Digital health news, funding round up in the prior week; June 26, 2023
Aledade raised $260M; Zocdoc partnered with Elation Health; Eli Lilly acquired Dice
Read more...Vator held its annual Splash Health, Wellness & Wearables 2017 event on Thursday, and it couldn't have gone better. Not only were the panelists, and all of our presenting companies great, but so were all of our audience members, who helped us to preserved the memory of the event on Twitter forever.
Here are some highlights from our attendees on Twitter:
Daniel Kraft (Faculty Chair for Medicine & Neuroscience, Singularity University; Founder & Chair, Exponential Medicine)
#vatorsplashhealth with @bambi100 and @daniel_kraft @vator pic.twitter.com/3taqlNXxPH
— Hubert Zajicek (@HubertZajicek) March 23, 2017
Healthcare vs sickcare. Convergence and exponential development @daniel_kraft great intro for #vatorsplashhealth #singularity
— siobhan clarke (@sioclark) March 23, 2017
#AR #VR #AI #MachineLearning...We need to connect the dots. It's not AI v. Doctor. Think Exponentially. @daniel_kraft #vatorsplashhealth pic.twitter.com/q2FMIoZisA
— Theresa Maloney (@theresamaloney) March 23, 2017
Owen Tripp (Co-Founder & CEO, Grand Rounds), Bambi Francisco (Founder & CEO, Vator)
Backstage at Vator Health with my amazing colleague Jenn. Fireside up next! #vatorsplashhealth pic.twitter.com/ljNce2TjtU
— Owen Tripp (@owentripp) March 23, 2017
Imagine your Dr being matched to who you are & your needs! Owen Tripp @owentripp discussing w/ Bambi Francisco @Bambi100 #vatorsplashhealth pic.twitter.com/1zsVscxiP0
— Bryan Balch (@Vatortv1) March 23, 2017
Someone else underwrites healthcare, consumers don't buy healthcare in the United States. @owentripp @GrandRoundsInc #vatorsplashhealth pic.twitter.com/vEfAIYmp0W
— Theresa Maloney (@theresamaloney) March 23, 2017
Moderator: Sarah Buhr (Reporter, TechCrunch); Panelists: Ian Shakil (Founder & CEO, Augmedix), Ron Gutman (Founder & CEO, HealthTap), Sami Inkinen (Founder& CEO, Virta Health), Arnaud Bernaert (Head of Global Health and Healthcare, World Economic Forum)
Virta CEO @samiinkinen on stage speaking on continuous remote care and next gen physician interaction at #vatorsplashhealth. cc @vatortv. pic.twitter.com/11bFCMu7JT
— Virta (@virtahealth) March 23, 2017
Changing healthcare processes is even more difficult than building the technology @samiinkinen @virtahealth @sarahbuhr #vatorsplashhealth
— Theresa Maloney (@theresamaloney) March 23, 2017
@ianshakil says "It takes '18 clicks' to order aspirin" as example of what's wrong with healthcare. @augmedix #VatorSplashHealth @sarahbuhr
— Elena Arney (@Elena_Arney) March 23, 2017
Dr. Robert Pearl (CEO, The Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Permanente)
'We have to change American healthcare' Kaiser Permanente Medical Group CEO, Dr Pearl speaking @vatortv #vatorsplashhealth pic.twitter.com/9W1v2reWvK
— Paige Mantel (@pmantel) March 23, 2017
"In American medicine, there is no way to code for compassion," doctors not trained to manage end of life @RobertPearlMD #vatorsplashhealth
— David Maltz (@intervalent) March 23, 2017
Steve Jurvetson (Partner, DFJ) and J. Craig Venter, PhD (Co–Founder and Executive Chairman, Human Longevity, Inc)
Vator is amazing, one of biggest VCs in the world chatting w/ The Godfather of human genome @dfjsteve @JCVenter #vatorsplashhealth @vatortv pic.twitter.com/DhiSXCrR08
— Anthony Shell (@Sh3llbomb_CRE) March 23, 2017
Now at #vatorsplashhealth @JCVenter says costs of tests coming down, 40% of people seem healthy but have cancer/other issues
— Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) March 23, 2017
Need a new heart valve? @JCVenter @dfjsteve talk abt humanizing a pig to save more humans through #nucleartransformation #vatorsplashhealth
— Welltok (@Welltok) March 23, 2017
Jeffrey Brewer (Founder & CEO, Bigfoot Biomedical)
Jeffrey Brewer @BigfootBiomed showing sorry state of art device for managing Type 1 diabetes #vatorsplashhealth pic.twitter.com/NOk0iQJ9sH
— Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) March 23, 2017
Moderator: Stephanie Lee (Senior Technology Reporter, BuzzFeed); Panelists: Michelle Snyder (CMO, Welltok), Sean Duffy (Founder & CEO, Omada Health), Peter Hames (Founder & CEO, Big Health), Stephanie Tilenius (Founder & CEO, Vida Health)
Lessons in reimagining healthcare & behavior change. Founders of @omadahealth @Vida @sleepio @Welltok #vatorsplashhealth #digitalhealth pic.twitter.com/qwNsMUGkJh
— Daniel Kraft, MD (@daniel_kraft) March 23, 2017
@VCRebecca had so many great sound bites! My top 2 favs: rip out vending machines in schools and get real about obesity #vatorsplashhealth
— SHIFT Healthcare (@healthycomms) March 23, 2017
Moderator: Patrick Chung (General Partner, Xfund); Panelists: Rebecca Lynn (Partner, Canvas Ventures), Dave Schulte (Partner, McKesson Ventures), Michael Dixon (Partner, Sequoia Capital, Rebecca Woodcock (Entrepreneur in Residence, 500 Startups)
The investor panel at #vatorsplashhealth features smart people & great hair (not you @davemschulte!) pic.twitter.com/qt7GvkX3ev
— Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) March 23, 2017
Incredible panel on digital health trends #vatorsplashhealth @VCRebecca and @RebeccaWoodcock @davemschulte @patrickchung =loose it! Uknow ;)
— siobhan clarke (@sioclark) March 23, 2017
Mario Schlosser (Founder & CEO, Oscar Health), Brian Singerman (Partner, Founders Fund), Bambi Francisco (Founder & CEO, Vator)
Mario Schlosser CEO of @OscarHealth @bambi100 @briansin discussing health insurance - @OscarHealth will thrive regardless #vatorsplashhealth pic.twitter.com/k6PFvsZZZt
— Hubert Zajicek (@HubertZajicek) March 23, 2017
"We don't see a sign that the exchanges are in a death spiral right now." —Oscar Health CEO Mario Schlosser #vatorsplashhealth
— Stephanie M. Lee (@stephaniemlee) March 23, 2017
Thanks to Splash Health 2017 sponsors: Advsr, AARP, Avison Young, Bread and Butter Wine, Surf Air, Stratpoint and Scrubbed.
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Vida is a mobile, virtual care platform for primary and chronic care that connects consumers to health providers 24/7 for text, audio and video support. Vida's national network of providers cover 20 different conditions. Vida has partnered with Duke and MD Anderson where we are working on clinical studies managing the virtual care of cardiac rehab and cancer patients.
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Big Health is a digital medicine company. We create automated behavioral programs that are as scalable as drugs yet as effective as in-person therapy. Our first product, Sleepio, is a CBT sleep improvement program backed by 17 peer-reviewed papers including 5 RCTs.
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Not everyone is cut out for startups. There are easier ways to make a living. Yet you insist. Dismiss the odds. Defer the niceties that others take for granted.
At Canvas, we celebrate entrepreneurs. We have founded startups, worked at startups, and honor startups. We know it’s not just a job. It’s your life’s work.
- See more at: http://www.canvas.vc/#sthash.BzXmRdwL.dpufNot everyone is cut out for startups. There are easier ways to make a living. Yet you insist. Dismiss the odds. Defer the niceties that others take for granted.
At Canvas, we celebrate entrepreneurs. We have founded startups, worked at startups, and honor startups. We know it’s not just a job. It’s your life’s work.
Startup/Business
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McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 11th on the FORTUNE 500, is a healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to making the business of healthcare run better. We partner with payers, hospitals, physician offices, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies and others across the spectrum of care to build healthier organizations that deliver better care to patients in every setting. McKesson helps its customers improve their financial, operational, and clinical performance with solutions that include pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management, healthcare information technology, and business and clinical services.
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The Permanente Medical Group, Inc. (TPMG) is a physician-led medical group in Northern and Central California with over 8,000 dedicated and exceptional physicians working together across specialties. TPMG is the largest medical group in the country with over 65 years of providing quality medical care. Kaiser Permanente and The Permanente Medical Group work together to serve over 3.5 million members in Northern California. Many organizations have a mission statement; we have a calling: to lead the way to a better future for health care. Through our leadership in the use of advanced technology, our creation of innovative solutions, and our influence on health policy and reform efforts, we are shaping the future of health care.
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Welltok, the leading consumer health enterprise Software as a Service company, is on a mission to empower consumers to achieve their optimal health. Its award-winning CaféWell Health Optimization Platform connects consumers with available and relevant benefits, resources and rewards by designing personalized action plans. Additionally, the company's technology-enabled services leverage both advanced analytics to derive meaningful consumer insights and multi-channel communications to reach consumers through the right channel with the right message. Welltok drives greater consumer engagement and healthcare value for customers across the healthcare continuum including payers, employers, government programs (Medicare and Medicaid) and providers.
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Omada Health is a Silicon Valley startup that is bringing the best in design and web technology to health care delivery. Omada's team is an interdisciplinary group of technologists, entrepreneurs and clinicians from Google, Amazon, IDEO, Harvard, Stanford and Columbia who are passionate about creating accessible technology to prevent disease.
