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Digitalis Ventures

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Digitalis Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in solutions to complex problems in human and animal health. Digitalis partners with entrepreneurs, scientists, and inventors across all stages of venture investing. The firm comprises technical professionals with deep industry experience and networks in diverse areas related to human and animal health. Through domain expertise and a dedication to the entrepreneurial process, Digitalis is deeply committed to helping their portfolio companies scale their impact on the world.

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Location: United States, New York

Employees: 11-50

Founded date: 2016

Investment Type: Venture Capital

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Date	Name	Website	Total Raised	Location
30.06.2022	Faeth Ther...	faeththerapeutics.com	$67M	-
31.05.2022	Eden Brew	edenbrew.com.au	$33.5M	Australia,...
30.04.2022	Poppins He...	poppinshealth.com	-	United Sta...
27.01.2022	findhelp	company.findhelp.com	-	United Sta...
25.11.2021	Terray The...	terraytx.com	$180M	United Sta...
25.11.2021	Biomilq	biomilq.com	$21M	Philippine...
07.08.2021	SeQure	sequre-dx.com	$17.5M	United Sta...
07.08.2021	Cayaba Car...	cayabacare.com	$15.2M	United Sta...
15.06.2021	Companion ...	companionfund.com	-	-
12.06.2021	RiverDog	riverdogdaycare.com	-	United Sta...
12.06.2021	Made by Na...	madebynacho.com	$14M	-
12.06.2021	Native Pet	nativepet.com	$17M	United Sta...
03.03.2021	Alcea Ther...	alceatx.com	-	-
25.02.2021	UnifiHealt...	unifihealth.com	$5.4M	-
04.12.2020	Onc.AI	onc.ai	$6M	United Sta...
21.10.2020	Companion	joincompanion.com	$14M	United Sta...
15.10.2020	SchoolCare	schoolcare.com	-	United Sta...
13.10.2020	Brella Ins...	joinbrella.com	$22M	United Sta...
-	Elemental ...	elementalmachines.io	$2.5M	United Sta...
-	PetMedix	petmedix.co.uk	$37.19M	United Kin...
-	Second Gen...	secondgenome.com	$56M	United Sta...
-	Smalls	smallsforsmalls.com	-	United Sta...
-	Code Ocean	codeocean.com	$37.5M	United Sta...
-	Pawp	pawp.com	$26M	United Sta...
-	CareDox	caredox.com	$31.9M	United Sta...
-	Kenzen	kenzen.com	$5M	United Sta...
-	Scout Bio	scoutbio.co	$20M	-
-	The Mighty	themighty.com	-	United Sta...
-	GRO Biosci...	grobio.com	$87.4M	Canada, On...
-	Somatix	somatix.com	-	United Sta...
-	Rejuvenate...	rejuvenatebio.com	$4M	United Sta...
-	Scratchpay	scratchpay.com	$106.4M	Slovakia, ...
-	Good Thera...	goodtherapeutics.com	$30M	-
-	Girihlet	girihlet.com	-	-
-	Terray The...	terraytherapeutics.com	-	-
-	Aunt Berth...	company.auntbertha.com	$75M	United Sta...

