| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.05.2024 | Boston Scientific Elects Dr. Cheryl Pegus to Board of Directors | MARLBOROUGH, Mass., May 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced today the election of Dr. Cheryl Pegus to its board of directors, effective immediately.
Dr. Pegus has more than 25 years of clinical and bu... |
| 03.02.2022 | Rose Health wins Cambia Grove startup competition for its mental health platform | Rose Health chief medical officer Matthew Peters. (Johns Hopkins Photo)
Mental health company Rose Health took home the crown Wednesday at the annual TRAILS startup competition hosted by Seattle healthcare innovation hub Cambia Grove.
The B... |
| 05.11.2020 | The Five Paradoxes Of Corporate Innovation: Blue Pill Or Red Pill? | SVP/Chief Innovation Officer leading Innovation Force @Cambia Health Solutions. It's all about the beauty of transformation and innovation. |
| 24.05.2019 | What goes on inside the mind of a baby? This startup aims to track infant neurodevelopment | Brainchild founder Carly Kiselycznyk pitches her idea at the Cambia Grove TRAILS competition. (Cambia Grove Photo)
What’s going on in the mind of a newborn child? That can be an extremely tough question to answer, but tracking things such a... |
| 21.03.2019 | Cambia Health Forms Da Vinci Project to Improve Health Data Sharing in Value-based Care Arrangements | Cambia Health Solutions has announced new partnerships with two major provider networks to deliver data interoperability use cases as part of the Da Vinci Project. In collaboration with Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and Mult... |
| 11.04.2018 | Livongo rakes in $105M, introduces partnership with Cambia Health Solutions | The latest fundraise was spearheaded by existing investors General Catalyst and Kinnevik. DFJ, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Microsoft Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Zaffre Investments and 7wire Ve... |
| 11.04.2018 | Livongo Health Raises $105M for Mobile Diabetes Management, Inks Deal with Cambia Health | Livongo Health, a consumer digital health company that is empowering people with chronic diseases to live better has raised $105 million in funding led by existing investors General Catalyst and international investment company Kinnevik. Ex... |
| 10.10.2017 | Virtual healthcare startup Carena acquired by Virginia-based telemedicine provider Avizia | Carena provides Virtual Clinics, a tech platform that supports virtual doctors appointments. (Carena Photo)
Virginia-based telemedicine provider Avizia announced Tuesday that it has acquired Carena, a Seattle-based telemedicine startup that... |
| 11.06.2017 | Healthcare startup Carena raises $6M to fuel technology behind virtual doctor’s visits | Carena’s Virtual Clinics support virtual doctors appointments. (Carena Photo)
When you have the flu or a child with an earache, just getting into a doctor’s office can be an incredible hassle. But with the right technology, virtual doctor’s... |
| 09.01.2017 | As #JPM17 kicks off, “Emergency Pitch Kit” pokes fun at elevator pitch buzzwords | The joint venture between the nonprofit parent of insurance company Regence BlueCross BlueShield — Cambia Health Solutions and the investment arm of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina — Mosaic Health Solutions — launched in November l... |
| 18.11.2016 | Seattle Week in Review: A Chill in the Air and a Flurry of Funding News | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Winter is coming. Yes, I’m talking about the weather. Meanwhile, a flurry of tech news from the Seattle area emerged through the deafening cacophony of news and reaction to Am... |
| 16.11.2016 | Mosaic Health, Cambia Health join forces to make digital health investments | “By leveraging the strength of Cambia and Mosaic, we are able to bring significant value to our portfolio companies. Whether they are early stage startups or well-established growth companies, Echo will uniquely support getting their innova... |
| 26.08.2016 | Home care IT vendor ClearCare gets $60M from Battery Ventures | ClearCare Online produces a cloud-based platform used by 3,000 home care agencies that staff personal attendants serving more than 250,000 caregivers and 150,000 seniors living in their homes. Its products include a range of services agency... |
| 14.07.2016 | Arsenal Venture Joins $14M Funding for Caremerge | Caremerge, the revolutionary industry pioneer paving the way for care coordination and communication solutions to bridge care gaps across the care continuum and get providers ready for value-based care, today announces a $14 Million investm... |
| 14.07.2016 | GE Ventures Joins $14M Funding for Caremerge | Caremerge, the revolutionary industry pioneer paving the way for care coordination and communication solutions to bridge care gaps across the care continuum and get providers ready for value-based care, today announces a $14 Million investm... |
| 14.07.2016 | Insight Venture Partner Leads $14M Funding for Caremerge | Caremerge, the revolutionary industry pioneer paving the way for care coordination and communication solutions to bridge care gaps across the care continuum and get providers ready for value-based care, today announces a $14 Million investm... |
| 07.04.2016 | Mobile Engagement Provider mPulse Mobile Raises $13M in Oversubscribed Round | mPulse Mobile, a mobile engagement solution provider that spun out of the healthcare division of mobileStorm has raised $13 million in Series A funding. Less than a year since the company’s founding, the latest financial investment in mPuls... |
| 21.03.2016 | Maxwell Health closes $22M Series C to move it towards 10 million user goal | The fundraise follows a $26.4 million Series B round dating back to December 2014. At that time it had 68 staff. It currently employs 150, according to Xconomy.
