Health tech deals
IMMJ Systems, an electronic document management solution supplier for the healthcare industry, has secured a £3.5m growth capital investment from investment manager Foresight Group. Founded in 2015, by a team experienced in enterprise IT and NHS technology distribution, IMMJ developed MediViewer. The platform digitises patient records and provides a single, easy access interface for clinical [...]
Northern Ireland-headquartered Eakin Healthcare Group is expanding into a new therapeutic area with a fresh acquisition. The company has snapped up Coleraine-based Armstrong Medical, which specialises in respiratory care products. The deal represents a diversification for the group which to date has specialised in ostomy and wound care products. The acquisition will be supported by [...]
A European consortium has been awarded a grant of up to €1m to develop a blood-based multi-omics test to predict response to immune checkpoint inhibitors in cancer. The collaboration is made up of Novigenix, PamGene International and Radboud University. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have become one of the main treatments for patients with metastatic cancer. Although ICIs [...]
A £10m research collaboration led by two UK universities will explore new ways to diagnose lung cancer earlier. The Universities of Southampton and Leeds have come together with healthcare, diagnostics and informatics companies to test the best way of detecting cancers at a stage when they can still be cured, linking to the NHS England Targeted [...]
Dublin-headquartered digital digestive health company FoodMarble has closed a seed investment round of $2.6m. The round was led by Business Venture Partners (BVP), with participation from SOSV, Breed Reply, Delta Partners and Enterprise Ireland. The funding will support continued expansion into new markets, research and development projects, as well as the further development of FoodMarble AIRE, [...]
A Liverpool-headquartered medical device company has secured a £750,000 funding package. The company’s CEO spoke to Health Tech World about its importance. NasoGastric Feeding Solutions (NGFS) has developed a device called DoubleCHEK, which uses dual indicators, CO2 and pH, to prevent the misplacement of feeding tubes into the lungs. The funding, which was secured through a mix of private investment and matched funding from [...]
A platform designed to provide an on-demand private midwifery service is looking to secure £100,000 after embarking on a new crowdfunding campaign. HomeMidwife aims to support mothers during and after pregnancy, allowing them to make an appointment for a teleclinic session or schedule a visit at their own home. Midwives, who can manage work through a [...]
A new wellbeing app which aims to use immersive arts, psychotherapies and intelligent technologies to support a person’s mental health has smashed its £265,000 crowdfunding target. The Wavepaths app is designed to support the user’s wellbeing through adaptive, personalised, digital music experiences. The platform provides a musical environment for a psychedelic therapy session. According to [...]
Civica will support the trust via its Aurum system, which is designed to identify millions of pounds of service improvement opportunities. The Aurum platform uses the latest data science techniques to find instances of systemic variation in clinical activity. Developed in conjunction with Civica’s innovation lab NorthStar, the assisted analytics platform takes insights from the [...]
Exscientia, an artificial intelligence driven pharma-tech company, has been awarded a $4.2m grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr Denise Barrault, senior portfolio manager, discussed the funding with Health Tech World. The funding will be used to apply the company’s Centaur platforms to the discovery of next-generation therapeutic targets and leads. Exscientia will use its Centaur Biologist platform to apply domain-specific implementations of knowledge graphs and deep learning algorithms to a range of biological data. Responding to objectives [...]