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Date	Title	Description
31.03.2022	Native Pet Scoops Up $6 Million in Series A Funding Led by CAVU Venture Partners	Native Pet, a pet nutrition company that makes all-natural, highly effective, and limited ingredient pet supplements for dogs, announced today the closing of $6 million in Series A funding led by CAVU Venture Partners with participation fro...
07.01.2022	PetMedix enters into antibody discovery collaboration with Zoetis	PetMedix™ is pleased to announce a collaboration with Zoetis to develop novel, fully species-specific companion animal monoclonal antibody therapeutics (mAbs) using PetMedix’s proprietary transgenic platforms. As part of the collaboration, ...
06.01.2022	Notes on Engineering Health, December 2021	ICYMI 2021 Edition Another year ends and instead of writing about the many challenges in front of the world at the moment which we thought did not carry a very positive message for the festive season, we decided to look back on the subje...
25.11.2021	Notes on Engineering Health, September 2021	Notes on the Privacy and Security of Electronic Health Information In 2015, the insurance company Anthem announced that they had been hacked and as many as 78.8 million former and current policyholders had personal information stolen. ...
25.11.2021	Nucleate: Empowering BioTech Founders	We sat down with Michael Retchin, a graduate student in New York and the co-founder of the Nucleate program, a student-led, entirely nonprofit educational organization that helps academic trainees start companies. Digitalis is an early ...
25.11.2021	Notes on Engineering Health, November 2021	Surprise Billing: A Personal Story Accounts of absurd or tragic interactions with the American healthcare system are common. A growing sub-genre of these stories involves surprise billing—many such overwhelming experiences have been reco...
25.11.2021	Notes on Engineering Health, October 2021	Nucleate: Empowering Biotech Founders We sat down with Michael Retchin, a graduate student in New York and the co-founder of the Nucleate program. Digitalis is an early partner of Nucleate, dedicating time and resources to the program an...
31.08.2021	Notes on Engineering Health, August 2021	Evolution and Public Health What does it take for a virus to create new variants and to evolve into a more deadly foe? If we were to model the probability of a virus gaining a function — e.g., escaping a vaccine, increasing its virulenc...
30.07.2021	Notes on Engineering Health, July 2021	Some Notes on Model Organisms In 1859, Charles Darwin published the first edition of his seminal work On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life which laid out ...
29.06.2021	Notes on Engineering Health, June 2021	XX Versus XY Does having two X chromosomes set one back when it comes to being understood and treated by the medical profession? The answer seems to be yes in many instances. Here are five striking examples where there are clear differe...
25.05.2021	Notes on Engineering Health, May 2021	The Ends, Not The Means In an unexpected outcome, scientists were able to train rats to create and maintain a large difference in temperature between their two ears. The training mechanism was fairly simple — the larger the temperature...
30.04.2021	Notes on Engineering Health, April 2021	A Fertile Ground for AI Companies Last month, we wrote about the digitization of healthcare and how it paved the way for new types of companies. One such type is companies tackling rising infertility rates with a mix of machine learning ...
01.04.2021	Digitalis Ventures Promotes Amit Bansal and Sam Bjork to Partner	We’re excited to announce the promotion of both Amit Bansal and Sam Bjork to Partner at Digitalis Ventures. Amit Bansal was a part of the founding team at Digitalis. Since our inception in 2016, Amit has led or co-led our firm’s investme...
31.03.2021	Notes on Engineering Health, March 2021	A Short History of the EMR In the late 1960’s, the idea to record patient information in electronic form rather than on paper emerged. The goal of the first EMR, presented by Lawrence “Larry” Weed , was to allow a third party to indepe...
26.02.2021	Notes on Engineering Health, February 2021	Climate and Health Alarm would certainly be a reasonable reaction to the challenges posed by climate change (cf., David Wallace-Wells in his now infamous New York Magazine article ). The obvious truth is that the effects of a warming c...
28.01.2021	Notes on Engineering Health, January 2021	Health Equity The global COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented number of challenges for our health systems during 2020. Many of these health challenges, however, have been persistent problems for years. For example, according to dat...
21.12.2020	Notes on Engineering Health, December 2020	2020 and Lung Inflammation 2020 has been the year of airway inflammation. Everyone became an immunologist in record time with a specialization in infectious disease and a fellowship in lung damage. Words like cytokine (storms) and R0 hav...
25.11.2020	Notes on Engineering Health, November 2020	Thoughts for Food Although the maxim “Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food” is generally agreed to be an apocryphal quote by Hippocrates , there are good reasons why it still resonates as an immutable truth. Looking a...
28.10.2020	Notes on Engineering Health, October 2020	Show Unfinished Work Among 10 key pieces of advice for design schools espoused by the Stanford d.school is #3) Show unfinished work : In the early days in particular, d.school staff were prototyping everything. How the class sched...
20.10.2020	Scout Bio Reports Statistically Significant Clinical Outcomes for Pilot Study of SB-001 for Treatment of CKD-Associated Anemia in Felines	Digitalis portfolio company Scout Bio , a biotechnology company focused on revolutionizing pet medicine by delivering a pipeline of one-time therapeutics for major chronic pet health conditions, today announced preliminary results from a ...