In addition to helping employees understand and manage their health insurance a... |
| 29.01.2016 | Cambia is winding down operations at Wellero | “We’ve decided to wind down operations of Wellero. We launch start-up ventures because of their potential to transform health care. Sometimes, those early stage investments don’t bloom into mature stand-alone companies. We’ll continue to us... |
| 08.09.2015 | Do corporate VCs move too slowly? | Last year, corporate venture investors were the most active investors in the largest digital health deals. As corporate VCs continue to grow their varied approaches to working with startups and what distinguishes them from other venture cap... |
| 26.06.2015 | Wildflower Health raises $5M to expand mobile maternity apps for health plans | Wildflower also agreed to a strategic partnership with Everyday Health. It runs the “What to Expect” digital franchise that reaches about 75 percent of pregnant women in the United States. The idea is to extend Wildflower’s services to heal... |
| 28.05.2015 | LifeImage pulls in $17.5M for medical imaging network | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Access (or lack of it) to medical imagery is a co... |
| 28.05.2015 | LifeImage pulls in $17.5M for medical imaging network | Access (or lack of it) to medical imagery is a costly problem in the health care system. It often leads to unnecessary, duplicative procedures when a provider encounters a patient from another care network. In the absence of images, new ima... |
| 28.05.2015 | Medical image sharing co. lifeIMAGE raises $17.5M to scale business | Tabatabaie said in the statement that image sharing has gained acceptance to the point where “it’s considered part of the standard of care.” He said it was looking forward to working with Cambia “to increase the mainstream focus and adoptio... |
| 28.04.2015 | Cambia Health Solutions calls for reboot of strategic investing in healthcare | Cambia Health Solutions is not a typical corporate investor. It often invests in technology that its payer division Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield won’t necessarily adopt but reflects the broader ambitions of healthcare reform. So a new cha... |
| 13.03.2015 | Cambia Health launches Seattle startup effort | “It’s about putting these institutions in one place and voicing their needs and letting entrepreneurs try to solve the problems,” Nicole Bell, director of businesses development for Cambia told MedCity News. “What we’re doing here is not as... |
| 21.01.2015 | YC-Backed True Link Raises $3.4M in Funding To Expand Debit Card, Financial Services To The Elderly | True Link, a startup that emerged from Y Combinator to protect the elderly from financial fraud, just raised $3.4 million from a group of investors including Cambia Health Solutions.
While Cambia isn’t a traditional Sand Hill venture invest... |
| 14.01.2015 | Fighting for patients by battling their bad, inaccurate hospital bills | The idea stemmed from the steady march toward higher-deductible health plans for employees – being asked to shoulder more of the cost meant far more interaction with the opaque payment practices, according to Palm.
“As benefits became less ... |
| 07.01.2015 | Caremerge attracts $4M from new investors to add up to 20 new staff to expand care coordination for seniors | [Care coordination] to support seniors is an area that has always been neglected and that’s why we started this company three years ago. We also need to figure out ways to help seniors stay at home for as long as they can. We haven’t figure... |
| 06.01.2015 | Caremerge Aims To Help Coordinate Elder Care Communications | As the U.S. population ages, more technology is coming online to help manage care for the elderly, a group long neglected by the tech sector.
Among the many apps that are dealing with aging and healthcare is Caremerge, which aims to provide... |
| 06.01.2015 | Caremerge Raises $4M in First Financing | Caremerge LLC, a Chicago, IL-based communication and care coordination platform for the senior care industry, raised $4m in its first institutional financing.
The round was led by Cambia Health Solutions, with participation from Generator V... |
| 10.12.2014 | McKesson launches new venture fund for health care startups | Health-services giant McKesson said today that it’s starting a new venture capital fund — McKesson Ventures — that will invest in early-stage and growth-stage companies addressing business challenges in the health care industry.
