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Virtual care provider WellTheory has raised US$14m in Series A funding to expand its autoimmune care platform, bringing the company’s total funding to US$26.2m. The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from new and existing backers including 7wire Ventures, Box Group, Ingeborg Investments, Up2 Opportunity Fund and Accel. The investment will support commercial [...]
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 [...]
The South West Provider Collaborative has announced it is the first NHS organisation to commission the workflow, referral and waiting list management software supplier Novari Health, following its recent acquisition by VitalHub UK. In partnership with Insight Technologies, Novari Health will deploy its electronic referral and bed management solution for specialist mental health services in [...]
Life Analytics has announced the launch of Facial Dynamics, a groundbreaking digital platform designed to transform facial rehabilitation through Augmented Reality and remote monitoring. Developed in collaboration with clinicians and academics across the UK, Facial Dynamics provides stroke and tremor patients with access to high-quality neurorehabilitation from the comfort of their home, via a smartphone [...]
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 [...]
A new AI-based employee management platform for healthcare has been launched on the back of US$2.1m in funding. Planbase received the investment boost from Y Combinator, LocalGlobe and angel investors. The company will use the funds to expand into more medium-large clinics nationwide and hire additional software engineers. Co-founders Joe Shearman and Jack Light are a married couple and [...]
Synchron, which develops non-surgical brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, has raised a US$200 million in a series d financing round. The funding will accelerate commercialisation of the company’s first-generation Stentrode BCI platform, the company says, while advancing development of a frontier next-generation interface. The platform is the world’s first endovascular brain-computer interface, designed to translate brain [...]
FORE has awarded five grants totalling more than US$2m to expand prevention, treatment and data efforts tackling the opioid and overdose crisis. The New York University Grossman School of Medicine will receive US$369,285 to scale its Prevention Education Partnership — a school-based opioid education and overdose response programme — with Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, [...]
The NHS England Medium-Term Planning Framework 2026–2029 sets out a vision for transforming how care is delivered. With targets like treating 92 per cent of patients within 18 weeks, reducing diagnostic waits to under six weeks for 99 per cent of patients, and treating 85 per cent of cancer patients within 62 days, the Framework [...]
By Nate MacLeitch, CEO of Quickblox In our latest survey, “AI Tool Adoption Healthcare (2025),” Quickblox discovered healthcare providers are moving from pilots to purpose when it comes to AI. We surveyed 101 healthcare leaders to determine where AI is taking hold and where it’s hitting resistance. Responses came from a wide cross-section of the [...]