29.09.2020	Notes on Engineering Health, September 2020	Can We Learn How to Control Fat Metabolism? The French used 2,4-Dinitrophenol (DNP) in the manufacturing of munitions during the First World War. Since then, DNP has been used as a dye, wood preservative, herbicide, and photograph develo...
25.08.2020	Notes on Engineering Health, August 2020	Some Notes on Metabolism Metabolism is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms. The three main purposes of metabolism are: the conversion of food to energy to run cellular processes; the conversion of food/fuel into bu...
28.07.2020	Notes on Engineering Health, July 2020	Why Are Some Foods More Allergenic Than Others? The short answer to this seemingly simple question is: we don't know. The choreography of immune cells continues to be better understood, the reasons why we seem to be developing more all...
25.06.2020	Notes on Engineering Health, June 2020	A Quick Look at Vitamin D & COVID-19 Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) of 2005-06 estimated the overall prevalence rate of Vitamin D deficiency (deficiency was defined as a serum 25-hydroxyvitam...
11.05.2020	DiMe — Optimizing Digital Medicine Regulations	DiMe — Optimizing Digital Medicine Regulations Digital Medicine (DiMe) Society, has come up with a new toolkit to help experts voice their opinion in the creation of new federal regulations. When Federal Agencies issue new regulations or...
23.04.2020	Second Genome & Gilead Sciences Announce Partnership	On April 6, 2020, Second Genome announced a four-year strategic collaboration with Gilead Sciences in identifying biomarkers associated with the clinical response to Gilead drugs in development. Second Genome, a leader in microbiome science...
01.04.2020	Aunt Bertha Creates FindHelp.org	Aunt Bertha recently stood up FindHelp.org so people affected by the coronavirus pandemic can find financial and other assistance programs. It's nationwide covering every zip code in the country. If you are involved with or know of progr...
11.02.2020	Erine Grey, Founder of Aunt Bertha, Featured on Austinpreneur	Erine Grey, the founder of Aunt Bertha, was recently featured on an episode of Austinpreneur. Topics included his startup journey, how he raised funding, why he decided to go the for-profit route, and what it’s been like bringing technology...
07.02.2020	Rejuvenate Bio Launches	The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced today that Rejuvenate Bio has secured an exclusive worldwide license from the Harvard Office of Technology Development to commercialize a gene ther...
-	Notes on Engineering Health, May 2020	A Short History of Genetic Engineering in the Time Of Covid-19 From the 1950s when the double helix structure of DNA was unveiled to the CRISPR editors of the past few years, progress toward being able to engineer biology consistently an...
-	Notes on Engineering Health, March 2020	Apocalypse Now In these troubled days, it certainly can feel like we are approaching the end of civilization as we have known it. The Doomsday Clock has never been closer to midnight (currently just 100 seconds away) and the obvious le...
-	Notes on Engineering Health, October 2019	When it comes to privacy, many of us rely on the belief that it is a big world out there and the likelihood that someone will dredge up data, be that a password or a genome, and tie it to us personally is small. Recent research has s...
-	Notes on Engineering Health, December 2019	Life expectancy is a metric for the average age of death in a population. In 1800, regardless of place of birth, a newborn could expect to live fewer than 35 years. By 1950, the global average for life expectancy was still only 46 years, ...
-	Notes on Engineering Health, August 2019	In August 1900, German mathematician David Hilbert presented a paper at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris. Rather than reviewing a new mathematical solution, the paper was simply a list of ten problems , each of wh...
-	Notes on Engineering Health, November 2019	While it is a bit of a truism to say that we live in a time of rapid change, that does not make the fact of it any less challenging. In particular, change at the intersection of technology, social norms, and economics is forcing us to gra...
-	Notes on Engineering Health, Special Edition: Notes on the Need for Systemic Change	June 2020 We cannot standby and avert our gaze from what is happening in the United States. The need for change, systemic and immediate, is as clear and inarguable in our health industry as it is in our political arena: 1/ Education Da...
-	Notes on Engineering Health, February 2020	Medicine & Math Question: If a test to detect a disease whose prevalence is 1/1000 has a false positive rate of 5%, what is the chance that a person found to have a positive result actually has the disease, assuming you know nothing ...
-	Notes on Engineering Health, April 2020	Natural Computing As the current coronavirus crisis evolves, the key question will eventually shift from how we should we manage this pandemic to how can we be better prepared for the inevitable next one. What tools can we develop to mak...
-	Notes on Engineering Health, January 2020	Mendelian Randomization Does moderate consumption of alcohol protect you from cardiovascular diseases? Does smoking actually kill you? Organizing clinical trials with randomized groups of drinkers, smokers, and teetotalers to answer thes...
-	Notes on Engineering Health, September 2019	“Technical debt” is a cost of doing business well known to software developers. The term implies that a future payment will come due by choosing a short-term (if pragmatic) implementation today, knowing full-well that the system will nee...
-	Notes on Engineering Health, Special Edition: Vaccine Development	May 2020 While there are many open questions about managing the current pandemic, there seems to be universal agreement that the best case solution is the creation of an effective vaccine to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-...

