identities, while strengthening security, streamlining compliance, [...]
On September 25, hundreds of healthcare professionals, investors, and industry changemakers gathered in London for McDermott Will & Schulte’s annual Healthcare Private Equity (HPE) Europe conference. Keynote speakers Steph McGovern and Robert Peston, hosts of the hit UK podcast The Rest Is Money covering money, politics, and the markets, kicked off a high-impact event with remarks from [...]