Tom Rodgers... |
| 10.12.2014 | McKesson launches new venture fund for health care startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Health-services giant McKesson said today that it... |
| 10.12.2014 | McKesson launches new venture fund for health startups | Rodgers joins McKesson Ventures from Cambia Health, where he led their venture investing efforts targeting companies that are helping to lower cost, improve access, and improve the navigability and sustainability of the healthcare system fo... |
| 04.12.2014 | Maxwell Health Gets A $26.4 Million Boost In Series B Funding And Partners With MetLife | Maxwell Health, the service platform that aims to make the often hairy navigation process through employee health care easier, has raised $26.4 million in a Series B round of funding led by Adams Street Partners. Cambia Health Solutions, Sc... |
| 04.12.2014 | Maxwell Health will use Series B to broaden employee benefits services, add staff | Its app functions as an insurance ID card. The company has been adding functions onto its wellness program. Its app aggregates data from Fitbit and Jawbone fitness devices to help employees track their fitness and sleep quality with an ince... |
| 24.10.2014 | Cambia Grove Aims to Spur Healthcare Innovation in Seattle | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Cambia Health Solutions, which owns a portfolio of insurance and healthcare companies, wants Seattle to become a center of healthcare innovation.
To help, Cambia is building a... |
| 24.10.2014 | Cambia Health launching Seattle accelerator | It’s a first-of-its kind for Washington, but Cambia says this new accelerator also differs from others in several key respects, chiefly that it’s not focused solely on startups and will include industry veterans and employers.
“While there ... |
| 05.09.2014 | B2B2C or direct to consumer: Which telemedicine model will win? | There have also been some barriers impeding growth. Ezra Mehlman of Health Enterprise Partners pointed out that the inability to grow small businesses has historically posed a big barrier to entry in the market. “Regulations that impede int... |
| 01.08.2014 | Investment strategy at Cambia Health Solutions shows how to become a 21st century insurance company | But Cambia investments span a much broader range of categories and include many technology-enabled services. There’s Wildflower Health, which is about high-risk pregnancy and pregnancy management, particularly for Medicaid patients; Qliance... |
| 22.07.2014 | LifeNexus Closes Series A Funding | LifeNexus, a San Francisco, CA-based healthcare technology company, closed a Series A funding round of undisclosed amount.
The round was led by Camden Partners with participation from Cambia Health Solutions and Mosaic Health Solutions, Inc... |
| 19.06.2014 | Is your work-life balance out of whack? This digital health company wants to change that | Here’s how it works. Employees get quizzed on their health through a questionnaire and are given a couple of starter challenges. The challenges fall under five categories including physical fitness, healthy eating, personal interests like a... |
| 20.12.2013 | Retrofit gains $5M and a new investor for a tech-based approach to corporate weight loss | The wellness team consults with users via Skype up to three times a month, depending on which plan the user has. A newer feature of the plan is the Nutrition Navigator app, which encourages users to log what they eat with photos and to cons... |
| 19.09.2013 | Lively Raises $4.8M in Series A Funding | Lively Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based developer of a sensor system to monitor elderly people, raised a $4.8m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Cambia Health Solutions Inc., with participation from seed investor Maveron.
The company... |
| 07.01.2013 | Seattle Roundup: Qliance, Remitly, Yapta, Clipboard Attract Investment | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A steady stream of technology investment in the Seattle area continued as 2013 dawned, with Qliance Medical Management, Remitly, Yapta, and Clipboard attracting follow-on fund... |
| 03.01.2013 | Qliance raises $8M, opens new clinic on Expedia campus | Qliance Medical, the Seattle health services startup backed by venture capitalist Nick Hanauer; Zillow Chairman Rich Barton; comedian Drew Carey; Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos; and others, has raised $8.6 million in venture capital financin... |
| 03.10.2012 | If accelerators are taking to the high seas, has the idea has jumped the shark? | I was hanging out with Tom Rodgers of Cambia Health the other day and we were discussing the seemingly unrelenting trend of the formation of new technology incubators and accelerators, designed to help catapult the weird and wonderful ideas... |
| - | Retrofit gains $5M and a new investor for a tech-based approach to corporate weight loss | Corporate weight-loss startup Retrofit is finishing out the year with three times as many customers as last year and a healthy supply of cash from investors.
Following up an $8 million round last winter, Retrofit Inc. has just tacked on an ... |
| - | McKesson launches new venture fund for health startups | San Francisco tech giant McKesson Corporation has launched a new venture fund that promises to invest in early and growth stage startups working in the healthcare space.