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Date	Title	Description
23.10.2024	Alpha-9 Oncology Raises $175M in Series C Financing	Alpha-9 Oncology Inc., a Boston, MA- and Vancouver, Canada-based clinical stage company developing radiopharmaceuticals to meaningfully improve the treatment of people living with cancer, raised $175m in Series C financing. The round was le...
22.10.2024	Terray Therapeutics: $120 Million (Series B) Secured To Improve Human Health	Terray Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on improving human health by transforming the speed, cost, and success rate of small molecule drug development using computation integrated with novel data at scale, announced Series B fu...
17.10.2024	Terray Therapeutics Closes $120M Series B Funding Round	Terray Therapeutics, a Los Angeles, CA-based biotechnology company improving human health by enhancing small molecule drug development, raised $120M in Series B funding. The round was led by Bedford Ridge Capital and existing investor NVent...
30.07.2024	BioIVT Appoints Dr. Judith Dunn and Dr. Auro Nair to its Board of Directors	WESTBURY, N.Y., July 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- BioIVT, a global research partner and biospecimen solutions provider for drug and diagnostic development, today announced the appointment of Dr. Judith Dunn and Dr. Auro Nair to its Board of Dir...
25.07.2024	GRO Biosciences Secures $60 Million to Revolutionize Gout Treatment	** In the bustling world of biotechnology, innovation is the lifeblood. GRO Biosciences, or GRObio, has just taken a giant leap forward. The company recently announced the closing of an oversubscribed $60.3 million Series B financing round....
19.07.2024	GRO Biosciences: Protein Therapeutics Company Raises $60 Million In Series B	GRO Biosciences (GRObio), a biotechnology company leveraging synthetic biology to expand the amino acid alphabet and deliver on the promise of protein therapeutics, today announced the closing of an oversubscribed $60.3 million Series B fin...
21.05.2024	Expressable Raises $26M in Series B Funding	Expressable, an Austin, TX-based company which specializes in research-based, family-centered speech therapy care, raised $26M in Series B funding. The round was led by HarbourVest Partners, with participation from Digitalis Ventures and ex...
13.04.2023	First Ever AI-Powered Dog Playmate, Companion, Raises Additional $6 Million from Lerer Hippeau, Digitalis Ventures and Officially Opens Reservations	Companion, the first ever AI-powered interactive device for dogs, announced that it has raised $6M in additional funding from Lerer Hippeau and Digitalis Ventures alongside opening its product to the public for reservation. The new capital ...
19.10.2022	Digitalis Ventures Closes Fourth Fund, at $300M	Digitalis Ventures, a NYC-based venture capital firm, closed of its fourth fund, totaling $300m in commitments. The new capital will be invested in entrepreneurs and researchers developing breakthrough science and technology with the potent...
07.09.2022	Roche shells out $250M to acquire Good Therapeutics and its preclinical oncology program	Roche announced Wednesday that it is paying $250 million in cash to acquire Good Therapeutics, a Seattle-based preclinical biotech company. Good has raised a little over $30 million since it was founded in 2016. The company is focused on cy...
18.01.2022	BREAKING: Faeth raises $20m from Khosla, AgFunder to battle cancer with food	Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Faeth Therapeutics. Faeth Therapeutics, a startup developing precision nutrition solutions to help fight cancer, has raised $20 million in seed funding in a round led by Khosla V...
18.01.2022	Faeth raises $20m from Khosla, AgFunder to battle cancer with food	Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Faeth Therapeutics. Faeth Therapeutics, a startup developing precision nutrition solutions to help fight cancer, has raised $20 million in seed funding in a round led by Khosla V...
29.10.2021	Meet the New BallerTV CTO Holding Court at Pickup Basketball Games as Sports Seasons Rebound	If you stop by Koreatown's Immanuel Presbyterian Church on Sundays, you might run into Kavodel Ohiomoba pushing a broom across a basketball court hidden on an upper floor of the cavernous historic French Gothic cathedral. It's a favorite mo...
