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Amazon is folding its Amazon Clinic telehealth service into its primary care business One Medical, the company announced on Thursday. The company explained in today’s blog post that, to simplify…
Expressable is a platform that offers one-on-one virtual sessions with speech language pathologists.
Trans healthcare startup Plume lays off dozens of workers
Plume, a startup founded to offer essential online healthcare services to trans people across the U.S., laid off more than two dozen workers in October, several sources close to the…
The fall of Babylon: Failed telehealth startup once valued at $2B goes bankrupt, sold for parts
It’s the end of the road for Babylon Health, the London telehealth startup once valued at nearly $2 billion after being backed by the likes of the founders of DeepMind…
Pet telehealth company Airvet closes on $18.2M to embark on enterprise focus
The company has built up a base of employer clients, including Adobe, Ceridian and Rexford Industrial, eager to offer an employer-sponsored benefit for employees with pets.
Suspending access to medication abortions will threaten telehealth access
As someone who has worked extensively on solutions for expanding reproductive health access, I know that telehealth is perfectly suited for abortion care.
Singapore’s Ora takes a vertically integrated approach to telehealth
According to the founder of Singapore-based telehealth platform Ora, 90% of its patients are less than 39 years old and have not been treated for their conditions offline. That puts…
Telehealth startup Cerebral shared millions of patients’ data with advertisers
Cerebral has revealed it shared the private health information, including mental health assessments, of more than 3.1 million patients in the United States with advertisers and social media giants like…
BetterHelp owes customers $7.8M after FTC alleges data mishandling
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is requiring online therapy company BetterHelp to pay $7.8 million to consumers in a settlement over alleged data mishandling between 2017 and 2020. This marks…
With a focus on patients with chronic illness, Nourish hopes to help Americans eat better
Nourish connects users with a registered dietitian (RD) via telehealth and helps them get their consultations covered by health insurance.
This startup brings Southeast Asia’s vacant hospital rooms into the sharing economy
Uber and Airbnb have long been the poster children for the sharing economy. In other realms of society, entrepreneurs are also trying to match demand with untapped assets and services.…
After mothballing Amazon Care, Amazon reenters tele-health with Amazon Clinic, a marketplace for third-party virtual consultants
The ink is not yet dry on Amazon’s $4 billion acquisition of OneMedical, but in the meantime, the online services giant is making one more move into telehealth, and into…
Veterinary telehealth service Vetster launches in the UK post expansion in the US
Vetster, a veterinary telehealth service which has raised $40 million, is launching in the U.K. following expansion in the U.S. Vetster connects licensed veterinarians with pet owners via video, voice…
This Yale alum wants to build a telemedicine platform expressly for Alzheimer’s disease
Nikhil Patel is the kind of founder who investors adore. He’s a brainiac who, before studying computer science at Yale, spent three years in high school working as a research…
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This startup just raised $320M to make long-term care inside hospitals obsolete
Cera, a U.K. provider of healthcare inside people’s homes augmented by a platform that allows carers to monitor a patient’s health and potentially flag problems, has raised $320 million (£260…
This cardiac care startup just landed $20M for virtual rehab services
Moving Analytics (Movn), a virtual at-home intervention program for high-risk cardiac patients, claims to be “the most clinically validated” cardiac rehabilitation program on the market. Though other online-based programs exist,…
African health tech startups in the supply chain segment show rapid growth, spurring a $7M investment initiative
While Africa’s health systems are still reeling from the effects of the COVID pandemic, the adoption of digital health services has been revved up in some countries. Telemedicine, the standout…
Nigerian at-home lab testing platform Healthtracka gets $1.5M, backed by female VCs
According to this World Health Organization (WHO) article on treating cancer, detecting symptomatic patients as early as possible gives them the best chance for successful treatment. Though the piece is…
Vahak is not only an open marketplace for truckers, but it also provides drivers with services like healthcare and discounted fuel cards. The Bengaluru-based company announced today it has raised…
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Boulder Care takes in funding as its opioid telehealth program yields industry-leading retention rates
The company is serving several thousand patients and growing its footprint as a value-add employee benefit.
After setting out to examine digital healthcare from the inside by launching its own women’s health clinic as an app last year, French startup Nabla is executing the next step…
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Depressed? This algorithm can tell from the tone of your voice
Mental health issues have come into a clearer focus amid the pandemic. Depression became endemic, but it still too often goes undetected. Even when it does, healthcare providers struggle to meet demand. Two women engineers — both of whom experienced depression and had trouble finding therapy — thought the answer…
Parallel Learning expands remote special education assessment and tutoring with $20M round
If a kid is having trouble at school, one of the standard steps is to schedule an assessment for conditions like dyslexia, ADHD or anything else that might require a…
‘Move fast and break things’ is a bad idea for health tech startups
When you’re building a digital health company, the ultimate end user is a person in need of medical care.
Stripe is playing checkers with Plaid
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Singapore-based healthcare startup Ordinary Folk gets $5M to fight stigma
Ordinary Folk, a Singapore-based telehealth startup dedicated to men and women’s health issues, has raised $5 million in pre-Series A funding from Monk’s Hill Ventures. The funding will be used…
100ms secures $20M to power next generation of live video apps
Live video conferencing infrastructure startup 100ms, based in India and the U.S., has raised $20 million in Series A funding to power the next generation of live video apps, coming…
Inside the pitch deck that won Heartbeat Health’s first investment check
“We look for founders who have a combination of domain insight and domain experience,” said Kindred Ventures’ Kanyi Maqubela.