The company did not specify how much the fund is, but it said it will ... |
| - | As #JPM17 kicks off, “Emergency Pitch Kit” pokes fun at elevator pitch buzzwords | Source: Echo Health Ventures
Startup entrepreneurs will be out in force at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, talking up a storm about their digital health and life science companies as they court healthcare investors. But what often gets... |
| - | Do corporate VCs move too slowly? | Last year, corporate venture investors were the most active investors in the largest digital health deals. As corporate VCs continue to grow their varied approaches to working with startups and what distinguishes them from other venture cap... |
| - | Home care IT vendor ClearCare gets $60M from Battery Ventures | Chelsea Stoner
A San Francisco software firm used by four of the five largest U.S. home care systems announced that it raised $60 million from investment firm Battery Ventures to expand its products and market share and explore possible acq... |
| - | Caremerge attracts $4M from new investors to add up to 20 new staff to expand care coordination for seniors | A care coordination company to improve communication between hospitals and senior care facilities and make the transitions between the two less problematic has raised $4 million from a set of institutional investors. In a phone interview wi... |
| - | Investment strategy at Cambia Health Solutions shows how to become a 21st century insurance company | A provider shopping tool.
A sensor system for elderly people.
A price comparison site.
A high-tech and high-touch approach to prenatal care.
This list reads like an accelerator’s portfolio, but these companies are not part of RockHealth or ... |
| - | Medical image sharing co. lifeIMAGE raises $17.5M to scale business | Image sharing business lifeIMAGE has raised a fresh round of capital to support its expansion. Cambia Health Solutions led the $17.5 million financing round. LifeIMAGE will apply the funding towards expanding resources for its customer base... |
| - | Maxwell Health will use Series B to broaden employee benefits services, add staff | Maxwell Health, which works with employers to present benefits packages to make them easier and more appealing for employees to navigate and use, has raised $26.4 million, according to a company statement. It plans to allocate funds towards... |
| - | Cambia Health launches Seattle startup effort | An effort backed by Cambia Health Solutions to lure more startups opened today in Seattle with the intent of bringing together not just entrepreneurial talent in the healthcare space, but also well-established entities like health systems a... |
| - | If accelerators are taking to the high seas, has the idea has jumped the shark? | I was hanging out with Tom Rodgers of Cambia Health the other day and we were discussing the seemingly unrelenting trend of the formation of new technology incubators and accelerators, designed to help catapult the weird and wonderful ideas... |
| - | Cambia is winding down operations at Wellero | Wellero, a digital health startup launched by Cambia Health Solutions, is shutting down. It developed an app that sought to simplify medical bill payments for consumers and providers. It’s just one of many healthcare startups investors pred... |
| - | Is your work-life balance out of whack? This digital health company wants to change that | Do you live to work or work to live? During the time I spent in England, it was a question that got raised frequently on the train ride home. Americans, as I was reminded, tend to fall into the former category. But the Brits tended to be sp... |
| - | Cambia Health Solutions calls for reboot of strategic investing in healthcare | Cambia Health Solutions is not a typical corporate investor. It often invests in technology that its payer division Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield won’t necessarily adopt but reflects the broader ambitions of healthcare reform. So a new cha... |
| - | Cambia Health launching Seattle accelerator | Yet another major American city is looking to capitalize on healthcare innovation and the rapid changes across the industry, this time in Seattle, where Cambia Health Solutions and a host of other stakeholders have launched a new accelerato... |
| - | Fighting for patients by battling their bad, inaccurate hospital bills | Just about anyone who’s seen a healthcare bill knows that the process is, at a minimum, confusing. With the seemingly endless back-and-fourth between insurance and the provider on arbitrary pricing, even the savviest patient has difficulty ... |
| - | Wildflower Health raises $5M to expand mobile maternity apps for health plans | Wildflower Health, a digital health startup behind mobile maternity program Due Date Plus, raised $5 million to support a strategic expansion, according to a company statement. The funding will also go towards product development.
Since its... |
| - | Maxwell Health closes $22M Series C to move it towards 10 million user goal | Maxwell Health, a health IT startup that works with employers to help them manage health insurance and other benefits, has closed a $22 million Series C round. In an interview with Xconomy, Co-founder Veer Gidwaney said the funding would be... |
| - | Livongo rakes in $105M, introduces partnership with Cambia Health Solutions | Livongo Health, a digital health company focused on patients with chronic conditions, has raised $105 million in a Series E round. The startup also unveiled a new partnership with Cambia Health Solutions, a nonprofit health insurance compan... |
| - | B2B2C or direct to consumer: Which telemedicine model will win? | Looking over the year’s telemedicine deals, it seems like investors are hedging their bets. Although tools supported by employer plans have dominated, direct to consumer models are proving attractive too, as are more specialized business to... |
| - | Mosaic Health, Cambia Health join forces to make digital health investments | In a bid to create strengthen their respective profiles, the investment arm of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina — Mosaic Health Solutions— and Cambia Health Solutions — the nonprofit parent of insurance company Regence BlueCross Blu... |