22.09.2021	UnifiHealth Secures $5.4MM to Propel Availability of Modern Health Plan for Small Businesses	With this funding, we’re making good on our promise of bridging the gap between coverage that businesses can actually afford with coverage that people actually need. COLUMBUS, Ohio (PRWEB) September 22, 2021 Today, UnifiHealth, the modern h...
10.05.2021	How Pacaso Makes It Easier for More People to Own a Second Home	Austin Allison's love of real estate surfaced at age four or five when he would work with a hammer in hand alongside his dad, who was a carpenter. He bought his first house at age 17 and began selling real estate at 18. Now, Allison is CEO ...
26.04.2021	How the Pandemic Has Changed Fans' Experience for Good	The COVID-19 pandemic has separated friends, family and colleagues and halted most in-person shared experiences. On the flip side, over the past year gaming, sports and entertainment companies have found new ways to help keep us engaged, co...
12.09.2017	Kenzen: Combining US sales culture with Swiss technology
07.08.2017	Remote monitoring startup for smoking cessation raises $6M to add caregiving support	Eran Ofir, Somatix founder and CEO, said in a phone interview that Digitalis Ventures led the Series A round for the business, which opened U.S. offices in New York and has taken part in accelerators run by Dreamit Health and New York Digit...
15.03.2017	CareDox raises $6.4M Series A for student healthcare	Schools provide the front line of health for many Americans, but they're too often overlooked Editor's note: Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco. We'll have Mario Schlosser (Founder &...
05.01.2017	Term Sheet — Thursday, January 5	THE 21 BEST TECH IPOS of 2016, ETC Visions: SoftBank has been purposely opaque about many aspects of Vision Fund, its $100 billion (!) tech investment fund, in part, because the fund isn’t closed yet and general solicitation rules prevent i...
05.01.2017	Digitalis Raises $100M Fund	Digitalis announced today the launch of a $100 million fund for seed- and early-stage companies seeking to address the most challenging problems in human health. Digitalis, with offices in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, was founde...
04.01.2017	Digitalis Launches $100M Venture Capital Fund Focused on Human Health	Digitalis has launched a $100m fund focused on seed- and early-stage companies seeking to address the most challenging problems in human health. Founded in 2016 by Geoffrey W. Smith, managing partner, Digitalis invests in solutions at the i...
04.01.2017	Digitalis Ventures launches $100M healthcare innovation fund	Venture capital firm Digitalis, which was founded last year and has offices in New York and California, has launched a $100 million fund to spur innovation in healthcare by investing in early and seed stage companies that leverage math, sci...
06.12.2016	Tyson Joins List of Food Companies with Venture Capital Funds	This week, Tyson Foods joined the growing list of food companies with venture capital funds investing in food and agritech startups. The company, which earlier this year shocked the sector by making an investment in plant-based meat alterna...
-	LA Venture: How WorkLife Ventures Founder Brianne Kimmel Became a Top Angel Investor	How do angel investors get in front of companies prior to investing? Brianne Kimmel, founder of WorkLife Ventures, might know a way or two. On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Kimmel discusses her work as an investor — how she gets i...
-	LA Venture: Digitalis Ventures' Drew Taylor on How Investing in Pet Health Creates Opportunities for Humans	On this week's episode of the L.A. Venture Podcast, hear from Drew Taylor, a partner at Digitalis Ventures. The firm first launched in 2016 with a $100 million fund invested in companies that focus on improving human health. Two years later...
-	Remote monitoring startup for smoking cessation raises $6M to add caregiving support	Somatix, an Israeli digital health company using wearables to track unhealthy behaviors and send timely alerts to change the user’s behavior, has raised $6 million in a Series A round. The fundraise is intended to add new products to a pipe...

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