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Grand Rounds provides an employer-based solution that gives employees and their families the technology, information and support they need to make life’s most critical choices—whether and where to receive medical treatment.
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We are company founders first and investor second: we have built companies from the ground up, including PayPal, Facebook, Napster, Plaxo, Palantir Technologies, and Clarium Capital. We have experience from concept to realization, from shared offices to public offerings. Every stage of the company creation process is familiar to us, from finding seed capital, to building defensible products, scaling up the organization, and realizing lasting value for employees and shareholders.
Our current investments include Facebook, Slide, Geni, Powerset, IronPort Systems, Zivity, Quantcast, and Project Agape. Our fund is $50 million and we focus on investments in early-stage consumer Internet companies. We typically invest $500,000 - $1 million per investment. At the end of 2007, we raised $220 million for The Founders Fund II.
Startup/Business
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HealthTap+ has reinvented the way people all over the world manage their health and well-being. Our free web and mobile apps enable 24/7 access to personalized, relevant, and trusted health information in the form of answers, tips, checklists, and news from over 67,000 U.S. doctors.
Members can get expert answers to their personal health questions, read personalized news and tips, and access expert reviews of health apps from HealthTap’s Medical Expert Network of more than 67,000 doctors for free.
In July 2014, HealthTap launched its premium HealthTap Prime subscription service. Prime members pay a monthly subscription fee for unlimited live consults with physicians via HD video, voice, and text chat. The service is available via any mobile device or personal computer.
HealthTap then launched HealthTap Concierge in October 2014, which connects members with their own doctors, via HD video, voice, and text chat for a low, per-consult fee. No monthly subscription is required to use HealthTap Concierge.
HealthTap released its first annual AppRx Report in January 2015. Thousands of doctors on HealthTap independently reviewed tens of thousands of health and wellness apps available in the iOS and Android app stores and provided recommendations for those they deemed the best.
In March 2015, HealthTap launched RateRx, the first free, large-scale resource of doctor ratings and reviews for over 4,000 drugs and medications. It was created by doctors to help consumers understand the effectiveness of drugs and treatments based on doctors' real-world experience.
The company is backed by leading investors such as Khosla Ventures, Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, Mayfield Fund, and Mohr Davidow Ventures.
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Founder and CEO of Vator, a media and research firm for entrepreneurs and investors; Managing Director of Vator Health Fund; Co-Founder of Invent Health; Author and award-winning journalist.Joined Vator on
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Clinician, scientist and entrepreneur. Chair of Medicine for Singularity University and founder and founder of Exponential Medicine (next being held Nov 6-9th). Aspen Health Innovation Fellow. Kauffman Fellow. Pilot and flight surgeon.Joined Vator on
Ron Gutman is an inventor and a serial technology entrepreneur who has built several successful companies in digital health. He's currently the Founder and CEO of HealthTap. He's also a writer, speaker, angel investor and advisor to tech startups.Joined Vator on
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J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century for his numerous invaluable contributions to genomic research.Joined Vator on
Sean Duffy is the co-founder and CEO of Omada Health, a digital behavioral medicine company dedicated to inspiring and empowering people everywhere to live free of chronic conditions like heart disease and type 2 diabetes.Joined Vator on
Michael works with growth stage companies in healthcare and enterprise software at Sequoia. Michael has a BS in Finance and Accounting from Boston College.Joined Vator on
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Peter Hames is co-founder and CEO of Big Health, the digital medicine company behind sleep improvement program Sleepio. He is an NHS Innovation Fellow and holds a Masters in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University.Joined Vator on
As co-founder and CEO of Grand Rounds, Owen believes that patients will achieve better healthcare outcomes through the intersection of technology, medical expertise, and extraordinary patient care.Joined Vator on
Sami Inkinen is the CEO & Founder of San Francisco-based Virta Health. Previously, Sami was a co-founder, COO and President of Trulia. He is an investor in companies advancing human health and performance as an angel investor and at Obvious Ventures.Joined Vator on
Jeffrey Brewer is a successful dotcom entrepreneur & founder of CitySearch & Overture / GoTo.com. After his son's type 1 diabetes diagnosis, he became a leading voice in the T1D community, serving as JDRF CEO. In 2014, he founded Bigfoot Biomedical.Joined Vator on
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High energy, creative and analytical digital health industry investor and executive with a passion for building high growth companies that solve critical business needs.Joined Vator on
Steve Jurvetson is a partner at DFJ. His current board responsibilities include SpaceX, Synthetic Genomics, D-Wave, Planet, and Tesla Motors.Joined Vator on
Executive director & CEO of The Permanente Medical Group & Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, comprised of more than 9,000 physicians caring for 4.6 million Kaiser Permanente members in California, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.Joined Vator on